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Government funded research halts the war on cannabis…for now. The war on drugs will continue to rage onward despite an overwhelming number of people voting for cannabis legalization, or for the drug to become decriminalized at the very least.
The study in question is fully backed by the US government and published in The Open Neurology Journal, stating that the relief found within cannabis is sorely needed by any person in dire chronic pain, urging the government to issue clinical trials in order to subvert the DEA’s notion that cannabis is ineffective and useless medically.
This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information. Cannabis Legalization – What Seems to be the Problem Here?
Hundreds and hundreds of studies have been conducted in the past, revealing the healing powers of the plant, considered at the very least questionable by the standards of the DEA and the FDA even with concrete evidence shining a positive light on the relationship between marijuana and cancer. The evidence suggests that the plant heals cancer, is far less deadly than normal pharmaceuticals, and that the benefits of medical marijuana could even be comprised on beneficial lung health with use. So then why is marijuana illegal? Why is cannabis legalization such a difficult change to reach?
Hundreds and hundreds of studies have been conducted in the past, revealing the healing powers of the plant, considered at the very least questionable by the standards of the DEA and the FDA even with concrete evidence shining a positive light on the relationship between marijuana and cancer. The evidence suggests that the plant heals cancer, is far less deadly than normal pharmaceuticals, and that the benefits of medical marijuana could even be comprised on beneficial lung health with use. So then why is marijuana illegal? Why is cannabis legalization such a difficult change to reach?
The DEA even continues to maintain the schedule I classification of marijuana and its derivatives, keeping it up on the list with cocaine, LSD, mescaline (peyote), and heroin. Not only should the country achieve cannabis legalization, but the drug has no place in this categorization.
Paul Armentano, director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) says that the study in question renders the US drug policy as false and not entirely in the best intentions of the community:
The study also notes that there are side effects, as is the case with most modern medicine, that go along with the ingestion of cannabis, including dizziness, fatigue, lightheadedness, muscle weakness and heart palpations. Those who are at risk of cardiovascular disease or disorder already may be at a greater risk if they are given cannabis, but generally the effects are mild, and may even be less obvious or detrimental over the course of time.
The study also noted that in this particular trial, no deaths occurred from an overdose of THC.
The evidence found in these trials is very similar to those found in other trials, but with this one in particular is different due to the fact that they tested the effect of smoked cannabis as opposed to vaporized, which is generally considered to be the safest method of delivery.
The conclusion was that more trials need to be conducted, and that other parts of the plant may be used to treat a variety of other ailments. The drug may not be for everyone, but it is evident that cannabis legalization should be achieved.
Additional Sources:
RawStory
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Paul Armentano, director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) says that the study in question renders the US drug policy as false and not entirely in the best intentions of the community:
[It] is neither based upon nor guided by science. In fact, it is hostile to science. And despite the Obama Administration’s well publicized memo stating ‘science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my administration’, there is little to no evidence that the government’s ‘see no evil; hear no evil’ approach to cannabis policy is not changing any time soon.The evidence supplied in the study showed a direct correlation between the use of marijuana on patients with multiple sclerosis and the amount of general relief felt with the patients compared to similar trials where placebos were used. The scientists also specifically studied the effect on a person when smoked, noting that the delivery method was both “rapid and efficient”, but has a distinctive health deficit due to the carbon monoxide produced by the hot smoke.
The study also notes that there are side effects, as is the case with most modern medicine, that go along with the ingestion of cannabis, including dizziness, fatigue, lightheadedness, muscle weakness and heart palpations. Those who are at risk of cardiovascular disease or disorder already may be at a greater risk if they are given cannabis, but generally the effects are mild, and may even be less obvious or detrimental over the course of time.
The study also noted that in this particular trial, no deaths occurred from an overdose of THC.
The evidence found in these trials is very similar to those found in other trials, but with this one in particular is different due to the fact that they tested the effect of smoked cannabis as opposed to vaporized, which is generally considered to be the safest method of delivery.
The conclusion was that more trials need to be conducted, and that other parts of the plant may be used to treat a variety of other ailments. The drug may not be for everyone, but it is evident that cannabis legalization should be achieved.
Additional Sources:
RawStory
Explore More:
Legalize Marijuana? Benefits Ignored by Federal Government (Infographic)
Cannabis Treatment Threatens Deadly Painkiller Industry
Why is Marijuana Illegal? | Examining the Health Aspects of Cannabis
Medical Marijuana Possible Treatment for Osteoporosis
Marijuana and Cancer Relationship – Marijuana Found to Destroy Cancer Cells
Action Alert: Legislation Seeks to Censor Taxpayer-Funded Health Research
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"BIG EVILtm" takes your money for scientific studies. when they don't like the answers, they take more of your money, bury the studies and lie to you.
