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- JandtheBoingers, on 11/08/2007, -4/+63We need someone to introduce legislation to reschedule Marijuana in THIS Congress! Hinchey Rohrabacher is an equally important states rights issue, but the facts are there. The government currently provides marijuana as medicine to the 'closed' group of recipients, federal research supports using marijuana as medicine, major medical associations continue to endorse marijuana as medicine along with 12 states worth of voters.
RESCHEDULE IT!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_rescheduling ...
Schedule I is the only category of controlled substances that may not be prescribed by a physician. Under 21 U.S.C. ยง 812b, drugs must meet three criteria in order to be placed in Schedule I:
* The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
* The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
* There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. - bmorris, on 11/08/2007, -1/+56The government's argument against rescheduling marijuana is that it has no accepted medical use and the basis for that claim is the lack of FDA clinical studies. Yet, the Drug Enforcement Administration -- an organization whose stated mission is to fight the liberalization of marijuana laws -- has the authority to block research into marijuana's medical efficacy. The DEA's arguments are so disingenuous it makes me sick.
- gropo, on 11/08/2007, -3/+50Let's hope this takes a little wind out of the sails of these apparent astroturfers posting questionable anecdotes and 'studies' of psychiatric doomsday scenarios related to cannabis.
Truly sad when you consider all the actually questionable prescription SSRI's and selective dopamine antagonists that they could be going after. But instead they'd rather fabricate bizarre tales regarding an herb humanity has been consuming for literally millenia. Shows the sickness that underlies the prohibition. - heartcoldfusion, on 11/14/2007, -1/+46Land of the free*
- deadnelsons, on 11/14/2007, -0/+33Some restrictions apply, void where prohibited.
- JandtheBoingers, on 11/08/2007, -1/+34Perhaps a better approach is for Congress to revoke the scheduling authority of the DEA. Giving drug scheduling authority to a more independent department would likely have the desired affect of using common sense about this issue.
- obelisky, on 11/09/2007, -2/+34you need to get a job. you suck at trolling.
- TBagwell, on 11/08/2007, -1/+29your "point of view" is contrary to all the facts. what does that make you?
- sorrytheusernam, on 11/09/2007, -2/+28The problem with your assertion is that marijuana has been proven to not kill any braincells.
By Harvard. - raybury, on 11/08/2007, -0/+26You just described tobacco. And possibly George Bush or Hillary Clinton.
- CrackyJSquirrel, on 11/09/2007, -1/+27sorry to say, but those people would have ruined their lives without marijuana. Its not the weed that ruined their lives, its their choices. I myself am a very successful weed smoker, and know many more like me. I have a great job and a great family. Weed doesn't control or make decisions for me. And if you or the people you know are blaming their failure on weed, that is called denial. Stop believing the stereo-types.
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -0/+25I googled marijuana and cancer and more results came up that it helps treat cancer rather than cause it.
Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection was the first result. - sockpuppets, on 11/08/2007, -1/+25I need it for medical purposes because of my family members. Particularly around the holidays.
- gropo, on 11/08/2007, -2/+25Much in the same way it's insane to accept computer/equipment purchasing advice from the same people you contract service calls from, allowing an enforcement agency to schedule substances allows for a bureaucratic dependency cycle within the agency.
Add to the issue: puritanical zealots either naturally gravitate to such agencies or are assigned to them (due to their puritanical zealotry) and the scheduling authority of the DEA becomes entirely FUBAR'd. These people don't want to hear the truth on the ground. They're entirely too 'bought in' to the running fairy tale realities they've meticulously created. - azprofessional, on 11/08/2007, -1/+22Slashdouche strikes again with the unproven spewings of a complete hypocrite moron.
You go on and on about 'libs' fuddling facts and so on and so forth and then you come up with an argument completely based on nothing.
Do you practice having no credibility when you express yourself or does it come naturally? - Coffeedemon, on 11/08/2007, -0/+20I don't need it but I fully support any effort that will block obstacles to testing it as a potential medicine. My own non scientific study declares it safe but I want to see it rescheduled so they can run some real clinical trials on it.
- sorrytheusernam, on 11/08/2007, -1/+21THC has been shown to reduce tumors by up to 50%. It can even completely reverse some small ones.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ... - starkruzr, on 11/08/2007, -0/+20Let's suppose the percentage is 0%.
