[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.

[celestine phophesy]

Dronabinol is nothing but a way to inflate the cost so the drug companies can get their cut.

You're probably right.

[HangnJudge]

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.

Maybe, I have considerable sympathy for the cost containment aspect of this discussion, if one could grow their own, why spend ~$400/mo. for a capsule.

But the argument that it doesn't work and is therapeutically less effective, in my extensive experience with patients on this medicine, does not hold water.
The pill, properly used as a appetite agonist and anti-emetic is quite useful and effective with a minimum of peak dose effects such as forgetfulness, depersonalization, feelings of unreality, paranoia, or panic. It is the unpredictable peak dose effects, as well as the unreliable nature of the content of raw product consumption, as well as the potential for adulteration of content by intermediaries that really worries me about it's use in medically unstable patients