Posted on 07/24/2010 5:30:17 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
I am always deeply suspicious of evidence of sanity in the U.S. government.
“For years, there have been veterans coming back from the Iraq war who needed medical marijuana”
No one “needs” medical marijuana.
You can also snort “medical dirt”
A buddy of mine was prescribed Vicodin for his back pain and got to the point his doctor said he should take 2 7.5 Vicodins for the pain. Pretty soon, the Vicodin didn’t even take the edge off his pain and he resorted to getting a medical marijuana card, just to see “if it would work.” He didn’t smoke it before getting his card and now swears by it. He hasn’t taken a Vicodin since he got his card a few months ago and has been pain free. He injured his back when an IED went off in front of his vehicle and he was thrown from his .50 cal. turret.
*ouch* that non-de-script lower back pain is acting up again. TIme to make an appointment.
Until I took Amoxicillin: it gave me nausea so bad I could barely move. Then I remembered the claim that pot can relieve nausea. I found some, took a hit and I'll be damned if my stomach didn't feel perfectly fine in about 3 minutes.
It was unbelievable.
Since then I haven't begrudged any chemo patient who uses it.
LOL~
I currently have a chronic pain condition. If I thought I could take something to alleviate the pain, I would find something that wasn't going to cause another problem in my body. I would only be trading one condition for another. Which one would kill me first.
Does anyone know what lasting effect smoking marijuana has on the lungs, the nervous system, and the brain?
I was up in the air myself, until my friend got desperate (he tried chiropractic care and one surgery) and got his card. I believe it has its place in treatment now.
hahahha ya ...the clinics where the pushers are..what a bunch of bs
Ha! Next thing you know someone will be touting bread mold as a miracle cure.
BS, has no medical benefit, when do you get cured from using it and what does it treat. The answer is the day you die.
If marijuana can help a patient, we only destroy liberty when we forbid its use. In fact, I think the war on this drug costs us way too much in terms of liberty and law enforcement expense when compared to the cost of having pot heads in society.
June 24, 2010 - London, United Kingdom
United Kingdom Approves Marijuana Spray As Medicine — Prescription Oral Spray, Sativex, Now Available To Patients
London, United Kingdom: British health regulators on Friday approved the sale and marketing of Sativex, an oral spray consisting of natural cannabis extracts (primarily the plant cannabinoids THC and cannabidiol aka CBD) as a treatment for symptoms of multiple sclerosis. (MS)
The spray, which has been legally available to patients in Canada since 2005, went on sale in Britain on Monday. The drug will be marketed in the United Kingdom by the Bayer Corporation which estimates that Sativex will cost the country’s state-run National Health Service roughly £11, or about $16, a day for each patient.
Commenting on the drug’s regulatory approval, NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said: “The approval of Sativex in the UK is newsworthy though hardly surprising, as the scientific evidence in support of marijuana’s medical safety and utility has been available for decades. However, the bigger question still remains. That is: ‘How can the US government continue to promote a policy that calls for the arrest and prosecution of patients who use a substance that fourteen states and much of the rest of the western world now acknowledges as a safe and legitimate medicine?’”
In clinical trials, Sativex has been demonstrated to reduce MS-associated spasticity, pain, and incontinence. Long-term investigational trials indicate that consistent use of the cannabis-based medicine may also slow the progression of the disease.
Surveys from the UK and elsewhere indicate that MS patients often report using cannabis therapeutically, with one study reporting that some four out of ten patients with the disease find relief from marijuana.
GW Pharmaceuticals, makers of the Sativex, is expected later this year to seek separate regulatory approval for the spray in Spain, France, Germany, and Italy.
In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration authorized recruitment for the first-ever North American clinical trial of Sativex for cancer pain treatment. A Phase III trial is anticipated to begin in the US later this year.
They read my mind. Thanks for the info
brownies?
It it has a legitimate medical purpose, we should applaud Va.
“Ha! Next thing you know someone will be touting bread mold as a miracle cure.”
I dunno man, does it give ya a good high, man?
:-)
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