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Medical marijuana refugees: 'This was our only hope'
CNN ^ | 03/11/3014

Posted on 03/11/2014 3:34:46 AM PDT by Wolfie

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1 posted on 03/11/2014 3:34:46 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie

Are there any medical studies to back up these claims?

Are there clinical trials of purified and quantitated cannabidiol underway?

If this truly helps to stop the children’s seizures, it should be possible to make a purified, standardized drug for patient use, free of all the carcinogens and mind-altering substances in marijuana. Despite the claims of marijuana advocates, marijuana is NOT safe.


2 posted on 03/11/2014 4:06:26 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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My understanding is that due to the federal ban, there is no possibility for private research. It all must be done in govt studies, the same govt that has banned it.

If safety were really the test for legality, we’d not have many medications on the market.


3 posted on 03/11/2014 4:29:15 AM PDT by dmz
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To: exDemMom

You are making the assumption that the therapeutic substances are distinct from the mind-altering. I don’t see how you can do that.


4 posted on 03/11/2014 4:30:02 AM PDT by MetaThought
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To: Wolfie

whatever works when it comes to being able to survive this vicious planet. If it helps these people, legalize it.


5 posted on 03/11/2014 4:33:38 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: exDemMom

You have to balance the risk with the benefit. If overall it helps, don’t restrict access to save people from some pie in the sky threat.


6 posted on 03/11/2014 4:35:08 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: MetaThought

the article says that specifically, high levels of cannabinol; low levels of THC


7 posted on 03/11/2014 4:43:37 AM PDT by babble-on
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That’s because a normal dose of THC would wipe them out. The question is whether it really works or is it just a perception thing.


8 posted on 03/11/2014 4:52:11 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: exDemMom

Not in the U.S., because it’s illegal. Israel has been pioneering medical cannabis studies for decades. That is where the most research is being done. U.S. governmental agencies will not allow studies that aren’t trying to show the harm of cannabis.


9 posted on 03/11/2014 4:54:39 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: AppyPappy

Charlotte’s story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH5yzEu3JGQ


10 posted on 03/11/2014 4:58:21 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: AppyPappy

“That’s because a normal dose of THC would wipe them out. The question is whether it really works or is it just a perception thing.”

Who cares? Either way it helps or is perceived to help


11 posted on 03/11/2014 5:01:50 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: AppyPappy

well, if a placebo reduces the seizures by that much, it’s an excellent placebo


12 posted on 03/11/2014 5:08:03 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: babble-on

Or it could prove the seizures weren’t real or that something else is affecting them. The use of the herb could be coincidental or it could lead to something worse.
The DMSO Effect


13 posted on 03/11/2014 5:22:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy

You’ll grasp at anything, won’t you?


14 posted on 03/11/2014 5:26:37 AM PDT by Wolfie
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Saw the my first deduction for pot on a tax return yesterday. Guy spent 4500 for weed in three mos.

Also coming across more gay marriage filing status.


15 posted on 03/11/2014 5:40:52 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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When your child is having 2 seizures per hour & doctors can't help, then you don't much care whether there have been medical studies on marijuana, nor do you care whether it is purified & government approved, if it stops the seizures.

If you were having 2 seizures per hour, would you rather be stoned or flopping uncontrollably on the floor/bed? If powerful opiates OR marijuana were needed to control your seizures, which would you use?

Seizures can kill you, marijuana cannot. Government approved drugs regularly kill & injure people. These drugs come with a list of possible adverse reactions & side effects. Lawyers are making a mint on government approved drugs that harm people. There has never been a recorded death or permanent injury from marijuana. The amount estimated to cause death is so large as to be impossible to ingest. A quart of government approved alcohol will kill most people.

There is NOTHING safe on this planet. If you drink too much WATER you will die. Same for everything else. If you wait for the government to tell you what is safe you may die, or live a life of pain & misery, waiting.

This is the same government that says CO2 is a pollutant, government spending will turn the economy around, & a dry ditch is a wetlands.

God bless these parents for ignoring the corrupt nanny state & perhaps saving their children's lives. See Genesis 1:29.

16 posted on 03/11/2014 5:42:17 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: School of Rational Thought

Good. Starve the beast. People pay too much in taxes.


17 posted on 03/11/2014 5:45:37 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: scripter

ping...


18 posted on 03/11/2014 6:38:07 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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Good reply. I say, anything that reduces my pain is good. I use the herb rather than getting shithoused. Works for me.

FMCDH(BITS)

19 posted on 03/11/2014 7:51:18 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: AppyPappy

“Or it could prove the seizures weren’t real”

Seriously?


20 posted on 03/11/2014 7:54:21 AM PDT by Fuzz
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