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xiou · 06-28-2008, 06:26 PM

I don't know if I can post a link to the article so I will just quote it here.

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Future Doctors Support Medical Marijuana
The Medical Student Section (MSS) of the American Medical Association (AMA) overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution urging the AMA to support the reclassification of marijuana for medical use at the AMA's annual conference in Chicago earlier this month. The resolution will now go before the AMA House of Delegates for a final vote at its interim meeting in November.
After a lengthy series of whereases detailing scientific support for therapeutic uses of cannabis, the MSS resolved that:

RESOLVED, That our AMA support reclassification of marijuana's status as a Schedule I controlled substance into a more appropriate schedule; and be it further
RESOLVED, That this resolution be forwarded to the House of Delegates at I-08.

With some 50,000 members, the MSS is the largest and most influential organization of medical students in the US. The other major medical student group in the county, the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), which split from the AMA in the heady days of the 1960s to pursue a more socially activist agenda, endorsed rescheduling marijuana in 1993 and added its own resolution endorsing clinical research on medical marijuana in 1999. (AMSA claims 68,000 members, but also includes pre-med students.)
Those two organizations join a growing list of medical groupings supporting medical marijuana, including the AIDS Action Council, the Alaska Nurses Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Nurses Association, the American Preventive Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, the California Academy of Family Physicians, the California Medical Association, the California Pharmacists Association, the Connecticut Nurses Association, Cure AIDS Now, the Florida Medical Association, the Los Angeles County AIDS Commission, the Lymphoma Foundation of America, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the National Association for Public Health Policy, the National Association of People with AIDS, the National Nurses Society on Addictions, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New Mexico Medical Society, Physicians for Social Responsiblity, the San Francisco Medical Society, the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions, the Wisconsin Public Health Association, and state nurses associations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, according to the medical marijuana education and advocacy group Patients Out of Time.
The most recent addition to that list was the American College of Physicians (ACP), which adopted a resolution called for rescheduling of marijuana and an expansion of research into its medical efficacy in February. With 124,000 members, the ACP is the country's second largest physician group, second only to the AMA.
But the AMA remains recalcitrant. Its most recent recommendation on medical marijuana, adopted in 2001, calls for further study, but urges that marijuana remain at Schedule 1 pending the outcome of those studies. The resolution passed by the MSS is designed to prod the organization forward.
The MSS may have some clout, but it can't do it alone, said Sunil Aggarwal, a University of Washington medical student who championed the resolution in Chicago. "If it's just us, we lose," he said. "Between now and November, we'll be trying to get different organizations within the AMA to stand with us. We'll be going after the state medical societies in all the medical marijuana states, and we'll be building alliances with groups that are our allies, like the ACP," he strategized. "We have to be careful, though. There are some forces that would like to quash us, like the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Even though they're a relatively new organization, everyone tends to defer to them on matters of addiction and substance abuse. If they say no, the AMA might get cold feet."
Medical marijuana advocates were pleased at the news. "This is a positive and necessary step in the right direction," said Dr. David Ostrow, a member of the AMA and Chair of the Medical & Scientific Advisory Board of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the country's largest medical marijuana advocacy organization. "We are hopeful that the full house of delegates will follow the example set by the American College of Physicians earlier this year and vote to support this resolution, thereby placing the needs and safety of our patients above politics."
Whether the battle is won this year or not, Aggarwal and his colleagues are the wave of the future, he said. "The two organizations that represent medical students nationally have now both called for the reclassification of marijuana," he said. "We're the future doctors of America. These are the people who are going to be the leaders in American medicine, and now they are officially supporting medical marijuana," he said. "This is a big milestone."

This seems like a good thing...right?

awd4g63 · 06-30-2008, 01:58 AM

Hopefully things will start to look up once people start realizing the multitude of large organizations like these start supporting medicinal marijuana.

GREENFOODGAMES · 08-11-2008, 08:03 PM

I wonder how long before it is nationally accepted

JohnBoySmoker · 08-12-2008, 06:35 AM

Several major medical groups have come out in favor of MMJ. The AMA is one of the last major hold outs.

Jewbutca · 08-13-2008, 05:21 AM

Geez that is a huge list of organizations! I'm glad that doctors are finally coming out in the masses and supporting medical MJ. Even my own doctor has supported medical (and even non-medical) MJ for years! Horray for doctors over-riding the Federally Funded FDA!

cj117 · 08-13-2008, 07:56 AM

US GOV - "NO! We cannot allow people to use marijuana for ANY REASON. Kill them all. Err, I mean... arrest them."

Researcher · 08-13-2008, 10:39 PM

I've always contended--and frequently mention this note at our NORML meetings---that: Until cannabis can be scientifically shown to help cause an Increase in the size /girth of a man's penile and/or increase the size/shape of a woman's breasts, then cannabis will remain illegal to possess. Now, what we are arguing for is that it be decriminalized to the level of a 'traffic violation' much like it's done in some cities of Ohio. But until it can be shown to improve sexual function--then it won't be accepted as Legal.

08-13-2008, 07:56 AM	#6
cj117 Jr. Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 199 Grams: 3,306.58 Groans: 0 Groaned at 1 Time in 1 Post Thanks: 31 Thanked 38 Times in 25 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	US GOV - "NO! We cannot allow people to use marijuana for ANY REASON. Kill them all. Err, I mean... arrest them." __________________ "In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded." Legalize it!

08-13-2008, 10:39 PM	#7
Researcher Jr. Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 202 Grams: 2,499.85 Groans: 0 Groaned at 8 Times in 7 Posts Thanks: 19 Thanked 24 Times in 23 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	I've always contended--and frequently mention this note at our NORML meetings---that: Until cannabis can be scientifically shown to help cause an Increase in the size /girth of a man's penile and/or increase the size/shape of a woman's breasts, then cannabis will remain illegal to possess. Now, what we are arguing for is that it be decriminalized to the level of a 'traffic violation' much like it's done in some cities of Ohio. But until it can be shown to improve sexual function--then it won't be accepted as Legal. __________________ Researcher Hey, it's just a daym plant!

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Jewbutca Jr. Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 100 Grams: 2,134.98 Groans: 0 Groaned at 1 Time in 1 Post Thanks: 24 Thanked 19 Times in 15 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Geez that is a huge list of organizations! I'm glad that doctors are finally coming out in the masses and supporting medical MJ. Even my own doctor has supported medical (and even non-medical) MJ for years! Horray for doctors over-riding the *Federally Funded* FDA!

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