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Health/Medical Title: It's Official: Marijuana Is Medicine A series of papers in the Journal of the American Medical Association is starting to correct the shameful legacy of drug war politics over cannabis science. But a research catch-22 persists. ![]() The nation's top medical organization released a major series of papers on medical cannabis last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in a move that constitutes a small step for the AMA, but a giant leap in cannabis medical history. In five key papers, teams of researchers systematically reviewed dozens of clinical studies of marijuana, speaking in clear language that the "use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence." The review validated what doctors and patients in California have risked their freedom to say for twenty years. The findings also directly refute critics who maintain that "marijuana is not medicine." "They concluded cannabis is useful," said Dr. Frank Lucido, a Berkeley physician who specializes in cannabis. "I don't think a single study didn't show benefit. ... I think it was very positive." "It is somewhat affirming to see this come out," said Clint Werner, best-selling author of Marijuana: Gateway to Health. "It's invalidating that talking point that 'it's just a Cheech and Chong show.'" "What's driving this is a tremendous cultural shift that's preceding the political shift," said Martin Lee, of author Smoke Signals. The AMA is acknowledging "what's been known for 5,000 years."...SNIP If Cannabis is not medicine, why does the Federal Government hold a patent on the use of cannabinoids? Look for yourself: US Patent #6630507(1 image) Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest "They concluded cannabis is useful," said Dr. Frank Lucido, "They concluded cannabis is useful," said Dr. Frank Lucido, a Berkeley physician who specializes in cannabis. a Berkeley physician who specializes in cannabis. ... That tells me all I need to know about the validity and mission of the study.
#2. To: Operation 40 (#0) "They concluded cannabis is useful," said Dr. Frank Lucido, a Berkeley physician who specializes in cannabis." In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality as a mental disorder from the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders. I'm guessing with the same amount of scientific justification.
#3. To: Operation 40 (#0) "If Cannabis is not medicine, why does the Federal Government hold a patent on the use of cannabinoids?" Because isolating, purifying and concentrating the cannabinoids found in cannabis, they may prove useful in medicine. Cannabis is not medicine. Cannabinoids, maybe.
#4. To: Operation 40 (#0) "use of marijuana for chronic pain ... is supported by high-quality evidence." Sure. You can use marijuana for chronic pain. It won't work, but you can use it. Marijuana has all the magical, pain-relieving properties as two Tylenol -- a drug that is legal over-the-counter and much, much cheaper.
#5. To: misterwhite (#3) Because isolating, purifying and concentrating the cannabinoids found in cannabis, they may prove useful in medicine. Can you patent purified sugar?
#6. To: Operation 40 (#0) "For example, about one in twenty California adults (1.4 million) have used medical cannabis for a “serious” condition and 92 percent of them have reported that it worked." First, I'm not moving to California. They have a lot of "seriously" sick people out there. Maybe something in the water. Second, I'm suprised it was only 92%. I thought they'd all say it worked. Bunch of f**king dopers. I have a doctor survey that showed 99% of "medical" marijuana patients were smoking marijuana before they got a doctor's recommendation.
#7. To: A Pole (#5) "Can you patent purified sugar?" No. Can you extract tetrahydrocannabinol by putting marijuana plants in a screw press?
#8. To: misterwhite (#7) Can you extract tetrahydrocannabinol by putting marijuana plants in a screw press? Can you patent extraction as such, including all methods known and unknown?
#9. To: misterwhite, Operation 40 (#3) Cannabis is not medicine. Please tell us again which Big Pharma company you are shilling for.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.†- Ron Paul![]() Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.Paul Craig Roberts#10. To: A Pole (#8) "Can you patent extraction as such, including all methods known and unknown?" The government can. Obviously.
#11. To: Deckard (#9) Marinol is legal, but only when a real doctor fills a real prescription for a patient with real symptoms. Otherwise, it's just as illegal as the carcinogenic, tar-laden, Aspergillus- and Salmonella-contaminated, unknown-quality, ditchweed crap you show in your picture.
#12. To: misterwhite (#6) First, I'm not moving to California. They have a lot of "seriously" sick people out there. Maybe something in the water. He's another lack of freedom crybaby... and voluntarily lives in the most tyrannical state with the top 5 in highest taxes. I not only don't feel sorry for any of our Kookifornians... peiple aren't willing to help themselves are unable to be helped at all. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح #13. To: GrandIsland (#12) "I not only don't feel sorry for any of our Kookifornians... peiple aren't willing to help themselves are unable to be helped at all." When things get bad enough there, they'll ask for our tax dollars to help them.
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