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"Truth" About Cannabis
ic Teesside.co.uk | 06/03/2005

Cannabis resin is a dangerous drug which, when smoked, can trigger psychotic mental disorders such as schizophrenia in young users whose brains are yet to develop fully.

This has been established repeatedly by large-scale research in several countries. It is cause enough for the Government to rethink the classification of the drug, to send a message to users and dealers alike that it is dangerous.

It is an irony of nature that, if early research being done in Newcastle bears fruit, it could also be the source of a medicine to help sufferers of a quite different but equally devastating mental disorder - manic depression.

Further work in this area is clearly warranted. Extracts of active ingredients found in the cannabis plant offer the potential to provide relief not just in this area but for sufferers of multiple sclerosis, where research is a little further advanced.

This is not just true of the cannabis plant but of many other herbal remedies used by our ancestors and containing medicinal properties which could be better exploited.

The sadness is that the vocal minority who believe the cannabis drug is safe and should be legalised will seize on the Newcastle research to back their cause.

This is a bogus argument: Heroin was developed as a painkiller but no-one would argue its regular and unrestrained use is anything but harmful.

Bogus or not, it is a further headache for parents trying to warn their children of the danger of drug use.

That is why it is so important that the Government pushes ahead with its review of cannabis classification with due speed, to clear up the confusion it has itself created.

After all, you would have to be an idiot to think the latest research means cannabis is harmless or good for you.

But then what kind of person buys drugs off a backstreet dealer in the first place?

Deal not in our best interests

It should be a basic tenet of Government that the good of society comes before profit - but that doesn't seem to cut much ice in Benton.

Newcastle City Council wishes to channel new housing developments into areas where they are needed most and can act as a catalyst for redevelopment.

This is a very good idea. The city would be a better place if the previous administration had done this five years ago.

Now the council finds itself powerless to stop a development that contravenes its own guidelines on Benton Park Road, because the original outline planning permission was granted in 2002.

Fair enough - but what is unusual about the development is the fact that it is on land once owned by the Government.

It was handed over to a private finance contractor working on the nearby civil service complex, who was allowed to auction it to the highest bidder.

The result will be a new housing estate in an area already choked with too many cars and too few facilities.

If the city council can see the problem with this, why didn't the Government officials in Whitehall mean also to act in our best interests?

Or was any consideration of local concerns obscured by a sweet deal for some shiny new buildings?

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Is there someone who can give me a link to information about this research?

Jose Melendez

Apparently the above letter was in response to these revelations:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1797

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4641123

Of course, there is actual proof that the taxed, enormously profitable tobacco cigarettes that actually kill millions every year are linked to schizophrenia.

No word on when those self medicating with deadly items in commerce will be arrested en masse.



There is considerable evidence that cannabinoids are used to ameliorate symptoms of mental illness, rather than causing such afflictions.

In fact, some of the long demonized chemicals in cannabis have been repeatedly shown to augment or assist in the proper regulation of naturally occurring substances in the brain, including but not limited to anandamide and dopamine. The sesquiterpene known as caryophyllene oxide, found in ganja smoke and also in the scent of roses, is a precursor to steroids and hormones.

Drug prohibition policies have resulted in the highest ever global proportions of youth marijuana use, yet no marijuana related deaths that were not attributable to pot prohibition have ever occurred in history.

News media and politicians alike consistently, if not carefully omit such relevant and material facts even as they turn a blind eye to foods, food supplements, drugs, deadly and defective drug delivery devices and alcohol products that are irrefutably associated with many millions of deaths each year, across the globe.

Sometimes in life, it is important to stop and smell the flowers.

Solvay announced they will sell a synthetic cannabinoid (dronabinol) inhaler, yet Marinol has been shown to be less effective (possibly due to the lack of what I'd call active excipients, components of marijuana that seem to have modulating effects on the action of the THC)

Pfizer markets a dopamine antagonist to treat schizophrenia. That latter product has been linked to diabetes and other complications . . .

