[Vision2020] Medical Cannabis: National Academy of Sciences

[joanopyr at earthlink.net]

Debbie writes:

> So what is the benefit of using 'medicinal spliff, errr, marijuana'
> instead of the prescription 'Marinol'? It's synthetic THC without all the
> other marijuana chemicals.
>
> I'm not against medicinal marijuana nor against legalizing drugs, just not
> sold on the veracity of the 'movement' and the not-so-purely-medicinal
> motivated throngs.


True, not everyone's motives in this are "pure," but then find me a
movement in which all members are on exactly the same page, and I'll say,
"Moonies!"

I know that synthetic THC is often not as effective for nausea as simply
smoking dope.  Sorry, but I won't cite a study here.  Why?  Because I don't
have one.  I have only my own observations to report; one was a terminal
lupus patient; the others a couple of cancer patients.  Now, the lupus
patient loved pot, period.  He would've loved it if he'd been well, and
he'd have smoked it and gone to jail.  The cancer patients were not what
one might call classic pot-heads.  They were members of the country club
martini crowd and felt like low-lifes when toking away.  That was, in fact,
a barrier to their initial use.  But they tried it; they felt better; and I
was glad for them.

Just for the record, I am not now nor have I ever been a marijuana user.  I
just look like one.  Must be the Guatemalan poncho and the undyed hemp
socks.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
"Legalize it.  Tax it.  End the War on Drugs, or, rather, the War on Drug
Addicts."