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JB3

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04-22-2010, 06:42 AM #134

Your link is to an article which is more about FDA ideological mandates than any real proof. The FDA is an enormous complicated, self contradicting, political bureaucracy. Scientific fact is produced by numerous studies that all agree, not one study that proves an agenda. Here is an excerpt from the article-

[i]The Food and Drug Administration statement directly contradicts a 1999 review by the Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's most prestigious scientific advisory agency. That review found marijuana to be "moderately well suited for particular conditions, such as chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting and AIDS wasting."

Dr. John Benson, co-chairman of the Institute of Medicine committee that examined the research into marijuana's effects, said in an interview that the statement on Thursday and the combined review by other agencies were wrong.

The federal government "loves to ignore our report," said Dr. Benson, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. "They would rather it never happened."

Some scientists and legislators said the agency's statement about marijuana demonstrated that politics had trumped science.

"Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the F.D.A. making pronouncements that seem to be driven more by ideology than by science," said Dr. Jerry Avorn, a medical professor at Harvard Medical School.[/i]

Heres another excerpt from the same article, the FDA has approved this based on the medical benefits of marijuana for calming and pain management. Huh, it would appear that the FDA is on both sides of the fence here, depending on the weather.
I don't smoke pot, but its pretty obvious it alters your mood and makes you mellow. Thats a damned useful medical use if you are on chemo or something like that. Gateway drug argument or not, if you have ever seen the amount of pain people can be in in advanced stages of illness, allowing to get them high is a mercy. What do you think morphine does?

GW Pharmaceutical, a British company, has received F.D.A. approval to test a sprayed extract of marijuana in humans. Called Sativex, the drug is made from marijuana and is approved for sale in Canada. Opponents of efforts to legalize marijuana for medicinal uses suggest that marijuana is a so-called gateway drug that often leads users to try more dangerous drugs and to addiction.

As said above, throwing people in jail for this type of stuff simply adds to the burden for the rest of us.

This post was last modified: 04-22-2010, 06:43 AM by JB3.

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