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To: robertpaulsen
To reduce the intraocular pressure caused by glaucoma, it would require smoking 10 joints/day, every day

OK Ok RP - please produce your reference to this interesting little pharmacology factoid.

Or did you just invent this to support your totalitarian bent?

22 posted on 12/17/2004 10:47:08 AM PST by corkoman (Logged in - have you?)
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To: corkoman
corkoman, I'm shocked! Do you really believe I would make a statement I couldn't support? For shame.

The following is an excerpt from Study casts doubt on marijuana's effectiveness as glaucoma treatment:

"But to be effective, Green said a patient would have to smoke an unrealistic amount of marijuana."

"If you want to maintain a low interocular pressure with marijuana, then you have to smoke a joint every 1 to 2 hours which is 10 to 12 joints a day, which is 4,000 a year," he said. "That's by anybody's definition -- no matter how liberal you are -- a considerable consumption."

"His study is published in the recent issue of the American Medical Association's journal, Opthamology."

45 posted on 12/17/2004 11:19:21 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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