New Studies Expose Government Lies About Medical Pot....

[wildbilln864]

a short snip/
"It's just unfortunate that politicians like Gov. Rell choose to take their marching orders from drug warriors in Washington rather than to heed the advice of those patients and doctors who know far better."


from alternet...
link

[Mythsaje]

1. Alternet is a great source for info about inherent lie that is

the War On (Some) Drugs. Always has been.

[wildbilln864]

2. Yep! eom

[MagickMuffin]

3. Sheesh, when will we learn????

more from the article:

When Connecticut's Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed legislation last month that would have allowed citizens with debilitating medical conditions to use medical cannabis under their doctor's supervision, she alleged that there was no proof of pot's therapeutic effectiveness and that legal alternatives are available by prescription. Now, a just-released clinical trial by researchers at Columbia University in New York is making the governor's statements ring hollow.

On June 21, just 24 hours after Gov. Rell's veto, the online database for the National Library of Medicine posted an a forthcoming study from the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes that reports, "Smoked marijuana … has a clear medical benefit in HIV-positive by increasing food intake and improving mood and objective and subjective sleep measures."

But that's not all investigators found. In a "first" for HIV/AIDS clinical research, scientists not only compared the efficacy of inhaled cannabis to a placebo (in this case, marijuana lacking the primary therapeutic and psychoactive compound THC), but they also tested pot against doses of the so-called "legal marijuana pill" known as dronabinol (aka Marinol). For those unfamiliar with dronabinol, it's a gelatin capsule containing synthetic THC in sesame oil that was approved by the FDA in 1992 specifically to treat HIV/AIDS-related cachexia (weight and appetite loss).

So just how did the nearly $1,000-a-month synthetic alternative compare to the real McCoy?

According to the study, subjects experienced increased appetites after smoking cannabis or taking Marinol. Patients also experienced equivalent weight gains after using both drugs (a little more than 1.1 kilograms over a four-day period). Here's the kicker, though. Investigators reported that patients needed to take "eight times" the recommended daily dosage of Marinol to equal the same therapeutic relief they achieved after smoking relatively low-strength (2 percent or 3.9 percent THC) pot!

[Bongo Prophet]

4. Another ongoing case of anti-science ideology

If they only had high quality (non-govt) cannabis and vaporizer, the results would be more dramatic.
This issue should be dealt with as a part of a progressive renaissance!

[aquart]

5. Please let me know when they tell the truth about something.

Hasn't happened yet.

[Heidi]

6. Kick.

And I'll recommend it, too. :kick:

[scarletwoman]

7. k & r (nt)

[spanone]

8. reefer madness is still alive & kicking

[Spazito]

9. There is a public relations firm that repubs/corporations go to

to "find" the scientists they need to spout the garbage they claim is legitimate. The name of the PR firm is APCO Associates. The tobacco companies hired APCO who, in turn, hired the "scientists" to debunk the facts around smoking and cancer.

Interestingly, that same PR firm is now the go-to firm for oil and gas companies who are fighting the truth about climate change and, lo and behold, the SAME scientists who tried to say smoking and cancer aren't related are the SAME scientists now claiming global change is a sham.

I have NO doubt the same firm APCO provided the "scientists" that are doing the same think regarding medical marijuana.

Here is a link to info on APCO and the tobacco firms:

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/91/11/1749

Here is a link to a documentary that shows the same "scientists' involved with the tobacco companies through APCO are now involved with the oil and gas companies:

THE DENIAL MACHINE
In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides.

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The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted for for Big Tobacco, and who are now receiving donations from major coal and oil companies.

Who is keeping the debate of global warming alive?
The documentary shows how fossil fuel corporations have kept the global warming debate alive long after most scientists believed that global warming was real and had potentially catastrophic consequences. It shows that companies such as Exxon Mobil are working with top public relations firms and using many of the same tactics and personnel as those employed by Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds to dispute the cigarette-cancer link in the 1990s. Exxon Mobil sought out those willing to question the science behind climate change, providing funding for some of them, their organizations and their studies.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/denialmachine/index.html

For those interested in watching the documentary, you can watch it on line by using the link on the right hand side of the page.