FDA vs. The Killer Weed

 

Although 11 US states have legalized marijuana for medicinal use, and a new University of California study shows that it significantly reduces pain in HIV patients, the FDA continues to stick by its claim that “marijuana has no acceptable medical uses”. Indeed, authorities can and do arrest these patients because the federal government refuses to acknowledge the medical benefits of the drug.

WTF? These studies have been going on for a long time. Pot has been shown to be an extremely valuable drug for treating cancer patients, not only because of its pain easing qualities but also as an appetite stimulant.

God, these politicians are so afraid that they might lose a vote if they even whisper the word marijuana, in any context, that they are willing to let sick and dying people suffer unnecessarily.

Now, I haven’t had any cambo red or acapulco gold or thai stick, not even a bud, in decades (sigh) and when I did it wasn’t for pain or sickness. We did it to get high and have fun. I fear that in doing so we, the so called counter culture, gave grass a bad rep that it didn’t deserve.

In any case, I do know this. There are many more dangerous drugs out there being used in hospitals, prescribed in pharmacies and even sold across the counter.

But advocates of medicinal marijuana don’t have a powerful lobby like the drug companies and the tobacco companies do. They don’t have the money to buy off the politicians like the other powerful lobbies and they probably never will.

It’s just one more thing that a democratic administration, with a democratic cabinet, and democratic federal agencies might be able to set right. In the meantime, mom, dad, gramma and grampa..if you can’t get it at the local clinic..grow your own. You remember how.

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