Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Subject: Re: NBC News on Med. MJ
Date: 20 Feb 1994 05:34:16 -0600
[d--be--r] at [molbio.cbs.umn.edu] (Dubear Kroening) writes:
>I happened to catch the last few sentences on NBC Nightly News 5:30 PM
>central time about a court's (I didn't catch which one) decision that there
>is no scientific evidence to indicate any potential medical uses for MJ.
>Can somebody fill me in about whatever I missed and if this is, in fact,
>true?
I only heard them briefly mention the ruling. I heard basically
the same thing. Apparently the court ruled that there was no
scientific evidence that indicated mj had potential medical use.
This of course is patently false. I am posting two references
that find mj to be useful medicinally and also a list of 34 state
statutes that recognize the fact.
Apparently the judge isn't aware of the ~9 people in the U.S.
that are legally authorized to smoke mj on the prescription of their
doctors.
There are of course thousands of anecdotal references from
people that claim that smoking mj is the _only_ drug that works for
them. I believe the most common use now is to reduce nausea
in AIDS and chemotherapy patients. (not prescribed of course) I've
seen a documentary where they talked to many people that say they
can't eat anything at all unless they smoke mj. Sam Skinner in
California is an AIDS patient now in jail for growing his own mj.
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Merritt JC, Crawford WJ, Alexander PC, Anduze AL, Gelbart SS: Effect of
marihuana on intraocular and blood pressure in glaucoma. Ophthalmology
1980; 87:222-28
Chang AE, Schilling DJ, Stillman RC, Et Al: Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
as an antiemetic in cancer patients receiving high dose methotrexate.
Ann Intern Med 1979; 91:819-24
Ungerleider JT; Andrysiak T: Therapeutic issues of marijuana and THC
(tetrahydrocannabinol). Int J Addict 1985 May; 20(5):691-9
I obtained these citations from the Pilot Drug Evaluation Staff
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
HFD-007
Rockville, MD 20857
Ask for the PDES Master Bibliography Marijuana/THC, Therapeutic Uses
(9 pages with abstracts)
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Here's the list of states with statutes regarding medical mj.
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Here, as promised, is the list of state statutes recognizing the
medical value of marijuana. There are only 30 states in this list (29
+ Mass). ACT (the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics) claims that
there are 34. If anyone knows what the other four are, I'd like to be
informed.
Thanks once again to ACT for the info.
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State Statutes Recognizing Marijuana's Medical Value
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Alabama Code SS 20-2-110 to -120 (1984)
Arizona Rev. Stat. Ann. SS 36-2601 to -2606 (supp. 1975-1984)
Arkansas Stat. Ann. SS 82-1007.1 to -1052 (supp. 1985)
California Health & Safety Code SS 11260-11270; S 11480 (West supp. 1985)
Colorado Rev. Stat. SS 25-5-901 to -907 (1982)
Connecticut Gen. Stat. Ann. SS 21a-240 to -308 (West 1985)
Florida Stat. Ann. S 402.36 (West Supp. 1985),
repealed by Laws 1984, ch. 84-115, S 9 (1984)
SS 893.01-.15 (West 1976 & Supp. 1985)
Georgia Code Ann. SS 43-34-120 to -126 (1984)
Illinois Rev. Stat. ch 56 1/2, SS 701-719 (Supp. 1985)
Louisiana Rev. Stat Ann. SS 40:1021-:1026 (West Supp. 1985)
Maine Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 22, SS 2401-2420 (1964 & Supp. 1984-1985)
Michigan Rev. Stat. Ann. SS14.15(7335)-(7336) (Callaghan Supp 1985-1986)
Minnesota Stat. Ann. S152.21 (West Supp. 1985)
Montana Code Ann. SS 50-32-101 to -405 (1983)
Nevada Rev. Stat. SS453.740-.810 (1983)
New Hampshire Rev. Stat. Ann. S318-B:10 (1984)
New Jersey Pub. Health Law SS 26:2L-1 to -9 (West Supp 1985)
New Mexico Stat. Ann. SS 26-2A-1 to -7 (supp. 1983)
New York Pub. Health Law SS 3397-a to -g (McKinney 1984-1985)
North Carolina Gen. Stat. S 90-101 (1981)
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. SS 3719.85-.87 (Page Supp. 1984),
repealed by 138v.S.184, S 4 (1984)
Oklahoma Stat. Ann. SS 2-101 to -610 (West 1984 and Supp. 1984-1985)
Oregon Rev. Stat S 475.515 (1983)
Rhode Island Gen. Laws SS 21-28.4-1 to -11 (1982)
South Carolina Code Ann. SS 44-53-610 to -660 (Law Co-op. 1985)
Tennessee Code Ann. SS 44-53-610 to -660 (Law Co-op. 1985)
Texas Stat. Ann art. 4476-15, SS 7.0-1-.10 (Vernon Supp. 1985)
Vermont Stat. Ann. tit. 18, S 4471 (1982)
Virginia Code S 18.2-251.1 (1982)
Also:
Massachussets Senate Bill 1582, passed by both houses and signed by
Governor William Weld on December 31, 1991
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If you would like more information on marijuana's medical use please
contact the Alliance at (202) 483-8595.
The Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) is a Washington based
patient-rights group founded in 1980. For more than a decade the
Alliance has provided patients and policy makers with up-to-date
information on marijuana's important therapeutic uses.
(I am not connected with ACT in any way. I merely requested
information from them, and they complied. I am now in the process of
passing some of that information on to others.)
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Amazingly enough the last three states that I have lived in are on the
list. Texas, North Carolina and Oklahoma. If you can convince the
legistators in *these* three states about something as radical as the
medical use of marijuana, the evidence in favor must be overwhelming
indeed. (Believe me, none of the legislatures in these states could
be considered 'liberal' by any stretch of the imagination.)
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