Bring on the Drug Warriors.
Why do we continue to criminalize the sick, dying, and lame for using medical pot? Because they're so easy to catch?
I've never experienced a pain that was alleviated by pot. In some cases, pot makes it far worse: severe toothaches, for instance. Getting stoned while having a toothache, or most types of headache, is like stubbing your toes on a couch and then getting a charlie horse in your foot.
While I've never experienced the pain described in this article, my experience with pot and other types of pain leads me to believe this story is BS.
Just saying, "idopathic neuropathies", or irritated and damaged nerves, especially in the extremities, without known cause, are becoming a lot more common these days.
Often what happens is a degeneration of the myelin sheath, the "insulation" that protects nerves. But this is not the only cause.
What happens is usually tingling and pain in the hands and feet turns to numbness that works its way inward. In the feet is it often associated with "dropfoot", where the foot does not bend up normally when walking, the toes dragging, causing the individual to stumble. This is becoming very common in older people, recognizable because they have to wear a calf brace, attached to a plate underneath the foot, holding their foot up.
I bet heroin or even euthanasia in extreme terminal pain would be more effective of removing pain.
Limbaugh skipped doing his show today because his HIV
pain was so bad. Maybe he should take up weed again!
The trial was conducted over a two-year period during which 50 volunteers each spent a week at a secured laboratory at San Francisco General. After a two-day orientation period, during which they stopped smoking marijuana they may have been using, they were given one cigarette three times a day. Half of the volunteers received marijuana containing about 3.5 percent of THC, the active ingredient of the drug; the other half received the placebo.
There are a few things that stand out.
1. They made no effort to weed out (pun intended) people who may be addicted to marijuana.
2. The participants were HIV patients in San Francisco. The odds that they whole heartedly believe in the legalization of marijuana in the first place makes them at the best biased patients and at the worst liars.
3. People who smoke pot on a regular basis know pretty quickly whether they're smoking bogus weed or not. The fact that they're not getting buzzed may very well influence their response to the questions asked about the "bottom of their foot pain" that must be so horrendous that they have to smoke pot to get rid of it.
Sorry, but this study proves only that pro-drug legalization leftists are very good at setting up bogus "studies" and generating good press for their cause.
What about the secondhand smoke?
Abstinence PREVENTS aids.
Its so funny that the lefty's are for legalised marijuana but they will fight tooth and nail against smoking in a restraunt or bar. What is the difference?
Get ready for all sorts of knee-jerk bloviation by the anti-drug crowd.