[Vision2020] Medical Cannabis: National Academy of Sciences

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Kai wrote:

"Frankly, I think the whole reason for the "medicinal" use is to get a
loophole where your local ganja master can find a sympathetic doctor to give
him a 'scrip and then bubble his bong with impunity."

This non-science based assertion, implying the legal medical marijuana effort 
is just a conspiracy to legalize cannabis for other nonmedical uses, should 
probably be dismissed as not worth a response, if it were not for the 
popularity of this viewpoint, blocking a rational empirical science based approach to 
this issue.

For those who can actually THINK WITH AN OPEN MIND, REASON, AND FOLLOW 
EMPIRICAL SCIENCE BASED EVIDENCE, and wish to review a science based source of info 
on cannabinoid effectiveness in medicine that, though it has a bias, it 
appears to me, against cannabis use in medicine, still acknowledges that 
cannabinoids do have significant medical use, even in the plant based smoked method of 
delivery, consider this report from the National Academy of Sciences:

A quote from the report:

"Until a nonsmoked rapid-onset cannabinoid drug delivery system becomes 
available, we acknowledge that there is no clear alternative for people suffering 
from chronic conditions that might be relieved by smoking marijuana, such as 
pain or AIDS wasting."

And a web link to this report where you can find the context of the quote 
above:

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/marimed/ch4.html

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Ted Moffett






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