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08-24-2006, 10:20 PM #11Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
Originally Posted by Dutch Masta
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08-27-2006, 02:59 AM #12Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
When I was 3 years old, I was a brat. One day I saw a neighbor boy putting up a tent (one with tent pegs). I started pulling the pegs out while he was on the other side of the tent.He came around the side of the tent and took the hammer he was using and began striking me very violently. I have about a half dozen dents in my skull because of this attack. There are also several scars hidden by my hair. I have suffered from headaches and migraines as far back as I can remember. When I was 19, I found that cannabis all but eliminated my migraines and headaches! It also eases my sore hip and knee. I am now a "legal" MMJ user. I am 59 years old and have been toking steadily since I was 19. Yes, I like the high, but also YES! it is medicinal. I have a 200 page notebook that I have compiled of (mostly) one page scientific abstracts on cannabis, THC, CBD and endocannabiods and their role in healing. Start your own note book! Just run a search on --cannabis, abstract, ________ (cancer, diabetes, alzheimer's, MS, fibromyalgia- take your pick! Then take it to your doctor- or send it anonymously) I started my note book less than 6 months ago. If I can find that much in less than 6 months-- well that's a LOT of proof that marijuana is medicinal.
And all of you medical users, I have a friend (whom I've never met) named Randy Brush. He's a medical user in Ohio and recently got 3 years for 4 plants! Could you find the time to drop this poor dude a line? You can read about him at Http://FREERANDYBRUSH . He's crippled (uses a wheel chair most of the time) and really sick and a letter really makes his day! He's been happily pissing off the COs by teaching everyone about medical marijuana and how to grow it. (The man grew some killer trees). His ex turned him in.
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08-27-2006, 05:44 AM #13Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
Originally Posted by Buggsy
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08-27-2006, 05:54 AM #14Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
Plainly, marijuana can make you feel better. No matter if you're sick, or if you're just a bit heated because you had a shitty day, you should be able to smoke a joint if you want to. Scientific studies show next to no negative effects from it, and rather it be intended for medicinal use or not, it should be accepted as a recreational substance. In the mornings, a few times a week I throw up stomach acid, and feel like complete shit. At first I tried to avoid smoking as I thought it was the cause of this, but after I get a smoke in the morning, I feel fine and ready for school or work. It's something that isn't toxic to your body, nor is it rejected by your body..as is alcohol especially. Smoke it up
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08-27-2006, 05:58 AM #15Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
Originally Posted by Captain Hanks
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08-27-2006, 06:27 AM #16Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
Originally Posted by Dutch Masta
Now since marijuana is a pain-killer, I don't see why it has no medicinal value. I have no doubt in my mind if I had marijuana instead, I wouldn't be having such painful side effects. I wouldn't be constipated, I wouldn't have Nausea, I would be eating properly, I wouldn't feel so goddamn sick.
The truth of the matter is marijuana would make many of the drugs on the hospital obsolete and rendered useless. I'm convinced. After all, at the moment, I have private consultants deciding what drugs are best for me. The truth of the matter is, marijuana or hashish could and will do more wonders for me than Morphine, Fentanyl, Dahlia, Ibuprofin, or anything they came come up with.
To say it wouldn't improve my current medical condition is really insulting, and I understand what medical marijuana patients go through now. It's amazing the new perspective gained after contracting a life-threatening disease.Happiness only real when shared
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08-27-2006, 01:08 PM #17Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
i think it really is sad the way the government does these things... saying stuff like "medical marijuana is a myth created by potheads to try to get this terrible thing legalized"....all the lies and such... just makes me sad
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08-28-2006, 02:40 AM #18Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
Originally Posted by thcbongman
"Cannabis can make the difference between someone dying of cancer, and someone living with cancer."
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08-28-2006, 02:41 PM #19Senior Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
The whole point of the medical movement needs to be having it rescheduled from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2. As Schedule 1 doctors are not allowed to prescribe or research it. This list includes drugs such as LSD. With a Schedule 2 designation doctors can prescribe and research it. This list includes heroin and cocaine, two obviously much more dangerous drugs. As for those who think marijuana is only for pain and glaucome you REALLY need to read this article.