The term 'endocannabinoid' - originally coined in the mid-1990s after the discovery of membrane receptors for the psychoactive principle in Cannabis, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol and their endogenous ligands - now indicates a whole signalling system that comprises cannabinoid receptors, endogenous ligands and enzymes for ligand biosynthesis and inactivation. This system seems to be involved in an ever-increasing number of pathological conditions. With novel products already being aimed at the pharmaceutical market little more than a decade since the discovery of cannabinoid receptors, the endocannabinoid system seems to hold even more promise for the future development of therapeutic drugs. We explore the conditions under which the potential of targeting the endocannabinoid system might be realized in the years to come.

from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q..._uids=15325960

The THC in marijuana tar appears to have the power to block the carcinogenic activity of the aryl hydrocarbon carcinogens in marijuana AND tobacco tar!!

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1728.57309

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entre...&dopt=Abstract

http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH...%7C~b,*** *%7C "People with schizophrenia may use chronic exposure to nicotine to normalize the mechanisms which underlie the disease."

http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14808.shtml

NORML has received advanced, embargoed copies of THREE medical papers which will be published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) next week.

All three papers (from the UK, Australia and of course, Sweden), babble dressed-up like 'science', make the same basic claim: Schizophrenia steeply rises in societies as more cannabis is used by its population. The papers claim there is a 30% increase in Schizophrenia attributable to cannabis use.

see this link, and be prepared for bunk:

http://www.schizophrenia.com/hypo.html#street

Now, compare:


http://scienceweek.com/2004/sc041217-4.htm

"Mental illness and smoking have been closely linked. For example, smoking rates have been reported to be over 80 percent among persons who have schizophrenia, 50 to 60 percent among persons with depression, 55 to 80 percent among those who have alcoholism, and 50 to 66 percent among those who have substance-abuse problems. One study estimated that smokers with coexisting psychiatric or substance-abuse disorders account for 44 percent of all cigarettes smoked in the US, a percentage that reflects both the high prevalence of smoking in connection with these conditions and the fact that patients with these disorders are very heavy smokers."

Apparently, no medicine is smoked unless it is taxed and crammed with Polonium 210 and chopped stems sprayed with nicotine:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/schizoph.cfm

"Several studies have found that schizophrenia patients who smoke need higher doses of antipsychotic medication.

Quitting smoking may be especially difficult for people with schizophrenia, because the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal may cause a temporary worsening of schizophrenia symptoms. However, smoking cessation strategies that include nicotine replacement methods may be effective.

Doctors should carefully monitor medication dosage and response when patients with schizophrenia either start or stop smoking. "

The same zealots that use their federal jobs to threaten doctors with arrest for mentioning marijuana insist that cannabis has no medical utility, because doctors don't prescribe marijuana.

Here is why they get away with that argument, for the moment:

from: http://www.drugawareness.org/Archive...ecord0014.html

"A line has been crossed in terms of pharmaceutical company marketing,"

and . . .

" . . . psychiatric residents who had presented data about the dangers of conflicts of interest would not have been able to attend without industry funding. Saying that a company marketing representative he knew had helped arrange a grant, he added: "It has paid for our residents to come here today. Now you all don't know that, but it's got to be said."

Now compare the above to:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4334.html

" . . . when medical marijuana defendants are on trial in federal courts, judges do not allow them to mention medical marijuana, claiming that there is no such thing as medical marijuana because federal law says so. "

To resolve such fraud peacefully, we can use the courts, but be prepared for corruption even there.

Jose Melendez
http://www.CCCCP.org
DeLand, FL
(888) 247-8183

(The Concerned Citizens Coalition to Criminalize
Prohibition was formed to expose collusions and
devices in restraint of legal trade in cannabis, coca
and poppies. - Drug war is crime. We have proof.)

Kannibal

" . . . when medical marijuana defendants are on trial in federal courts, judges do not allow them to mention medical marijuana, claiming that there is no such thing as medical marijuana because federal law says so. "


Looks like it is more of the same considering the recent decision by our Surpreme Court.

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