Physician Advocates for Medical Marijuana

Rutland Herald ^ | Feb. 26, 2006

[SteveMcKing]

Illicit Marijuana Users Advocate for Physician Who Advocates for Medical Marijuana

[Moonman62]

"He said to tell you not to ask a doctor. Doctors don't know (expletive) about medical marijuana."

Well, that settles it. A genius quoting another genius. Free medical pot for everybody.

[CrawDaddyCA]

It took 7 minutes for a Drug Warrior to show up. I wonder what took so long?

[Moonman62]

The great thing about pot is that once it gives you cancer, heart disease or stroke, you can smoke more of it as medicine.

[CheezyD]

The WoD is a complete and utter (and expensive) failure. Denying medical marijuana to those who need it based on archaic thinking is cruel.

[jsh3180]

Ahhhhhhhhhh...The Rutland Herald.........my sister happens to be editor of this rag. She is an embarassment to me.

[Boxen]

Any citations among all that rhetoric?

[billorites]

I don't have any papers, but I've got a pipe.

[zakbrow]

I think marijuana should be legalized...what a way for the government to make more money. Seriously though, it is a leaf from a plant like tobacco is, so why is one legal and the other not?

[Supernatural]

ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS

TOBACCO ........................ 400,000
ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS ................ 20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS .............. 15,000
CAFFEINE ....................... 2,000
ASPIRIN ........................ 500
MARIJUANA ...................... 0

Source: United States government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics

[HangnJudge]

Medical uses for Delta 9-THC are already well known and
are FDA approved.

http://www.drugs.com/cons/Marinol.html

Dronabinol (droe-NAB-i-nol)is used to prevent the nausea and vomiting that may occur after treatment with cancer medicines. It is used only when other kinds of medicine for nausea and vomiting do not work. Dronabinol is also used to increase appetite in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

What the medical marijuana folks want is the ability to self medicate with a
drug that also causes euphoria and other mind altering effects in doses
that are not controlled and under no supervision.

Bad idea

[Supernatural]

The lie is that MJ is dangerous and has been rightfully outlawed.

Here is what Hitler said about lies:

"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."

Marijuana does not cause serious health problems like those caused by tobacco or alcohol (e.g., strong addiction, cancer, heart problems, birth defects, emphysema, liver damage, etc.). Death from a marijuana overdose is impossible. In all of world history, there has never been a single human death attributed to a health problem caused by marijuana.

So, marijuana is bad how? Causes deaths? It doesn't. Its addictive? It isn't. There are no physical withdrawal symptoms when one stops using marijuana.

Have you swallowed the big lie about marijuana hook, line and sinker?

"The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one"

"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it".

[Lexington Green]

We must continue to harrass and arrest the terminally ill... for the children.

[Nachum]

What the medical marijuana folks want is the ability to self medicate with a drug that also causes euphoria and other mind altering effects in doses that are not controlled and under no supervision

What medical marijuana folks want is for the government to get off the backs of the sick and the poor who have to sneak around to get what they need when they are suffering. Dronabinol is nothing but a way to inflate the cost so the drug companies can get their cut.

[mikey565]

My grandmother who was going through chemo and was in bad shape was told by her doctor to ease the pain use mari. My grandmother told him no, she isn't a drug addict.

So instead, she took codeine and percodan, derivates from cocaine and opium. Go figure

[Dutch Boy]

If MM is to be used as a treatment then it should be treated as any other. It needs to be tested objectively. All emotion about the topic needs to be removed from the discussion. All anecdotal data needs to be tossed. All experiments need to be performed with accepted scientific methods.

The WOD is not what MM is about. MM is about treating a medical condition. It either can be proved to work or not. The WOD is a completely different argument. If the two were ever separated, the MM situation could be solved by the medical community rather than people running for election.

[Solamente]

I'm holding out for Medical Hashish.

[patton]

Because you can't tax it.

[Zerano]

Illicit Marijuana Users Advocate for Physician Who Advocates for Medical Marijuana

Hmmmmmmmm...I never knew I was illicit. Thanx for letting me know.