>Truth: Oncologists overwhelmingly reject the idea of prescribing smoked marijuana. Crude marijuana contains over 400 different chemicals THC, the main active ingredient in crude marijuana, is available as the prescription drug Marinol, for the treatment of nausea associated with medications are available and preferred by oncologists. The True Lie is that you didn't get the information first hand. From the pepole who actually benefitted from the Marijuana. Ask the people taking the chemotherapy. Hell all the ones I asks, judges included say marijuana does help. Oncologists, just as many other doctors are afraid because they are threatened and intimidated by our government. you dont have to be blind to see it. >Lie: Marijuana is a beneficial treatment for glaucoma. >
>Truth: There is no scientific evidence that marijuana prevents the progression of visual loss in glaucoma. While marijuana, as well as alcohol dose cannot be controlled. All the above is complete and utter bullshit. Again do your study first hand instead of using idiots, use the pople who actually have gloucoma, matter of fact I dare you to Call Robert Randall or Elvie Musicacc, both are living proof! >Lie: Crude marijuana is effective in treating the wasting syndrome associated with AIDS. >
>Truth: Smoking marijuana compromises the immune system and puts AIDS patients at significant risk for infections and respiratory problems. Current scientific studies show that Marinol (oral THC), which is available to treat AIDS wasting syndrome, is effective in increasing appetite but is ineffective in increasing weight gain. Idiots again. Marinol comes in a captsule liquid its doesage is completely un-controllable, where as you can take one toke off a marijuana joint, with marinol you must take the entire captsule. Also Marinol is very expensive gives many people chest pains, headaches and other un desireable headches. Just who is doing this study or gathering this info. The statements made so far seem to be done with research from another planet. Hell its well know and Documented that if you call a pharmisist he will tell you all the above facts and suggest you want for a college student and buy a bag of marijuana instead of using the marinol. Are you people blind and deaf? WHy do you insist on using people that have no experience with the ailments and disorders you write about with out going after the real facts and the people who have this knowledge first hand (the sick!)? >Lie: The government is withholding important medicine from suffering patients by not allowing the prescribing of marijuana. >Truth: Crude marijuana does not meet the scientific requirements for efficacy, quality, purity and safety necessary to be considered medicine. It is neither compassionate nor medically responsible to prescribe harmful impure substances to ill people. YOU really are stupid here, there is just no other words for it. You consider marijuana to be harmful when Cocaine, Morphine and other horrendous drugs that have been proven time after time to be addictive and highly harmful are legally given to the same persons you talk about above? Amd just how compassionate do you think with holding any drug that may (even if not proven) can ease the pain of someone suffering?? Are you here to tell me I shouldnt smoke marijuana since it may lead to cancer of the lungs 20 years down the line when I'm terminally ill and wont live to see another 5 years? How compassionate does that sound? To me it sounds selfish and stupid. How intelligent is it to have alcohol legal? Would you consider it's effects to be harmful? your statements dont make much sense. Let me give you a little mathematics lesson here (it came from my doctor) If you have a patient terminally ill and in horriffic pain Why would you be concerned about giving him morphine, herroine, or anything else that may make his last minutes here easier? of should you be afraid he will be addicted?? And what would you consider to dangerous to give him seeing he is damn near dead now with no chance? >
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>Truth: In a recent double-blind scientific study, the latest hi- tech electronic monitoring equipment was used to determine if smoked marijuana had any benefit in treating spasticity in patients with MS. The study found that all patients receiving marijuana rather than placebo perceived their spasticity to be lessened, when in actuality, it was made worse. Thats Bullshit and can be proven thru me, My doctor, the FDA and more! What's more you can visually see the reduction. Again for the umpthteem time, I'm asking this,Why are your studies based on bullshit second handed information? if you want the truth why not test me and others that this readily affects? Hell the gov has our names its not like its hard to find us. Unless you all are to afraid of the truth. The reason I was stuck on the Gov pot program (later closed) was because it was proven that Marijuana does stop or reduce my spasms where no other known drug does. Why do these studies persist with out using people who are affected by these ailments unless you don't want the truth to be known? >
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>BACKGROUND:
