Here is a sequel to my earlier story about Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall's crusade against Prop 203 which would legalize medical marijuana.
LaWall continues campaign against medical marijuana
That story and an anti-Prop 203 blog post also in yesterday's Tucson Citizen raised a number of comments about the origins of marijuana prohibition, so I posted this story today. It's amazing how many times in our history xenophobia has been used as a wedge issue to control the US population.
Alcohol and marijuana: The origins of prohibition
My new blog link on the Citizen is here: Tucson Progressive.
There is already available a legal pill which incorporates the active ingredients of cannabis. It is approved by the Drug Enforcement Administration for prescription by physicians. The name of the substance is Marinol. Medical decisions should not be made through the ballot box.
ReplyDeleteMany patients have problems eating, even keeping medicine down like a marinol pill. This is one of the reasons that marinol is not that popular with medical marijuana patients. Also, with smoking it's easy to monitor your dose, not so easy with a pill that takes a 1/2 hour to start feeling.
ReplyDeletePatients who have gone through chemo therapy for cancer can not hold down the pills, they vomit up the Marional pills making rendering them less effective. Smoked cannabis will provide the same relief instantly and remove the need to throw up, Infact will stimulate the appetite. I gree Pat Medical decisions should not be made at the ballot , but when the goverment has waged war agenst its sick people for useing a substance less harmfull then alcohol and tobacco its time to take the law into are own hands. There is no reason to go around arresting and prosocuteing people with medical conditions that need marijuana to live a normal life.
ReplyDeleteMarinol is $1600 a month, your insurance company will refuse to pay for it and your doctor will be unwilling to prescribe it. It is only approved for very limited use and in other use is "off-label" and could get your physician in trouble. Marinol is one tool but certainly not everything. Marinol is only synthetic THC, marijuana has over 70 active, helpful ingredients, THC is just ONE of them.
ReplyDeleteWhat does medical marijuana cure? And how was it approved by the FDA?
ReplyDeleteThere are different processes and systems under which, marajuana is used to prepare medicine after different stages of refining and etc.
ReplyDeletei don't think that FDA should approve this
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