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It is hardly true that “research grade” cannabis comes out of the UMiss pot farm. Please refer to the ongoing case of Dr. Lyle Craker of UMass/Amherst

http://www.umass.edu/psis/personnel/craker.html

http://www.aclu.org/drug-law-reform/matter-lyle-craker-dea-denial-application

Just because the US government calls it “research grade” doesn’t make it so. The pot that comes off the farm at UMiss makes Mexican cartel brickweed look like it’s high grade. 

Oh, BTW the DEA’s denial of Dr Craker’s application is in direct contradiction of the finding by DEA’s administrative law Judge Mary Ellen Bittner.

The US Government doesn’t care that people who could benefit from organic cannabinoid medicine who are forced to suffer more than needed because of their intransigence concerning this issue which keeps them stonewalling the research using every trick in the book.
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DEA Judge Rules That Botanist’s Bid to Grow Marijuana Is “in the Public Interest”

Because of the monopoly arrangement, in effect since 1968, ‘there is currently an inadequate supply of marijuana available for research purposes,’ said Mary Ellen Bittner, a Drug Enforcement Administration administrative law judge. She said the application by Lyle Craker, a University of Massachusetts professor of plant biology, ‘would be in the public interest.’

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=167

The notion that medicinal cannabis is only smoked is a bunch of malarkey. There are quite a large number of infused edibles available at California dispensaries. One fellow invented gel strips for oramucosal delivery which are much like the Listerine gel strips sold in retail stores from coast to coast.

The vaporizer was proven safe and preferred by patients by a margin of 7:1 in peer reviewed research published in 2010.

http://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=149:vaporization-as-a-qsmokelessq-cannabis-delivery-system&catid=41:research-studies&Itemid=135

There’s no doubt that the pharmaceutical companies will be developing whole plant extracts. But it takes time, and the people who are sick today benefit from using whole plant cannabis. It is satisfactory as a stop gapmeasure and there’s absolutely no valid reason to deny today’s patients relief from its suffering.

The California Compassionate Use Act (CUA) won’t be going anywhere even after the pharmas have developed their pills and powders and sell them through pharmacies. In California, the only way to amend a citizen generated ballot initiative is with another citizen generated ballot initiative. It cost $1.5 million last year to get Prop 19 on the California ballot. That cost is only going to increase over time.

Vaporizing is a completely safe & legitimate way to deliver whole cannabis into the system through the lungs for immediate results. They will never take my plant from  me. I will die defending it. If I can’t have Medical Cannabis my quality of life is not worth living. What about that Obama? He would just say DIE, SUFFER & DIE!!! Gee, thank you Mr President Dick Obama. Oh that’s Cheney isn’t it? Oh well…

Go to the Patent office’s website (uspto.gov) and search for patent # 6630507.  The US GOVT owns a patent that claims that cannabinoids, the active ingredients in cannabis, are a powerful neuroprotectant and antioxidant.  They know FULL WELL that cannabis is a healing medicine, or why would they have bothered to patent it?

Now, how it is that they can patent a naturally occurring substance that they didn’t “invent” is another twisted story…

There is a video on youtube of Raphael Mechoulam- who is essentially the god father of cannabinoid medicine being the first to isolate and synthesize THC, and since then has been part of many ground breaking studies has said,  the majority of medical marijuana research in the world- is paid for by the US Fed, through agencies like NIDA and NIH and even ones like ONDCP.   So when politicians or officials say we do not know enough?  Maybe its cause they are not reading any of the reports they are actually funding.

  Just take a look through NIH’s pubmed with a search on cannabinoid- your telling me you cant find one medical use there?  The DEA knows that marijuana is not schedule I, but the DEA is part of the depart of justice.

  If you look at a report from the Dept. of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center- illegal drugs costs the country $193,000,000,000.00+ in just 2007.   Almost 150 billion dollars are spent on a state and federal level for police, courts, prisons- all of which are under the department of justice.  A few billion are spent on prevention, and close to 40 billion was lost in taxes because incarcerated people dont work.  

  Virtually every cent of that is because drugs are illegal- and why are they illegal again?  Cause the DEA says there is no medical use, and its highly addictive lol.

 Its never about science, its about politics- rotten politics at that..

Duncan I like ya, but surely you have seen Tashkin videos about the effect of smoking cannabis.  His credentials are impeccable and in one rather clinical video debunks several studies while reinforcing his research.  Long term heavy use of marijuana for half a century is not even associated with COPD,Emphysema, or lung cancer.

   We cannot allow peoples fear of second hand tobacco smoke influence their view on this- it is like comparing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, both very similar but boy do they do different things hehe.

  He certainly admits you can get bronchitus but shows quite clearly that people will never age to a point that they qualify for copd because unlike tobacco smoke- marijuanas effect will not compound over time, its a completely linear decline a small bit lower then naturally.  Which is reversible since its not causing emphysema which chemically burns holes in your lungs like tobacco does.

Also the only way you are gonna get better bio availability is by injecting it- which nobody does, and smoking it does allow for rapid response to dosing needs. Edibles are great for liver or GI illness as when you eat brownies your liver lowers the bio availability by utilizing alot of the cannabinoids. I absolutely see the point of sub-lingual tinctures/oils for very high dose requirement serious illness- quite simply most people are not going to able to tolerate smoking that much when they could put a rice sized piece of extract in their mouth.

  Point to mention- NEVER mix tobacco smoke with marijuana smoke, marijuana will cause your lungs to absorb far more of the tobacco smoke then you normally would as it is trying to receive the cannabinoids.   Pot does not make tobacco safer in any way- it makes it more dangerous then just tobacco.

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