Posted on 06/04/2014 4:26:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rules observed. Very well done!
What's the 'rate' for SELLING the drug?
This product has been classified as a throat cancer risk.
You are bad.
My goats can eat poison ivy, apparently without any ill effects.
I'm glad it's NOT illegal to grow it in Indiana.
Maureen; you may be itching to do some research here.
(or after doing it...)
Guilty as charged...
I am quite aware of the many claims regarding the use of marijuana. However, I can find very little corroboration of those claims within the medical literature. It is not for lack of trying; I’ve searched as creatively as I know how.
(Actually, I left to meet some friends for dinner, but I bow to your superior reaction time. :-)
Dowd does remind me of a goat...
Cool, man. You’re a real hip dude.
Did you happen to notice to famous actor, there?
Millions of testimonies being worthless, of course. After all, if it's ain't got "MD" or "PhD" after it's name, it's a freaking moron.
And "medical literature" being literature published sources completely free from pharmaceutical multinational influence.
So nope, not a dang thing to see here. Move along.
LOL, black and white is so soothing, isn't it? We need to make the world more like it... for peace.
Oh, and for health. And safety. And the children.
I have it on good authority, eheh. Actually, nothing scientific, but I have conversed with some people who were into growing it, and, as with all crops, they were constantly looking to crossbreed and selective breed to get both more resilient strains and stronger THC. I suppose I’m assuming that they succeeded.
LOL!
The plural of “anecdote” is not “data.”
People who believe that using a substance will help them feel better after taking that substance—this is known as the placebo effect.
A medical study consists of separating people into a control group and one or more study groups. Preferably, the study is double-blinded so that neither the researchers nor the subjects know which group is which. Each group is given a pill or liquid that looks identical to that given in every other group. Over the course of the study, researchers record relevant health parameters—for instance, if the drug under consideration is supposed to decrease the occurrence of migraine headache, the researchers record data on the incidence of migraine in each group. Numbers are crunched, groups are compared—only after the use of heavy statistics can the efficacy of the putative migraine drug be determined.
These studies involve many study subjects. A typical phase 3 trial might use thousands or even tens of thousands of subjects.
Yes, I do trust a systematic study far more than a collection of anecdotes. Given that most drugs never progress through the clinical trial process because the drug company developing them found them unacceptably risky or ineffective, I have no more reason to doubt the results of drug company run studies than to doubt the results of independent university or government studies.
The fact is, I have not seen any small or large scale systematic studies supporting the claims made for “medical” marijuana.
OTOH, there is plenty of evidence of damaging effects of marijuana, including cancer, memory loss, loss of initiative, precipitation of psychotic disorders, etc.
I wonder if Gor-Don will have the same success...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BltL8vKpXD0#t=21
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