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To: GeronL
“Nothing medicinal about it”

Of course. We should continue to restrict and sabotage any research on one type of plant because soooo many people think this is so. It doesn’t matter that the body has natural cannabinoids and receptors similar to the 400+ (unstudied) compounds in this plant. All that matters is dumb hippies like it. /s

But seriously, before the MJ stamp act of 1936 Bayer and Merck had dozens of patented medications that were hemp based.

See the Pharmaceutical drug “Marinol”. It is a synthetic form of THC that is still prescribed in nearly every hospital. Even though it is the most effective drug of this type, many patients complain that synthetic THC is not as effective as the one extracted from nature.

If you read Dr. Alex Shulgin’s research on THC pharmacology, he has proven than synthetic THC is substantially different from the natural type. There is currently no known way to synthesize THC exactly as mother nature does it.

The only reason people claim it has no medical value is because they have political blinders on.

11 posted on 07/16/2010 2:20:17 PM PDT by varyouga (Obama doesn't care about white people!)
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To: varyouga

So give it away in grade school along with the condoms huh?


12 posted on 07/16/2010 2:36:51 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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