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Letter to the Editor: Marijuana Is No Cure
Steven Steiner | The Courier | 06/01/2006

To The Editor:

As a parent who lost his son to drug use, I now work tirelessly to prevent the same tragedy from ever occurring again, I am dismayed to see the New Jersey Legislature even considering the medicinal use of marijuana, based upon dangerously deceptive claims about the medicinal potential of the crude marijuana plant.

Marijuana has not satisfied the demanding requirements of the national drug regulatory agency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). No crude marijuana liquid or otherwise, smoked or vaporized or eaten in brownies, can meet these criteria.

(BuzzNote: If the rules don't fit the reality, the reality that marijuana is demonstrably an effective medicine, then maybe it's time to change the rules.)

Why would patients and their physicians want to use crude plant material when a proper medical product is already available to physicians as a prescription medicine?

(BuzzNote: Because it works better, costs less, and allows the patient to adjust his own dosage to match his needs?)

Why would patients and their physicians want to use crude plant material, potentially contaminated with bird droppings, rodent carcasses, pesticides, heavy metals and fungi when a proper prescription medicine is making its way through the international regulatory process? The answer is they won't.

(BuzzNote: The answer is they do and will continue to do so. Prescription alternatives are not as effective. The only reason marijuana has less quality control than other agricultural products is not intrinsic to the plant. It's because prohibition makes it illegal to grow it and the FDA can't exercise any control at all.)

The activists seeking to legalize marijuana smoking under the fiction that it is a medicine have realized that.

(BuzzNote: Huh? Last I looked we were still fighting the good fight with much success. If we've realized "the error of our ways", why is New Jersey discussing legalizing medical marijuana?)

That is precisely what the US government has been saying all along: only a product that has been properly researched and manufactured should be made available as medicine.

(BuzzNote: People have been using medicinal herbs since before the dawn of recorded history. Even animals use medicinal herbs. Shouldn't we have the same freedoms as our ancestors and our brothers in the animal kingdom?)

Marijuana advocates are not trying to promote medicine for seriously ill patients. In facts, they are willing to put seriously ill patients at risk so they can deceive the public into accepting crude marijuana.

(BuzzNote: Patients turn to medical marijuana because the professional medical establishment has been unable to provide them with relief or because they can't afford Big Pharma's overpriced offerings.)

Their shameless claims and use of the sick and dying offends those who truly care about sick patients and who have lost so much to drug use.

(BuzzNote: The shameless and unfounded claims of the prohibitionists deny sick and dying people the symptomatic relief they need. Steven Steiner lost a child to "drugs". Marijuana doesn't kill anyone and there is no truth in its characterization as a "gateway" drug. Steiner is directing his anger in the wrong direction.)

Steven Steiner
Tiaga Center, N.Y.

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What medicine is that?



And the FDA gets to pick it for us? No thanks.

One dose of droppings and carcasses please, hold the pesticides, thanks....


He's right. I give up. It's fiction that allll those people get relief. Fiction.


I'm going to be sick if I hear that one ever again. How many herbs are sold in this country as FOOD seasonings alone? How many herbal teas are sold around the world every day?






Somewhere in Ded Land......

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-FROM JOHN F. KENNEDY'S INAUGURAL SPEECH, JANUARY 1961



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Soooo.... if all medicines have been properly researched and manufactured, why are so many medications recalled?

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From this article you'd think that Mr. Steiner's son died from marijuana. Ironically enough he actually died from an overdose of Oxycotin, a synthetic drug that made it through the FDA process and is now widely abused.

Mr. Steiner is a total blowhard, he's obviously out to lunch when it comes to rational thought. Marijuana is fine, Steve Steiner can suck it.