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The reason that most people prefer smoking marijuana rather than taking
Marinol is that clinical studies have shown that A) Marinol takes 1 to
2 hours before it works compared to a few minutes for smoking, B) It
has not proven to increase appetite, reduce nausea and act as an
analgesic as well as smoking and C) it is significantly more expensive
per dose. <br>
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There is in development an aerosol delivery system for inhaling an
aspirated form of Marinol. However, questions remains if the active
ingredients from smoking are significantly different from the
pharmaceutical formulary. So far it appears that there may be
something produced in burning pot that produces a greater efficacy. <br>
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And why, Oh why, would we really want to turn a really inexpensive
treatment over to those money grubbing pharma companies anyhow? <br>
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db<br>
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<pre wrap="">Debbie writes:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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."
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