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Murky Medicine
Posted by CN Staff on October 08, 2002 at 09:51:50 PT
Union-Tribune Editorial 
Source: Union Tribune
California's medical marijuana debate is as confused as a teen-ager who has smoked too much weed.Recently, we've had moralistic political posturing by various City Council members, stoned photo opportunities on courthouse steps by marijuana advocates, law enforcement raids on supposed back-yard medicine patches, merry-go-round legal battles for cancer sufferers, and inch-deep media coverage. What we're missing is scientific evidence. That's because there's very little definitive science on this subject.
Research is under way that eventually will form the basis for either adopting protocols for medical use of marijuana or rejecting it. The studies are being conducted by UCSD's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research. But they're not finished. Until research is completed and properly vetted, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration certifies the proper use of marijuana as medicine, everything else is premature.Proposition 215, California's medical marijuana initiative, was just plain silly. Whoever heard of deciding the proper use of a medicine by public vote?San Diego City Council's foray into medical marijuana is silly, too. Members of the Medical Marijuana Task Force say Proposition 215 requires them to settle the controversy and protect patients from being arrested. But that won't happen as long as California's law is at odds with federal law.Although task force members say they're only interested in medical use, many of their proposals would result in increased drug abuse. For example, a patient could possess up to three pounds of marijuana. With today's highly potent strains of marijuana, that's a very large amount.Meanwhile, "caregivers" also would be allowed to grow up to 90 plants per patient. Again, that's a huge amount. Obviously, task force members weren't concerned with problems of drug abuse and crime, which this big, new supply of marijuana in our neighborhoods would certainly foment.Another guideline would basically allow patients to smoke marijuana wherever tobacco smoking is allowed. Huh? Like at outdoor cafes? In reality, these guidelines were designed to help people get marijuana, and would increase access for everyone. Increased access means increased abuse; battles against underage drinking have clearly taught us that lesson.The opportunity for a sober public discussion about medical marijuana has been destroyed by potheads. While many well-meaning people support medical marijuana to relieve the pain and suffering of themselves and others, the movement has been co-opted by legalization proponents. People should be asking why so many medical marijuana activists are also marijuana legalization activists, when medical treatment and getting high have nothing in common. We all know the answer – wink, wink.Marijuana use should be allowed only if medical experts decide it should be medicine, and only then if it's treated like any other doctor-prescribed, pharmacy-dispensed and government-controlled medicine. Until that happens, the silliness will only get worse. The City Council should simply walk away from this issue. After all, Proposition 215 wouldn't be the first California initiative to be completely unworkable.Note: Marijuana initiative becoming unworkable.Newshawk: Ethan Russo M.D.Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA)Published: October 4, 2002 Copyright: 2002 Union-Tribune Publishing Co.Contact: letters uniontrib.comWebsite: http://www.uniontrib.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:CMCRhttp://www.cmcr.ucsd.edu/Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmSupervisors Oppose City's Plan to OK Marijuana http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14337.shtmlThe Proposition 215 Dilemmahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread14336.shtml
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Comment #13 posted by Toker00 on October 08, 2002 at 21:04:45 PT
Dump the medical stories on the DEA's doorstep.
Seriously. Make a copy of every medical report about Cannabis, and High Noon on a workday, have the DUMP TRUCKS empty their cargo at the DEA's doorstep. Someone could SURELY get a video of it. Add Ddc's Nazi/Fascist connections to it, and you would have a mountain.Peace. Realize, then Legalize.
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Comment #12 posted by Dankhank on October 08, 2002 at 14:14:57 PT:
Medical Data
I have a CD-ROM with 700 ... 700 medical studies of Cannabis that I got from a nurse who works at the University of New Mexico.I have just returned from the Post Office, having mailed a copy to this newspaper, and Assa Hutchinson.I called the Editorial Board of this paper spoke to a member of the Editorial Board, and the DEA where I talked to a Communication person, apprising each that I was mailing the CD to them.It is truly an overwhelming experience to browse this CD.If any would like to have a copy I will burn one for you. All I ask is that you send me a buck or two to defray my expenses: blank cds, postage ... etc that will help me send lots and cover wear and tear on my burner.Dr. Russo knows of this CD and when I visited him in August I told him that I had included three of his papers: "Chronic Cannabis Users ...", "Cannabis and Headaches ...", and Volume 1/Edition 1 of his "Journal of Cannabis Theraputics."Should any desire a copy of the "Cannabis reference Library," send me an email and I will give you my mailing address.The DEA will shortly have my address, but I don't care. I will not, however, post it publicly here.Peace, relegalize and fight to tell the truth.