New Study Explains How Pot Kills Cancer Cells
By Steve Kubby
A new study published in Nature Reviews-Cancer provides an historic and detailed explanation about how THC and natural cannabinoids counteract cancer, but preserve normal cells.
The study by Manuel Guzmán of Madrid Spain found that cannabinoids, the active components of marijuana, inhibit tumor growth in laboratory animals. They do so by modulating key cell-signalling pathways, thereby inducing direct growth arrest and death of tumor cells, as well as by inhibiting the growth of blood vessels that supply the tumor.
The Guzman study is very important according to Dr. Ethan Russo , a neurologist and world authority on medical cannabis: "Cancer occurs because cells become immortalized; they fail to heed normal signals to turn off growth. A normal function of remodelling in the body requires that cells die on cue. This is called apoptosis, or programmed cell death. That process fails to work in tumors. THC promotes its reappearance so that gliomas, leukemias, melanomas and other cell types will in fact heed the signals, stop dividing, and die."
"But, that is not all," explains Dr. Russo: "The other way that tumors grow is by ensuring that they are nourished: they send out signals to promote angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels. Cannabinoids turn off these signals as well. It is truly incredible, and elegant."
In other words, this article explains several ways in which cannabinoids might be used to fight cancer, and, as the article says, "Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated, and do not produce the generalized toxic effects of conventional chemotherapies.
Usually, any story that even suggests the possibility of a new treatment for cancer is greeted with headlines about a "cancer cure" - however remote in the future and improbable in fact it might be. But if marijuana is involved, don't expect any coverage from mainstream media, especially since mainstream editors have been quietly killing this story for the past thirty years.
That's right, news about the abilility of pot to shrink tumors first surfaced, way back in 1974. Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia.
The Washington Post reported on the 1974 study -- in the "Local" section -- on Aug. 18, 1974. Under the headline, "Cancer Curb Is Studied," it read in part: "The active chemical agent in marijuana curbs the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice and may also suppress the immunity reaction that causes rejection of organ transplants, a Medical College of Virginia team has discovered." The researchers "found that THC slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers, and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."
"News coverage of the Madrid discovery has been virtually nonexistent in this country. The news broke quietly on Feb. 29, 2000 with a story that ran once on the UPI wire about the Nature Medicine article," complained MarijuanaNews.com editor Richard Cowan , who said he was only able to find the article through a link that appeared briefly on the Drudge Report Web page. "The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times all ignored the story, even though its newsworthiness is indisputable: a benign substance occurring in nature destroys deadly brain tumors," added Cowan.
On March 29, 2001, the San Antonio Current printed a carefully researched, bombshell of a story by Raymond Cushing titled, "POT SHRINKS TUMORS; GOVERNMENT KNEW IN '74." Media coverage since then has been nonexistant, except for a copy of the story on Alternet .
It is hard to believe that the knowledge that cannabis can be used to fight cancer has been suppressed for almost thirty years , yet it seems likely that it will continue to be suppressed. Why?
According to Cowan, the answer is because it is a threat to cannabis prohibition . "If this article and its predecessors from 2000 and 1974 were the only evidence of the suppression of medical cannabis, then one might perhaps be able to rationalize it in some herniated way. However, there really is massive proof that the suppression of medical cannabis represents the greatest failure of the institutions of a free society, medicine, journalism, science, and our fundamental values," Cowan notes.
Millions of people have died horrible deaths and in many cases, familes exhausted their savings on dangerous, toxic and expensive drugs. Now we are just beginning to realize that while marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.
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08-28-2006, 08:48 PM #20Member
Medicinal use YES OR NO
It boggles my mind that it has been 10 years since California passed medical mj laws. There are still a handful of patients receiving their cans full of joints rolled with so/so pot from the feds every month. If it was so harmful would the feds still be sending it out to those folks who were approved to take it back when the feds did look into it? The Dutch are still the only ones who have it right. The Canadians seem to have some good laws, but there is still so much controvery up there that folks still are not safe. Safer, but not safe!
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