So what? Marijuana is less physically damaging, less addictive and less socially destructive than alcohol. The conservative position is to only have laws about things when we need them. - personfromhell, on 11/08/2007, -0/+19plz stop making a fool of yourself and read up on what conservative thought actually is
*hint* its not ignoring factual evidence - flashingcurser, on 11/08/2007, -1/+19What is amazing is that coke and meth are schedule II drugs.
- BigDavidO, on 11/08/2007, -1/+19To everyone who doubts the truthfulness of this original posting regarding the American Psychiatric Association (not the Am Pyschological Assn as some have assumed), as one of the persons who has lobbied the APA for the past 18 months, I can tell you that there is nothing phoney or incorrect about the original MPP alert that was picked up by one newspaper so far. Just because you can't find much in Google yet is more a result of two things:
1. These Action Papers that were unanimously approved last Friday by the APA Assembly meeting in Washington, DC, are still subject to review by the APA Board of Trustees at their December meeting. Hopefully, if we spread the news widely, the BOT will not dare to bury or water down these action papers and will bring them to the AMA House of Delegates and fight for their adoption by the AMA, the ultimate goal of this project initiated by the Medical marijuana Policy Advocacy Project. To learn more about MMPAP and this project, please go to my web site David@OstrowAssociate.com and click on the "Medical Marijuana" tab there.
2. I am beginning to get calls from newspaper writers about this, but most are hesitant to write about the vote in the Assembly until the BoT passes them on to be presented at the AMA HOD meetings.
So just like you can't believe everything you read on the Web, you can believe this "miracle" change in policy by the largest professional society of psychiatrists in the world.
David G Ostrow, MD, PhD
Founder, MMPAP - gropo, on 11/08/2007, -0/+17"what does that make you?"
Answer: Someone who expresses thoughts according to their reactionary effect rather than reason or facts. This kind of person is commonly referred to as a "troll" - HomerPimpson4, on 11/09/2007, -2/+19Marijuana is not a narcotic.
- sockpuppets, on 11/09/2007, -1/+18You seem a little tense.
- Coffeedemon, on 11/09/2007, -0/+16Oh sorry I forgot about transfats I suppose?
Life itself is a sexually transmitted disease and its always terminal... have fun out there but stay out of the sun and don't breathe the air. - sockpuppets, on 11/08/2007, -1/+16The American flag avatar is a nice touch.
- Coffeedemon, on 11/08/2007, -1/+16Then put it in brownies and eat it.
- m0tbaillie, on 11/08/2007, -0/+15If by "expressing a conservative point of view" you mean "spouting nonsensical ***** backed up by no factual evidence whatsoever", then yea, I guess that's what you were doing. Nobody has ever directly died from marijuana, *****. Marijuana isn't even in the top ten list of most dangerous drugs. Alcohol is fifth, tobacco ninth.
http://drbenkim.com/ten-most-dangerous-drugs.html You fail. - starkruzr, on 11/08/2007, -0/+13Of course there are bad things about marijuana. There are bad things about tobacco and alcohol too. Should the nanny ban those as well?
- sockpuppets, on 11/09/2007, -1/+14You live in Canada. If you have a hard time finding weed then you have to be borderline retarded.
- m0tbaillie, on 11/08/2007, -1/+14That's the stupidest anecdotal generalization I've heard.....all day.
- HomerPimpson4, on 11/08/2007, -2/+15I know of many people who have had their lives ruined by alcohol abuse yet alcohol remains legal.
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -2/+15Because I have seen with my own eyes the effect of marijuana on a cancer chemotherapy patient I know that the statements from the DEA that it is not medicine are bunk.
I often wonder why it is we cannot sue those people to make them tell the truth or at the very least stop violating the rights of patients and their providers.
Personally I see no recreational use for marijuana but I guess others do. In any event the classification of marijuana as a schedule 1 was shot down in 1999 when the government sanctioned a study which concluded that marijuana is medicine and has medical use. Further research led to a whole plant extract called Sativex to be prescribed in Canada and the UK. - cusoman, on 11/08/2007, -8/+19How many of you people digging these stories actually want marijuana legalized for medical purposes? How many of you NEED it for medical purposes, for either a family member or yourself?
