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To: Mariner

Sorry, you are wrong.

There are tens of thousands of veterans who get stoned by smoking leafy marijuana. Although I don’t have a big problem with that it is NOT a medical benefit. Same thing as drinking ETOH without the calories. Its as harmful to your lungs as ETOH is to your liver.

Leafy marijuana has over 40K chemical substances and one type can be very different from another. In order to have medical benefit a drug must be predictable EVERY TIME it is used at the same dosage each time. Leafy marijuana IS NOT predictable and no one can certify the dosage.

THC has some medical benefits and it CAN be predictable and can be purified to a standardized dosage. Your statements are opinion, mine are scientific facts.


5 posted on 03/11/2015 8:49:05 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: 43north
"Your statements are opinion, mine are scientific facts."

No, yours are an opinion extrapolated from a very limited view of the 100's of canabanoids that are present in marijuana and the receptors they plug in to.

There is real research that show real benefit for PTSD, Depression, Epilepsy...dozens of others...that show leafy marijuana to be of measurable benefit where refined THC is not.

CBD (cannabidiol) is a case in point. It has enormous benefit for inflammation and pain. Measurable in blind studies and empirical metrics, not subjective.

And it doesn't even get you high.

Also look up epilepsy.

Then do the rest of your research.

6 posted on 03/11/2015 9:03:21 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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