Some times a person will "leak" some of these secret studies and make them public.
at which point BIG EVIL takes some more of your money to make an oversight group to make sure the truth doesn't get out again, and to bury the people responsible for it getting out in the first place, and lie about that plane crash.
How much you wanna bet that they just want an excuse to find a way to slap a patent on the plant dna? Nope. Sorry. You want to use a patented genome so you have to pay the company which owns it.
Bastards.
One of the main reasons mj is still illegal is its tremendous potential as medicine. Drug companies have been trying for over 70 years (since it was made illegal in 1937) to make drugs out of it, but they were unable to separate the "high" (which just means feeling extremely happy) from the drug effects they wanted, like relief of pain and muscle spasms, control of glaucoma, nausea and anorexia, etc. The majority of the sponsors of Partnership for a Drug-free America, which recently changed its name to The Partnership@ drugfree.org, are pharmaceutical companies. They would lose billions of dollars in drug sales if marijuana were legal. Google Carl Sagan marijuana for his insightful views on the herb. Also check out Jack Herer's fact-filled book "The Emperor wears no Clothes", and the 1942 film made by the USDA, "Hemp for Victory", encouraging farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. "Popular Mechanics" in 1938 predicted hemp would be a billion dollar crop, useful for everything (if it hadn't been made illegal in 1937, coincidentally (or not) the same year DuPont patented nylon.) Everything that is now made out of nylon used to be made out of hemp, the strongest natural fiber in the world.
1st of all, cannabis and hemp are two different plants. It is all illegal because some authority could not distinguish the difference, so they both were condemned. Hemp used to be a big cash crop in central WI up until the 1950's. It was used to make rope, among other things. There are two distinct types of cannabis - sativa and indica. 1 relaxes and the other enhances. Smoking it wastes some the medicinal benefits. Ingesting the oil or using it as an ingredient in food stuffs captures all of it's benefits. Big Pharma cannot patent that which Mother Nature has produced. The only way they can get their money-grubbing paws on the market is to synthesize it. When they do, they will still add the chemicals they cherish, therefore destroying the true medicinal values it holds. I, for one, am thankful we can get a little bit here and there to help take the intense out of the pains my husband suffers with on a daily basis. We all want it removed from the Classification I category, not only because it is not addictive, but to allow those in constant pain to get relief with a substance that does not come with the horrible side effects today's Big Pharma chemical "medications" have. They are just ticked because, when people use cannabis, Big Pharma looses their power of addiction and the need for more of their chemical "poisons" to counteract the side effects they cause. Read http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/higher-level-freedom-benefit-cannabis-health for a better understanding.
The evidence is clear the government continuum of the war on Cannabis is clearly a assult on citizen rights Its a WAR base on lies Those who refuse and join the government side need to be imprison or killed the attempt to control citizen now is no more then a enforce police state on laws which they continue to place with and by tax payers money The bastards like carpenters union UBC and NERCC who continue to test and throw out persons for usage and loss of jobs is outrages please any lawyers contact me massvocals@comcast.net
"1st of all, cannabis and hemp are two different plants."
Get your facts straight instead of spouting half truths.
"Botanically, the genus Cannabis is composed of several variants. Although there has been a long-standing debate among taxonomists about how to classify these variants into species, applied plant breeders generally embrace a biochemical method to classify variants along utilitarian lines. Cannabis is the only plant genus that contains the unique class of molecular compounds called cannabinoids. Many cannabinoids have been identified, but two preponderate: THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient of Cannabis, and CBD, which is an antipsychoactive ingredient. One type of Cannabis is high in the psychoactive cannabinoid, THC, and low in the antipsychoactive cannabinoid, CBD. This type is popularly known as marijuana. Another type is high in CBD and low in THC. Variants of this type are called industrial hemp."
by David P. West, Ph.D.
for the North American Industrial Hemp Council
http://www.naihc.org/hemp_information/content/hemp.mj.html
Have you seen the blog by txpeloton? You can find it by googling Talking Points for the Peloton. His group is trying to tell people that the problem exists because of the federal definition of marijuana. It is easy to join them, too. His point is that a simple definition of marijuana will resolve it. I now think simpler is better. Which definition of marijuana do YOU prefer?
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