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annabanana

(52,791 posts)
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 08:56 AM Jul 2012

Gov-Sponsored Study Destroys DEA's Classification of Marijuana as 'Medically Useless'

http://www.alternet.org/story/156144/government-sponsored_study_destroys_dea%27s_classification_of_marijuana_as_%27medically_useless%27?akid=9020.71875.c-_gEU&rd=1&t=15

A government sponsored study published this month in The Open Neurology Journal concludes that marijuana provides much-needed relief to some chronic pain sufferers and that more clinical trials are desperately needed, utterly destroying the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) classification of the drug as having no medical uses.

While numerous prior studies have shown marijuana’s usefulness for a host of medical conditions, none have ever gone directly at the DEA’s placement of marijuana atop the schedule of controlled substances. This study, sponsored by the State of California and conducted at the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research, does precisely that, driving a stake into the heart of America’s continued war on marijuana users by calling the Schedule I placement simply “not accurate” and “not tenable.”

Reacting to the study, Paul Armentano, director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), told Raw Story that the study clearly proves U.S. drug policy “is neither based upon nor guided by science.”

“In fact, it is hostile to science,” he said. “And despite the Obama Administration’s well publicized 2009 memo stating, ‘Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my Administration,’ there is little to no evidence indicating that the federal government’s ‘See no evil; hear no evil’ approach to cannabis policy is not changing any time soon.”


There is a lot of "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" in US drug policy....
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Gov-Sponsored Study Destroys DEA's Classification of Marijuana as 'Medically Useless' (Original Post) annabanana Jul 2012 OP
As a middle-aged white guy.... DCKit Jul 2012 #1
lol. . n/t annabanana Jul 2012 #2
OMG, you're so high right now. DCKit Jul 2012 #7
The DEA is addicted to pot prohibition. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2012 #3
Have the DEA check back when they're sick from chemo NightWatcher Jul 2012 #4
I'd be there for you if I could. DCKit Jul 2012 #8
Don't worry, I've friends and family who know responsible adult users NightWatcher Jul 2012 #10
I wish my adult sisters were as mature as your kids. DCKit Jul 2012 #11
OH NOES!!!!!!! ryan_cats Jul 2012 #5
Too Dramatic. Those drugs don't kill nearly as may kids as Afghanistan. DCKit Jul 2012 #9
What? N/T ryan_cats Jul 2012 #12
K&R. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jul 2012 #6
 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
1. As a middle-aged white guy....
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 09:51 AM
Jul 2012

The benefits are obvious - fewer angry middle-aged white guys. They're an embarrassment to the rest of us, and a hazard on the road.

I'm all in for legalization.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
4. Have the DEA check back when they're sick from chemo
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 01:49 PM
Jul 2012

I'm nauseous all day long, can't eat, have severe headaches, today we noticed an acne outbreak on my forehead and temples, but at least my hair hasnt fallen out yet.

Mr Dr's being a jerk about keeping me on this shit. (not pertinate to the op, justa side not).

Life would be better if I had a spliff

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
8. I'd be there for you if I could.
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 05:41 PM
Jul 2012

Hell, I'd be using it just to get a decent night's sleep. You need it far more than I do. So sorry you can't have it.

I want to become subsersive..

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
10. Don't worry, I've friends and family who know responsible adult users
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 07:52 PM
Jul 2012

and have volunteered to help me out if I get worse/ or stay the same for a while.

ryan_cats

(2,061 posts)
5. OH NOES!!!!!!!
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 04:16 PM
Jul 2012

Last edited Thu Jul 5, 2012, 08:11 PM - Edit history (1)

OH NOES!!!!!!! Can you imagine folks hopped up on reefer careening down the roads recklessly at 10 miles below the speed limit. Can you imagine someone going on reefer induced psychological state where they keep trying to run people over, shoot at them with their guns and literally force this drug down our kids throats? Is there even room to force these drugs down their throats whilst smoking a dube'?

The safe drugs for kids:

Adderall and Adderall XR
Concerta
Dexedrine
Focalin and Focalin XR
Metadate CD and Metadate ER
Methylin and Methylin ER
Ritalin , Ritalin SR, Ritalin LA
Vyvanse
Daytrana

I'm sure they all been tested and the kickbacks the Doctors received when the pharm reps comes by is all above board. What does it take before a child is labelled safe enough to no longer need the drugs above. Do they now graduate to even stronger meds prescribed for a lifetime?????

And they had the nerve to put pot in the same schedule as heroin. Here are the drug schedules:
<link:http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=15713227 >[p]

Yay, they're watching out for us imbeciles. Look at the drugs in each schedule.
They put pot with:
Heroin, LSD, Quaaludes, Mescaline, Some derivatives of Morphine whatever that means, Some variants of Amphetamines, Psilocybin, Peyote, Rohypnol (date rape drug but so is alcohol) Bufotenine, Hash and oils, GHB, MDMA, Fentanyl, LAMM (huh?) and finally, Khat.

That pot is with any of those drugs is a crime. Number of deaths by pot yearly:0, Number of violent or domestic abuse crimes on pot:0. Number of people on pot who can now keep down food after chemotherapy, people who have their chronic pain made manageable, number of people with an apatite after some medical procedure took it away from them. The answer, we don't know. I'm sure there's a study but it doesn't support the gov's stance so it's buried. At the moment, some law enforcement agencies are leaving alone dispensaries and the growing operations but for how long?

One more comparison, the next drugs up the schedule, meaning it's not as bad as pot and everything else in schedule one are:
Codeine.
Hydrocodone.
Morphine.
Fentanyl (100 times stronger than morphine, a synthesized drug).
Methadone - dolophine.
Amphetamine (seriously!!!!!!!! WTF?).
Marinol= Big pharms answer to pot but it leaves out hundreds of other things that make pot work as it does.
Dilaudid.
Percodan.
Demoral.
Desoxyn (methamphetamine-really!!!) .
Percocet.
Opium.
Propoxephene, why, it's weaker that codeine and and overdose is quick death.
Ketamine.
Dexedrine.
Dextroamphetamine.
Oxycodone (active ingredient in Oxycontin).
Oxymorphone.

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