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Old Lady Toker · 02-01-2007, 02:42 AM

"Smokable" pain drugs promise faster action - Yahoo! News

Pharmeceutical companies using smoked and inhaled medication for rapid release.

We've been making this claim for years.

Buzzby · 02-01-2007, 03:23 AM

They aren't really talking about smokable drugs. What they're talking about is drugs that can be inhaled, i.e. vaporized. The preferred way of administering medical marijuana uses that technique.

When the prohibitionists talk about how medical marijuana is a bad thing, one of their points is always that you smoke it and smoking is bad for you. There's no way that they don't know about vaporizer technology. They withhold the information because it doesn't fit into their agenda.

Old Lady Toker · 02-01-2007, 12:49 PM

As the article put "smokable" in quotations, it was clear that the indication was not of combustable particulated smoke but rather the inhalation of medication and rapid pasage of chemicals through the lung.

As an example a "vaporized" version of an existing drug was used as illustration.

The point is however, as you repeated above, is that the popular myth that medication is not smoked (inhaled) is put to task -- hence the reason for posting this link.

Buzzby · 02-01-2007, 06:59 PM

My point was that "smoking" has negative connotations - health issues. These issues are a key point in most prohibitionists' arguments against the medical use of marijuana. When someone speaks of inhalable medications as smokable medication they play into that.

For the sake of advancing medical marijuana, there has to be a clear awareness that it doesn't have to be smoked.

Old Lady Toker · 02-04-2007, 01:51 PM

We are on the same page --

I found the title of the Article to be extremely provocative inasmuch as it claimed "smokeable" -- and was a positive representation of inhaled medication.

That the article made it past the editors and censors with that title is of note as demonstrative of change.

02-01-2007, 02:42 AM	#1
Old Lady Toker Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 14 Grams: 26.30 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Myth Busting: Smoked Medication Gaining Acceptance "Smokable" pain drugs promise faster action - Yahoo! News Pharmeceutical companies using smoked and inhaled medication for rapid release. We've been making this claim for years.

02-01-2007, 03:23 AM	#2
Buzzby Buddhist Curmudgeon Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 14,139 Grams: 42,352.04 Groans: 33 Groaned at 42 Times in 35 Posts Thanks: 484 Thanked 3,475 Times in 1,758 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	They aren't really talking about smokable drugs. What they're talking about is drugs that can be inhaled, i.e. vaporized. The preferred way of administering medical marijuana uses that technique. When the prohibitionists talk about how medical marijuana is a bad thing, one of their points is always that you smoke it and smoking is bad for you. There's no way that they don't know about vaporizer technology. They withhold the information because it doesn't fit into their agenda. __________________ McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time. Do we really want four more years of the same old shit? ~ Buzzby, 08/31/2008 Theocracy Watch

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02-01-2007, 12:49 PM	#3
Old Lady Toker Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 14 Grams: 26.30 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	As the article put "smokable" in quotations, it was clear that the indication was not of combustable particulated smoke but rather the inhalation of medication and rapid pasage of chemicals through the lung. As an example a "vaporized" version of an existing drug was used as illustration. The point is however, as you repeated above, is that the popular myth that medication is not smoked (inhaled) is put to task -- hence the reason for posting this link.

02-01-2007, 06:59 PM	#4
Buzzby Buddhist Curmudgeon Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 14,139 Grams: 42,352.04 Groans: 33 Groaned at 42 Times in 35 Posts Thanks: 484 Thanked 3,475 Times in 1,758 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	My point was that "smoking" has negative connotations - health issues. These issues are a key point in most prohibitionists' arguments against the medical use of marijuana. When someone speaks of inhalable medications as smokable medication they play into that. For the sake of advancing medical marijuana, there has to be a clear awareness that it doesn't have to be smoked.

02-04-2007, 01:51 PM	#5
Old Lady Toker Banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 14 Grams: 26.30 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	We are on the same page -- I found the title of the Article to be extremely provocative inasmuch as it claimed "smokeable" -- and was a positive representation of inhaled medication. That the article made it past the editors and censors with that title is of note as demonstrative of change.

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