Hemp N Stuff
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Comment #11 posted by goneposthole on October 08, 2002 at 12:51:08 PT
I'll take
the murky medicine over the 'medicine' responsible for over 100,000 deaths in hospitals every year.
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Comment #10 posted by DdC on October 08, 2002 at 12:17:54 PT
Why waste the Ketchup on a Fascist?
Shove it up their fascist Walters LaRouche!This Union Tribune rag was owned by Sprekles. Pushing white sugar on kids rotting teeth throughout America..."Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws." [Baron M.A. Rothschild (1744 - 1812)]The Elkhorn Manefesto (Shadow of the Swastika) 
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Elkhorn.htmlThere is no better proof of the Nazi support for the ruling elite than looking at who supported Hitler in the 1930s in America. Granted many lower class people were involved in the pro-Hitler movement just as in Germany. But like Germany, it was the rich industrialists that funded these groups. Hearst ordered his newspapers to print pro Nazi articles in fact he had them print the Nazi propaganda directly from Gobbels. Irenee du Pont funded several pro-fascist groups. Henry Ford was well known for his praise of Hitler and funded many pro-Nazis in the 30s. Andrew Mellon and John D. Rockefeller were supporters of Hitler as well. No one is foolish enough to argue that these men were not part of the ruling elite or rich industrialist in America at the time. In fact support for Hitler among the rich industrialists was rampant.The San Diego Union-TribuneOn November 5, 1910 John D. Spreckels, a wealthy developer of San Diego, decided to promote and expand San Diego's practically non-existent art society by building a full-sized theatre. Previously, San Diego had very limited options for entertainment.John Diedrich Spreckels was born in Charleston, South Carolina, August 16th, 1853. He studied in Hanover, Germany, where he stucdied chemistry and mechanical engineering in the Polytechnic College until 1872. He returned to California and began working for his father, Claus, Sr., who had grown extremely wealthy in the sugar business. In the next decades Spreckels became a millionaire many times over, and the wealthiest man in San Diego.Ira Copley's Life: From farm boy to newspaper magnate...In 1928, Copley launched one of the greatest mass newspaper purchases in the nation. He bought 24 newspapers, including the morning San Diego Union and afternoon San Diego Evening Tribune. Copley Newspapers has grown into one of the nation's largest newspaper publishing groups.From Whom Did the Fascists Get Support? Italian fascism and German Nazism had their admirers within the U.S. business community and the corporate owned press. Bankers, publishers, and industrialists, including the likes of Henry Ford, traveled to Rome and Berlin to pay homage, receive medals, and strike profitable deals. Many did their utmost to advance the Nazi war effort, sharing military industrial secrets and engaging in secret transactions with the Nazi government, even after the United States entered the war. During the 1920s and early 1930s, major publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Saturday Evening Post, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Christian Science Monitor hailed Mussolini as the man who rescued Italy from anarchy and radicalism. "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have bee enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864, bilderberg http://www.bilderberg.com/home/home.html
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Comment #9 posted by afterburner on October 08, 2002 at 11:51:04 PT:
Jim Wakeford, Father of Oolagen:
Jim Wakeford, Father of Oolagen:A Personal Story about the Man from North of the Medicine Line in Grandmother’s Land, Canada.Jim Wakeford was instrumental in bringing the medical marijuana issue to the Canadian courts, eventually winning a medical exemption from the Canadian government to grow his own medicine. Despite the exemption he was repeatedly hassled by the police. This is a man with a long history of service to the community. He founded and ran for many years a residential treatment centre for street youth with drug problems. The centre was called Oolagen. “Oolagen” is a Cree word that means “a place where flowers grow.” Oolagen had difficulty obtaining funding and almost closed several times. The community leaders at times condemned Oolagen, calling it Hooligan House, because of the rough street kids it was trying to help. In the early days the drug treatment used a kind of talking cure to help street kids through bad trips and to provide a safe environment for recovery. The original drugs of abuse were psychedelics. Later when the new generation of street kids turned to hard drugs, like meth or heroin, the kids became more difficult to treat. The “speed freaks” on methamphetamine were more aggressive, paranoid, and tended toward stealing, or “ripping-off” as they called it. These tendencies made them harder to reach. The heroin street kids were even worse: they had a stunned-out look in their eyes, and words did not seem to reach them. Even referring these hard cases to more intensive treatment was difficult since the drugs they were using were illegal, and the official approach to drug problems was incarceration, not treatment. I have walked the floors of Oolagen and seen these things with my own eyes. I have met Jim himself. I had a friend who worked at Oolagen: let’s call her “Sally.” The last I heard of Jim, he was dying of HIV-AIDS north of Toronto, trying to keep his medical marijuana plants, which ease his suffering, from police seizures. I have since learned that Jim journeyed