Will good medicine go up in smoke?

The Sentinel (GA) ^ | October 1, 2003 | Grant Voyles

[MrLeRoy]

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[Onelifetogive]

...unless your doctor believes that the best medicine for you is marijuana...

Or LSD, or heroin, or meth, or sex with 5 year olds...

[Mears]

I'm all for the use of marijuana for medical purposes.I find it astonishing that morphine can be used legally but marijuana can't.The whole thing is ridiculous.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[MrLeRoy]

...unless your doctor believes that the best medicine for you is marijuana...

Or LSD, or heroin, or meth, or sex with 5 year olds...

Provide evidence that any doctor has ever recommended LSD, or heroin, or meth, or sex with 5 year olds.

[jmc813]

You might want to check the comments on your profile page. It seems as if someone has hacked your account.

[Gabz]

As you well know, this is not my battle, however, I can't help but agree wholeheartedly with this statement:

It is time for the federal government to catch up to the American public and change the draconian drug policy that has plagued this nation for too long. The federal government should be in the business of supporting those with illnesses, not of adding to their burdens.

good article.

[Cobra Scott]

Except for the sex with 5-year-olds, all those are or were accepted treatments prescribed by doctors.

It would sure help the reclassification effort if the front-stage supporters werent the "hemp clothing" brigade who look and sound like they substituted a bag of weedies for their breakfast bowl of wheaties.

[somniferum]

Actually, Meth is already available for prescription under the brand name Desoxyn and heroin is almost pharmacologically identical to morphine (Heroin is actually Diacetyl-Morphine). You should do a bit a research before posting such kneejerk reactions and screaming "the sky is falling" everytime someone mentions prescription cannabis.

P.S. In case anyone is wondering cocaine is also a schedule 2 drug.

[tx_eggman]

Or red M&M's, huffing glue, chemical castration or singing Tiptoe through the Tulips ... what's your point?

[RonHolzwarth]

Actually, there was some research being done into the use of LSD under very carefully controlled conditions - until the US govt decided that it caused "chromosome damage" and made it illegal for the medical community to do further research.

The thing that is intriguing about LSD is that it provides "shortcuts" to memories that are not normally available. The research had to do with treating alcoholism, homosexuality, and disorders that were the result of a childhood trauma that could not be recalled through normal brain functioning.

So, with the use of LSD, psychiatrists were researching to see if the cause of psychiatric problems can be remembered and thereby identified, so that the underlying issue can be dealt with.

Well, the US govt shut down that research.

The end.

[caisson71]

Everytime I read something like this I'm reminded that when I drive past a cemetery I know that 50% of the people buried there is due to a doctor's mistake.

[MrLeRoy]

Think government can do a better job of treating illness?

[alpowolf]

Prior to 1937, at least 27 medicines containing marijuana were legally available in the United States.

Prior to 1937...you mean back in the "good old days" that conservatives always say they want to go back to? LOL

[MrLeRoy]

You'd be surprised how many "conservatives" are sure that drugs have always been illegal.

[robertpaulsen]

"This October, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) will introduce the Truth in Trials Act in the Senate. For the first time ever, Congress will entertain a bill proposing a federal law to recognize the validity of state medical marijuana laws."

Oh baloney!

The Truth in Trials Act was introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R.1717) on April 10, 2003 where it died (is dying).

"4/24/2003: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman."

Even if this "Act" passed, it's unconstitutional -- Congress cannot write law which overturns Article VI of the U.S. Constitution. Durbin should be tried and hung as a traitor.

Now, if he wants to petition the Attorney General under 21 USCS Section 811. Authority and criteria for classification of substances to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug, he can certainly try.

Other than that, this is pure posturing.

[alpowolf]

LOL...Having been on FR 2+ years now, I really wouldn't.

[Onelifetogive]

what's your point?

Maui-waui is one of many things that your health care professional cannot authorize you to have...