Medical Field Against Legalized Marijuana?

[DdC]

Medical Field Against Legalized Marijuana Dr. Ted Beam (excerpts)

DrBeam: I grew up in the 60s and 70s.

Sounds like a childs gibberish playing a doctor who hasn't grown up and still follows blindly, micking the same tired lies. You simply aged into a stiff necked greed striken alarmist dude.
... DdC

Patients themselves are often the best judges of whether or not cannabis helps relieve the symptoms of depression. A poorly educated or narrow-minded physician may think any use of cannabis to be a substance abuse related aspect of depression. More enlightened psychiatrists (i.e. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School) appreciate the often beneficial aspects of cannabis therapy.
Cannabis and Depression Jay R. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.

DrBeam: I watched nickel and dime bags being passed around at concerts and festivals as the police just watched. I helped friends get home safely after they had indulged themselves in smoking the weed. And then I read that "responsible adults" would handle it properly.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-- President John F. Kennedy

Marijuana Now Legal in Dutch Pharmacies
Amsterdam, Netherlands - Just what the doctor ordered?
Pharmacies may fill prescriptions for marijuana and patients can get the cost covered by insurance, according to a law that went into effect Monday. Doctors in the famously liberal Netherlands have long recommended marijuana to cancer patients as an appetite enhancer and to combat pain and nausea.

DrBeam: I have also noticed that the medical field consistently stands against legalizing the general use of marijuana. The medical field presently uses a synthetic cannabis in some treatments

Cannabis FARMaceuticals

"Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do.

DrBeam: The scripture is my area of expertise, with three earned graduate degrees in Bible and theology.

"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?"
John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson

DrBeam: I think common sense would conclude that plants which produce health and life are given by God for human consumption.

Seriousaly dude, thinking and common sense are feared by D.E.A.th mongers, You label yourself like liars telling us they're honest. Your words are only means to an end. More like Jim Beam talking.
... DdC

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
-- Ezekiel 34:29

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Hardrug&Booze alternative.

The hemp seed is the highest of any plant in essential amino acids and essential fatty acids. These essential fatty acids are responsible for our immune response...and contribute to…more disease resistance.”
(Hempseed Nutrition by Lynn Osburn).

Hempseed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away.
(Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955.)

Hemp seed protein more closely resembles that of the human body than soy; it is also easier to digest. Hemp contains a richer source of essential fatty acid oils than soy. These oils prevent heart disease and build the immune system. Hemp also resists UV-B light, which is a kind of sunlight that is blocked by the ozone layer. Soy beans do not take UV-B light very well. If the ozone layer were to deplete by 16%, which by some estimates is very possible, soy production would fall by 25-30%. We may have to grow hemp or starve -- and it won't be the first time that this has happened. Hemp has been used to "bail out" many populations in time of famine.
Emperor Wears NO Clothes by Jack Herer

Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life
By Ravi Chopra 10.15.5
A study by University of Saskatchewan researchers suggests beneficial aspects of smoking marijuana at least among rats, who appear to have sprouted new brain cells and besides benefiting from reduced depression and anxiety.

Endocannabinoid System Controls Key Circuits 8.16.6

DrBeam: Plants which would alter the state of mind, cause other harm or even death were not given by God for human consumption.

D.E.A.th, Forced Treatment asylums, prison rape and Uzi's in the face of polio patients, also alter minds and cause other harm or even death.
... DdC

Medical Marijuana: Then and Now
In 1937, the 75th Congress criminalized all parts of a plant called Cannabis sativa L. The proponents of The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, a.k.a., prohibition, represented the interests of both public and private factions. The opponents of prohibition represented house-call doctors and small farmers.

The losers of this debate in 1937 were (shock) the house-call doctors and small farmers. The more things change in the 69-years-and-counting of prohibition, the more they seem to stay exactly the same, even though today does not have to be like it was back then.

Back then, prohibitionists hyped the threat posed by the abuse of cannabis. It was said that the mere use of cannabis could turn the most habitually calm person on the planet into a maniacal murderer instantly, without any warning. Back then, it was “legal” to punish people on the basis of misinformation.

Today, prohibitionists still hype the threat posed by the abuse of cannabis. It is still said that people who merely use cannabis are ipso facto abusers of cannabis (not even a doctor can “safely” recommend the use of cannabis under Federal law). Today, it appears “legal” to continue to punish people on the basis of misinformation.

btw scripturedoc, it's "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up'' dude.
... DdC

Poison Inc. Pesticides v Hemp

DrBeam: God is not in the business of harming the very people He loves. It seems like a no-brainer to me.

I think I can agree with that, Sir you have no brain...
... DdC

DrBeam: Even with my busy schedule, I usually make the monthly meetings for the Campbellsville-Taylor County Anti-Drug Coalition held at Taylor Regional Hospital.
Contact: cknj@cknj.com

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
-- Upton Sinclair


Caption contest
And yes, that is Drug Czar John Walters in the white shirt.
Photo by Craig Kohlruss - Fresno Bee

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