to B.C. to find a safe place to grow his medicine and to aid other sick and dying people. Apparently, he has now returned to Toronto to Die With Dignity. This advocate of sensible drug laws, for treatment instead of punishment, has touched the lives of many lost and suffering street kids, and now many sick and dying adults. We know now that street kids are often running away from abusive family relationships. We know that in their pain and street confusion, they sometimes turn to drugs for solace. Even the United Way now offers help to such needy souls, but without the pioneering work of Jim Wakeford, it would have taken society longer to develop humane approaches. The laws which prohibit mild drugs, like marijuana, or cannabis as we prefer to call it, inadvertantly put the street kids in the hands of the criminal element. The Street is the real Gateway. The street dealers, or black market, gain more by selling addictive drugs, like heroin, cocaine or crack, and meth (yes, it’s back.)--white powders, refined, powerful, and easy to smuggle. Cannabis is big and bulky, complicated to grow in northern climates, and seemingly targeted by police more than hard drugs. These factors all lead to high prices, sky high prices. The white powders and pills are more affordable, eventhough more deadly, so many youths on and off the street are seduced into addictive habits. Of course, none of it is safe; here are no quality controls or purity standards because it is all illegal and in the hands of gangsters. Legalize and be wise.Jim Wakeford
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1607.htmlJim Wakeford - Canada's Best Hope for Medical Marijuana?
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1393.htmlJim Wakeford Chat: medicinal marijuana
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSNewsmakers/000808_wakeford.htmlJim Wakeford: medicinal marijuana
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSNewsmakers/000806_wakeford.htmlOolagen Health Services
http://www.oolagen.org/MarijuanaNews.Com, Freedom has nothing to fear from the truth
http://www.marijuananews.com/is_the_wakeford_case_a_way_for_c.htmRebel with a compelling cause: Jim Wakeford fights to make ... 
http://www.masscann.org/News/articles/2001/08_06_2001_b.htmCN BC: Medicinal Pot Crop Stolen
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n994/a08.html?1215CN BC: Column: Health Canada Needed Our Pot Pros
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n941/a10.html?1220CN ON: B.C. Case Provides Hope To Local Marijuana Grower
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n2108/a09.html?1223CN BC: Return Pot To Owner, Judge Orders Police
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n2043/a09.html?1226CN BC: Column: Proof that Medicinal-Pot Protests Are Just
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n2040/a07.html?1228CN ON: Legal Pot Smokers To Benefit From Concert
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1495/a04.html?1239CN ON: Law Professor A Tireless Crusader
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1201/a04.html?1240Jim Wakeford Case
http://www.dyingwithdignity.ca/17-2-5.html
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Comment #8 posted by malleus on October 08, 2002 at 11:36:07 PT
Another safely anonymous unsigned editorial
Whatsa mattah? Afraid t' put a signature on it because it's execrable tripe and everyone who reads it who understands the issues knows it for what it is?On the day cannabis is relegalized in the US, every editorializer that has written crap like this should be forced to eat their words, literally. Reformers in Cali ought to buy copies of these papers for the glorious day when you can deposit their yellowed wadded up masses on the desks of these frips and hand them a bottle of ketchup to go along with the paper they are about to eat.
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Comment #7 posted by DdC on October 08, 2002 at 11:30:04 PT
One More Time...Can't find it???
Peace, Love and Liberty or Blind D.E.A.th! DdCResearch is under way that eventually will form the basis for either adopting protocols for medical use of marijuana or rejecting it. Medical Information on Marijuana Cannabis Research Library - A collection of medical research on cannabisMarijuana as Medicine - Assessing the Science Base - Full text of the report by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, 1999Articles by Dr. Tod MikuriyaTod Mikuriya, MD, is a psychiatrist and Former Director of Marijuana Research for the National Institute of Mental Health WHO Project on Health Implications of Cannabis Use: A Comparative Appraisal of the Health and Psychological Consequences of Alcohol, Cannabis, Nicotine and Opiate Use August 28, 1995 Effects of Smoked Marijuana in Experimentally Induced Asthma - American Review of Respiratory Disease, Volume 112,
1975, Donald P. Tashkin, Bertrand J. Shapiro, Y. Enoch Lee, and Charles E. HarperPrenatal Marijuana Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study Melanie C. Dreher, PhD; Kevin
Nugent, PhD; and Rebekah Hudgins, MA Marijuana Health Mythology by Dale Gieringer, Ph.D., Coordinator, California NORMLCannabis Use and Cognitive Decline in Persons Under 65 Years of Age - American Journal of Epidemiology, 1999State Statutes Recognizing Marijuana's Medical Value Medical Use of Marijuana Act (Introduced in the House of Representatives) - June 4, 1997Text of California's Proposition 215Statement of the American Public Health Association in favor of Medical Marijuana Cannabis Therapeutic Research Program - Report to the California Legislature, Prepared by the Research Advisory Panel - 1989
-- The full text of the results of the State of California's investigation into the medical uses of marijuana. 
