Quote:
Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
From National Institute on Drug Abuse:
" The term “medical marijuana” is generally used to refer to the whole unprocessed marijuana plant or its crude extracts, which are not recognized or approved as medicine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
But scientific study of the active chemicals in marijuana, called cannabinoids, has led to the development of two FDA-approved medications already, and is leading to the development of new pharmaceuticals that harness the therapeutic benefits of cannabinoids while minimizing or eliminating the harmful side effects (including the “high”) produced by eating or smoking marijuana leaves….."
An FDA-approved drug called Dronabinol (Marinol®) contains THC and is used to treat nausea caused by chemotherapy and wasting disease (extreme weight loss) caused by AIDS. Another FDA-approved drug called Nabilone (Cesamet®) contains a synthetic cannabinoid similar to THC and is used for the same purposes.
A drug called Sativex®, which contains approximately equal parts THC and CBD, is currently approved in the UK and several European countries to treat spasticity caused by multiple sclerosis (MS), and it is now in Phase III clinical trials in the U.S. to establish its effectiveness and safety in treating cancer pain….."
DrugFacts: Is Marijuana Medicine? | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
Thank you.
So "medical marijuana" in a sense already exists.
Why then this move to make it available when the results are already available ?
It is very confusing to me, and I am cynical..rightfully or wrongly..that this is just another movement who climbed onto the moving train of movements in the last few years.
I am unconvinced, when speaking of recreational use of ANY positives on something that will alter your mind (different for every person I understand, which even makes it scarier) and has so many side things associated with it.
Creating artificial highs to knock down arrests or cut law enforcement costs makes no sense to me. We have a sufficient number of people who are absorbed in making themselves feel good. I still cannot fathom explaining this to kids at all. Do not you dare smoke...it is not good for you. But do light up that weed..it will make you forget...well, it will just make you forget.