Weed Could Block H.I.V.’s Spread. No, Seriously.

But the U.S. government won’t let scientists try out this promising treatment on humans. On a warm summer day in Chicago at the International Cannabinoid Research Conference, hundreds of marijuana researchers were giggling.

It wasn’t the groundbreaking research they’d just heard—proving the ability of THC, one of the active ingredients in marijuana, to stave off HIV (or RIV in monkeys)—that did it. Nor was it the author of the study, Dr. Patricia E. Molina, who had them laughing. It was the rogue researcher daring enough to taint the victory with a harsh dose of reality: “What’s next, testing this on humans?”

As the laughter subsided and the gravity of Dr. Molina’s results sank in, reality did too. THC is one of 500 active ingredients in marijuana. And marijuana, despite many studies proving its medical value, is sill classified by the government as a Schedule I Substance. In the face of mounting evidence that it is beneficial in treating diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s and Multiple Sclerosis, it remains a controlled substance. The joke wasn’t funny so much as painfully true: proving that an illegal drug can stop a deadly disease in humans—without testing it on them—is impossible.

This bleak truth renders Dr. Molina’s discovery—at this point—futile. She’s found a key to a door that hasn’t been built.

When the journal Aids Research and Human Retroviruses published Dr. Molina’s story this week—more than three years after the study was completed—it was followed by a small amount of buzz. But it was largely overlooked by the mainstream media—perhaps because THC is already well known for treating HIV’s “wasting” symptoms, like nausea and loss of appetite.

For those well-versed in the medical marijuana community, however, the results are too powerful to ignore.

I don’t know, my brother died of AIDS and for a while he was on marinol (I think it’s called) that gov’t approved synthetic marijuanna. He hated it (had a very bad “trip” on it once) and it did him no good. I told him I’d get him real pot, but his view was he’d never been a smoker and why start now. I’m pretty sure he was doomed no matter what, but you always regret you didn’t try something.

Another thing I’ve observed...people are always referencing dead head kids and adults living in their parents basement stoned all day.

First pot is not cheap, people who smoke pot normally only smoke on occasion, from what I heard 1oz of pot costs around a hundred dollars, 12oz of beer cost around a dollar, those dead head kids are drinking more beer than smoking pot, if they are laying around the house being dead head, it’s their parents fault!!!

Second people are saying there are all kinds of problems in Colorado and Washington, in reality the problems are minor, when measured against the problems after prohibition, people everywhere went crazy on alcohol, more problems than you could shake a stick at, right from the get go and it continues.

Third I do not see pot getting much cheaper than now, taxation will insure that, ok some would say, folks will start growing their own, it’s already being done, like so many folks brew their own beer, personally I looked into it and brewing your own can be a lot of work and sometimes cost more than buying it.

Fourth you can get much more from a cannabis plant than a high, many things can be made from the plant, even a product much better than plastic and much safer...(As well as using hemp fuel for his Model T, Henry Ford used hemp plastics to build the body work).
For more uses for hemp click here...http://www.ccguide.org/uses.php

Gov’t control killed an entire industry in the U.S. and around the world based on myth...What A Waste of a most versatile natural resource.

"When did you hear that, mid 60s?"

Well...that would be around the last time I tried it, but as I remember then it was about 10 to 15 dollars an oz...the price currently of a hundred dollars I heard on TV or read it somewhere.

I guess counting inflation the price maybe about the same then as now, but I'm not sure, I never cared that much about smoking pot, to follow it, I just recently got very interested, when Colorado and Washington decriminalized it. What ever the price, I'm pretty sure it is much more than alcohol.

I am ignorant on how much pot costs today, could you inform me, I would like to know? Thanks

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