Study shows medical marijuana laws reduce traffic deaths

University of Colorado Denver ^ | 29-Nov-2011 | David Kelly

[aces]

Yup, just legalize it..aw jeeeez..

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

If there was any medical value to marijuana the drug companies would’ve extracted and duplicated any money making drugs already.

The whole political scam is to culture a scheme to extract tax money from pot sales.

The federal government must be in on the scam because the HHS has had a patent on it since 2003.

Consider U.S. patent #6,630,507, entitled Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants. Filed in 2001, this patent, which was subsequently granted in 2003, gives us an insight into the canny duplicity that has characterized U.S. government policy toward marijuana. In the patent, assigned to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the applicants state the following: "Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia."

(See: Patent on Pot)

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

The reason marijuana is illegal is that it grows everywhere and government hasn't figured out how to get its slice.

They (US HHS) patented it in 2003. (#6,630,507)

[varyouga]

Most drug makers such as Bristol and Merck already did so in the 1930s after the processing of hemp was first mechanized. In the first year over 30 medications were patented. The medications were said to be as effective as opiates but non-addictive and non-toxic. The fibers would make fabric and paper much cheaper and sturdier. The US Constitution was written on sturdy hemp paper. The US government even made films and pamphlets promoting hemp as the “crop of the future”. The industry boomed until it was illegally and secretly outlawed in 1937 via an unpayable tax. If you read the absurd senate debate, the testimony of the experts are outright lies and hyperbole. The only explanation is that they were paid to lie. The people with the most to lose from mechanized hemp were the threatened cotton , paper-wood and opium industries. Follow the money.

Today, research and possession of privately grown plants is 100% federally illegal. No drug maker can touch it. They have synthesized similar compounds for drugs such as Marinol and Sativex but they are still different from what the plant makes. Read Dr Alex Shulgin’s paper on synthetic cannabinoids and why the plant is medically far superior to anything man made. Why don't these medical MJ stores sell extractions? The very high-end stores actually do but the market price of MJ is still too high due to prohibition. The price in stores is still pegged to the illegal price to reduce resales. For instance, a cancer patient consuming extract to keep their weight up would easily need $200-400 worth of extract each day. Insurance won't pay for it. By smoking instead, it cuts down the price of the required active dose to $20-40 per day.

Keeping it illegal today props up many huge entrenched industries. Prohibition keeps this weed worth its weight in $20 bills! If legal, it's price would be close to basil. Right now, the amount of money the government can fine or seize at will is far greater than if they ever legally taxed it.

[Ken H]

Yearly revenues from illegal drug exports from Mexico to the US were estimated at around $14 billion.¹ For comparison, Mexico's oil exports last year totaled around $36 billion.² So yeah, it's big bucks for everyone.

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¹ http://www.thecrimereport.org/archive/14-billion-in-annual-us-drug-purchases-via-mexico-drug-czar

² http://www.bnamericas.com/news/oilandgas/pemex-export-revenues-hit-us359bn-in-2010-up-40

[exDemMom]

It's because drunks don't pay attention to stop signs. Potheads wait for them to turn green.

I've waited for a stop sign to turn green, while perfectly sober.

[FoxInSocks]

Are you still waiting there?

[katana]

And can’t remember where they left their car keys.

[exDemMom]

Are you still waiting there?

Lol, no.

Soon after my son said, "Well, are you ever going to go?" I realized that the sign wasn't likely to turn green, and I went.

[gargoyle]

...Marinol is only one compound found in marijuana. Recent studies suggest that Delta 9 THC, the presumed psychoactive ingredient is now thought to combine with other non active compounds to have the desired effect, "get high." It's getting complex fer sure!

[gargoyle]

...ERRRRRTT! BOOM!
shht, we hit something!
forgot to open the garage door, man.
we got open the garage door so domino's knows we're home!
hey, that's a good thing, a job was just created!

[gargoyle]

...This is one bit of many from comic Bill Hicks about drugs. I changed one word. You can figure out which one.

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down, “There it is. My Creation; perfect and holy in all ways. Now I can rest. [Gives shocked expression] Oh, my, Me! I left f-in’ pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created opossums. If I leave pot everywhere that’s gonna give people the impression they’re supposed to…use it. Now I have to create Republicans.”

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

The ineffective War on Drugs is the price the Left pays for Scalia’s support of the New Deal Commerce clause that make all federal regulation of commerce “legal”. It all stands together or falls together. So far, the Religious Right is content with this deal with the Devil after losing with alcohol and knowing they can’t get another Prohibition Amendment.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

What medical condition requires 20 to 29 year-olds to be high on marijuana all the time?

[Ken H]

I don't know, but shouldn't that be left up to the states under the Tenth Amendment, rather than fedgov under the Commerce Clause?

[JustSayNoToNannies]

What medical condition requires 20 to 29 year-olds to be high on marijuana all the time?

Who said anything about being high all the time?

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, and the Super Bowl broadcasts cause an increase in wife-beating.

And the use of Aquanet creates a hole in the ozone layer.

Breast implants cause hundreds of illnesses.

Aluminum cookware causes Alzheimers.

Cell phones cause brain cancer.

And (fill in the blank gas or soot) from human activities causes climate change and extinction of whole taxa, as well as melting both polar icecaps.

Thanks Pharmboy.

[Pharmboy]

Wait...does this mean I have to stop using Aquanet?

[longtermmemmory]

(sarcasm on) and absolutly nothing happens to those 20-29 year olds. absolutly, completly, nothing changes in their lives. When they are 60, if they live that long, they will still be in the same state of nothing. (sarcasm off)