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To: cinFLA
You have made several replies but none have refuted my statement: I repeat: Research has shown that smoked marijuana will never be a medicine.

You're being an ignorant, lying ass as usual. You fail to present any of your 'research' because it doesn't exist. Are you a physician, physician's assistant, any health professional at all? Have you gone through a graduate program in human physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, or neurology? You're completely unable to discern that the research debate was never about efficacy as a medicine but efficiency of delivery and complications of other substances endogenous to the cannabis plant.

Try to get this into your puny brain - Your statement of "will never be a medicine" is blatantly false as smoked marijuana has been used as a medicine in the past and in some quarters is still being used as a medicine. There have been programs in the US with smoked marijuana as a medicine in treatment regimens and there are ongoing ones in Canada. Thus smoked marijuana already is a medicine.

Thus, once again, you are simply repeating a lie to make yourself feel you can be the big argue man in a discussion.

Here's some examples of the research of smoked marijuana as a medicine: An Executive Summary from the National Institute of Medicine, Division of Neuroscience, 1999, recommended the short-term use of smoked marijuana until synthetic cannabinoids were approved or a controlled inhaler was developed. It as approved and served as the basis for a pilot study using smoked marijuana as a medicine - and even attempted to develop an inhaler.

UCSF performed a clinical trial using smoked marijuana in a treatment regimen for AIDS patients, 1997-1998.

The New York Journal of Medicine published a state clinical study in 1988 - "Inhalation Marijuana as an Antiemetic for Cancer Chemotherapy" by Vincent Vinciguerra, MD; Terry Moore, MSW; Eileen Brennan, RN - That would be smoked marijuana as a medicine.

August, 2003, Health Canada approved smoked marijuana for medical use for AIDS patients - again, as a medicine.

March, 2001, the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care published in their journal a summary of the uses of smoked and derivative marijuana as medicines.

The Annals of Internal Medicine in January 2001 reviewed the uses of smoked marijuana as a medicine.

In April, 2001, Nature published a review of the medical uses of smoked marijuana.

The point studies have made is that a pill with one purified or synthetic cannabinoid is easier to control for dosage, purity, and action. This does not negate smoked marijuana as a medicine. A pill form or solution for injection will replace uses for smoked marijuana. Before morphine was developed, opium was dissolved in ethanol and taken in liquid form as a medicine - then purified and synthesized agents like morphine and codeine were later used for pills and injections as medicines. But the raw opium in ethanol is still considered a medicine.

Do you see how that works? Can you understand such a complex and difficult idea?

Or will you continue your mentality of a spoiled three year old like in other threads and yell, "Is not, is not, is not?"

32 posted on 03/11/2004 8:39:16 AM PST by Ophiucus
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To: Ophiucus
"The point studies have made is that a pill with one purified or synthetic cannabinoid is easier to control for dosage, purity, and action. This does not negate smoked marijuana as a medicine. A pill form or solution for injection will replace uses for smoked marijuana. "

You proved my point. Smoked marijuana is not going to be a medicine.
33 posted on 03/11/2004 8:41:54 AM PST by cinFLA
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