[Vision2020] Medical Cannabis: National Academy of Sciences

[tbertruss at aol.com]

All:
 
Below is the V2020 post where I quote the National Academy of Sciences report on the medical use of cannabis.  
 
So Debbie, I guess you did not read my first post with the above subject heading?  And Joan, I already quoted a report with voluminous data and references to numerous other studies on this subject that explains why marinol in pill form is not as efficacious as smoking cannabis for some medical purposes.  The quote below answers Debbie's question.  And Dave Budge was correct about this issue.
 
>From the National Academy of Sciences report on the medical use of cannabis:
 
"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."
 
This quote is toward the bottom of the rather voluminous amount of info presented at this web link:
 
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/marimed/ch4.html
 
The whole other debate about the nefarious effects of legalized cannabis on society for all other non strictly medical uses is such an emotional irrational can of worms to open it is nearly impossible to have a rational empirical debate, almost as impossible to get anywhere as arguing about Religion.  
 
V2020 already has an endless polarized debate ongoing about Religion.  I'm not sure it can handle another debate of such a polarized and emotional nature.
 
Ted Moffett

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From: Tbertruss at aol.com
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Sent: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:40:55 EDT
Subject: [Vision2020] Medical Cannabis: National Academy of Sciences



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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