Full text of this report in a single file - about 250KCommentary Medical Marijuana Jane B. Marmor, MD, Redwood City, California, 1998Health Aspects of Cannabis - Dr. Leo Hollister, 1986 A Criticial Review of the Research Literature Concerning Some Biological and Psychological Effects of Cannabis by Dr. Peter
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Comment #6 posted by canaman on October 08, 2002 at 11:19:43 PT
Ship of fools
These lyrics came to mind after my last post:I went to see the captain, strangest I could find
Laid my proposition down, I laid it on the line
I won't slave for beggar's pay, nor likewise gold and jewels
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools
Ship of fools on a cruel seaShip of fools sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools...Saw your first ship sink and drown from rocking of the boat
And all that could not sink nor swim was just left there to float
I won't leave you driftin' there, but oh it makes me wild
With thirty years upon my head to have you call me childShip of fools on a cruel sea
Ship of fools sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools...The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before
Time there was, and plenty, but from that cup, no more
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of foolsShip of fools on a cruel sea
Ship of fools sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools...It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools...sung by Jerry Garica w/ The Grateful Dead
words by Robert Hunter
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Comment #5 posted by canaman on October 08, 2002 at 11:02:46 PT
Prohibitionists spin,spin,spin, are you dizzy yet?
Don't rock the boat, take a Dramamine and keep the status quo. Don't ask questions....trust us. Don't listen to those pot smoking terrorists. They are out to corrupt the children. Don't rock the boat...seasick?...take another Dramimine.My cure for Prohibitionist rant (and seasickness too):
Da kine green cannabis bud...thank you Mother Nature!
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Comment #4 posted by Ethan Russo MD on October 08, 2002 at 10:56:30 PT:
San Diego
San Diego is a lovely place, but it has not been cannabis-friendly.Last year, I was involved in a legal case in San Diego county, in which a migraine sufferer, with a supportive doctor's letter, was arrested for a small grow operation. After months of threats by the county attorney, they finally got around to reading my article on cannabis in migraine treatment. The case was then dropped, but not before she lost her job, her house, and her husband. If that is justice, I beg to differ.Her attorney was one Juliana Humphrey, a public defender of unique insight and knowledge. She now heads the task force in San Diego that is attempting to bring sanity to the cannabis issue and prevent needless prosecutions. I trust her judgment any day over that of bigoted anonymous editorializers such as this.
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Comment #3 posted by knox42897 on October 08, 2002 at 10:40:31 PT:
recreational cannabis = preventative medication
People should be asking why so many medical marijuana activists are also marijuana legalization activists, when medical treatment and getting high have nothing in common. We all know the answer – wink, wink.Speaking for myself, I am a medical marijuana patient and I support recreational use and full (re)legalization. Medical treatment and getting high have everything in common. The people who take vitamins, exercise and take cannabis are taking preventative medication for all sorts of diseases.So my theory is a recreational cannabis smoker is doing the same as a non cannabis smoker who is exercising. Both are recieving a medical benefit. So there really aren't any recreational smokers. These people are taking preventative medication, and as such should not be persecuted for a crime when all they are doing is self medicating themselves, hence my stance for legalization!
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Comment #2 posted by bongathon on October 08, 2002 at 10:24:49 PT:
"silly"?, I think not
the only reason there are clinical and scientific studies now is because the referendum won. otherwise society would still be consumed by reefer madness fear. only we, the people, can tell our politicians what we want cuz they are not going to do it on their own.
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Comment #1 posted by Sam Adams on October 08, 2002 at 10:18:46 PT
Showing their true colors
It's nice to have the editorial section, so these guys finally just come right out and say what they dance around in all the "news" articles."Proposition 215, California's medical marijuana initiative, was just plain silly. Whoever heard of deciding the proper use of a medicine by public vote?"yeah? Whoever heard of banning a plant? Which is more silly?
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