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**Lit_Match** · 07-04-2008, 02:05 PM

But I thought Medical Marijuana Was a Hoax?
06-03-08|The Liberty Papers

The left hand says

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Existing Legal Drugs Provide Superior Treatment for Serious Medical Conditions.

The FDA has approved safe and effective medication for the treatment of glaucoma, nausea, wasting syndrome, cancer, and multiple sclerosis.

Marinol, the synthetic form of THC (the psychoactive ingredient contained in marijuana), is already legally available for prescription by physicians whose patients suffer from pain and chronic illness.

The right hand said (in a 2003 Patent application!):

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Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism.

This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease,

Setting aside the immorality of the United States government granting itself a patent on something - I find myself reminded of something asked of Senator McCarthy:

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“You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

I think even Kafka would consider the U.S. government’s behavior with respect to marijuana too outlandish to write a story about.

LowRider · 07-05-2008, 01:29 AM

the government has and pharmaceutical companies have patents on marijuana properties of the plant.

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LowRider Jr. Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 226 Grams: 2,290.15 Groans: 4 Groaned at 2 Times in 2 Posts Thanks: 24 Thanked 45 Times in 41 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	the government has and pharmaceutical companies have patents on marijuana properties of the plant.

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