>In the last several years, the public has seen the issue of the therapeutic applications of leaf marijuana reach the level of discussions of public policy. This movement has been fueled by the forces seeking to legalize marijuana. By having marijuana listed as medicine, they hope to "legitimize" marijuana use. >
>Marijuana use has serious health consequences. Concentration, motor coordination, memory, lungs, reproductive and immune systems are all adversely impacted by marijuana use; marijuana is addictive. And what may i ask when you are terminally ill is considered worse? dying in pain or dying with a little relief from the use of marijuana? which allow you still to have presence of mind, unlike other drugs, Cocaine, morphine and the like? >
>Physicians who treat people for cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and other diseases do not favor the use of marijuana. This is an out right lie and it shows again that if this was a study it was either done on another planet, or did not include real people and their doctors. >
>Not one American health organization accepts marijuana as medicine. These include the American Medical Association, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, American Glaucoma Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology and American Cancer Society. Another lie. Read about it everywhere. dont have the info? call me i'm sure i can guide you in the right direction. >
>FDA/DEA have repeatedly rejected marijuana for medicinal use Marijuana fails to meet any of the Drug Enforcement Administration's requirements or Federal Drug Administration's eight criteria for approving drugs for medical use. And what may I ask is the right of the DEA to determine a medication? are they now physicians? and you are wrong on the FDA's approval. The FDA has time & time again come up in favor of Marijuana if the doctor recomendation is involved. but again we run into government control and terroristic tacticts as they did to my doctor. After finding out my doctor was discussing my situation with the FDA (and they were in complete approval) the FDA and my doctor were restricted from any further communication on the subject. >
>Even Marinol, a synthetic form of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), available by prescription for treating nausea, has far more negative health effects than other available agents. Yes thats why pharmasists all over recommend the real thing, Marijuana. Just what planet are you from? >
>There are numerous safer and more effective anti-nausea agents These include prochlorperazine (Compazine), metaclopramide (Reglan), lorazepam, corticosteroids, thiethylperazine (Torecan), ondansetron (Zofran), promethazine (Phenergan), perphenazine (Trilafon), and chlorpromazine (Thorazine). See my last question.. There are NO safer more effective drugs THAT WORK DAMMIT... Those are the key words "THAT WORK!!!!!!!!!" >
>The pro-drug lobby exploits the suffering of patients with chronic illness with false promises about marijuana as a medicine. They have stated that they are pushing marijuana as medicine and using it as a "red herring" as part of a strategy to legalize marijuana for general use. There is No one exploiting me. And do you think entire families like myown would waste their life saving and the risk of in prisonment if there was nothing to the fact that Marijuana works?? Of course they have had the benefit of seeing it first hand. In my case they have seen me loose weight, black out and damn near die from medication after medication and have seen the positive effect marijuana has had. Not just the weight gain, but the absence of spasms and the reduction of pain, not to mention the fact that mentally I was still able to function on a professional level solving problems with computer systems I have never seen while under the influence of marijuana? Something that could not be done under the influence of other drugs such as morphine, cocaine, etc. The problem with and every so called study is unlike our families who experience our medical problems and pain these jerks only experience it from a so called scientific approach which is not scientific because it does not include the persons directlhy influenced by these problems. There is a very simple way to clear the entire situation up and to prove all of this once and for all but evidently our government and others in the scientific world, for their own reasons, are to afraid to face it. and here it is.. Since the study's are about the medical effects of marijuana why not pull the gov file on people using medical marijuana (hell we are all there) and use the REAL PERSONS not some stupid ass study with people with no names. also if marijuana has no medical use, why does persons like Robert Randall Elvie, and myself have the right to use it?? What was the gov trying to say? We smoke Marijuana, but not because it helps us? you dont truly believe that do you? Ron Shaw ======================================================================== | I smoke Marijuana, nothing else the doctors have found will work. | | Read about it http://www.xs4all.nl/~tone/ron.html [the Netherlands] | | SpaZm - [R T S] at [ddi.digital.net] - Legalize MARIJUANA for Medical purposes! | | BBS 407 639-9123 + 407 639-4016 - to 33.6K baud Amiga/Mac/PC/Adult | ========================================================================