Sites that advocate marijuana use aren't scientific by any standards. If you have an agenda to push you'll find a method or reason.
So nurses who think it can help are not 'scientific' because they 'think' it works. Or the fact that the DEA makes it next to impossible to have studies done. I guess with the same thought process 'or lack there of' anyone who advocates it be banned doesn't count either
@ GRIM & xmcp123: I asked for a medical studies, not medical opinions. The DEA has an agenda which is to enforce the law. If MJs were legalized they wouldn't get involved in the capacity they are now. In this thread I'm not advocating a side. I can think of reasons for and reasons against legalizing MJs. Personally, as in post #2 I wouldn't do it. Still, if they do provide medicinal benefits for people I say go for it. For social purposes I'll leave it to the opinions here.
At which point I showed you articles that show the DEA NOT allowing studies to be done. So you want studies done that are not allowed to be done, and or when allowed to be done normally only allowed to be done by those against weed, most cases using inferior weed as well grown by the government. Great thought process there.
Marijuana Reduces Cancerous Tumor Growth Marijuana as a Treatment for Glaucoma And I can speak first hands to it's positive effects on people with ADD/ADHD. Much better than the pure amphetamines(addictive as HELL) that they fork over at you otherwise.
Thanks, xmcp123. The links and your personal examples show that there are benefits to the use of MJ in specific cases. I didn't dispute that MJ didn't have benefits. Still, can we say with confidence that MJ is not dangerous to your health? You came up with that conclusion, not me.
I got a bad disorder from smoking pot called Depersonalization disorder... It makes me feel like I'm high when I'm not. Its distracting and disorienting, and makes accomplishing easy tasks hard. Theres certain places I can't go because it triggers a reaction. For this reason I wouldn't legalize pot, because I wouldn't want anyone else to go through depersonalization. I wish more people knew the dangers of pot, such as depersonalization, amotivation, and the possibility of triggering schizophrenia and paranoia if you're prone to it.
Great point. Peanuts should be banned because some people can die from them. Some people are lactose intolerant, ban milk immediately! We've had this discussion before, many things can 'trigger' 'depersonalization' many of them perfectly legal.
That was no attack, if I wanted to attack I would have. Yeah lets just throw the fact that the DEA makes it next to impossible to research an item to the side.
Has anyone ever read the book The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer.. I read it some time ago when I was a smoker myself. excert from the book After 15 days of taking testimony and more than a year's legal deliberation, DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young formally urged the DEA to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana. In a September 1988 judgment, he ruled: "The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision . . . It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record. In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." Yet former DEA Administrator John Lawn, his successor, Robert Bonner, and current DEA Administrator John Constantine - non-doctors all! - have refused to comply and have continued to deprive persons of medical cannabis, according to their own personal discretion. A text only version of the book is available online is anyone is interested..
I never read the book, but I have read the story multiple times. The DEA is known to not comply with laws, research, rulings, etc. That is why I posted a few links to such instances when someone asked for 'medical studies' Kind of hard to have a lot of them when the DEA denies most everyone, only allows a select few and controls the 'pot' available for use.