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Marijuana Shown to Relieve HIV Nerve Pain
Voice of America ^ | Feb 16th, 2007 | Rose Hoban

Posted on 02/16/2007 3:23:59 PM PST by cryptical

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To: cryptical

Abstinence PREVENTS aids.


141 posted on 02/18/2007 7:29:23 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
So what's the point of hanging around here?...

Your girlfriend has given up trying to school me...

You're completely ignorant of the literature as I've demonstrated above ...

You confuse my defense of the "sick and dying pawns"...

A defense handed to me by your girlfriend ...

I might add ...

with advocacy of mj use ...

Clarification for you ...

delusional people... and mailmen ...

should not smoke marijuana ...

Further clarification for you ...

I'll continue responding ...

just as long as you keep displaying that rapier-like twit

Uh...

I meant 'wit'...

Hmmmmmm. maybe that will work...

twit then ...

142 posted on 02/18/2007 7:32:58 PM PST by youngjim (Anger a liberal. Work hard. Succeed. Be happy.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

First, that should have been Chronic.

Guns don't contribute to behavior? So there is no feeling of invulnerability when a young thug is packing? This feeling doesn't lead to trigger pulling? C'mon now.

Both are inanimate objects and both influence behavior in people using them in various ways.


143 posted on 02/18/2007 7:33:12 PM PST by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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To: Lexington Green

Try acupuncture, then you can "keep off the grass"!


144 posted on 02/18/2007 7:33:48 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: KoRn

Cost is a fair point to address, none of it is cheap.

Just like those pills didn't have the desired effect on you, I would imagine that buds don't have a positive affect on some people either.

In turn those pills do help some people, just like buds do.

Seems to me that each side could be happy for the other that they have found something that works for them.

I guess I just don't understand why that is so hard to accomplish.


145 posted on 02/18/2007 7:38:14 PM PST by Just sayin (Is is what it is, for if it was anything else, it would be isn't.)
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To: RJL
If they have a "superior capacity for happiness" what is the marijuana for?

To fool them into thinking, just for awhile, that they have a 'superior capacity for happiness'. ;)

146 posted on 02/18/2007 7:54:52 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Just sayin
"Seems to me that each side could be happy for the other that they have found something that works for them."

I agree! If someone is hurting like hell and pot helps them, no legislator or judge should stand in their way of getting it just because its use offends the morals of some people. What I don't understand is you have medicines like Morphine, OxyContin, among many others that are legal and are FAR more potent and addictive than marijuana, yet marijuana is illegal for anyone to possess. I don't understand why all of those who believe pot should remain illegal don't protest the legality of all the strong narcotics that are being used by prescription. It really is crazy.

147 posted on 02/18/2007 8:00:59 PM PST by KoRn
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To: youngjim
Your not very bright are you?

You smoke a lot of dope, don't you?

148 posted on 02/18/2007 8:26:55 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Just sayin
On one level that is like saying guns should be banned because there is a mall shooting.

Only by your "reasoning".

Over the centuries, its uses have included the treatment of pain, asthma and dysentery, the promotion of sleep, the suppression of nausea and vomiting and the abolition of convulsions and spasms (Mechoulam, 1986). [emphasis mine natch, take that Mojave]

By that "reasoning", smoking opium should be legalized as well.

149 posted on 02/18/2007 8:34:18 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Just sayin
Under this definition, it is quite logical to say that pot is being employed as a medicine.

Only by what passes for logic with you.

What major medical organization endorses smoking pot for "treating disease or illness"?

150 posted on 02/18/2007 8:37:30 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
Guns and opium have nothing in common.

Dope enthusiasts and other leftists constantly equate drug use and the right to keep and bear arms. They can't help themselves.

151 posted on 02/18/2007 8:40:31 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
Dope enthusiasts and other leftists constantly equate drug use and the right to keep and bear arms. They can't help themselves.

So do the bureaucrats who "want it all". They just take a detour through "interstate commerce" to get there.

152 posted on 02/18/2007 8:43:30 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Mojave
By that "reasoning", smoking opium should be legalized as well.

A good bit of modern pharmacology was built on research that started with studies done on peole who were "smoking opium".

153 posted on 02/18/2007 8:48:35 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Just sayin
So there is no feeling of invulnerability when a young thug is packing?

Stop smoking crack and come back to the real world.

154 posted on 02/18/2007 8:49:45 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: tacticalogic
So do the bureaucrats who "want it all".

Quote, please.

155 posted on 02/18/2007 8:51:56 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave

I said it. You can quote me on that.


156 posted on 02/18/2007 8:52:38 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
A good bit of modern pharmacology was built on research that started with studies done on peole who were "smoking opium".

So you want opium smoking legalized?

157 posted on 02/18/2007 8:53:11 PM PST by Mojave
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To: tacticalogic
I said it.

But you claimed that "bureacrats" did it. Are you now claiming to be a bureacrat?

158 posted on 02/18/2007 8:55:07 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
So you want opium smoking legalized?

Loaded question. Tagged, bagged, and done with it.

159 posted on 02/18/2007 8:55:42 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Mojave
But you claimed that "bureacrats" did it. Are you now claiming to be a bureacrat?

Yes. No.

160 posted on 02/18/2007 8:57:38 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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