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Plainsman1963

A dose of bad medicine
06-08-06 | Bergen.Com | David Evans

THE NEW JERSEY Legislature is considering a bill to permit the use of smoked marijuana as "medicine." The legislators who support this bill are acting out of compassion, but they need to take a second look.

The federal Food and Drug Administration recently declared that marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no currently accepted medical use, and has a lack of accepted safety for use even under medical supervision. Furthermore, the FDA stated that there is substantial evidence that smoked marijuana is harmful and that there are no sound scientific studies supporting the safety or efficacy of marijuana for medical use.

Before the development of modern pharmaceutical science, the field of medicine was fraught with potions. There were as many anecdotal stories about these potions as there are today about smoked marijuana. Many people were convinced that these potions helped them. However, many of these potions were absolutely useless or were harmful to unsuspecting ill people. Thus evolved our current FDA drug approval process. The FDA process has protected us for 100 years. It is dangerous to undermine it.

Smoked marijuana as medicine was rejected by the American Medical Association, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the American Glaucoma Society, the American Academy of Opthamology and the American Cancer Society.

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The federal Institute of Medicine did research on this issue and they see "little future in smoked marijuana as a medicine." They reject smoked marijuana because numerous effective FDA-approved medicines are available for the conditions that smoked marijuana allegedly helps and because smoking is a poor way to deliver a drug.

Marijuana legalization advocates want you to believe that smoking marijuana is the only alternative for many cancer sufferers with the nausea associated with chemotherapy, and for all those who suffer from glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and other ailments. However, numerous medications and treatments are currently available.

Marijuana is intoxicating, so it's not surprising that sincere people report relief of their symptoms when they smoke it. They may be feeling better -- but they are not actually getting better. They may even be getting worse due to the detrimental effects of marijuana.

We take no issue with people who are legitimately ill. We are against those who have manipulated sick people to promote legalization of marijuana.

It is not compassionate to give sick people the wrong information that prevents them from using effective medicines instead of marijuana.

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"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolfe

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reggie_the_dog

"THE NEW JERSEY Legislature is considering a bill to permit the use of smoked marijuana as "medicine." The legislators who support this bill are acting out of compassion, but they need to take a second look."


Yet another article where they only speak about SMOKED cannabis as medicine. No talk of EATEN or VAPORIZED cannabis.

Why not....????....

Because then the "journalist" would have nothing to bitch about.

also look at this gem

"The federal Food and Drug Administration recently declared that marijuana has a high potential for abuse, has no currently accepted medical use, and has a lack of accepted safety for use even under medical supervision. Furthermore, the FDA stated that there is substantial evidence that smoked marijuana is harmful and that there are no sound scientific studies supporting the safety or efficacy of marijuana for medical use."


Did I miss something here? According to the FDA marijuana has a high potential for abuse, higher than cocaine or moraphine (those would be schedule II drugs, has no currently accepted medical use (in the USA, in CANADA AND THE NETHERLANDS the FEDS DISTRIBUTE CANNABIS AS MEDICINE) and has a lack of accepted saftey for use even under medical supervision (well I guess never causing a death, or cancer, or nasty unwanted side effects is not safe enough, we should just keep taking FDA approved drugs that have tiny safe side effects LIKE HEART DISEASE).

I wish that the journalist that wrote this crap would get AIDS and then understand why smoking a joint and getting the munchies can be medically benificial.

Plainsman1963

I think this is more of a letter to the editor, but if you look at this persons name and the name (and exact same quote regarding intoxicant) in the other NJ article posted today...You will see some familiarity.

Amazing that there is no known medicinal value, yet the government still supplies cannabis for medicinal use.

Kool Keith

"there are no sound scientific studies supporting the safety or efficacy of marijuana for medical use."

Could that possibly be due to the fact that they don't want the studies done?

majinvegeta

i just want every one to know i hate these people. who ever it was that posted is absoltuly right. they are trying to give us medicne that can cause heart disease rather then let people use medical canabis. and it can also be eaten or vaporized. why the hell dont these big officials actually talk about it entirly instead of just some of it? why didnt they bring up the posobility of vaporizing it for use? i dont see why people are too afraid to pass a bill that some people might be pissed off about instead of making sure every one is happy. if it helps people who cares if some people hate it? granted i dont know much about the legalizing process but it just seems to me like they are beating around the bush and just trying to brush off the whole idea of legalizing it.

 

kickinbass

I, personnally, could care less if MJ is ever legalized. I believe that legalization, per se, will only give rise to opportunistic factions who's only concerns would be to further control our accessibility, product quality and potency, and their bottom line. Legalization, in and of itself, opens new avenues for big business, governmental controls, and further taxation. As I see it, decriminalization would repeal the strict ban on MJ, while keeping it under some form of regulation, and choice.


I am, however, a very staunch supported of MJ as an alternitive to the "numerous medications and treatments [that] are currently available". At the risk of being self centered, MJ was the key "medication" in my wife's completion of her year of chemotherapy, associated depression, and nausea. And, was mine in the RELIEF of the near debilitating pain associated with my own "medical condition" (Severe Degeneration of the Spine), until my recent postive drug screen. These so called medications and treatments, in my own case, consists of three 750 mg. pills a day of VICODIN (derivative of MORPHINE), three 50 mg. pills of DICLOFENAC, and one 350 mg pill, at bedtime, of SOMA (derivative of OPIUM) of which I am assured ADDICTION to all three.

Thank you to all of these learned legislators for allowing me to see the errors of my ways and also for providing such wonderful alternatives to this heinous weed.

p.s. None of these marvelous little miracles of modern science cure any of my disabilities and, all of them put together do not provide the relief that one bowl of MJ provides.

Peace

Anubis_Ice

Thats is the funniest thing i have ever heard, marijuana is not making cancer patients better, lol and most of the time niether is the radiation treatments but sh*t lets go ahead and blast them with some.