Be honest. - wishninja, on 11/08/2007, -0/+11My father has a blood cancer called myeloma and lives in Ohio. After years of drug therapy (they call it that but they are just poisoning you slowly and hoping the cancer dies off first) he constantly complains of a aching numbness due to the high doses of thalidomide he has to take. It hurts the most in his hands and back. It really sucks to see him like this the damage is irreversible.
Me and my friends were all drinkers in high school, no drugs just booze. I started to smoke pot like the last year of highschool. One of my friends shot himself in the head last year after killing someone because he is an alcholic and was driving drunk another is in jail, most are not doing very well. I am finishing up my masters and have had a good job as an engineer for the last 7 years.
Many, Many people I know could benifit from this superdrug. I see the suffering every day and all around me, people popping zanex just so that they can go to work, other I know are taking an ambian and drinking a six pack on the drive home, and the road rage guy that was riding my bumper all the way to work today even though I was driving +5mph over. Wow dude to think of it I see people all over that would benefit from a good toke. It is safer than aspirin I think that if it were legal people would benefit from taking it like aspirin. - tyaron, on 11/08/2007, -1/+12Can anyone link me directly to the paper from APA? I want this from the horse's mouth.
- rarson, on 11/08/2007, -0/+10Cannabis is extremely safe, even if you abuse it. And there's tons of medical uses for it, too. It definitely doesn't meet the criteria of a schedule I drug.
- barandon0D9, on 11/08/2007, -0/+10wow. I already thought you were little crazy from reading your posts on political topics... but now i can't even tell if you're for real or not...
- JonnyTrombone, on 11/09/2007, -0/+10Well, it would help if APA.org were to be the American Psychiatric Association website. It's psych.org.
Also, they make NO MENTION of Marijuana legalization on psych.org - azprofessional, on 11/08/2007, -2/+11You assume so much for such an ignorant stance
- ats314, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9not from a vaporizer
- SiNN4R, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9I have a friend with HIV. She doesn't NEED marijuana but it sure takes the edge off slowly dying. I would like for her to be able to smoke a joint without having to worry about getting a ticket when she is already poor. I would like her not to be hassled by the government for doing what she wants with her shortened life.
- gropo, on 11/08/2007, -1/+10I've responded to why your claim is baseless on a previous occasion today. Not worth repeating again (like you did).
- WilliamDavis, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9"How many of you people digging these stories actually want marijuana legalized for medical purposes? How many of you NEED it for medical purposes, for either a family member or yourself?"
I don't have to personally need it to see that marijuana prohibition has been a huge failure. I don't have to personally need it to believe that others should make their own medical decisions with their doctor. I don't have to personally need it to feel that prohibition is wrong in general.
No, I don't need it. It's an issue of how the state treats people and empathy toward those in situations where they do need it. I wasn't a victim of child abuse. I still believe it to be wrong. I still come out against it when it doesn't personally affect me. - inactive, on 11/08/2007, -0/+8Imagine how much a single aspirin would cost if it were newly 'discovered' by a pharmacutical company instead of it being the generic, readily available molecule that it is. Aspirin is a miracle drug that treats a wide variety of mundane and life-threatening conditions with just a few, well understood side effects. Just thinking about that concept, the things we take for granted in our medicine chests, should lead you to ask, "What other substances have similar universal benefit...and are either suppressed or usurped by corporate interest." No, besides Chocolate.
Marijuana is arguably one of humanities greatest beneficial substances, medicinally and for general well-being. Possessing a whole range of useful characteristics beyond the cannabinoids it produces such as strains for hemp cultivation and oil (!) production.
To be against the harvesting and exploitation of this precious, unique, renewable and harmless plant would be to admit your reliance on intellectual incompleteness. {That's a fancy way of being called stoopid.} - WiseWeasel, on 11/08/2007, -1/+9Troll. Go back under your bridge!
- azprofessional, on 11/08/2007, -2/+9Do I smell a FAILURE?
- delmar14, on 11/08/2007, -1/+8obviously you've never tried it...
- almalax19, on 11/08/2007, -2/+9Here it is on the Marijuana Policy Project's website. They are the biggest lobbying group for Marijuana so if its on there it ain't *****. Sorry to the HATERS.
http://www.mpp.org/site/c.glKZLeMQIsG/b.1493403/ap ... - chaosium, on 11/08/2007, -1/+8Correlation without causative linkage.
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