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08-29-2008, 03:19 AM #7
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U.S. Government lists Cannabis as having medical uses
Carefully read this paragraph from it:
Side Effect Profile: Fatigue, paranoia, possible psychosis, memory problems, depersonalization, mood alterations, urinary retention, constipation, decreased motor coordination, lethargy, slurred speech, and dizziness. Impaired health including lung damage, behavioral changes, and reproductive, cardiovascular and immunological effects have been associated with regular marijuana use. Regular and chronic marijuana smokers may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers have (daily cough and phlegm, symptoms of chronic bronchitis), as the amount of tar inhaled and the level of carbon monoxide absorbed by marijuana smokers is 3 to 5 times greater than among tobacco smokers. Smoking marijuana while shooting up cocaine has the potential to cause severe increases in heart rate and blood pressure.
And this:
Route of Administration: Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette (‘joint’) or in a pipe or bong. Hollowed out cigars packed with marijuana are also common and are called `. Joints and blunts are often laced with adulterants including PCP or crack cocaine. Joints can also be dipped in liquid PCP or in codeine cough syrup. Marijuana is also orally ingested.
And now read the FEW medical uses:
Medical and Recreational Uses: Medicinal: Indicated for the treatment of anorexia associated with weight loss in patients with AIDS, and to treat mild to moderate nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy. Recreational: Marijuana is used for its mood altering effects, euphoria, and relaxation. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug throughout the world.
Any person that knows little to nothing about cannabis would read this and conclude that marijuana causes too many harmful side effects. And, isn't the tar and carbon monoxide levels part of the old propaganda myths? They also mention it being commonly used with other dangerous drugs!!!
As for medical uses, it's practically 4 things: appetite, nausea, euphoria and relaxation. Those are more like the positive side effects, not the direct healthy effects of cannabinoids in the body (things that the ECS is linked to).
Compare that to all the bad side effects they list.... Staggeringly biased bullshit.
I didn't recopy it, but isn't it funny that most of the withdrawal symptoms are the very things that people use cannabis for in the first place? lol...
It's nice that they at least HAVE a section for medical uses, but they'll have to fill it with some real info.... and 86 the propaganda.
For now this source of information is doing more harm than good!
Please don't send it to anyone that you want to educate!
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