medical mj

[Capt Jack]

http://www.mapinc.org/newscc/v01/n572/a11.html

sent to me, presented to you sans commentary.

[Alex]

Is that a link I can click at work?

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Is that a link I can click at work?

Alex, it's a report on medical marijuana, and a possible research cover up.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts

Alex, it's a report on medical marijuana, and a possible research cover up.

sorry for the vagueness.

yes, its an article concerning old research (1970's era)/discoveries on the effect of THC in shrinking of tumors in rats and how the government basically covered up the info, mandated a stop on all further research and hid the information.

I will say 'consider the source'...a website called Cannabis Culture, but as jaded as most have become (myself included) as far as any and all things Government, its not that surprising. I just find it disappointing considering Ive lost a couple of folks to brain tumors and know a couple more battling cancers of all sorts and it makes me wonder if any of those people could have been/could be helped if the research had received funding 30 years ago.

but yes, other than the giant pot leaf in the logo, its work safe.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Depends on your work - I work for the city.

My commentary - Our Drug Laws Are Dumb.

[Alex]

That is the correct commentary. Abolish the FDA and the War on Drugs.

[Tref]

Hail thee Marijuana. Is there anything you can't do?

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

That is the correct commentary. Abolish the FDA and the War on Drugs.

If you abolish the FDA along with the war on drugs, then what assurances will you have that the pharmaceutical companies will be utilizing appropriate controls in their mass manufacture of cocaine, heroin, PCP for the average consumer?

[Alex]

None.

In a more complete answer: if the government wants to maintain itself as a certification body (which consumers can rely for knowing they're getting a clean product) then fine, I can live with that. But they shouldn't be controlling or limiting access to any drugs. And this means that if people want to buy cheaper drugs without the certification then more power to them.

Criminalization of vicodin is just as stupid as criminalization of heroin.

[blueerica]

Isn't there enough of a stigma to using cocaine, heroin, PCP that major pharmaceutical companies probably won't jump at the opportunity?

Those who are going to use and abuse drugs, in my personal experience and from the experiences of friends and family members who have gone down every path, do it regardless of obeying or breaking any laws. This just cuts out the criminal element. When there is an implicit danger and risk (i.e. Johnny Law), it raises the cost of the item on its own, and attracts an underground market that supports gangs and other criminals. Legalization takes away their business.

Smoking tobacco is legal, and yet as we have become more educated, more and more, people either never start or are quitting an addiction that many say is more powerful than heroin. I don't see why the same could be true for the theoretically less-addictive other drugs. We're taught drugs are wrong, not only because they're illegal, but for what it does to our health and our lives.