Why don't you tell me real people that are using MJ for severe illnesses..A good friend of mine who had been taking Chemo for Breast Cancer was so sick with nausea she could not eat a thing threw up all the time, was getting weaker daily from not eating and from Chemo which is a posion the Doctor's gave her many meds that did not work, she finally was prescibed Marijuana which took her nausea
away helped her to resume her appetite, tell me should she of just suffered needlessly because of people like you that have some pre-conceived idea about the use of Marijuana for medical puposes?
Would you let your child suffer needlessly or let her smoke MJ to ease her pain?
Lastly I had a good friend of mine who had been in a car accident he was given so many hard core narcotics by his Doctors he became hooked on Morophine which led him into the world of Heroin when the Dr's cut him off cold turkey now he's dead...
REAL People My dear with REAL Issues...
You and the people you cite need to get real. And one more thing: legalizers need to grow up and stop using the marijuana podium as a way to push their Libertarian agendas. I unlike you refuse to personalize this issue suffice it to say I have seen the many many cases of addiction to marijuana I have personally witnessed over the years both here and abroad. It's horrifying and depressing. Marijuana promoters need to cease using this issue to deceive many young people out there who feel as if they can smoke it without paying the consequences. And if you are so obsessed with it - start winning some elections...last time I checked the libertarians got what? .02% of the votes?
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ongoing/marijuana.html
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/evidence99/marijuana/Health_1.html
Real doctors have real concerns that 'medical MJ' does more harm than good:
"Obviously, this suggests the conclusion, which is well-supported by scientific studies, that the use of marijuana as a medical therapy can and does have a very serious negative effect on patients with pre-existing immune deficits resulting from AIDS, organ transplantation, or cancer chemotherapy, the very conditions for which marijuana has most often been touted and suggested as a treatment. It has also been shown that marijuana use can accelerate the progression of HIV to full-blown AIDS and increase the occurrence of infections and Kaposi’s sarcoma. In addition, patients with weak immune systems will be even less able to defend themselves against the various respiratory cancers and conditions to which consistent marijuana use has been linked, and which are discussed briefly under "Respiratory Illnesses."