The "F*CK YOU" Finale of "Weed Wars"...

[RainDog]

18. it is totally disingenuous to compare cannabis to huffing gasoline

and, since we do have medical users, such as Irv Rosenfeld, who have demonstrated no incompetency while using cannabis every day of his life for the last 22 years, I would have to take issue with your statement.

Irv smokes 300 joints a month and has for 22 years. Sometimes he smokes 12 joints a day. He is a stockbroker who has not had averse effects from his cannabis use.

Instead, he has not developed any more tumors since his cannabis use.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/363/irv.shtml

Four of the seven official patients participated in the "Chronic Cannabis Use in the Compassionate Investigational New Drug Program Study" conducted by Dr. Ethan Russo in Missoula, Montana, that year. That study showed "very few adverse effects in the patients," said Russo in an interview last year. None showed signs of brain damage, immune system problems or hormone problems, Russo said. "The truth is cannabis is very effective for a wide variety of medical conditions including pain, spasms, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma," said Russo, who has been practicing for 20 years. "Irv's functioning has gotten better over time, not worse, as what you might expect in someone with his condition."

"Although Irv has had to smoke this stuff all these years, his lungs are just fine, or at least they were through 2001, when we studied him in Missoula" said Al Byrne of Patients Out of Time (http://www.medicalcannabis.org), a group with which Rosenfeld has worked for years and on whose board of directors he currently sits. "And the government propaganda mill says that if you smoke too much too long your brain shrivels up. All you have to do is look at Irv and the work he does and you can see that's bullshit," he told DRCNet. "These supposed adverse impacts of marijuana use are a longstanding claim of the government," said Byrne. "One of the reasons we formed Patients Out of Time in 1995 was to refute that government propaganda, one point at a time. That's why we entered into the Missoula study as well."

There is a link to a video in the Drug Policy Forum to a talk about cannabis studies by Ethan Russo and a link to Irv Rosenfeld's testimony in Michigan during hearings on mmj in the post "How Marijuana Became Legal," also in the Drug Policy Forum.