For the life of me, I do not understand how anyone can use the sick and dying as pawns in their quest to legalize marijuana. Smoked marijuana is not medicine. It's a scam. No major medical organization supports it.
Why is marijuana so special that we're expected to make an exception for it and not treat it as we would any other drug? Study it. Trial it. Publish peer-reviewed reports. List drug interactions, dosages, frequency. Get FDA approval. Have a physician prescribe it through a pharmacy.
AS WE DO WITH EVERY OTHER DRUG.
What is wrong with that? I'd really like to know.
Are caffine, nicotine and alcohol drugs Paulsen?, So much for "every other drug" huh? Oh yeah, and I will be interested in seeing your response to telling the difference between decaf coffee and regular coffee by smell.
You can talk about all the studies you want to FRiend, but I am telling you, as a person with extensive nerve troubles, that a couple one hits does have a positive effect. Indeed, a positive effect without all the side effects from well over a dozen other pill form drugs I have been thru since the start of this century.
I would like to know why just becasue YOU say it doesn't work, due to sources you supposedly trust saying it doesn't work, trumps my choice in my life's personal experience with positive results? Could you explain that to me?
Is it for everyone? No, just like other methods, it isn't but why would you seek to remove access to something that helps me the better than any other FDA drug tried? What gives you that right?
> What is wrong with that?
That's what researchers have been asking the DEA and their jackbooted cronies in the federal alphabet soup since at least the 1970s.
The answer seems to be that the authorities strongly opposed it.
Why is marijuana so special that we're expected to make an exception for it and not treat it as we would any other drug? Study it. Trial it. Publish peer-reviewed reports. List drug interactions, dosages, frequency. Get FDA approval. Have a physician prescribe it through a pharmacy. AS WE DO WITH EVERY OTHER DRUG. What is wrong with that? I'd really like to know.
Great idea. Now get the federal government to allow those studies, and permit researchers to obtain marijuana to use for those studies. One neurologist in California who specializes in MS told me he was visited by federal agents in his clinic. They warned him that despite the California law, if he prescribed marijuana for any of his MS patients, he'd be arrested. Good climate to do clinical studies, huh?
This whole thing strikes me as ridiculous. I agree with you - treat marijuana as any other regulated drug, do the investigations, and use it for appropriate indications. I find it very wrong to deny effective treatment to patients because someone associates marijuana with an undesirable lifestyle.
What? No, hi Chena, how have you been these days? LOL ;)
The questions you've posed have no doubt been answered time and time again. In my honest opinion, the truth is that if God presented Himself in your living room tonight and told you that He created the plant, that we call marijuana, and He created it for medicinal purposes and you were wrong to deny the sick from using it, you'd argue with Him until Hell froze over that He was wrong, and you are right.
How's that for a run-on sentence? :)