Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,
the time will come
when medicine will organize an undercover dictatorship
To restrict the
art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege
to others,
will be to constitute the Bastille of medical science
All such laws
are un-American and despotic, and have no place in a Republic
The
Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for
medical
freedom as well as religious freedom
- Benjamin Rush MD Signer of the Declaration of Independence
This isn't about marijuana, it's about love
- Dennis Peron SF Buyer's Club
Kim Buseon -
This is about compassion. The federal government should use its power to help terminally ill citizens, not arrest them. And states deserve to have the right to make their own decisions
regarding the use of medical marijuana
- Dennis Kucinich
Drew Carey -
Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans
routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without
the benefit of direct medical supervision
Yet, despite this long history of use and the
extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers,
there are simply no credible reports to suggest
that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.
By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter
medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year
DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L Young Findings of Fact Conclusions of Law 1988
In many ways, the children of ganja-smoking mothers
were better off than the children of non-smoking mothers
The ganja-using mothers also seemed better off than non-users
- Dr Melanie Dreher - Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Nursing
Former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders -
We must stop politicizing medical problems
We must stop building prisons instead of schools
We must begin to rebuild lives
Joycelyn Elders - Sir Richard Branson -
Prince Charles -
So women smoke a little marijuana - big
deal Let women enjoy their pregnancies I think these hyperbolic
warnings about marijuana and pregnancy have made women absolutely nuts
Dr Melanie Dreher Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Nursing
Steven J Gould -
The practice of smoking marijuana does not lead to addiction in the medical sense of the word New York LaGuardia Report 1945
Dr Anthony Henman
The Jamaican women we studied had been educated
in a cultural tradition of using marijuana as a medicine.
They prepared it with teas, milk and spices, and
thought of it as a preventive and curative substance
Dr Melanie Dreher Dean of the University of Iowa's College of Nursing
How to Open a Compassion Club
We look at illness in this country as a
weakness
I may be ill, but I'm not weak by any stretch of the
imagination, but what keeps me strong enough to walk every day is my
use of marijuana
Montel Williams, decorated US Marine, talk show host and MS sufferer
Let us not say that
we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State
is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about
Barney Frank - Massachusetts Representative
Users in our matched-pair sample
smoked marihuana in addition to as many tobacco cigarettes as did their
matched non-using pairs
Yet their small airways were, if anything, a
bit healthier than their matches. We must tentatively conclude either
that marihuana has no harmful effect on such passages or that it
actually offers some slight protection against the harmful effects of
tobacco smoke
Costa Rican Study 1982
The pharmaceutical giants, whether they
know it or not, are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical
profession, country by country
John le Carre author

The New English Dispensatory of 1764 recommends boiling cannabis roots
in water and directly applying the resulting paste to skin
inflammations,
both to soothe the injury and facilitate healing
Hemp for Health
Marijuana-based pharmaceuticals were
used throughout Europe, Asiaand the Americas as recently as the last
century
There is this myth that better drugs came along and made
marijuana obsolete
Science is rediscovering that plant-based medicines
can be safer and more effective than drugs produced by for-profit corporations
Dr Michael Aldritch

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Cannabis is remarkably versatile. Case
histories and clinical experience suggest that it is useful in the
treatment of more than two dozen symptoms and syndromes, and others
will undoubtedly be discovered in the future
Dr Lester Grinspoon
The early 80's found the US administering a program allowing use of marijuana for medical patients
A 49 page application that was approved would grant 300 joints a month from a University of Mississippi pot farm After 9 patients were approved the program was closed
Throughout the 60's and 70's the ignorant battle cryof the prohibitionists was the 'more research is needed Positive research has never been allowed or hasbeen ignored
There are still 7 surviving users in this program No data has ever been recorded
The supplied weed has been made of a mixture of some bud, leaf and stems
Marijuana smoke effectively dilates the
airways of the lungs, the bronchi, opening them to allow more oxygen
into the lungs
The Emperor Wears No Clothes
One of the excuses
I've heard is that they've got to put all this leaf in there because
the machines
that they use to roll were the ones made for cigarettes
and they have to have it so they can roll easily
But I don't
understand why I get seeds and stems
Elvy Musikka discussing the poor quality of the legal pot she receives from the US government
According to a report published by NIDA last year, Utah Power and
Light actually 'spent $215 per employee per year less on the drug
abusers in health insurance benefits than on the control group.' Those
who tested positive at Georgia Power had a higher promotion rate than
the company average. Moreover, Georgia workers testing positive only
for marijuana (about 35 percent of all positives) exhibited absenteeism
some 30 percent lower than average
Scientific American, March 1990
In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume
It is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death
Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man
Francis L Young DEA Administrative Law Judge 1988
Those of us who enjoy marijuana's
entheogenic, religious and recreational values argue for the right of
medical users to benefit from its medical values
Medical users should
likewise demand that this miracle plant be legalized for all its uses –
medical, recreational, spiritual and industrial
Free Rob Cannabis, UK cannabis activist
Several recent studies of chronic marijuana users, conducted independently in half a dozen countries, indicate that [marijuana] has no apparent significant adverse effect on the human body or brain or on their functions
New York Times 1976
By any of the major criteria of harm - mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with crime - cannabis is less harmful than any of the other major illicit drugs, or than alcohol or tobacco
Report of the British Police Foundation 2000
We always looked at pot as a sort of medicine, a cheap drunk and
with much better thoughts than one that's full of liquor
Louis
Armstrong
If taken to excess, will produce seeing of devils. If taken over a long term, it makes one commiunicate with spirits and lightens one's body
Pen Tsao Ching Chinese medical text CE 100 Attributed to legendary Emperor Shen-Nung 2000 BCE
Abraham
Lincoln was an avowed enemy of prohibition
His wife was prescribed
cannabis for her nerves after his assassination
The Emperor Wears
No Clothes
Fluid Extract No. 598: This fluid extract is prepared from Cannabis Sativa grown in America. Extensive pharmacological and clinical tests
have shown that its medicinal action cannot be distinguished from that
of the fluid made from imported East Indian cannabis
Parke, Davis & Co. Catalog 1929
The American Medical Association knows of no evidence that marihuana
is a dangerous drug
Dr William Woodward American Medical Assoc. in hearings on the 1921 Marihuana Tax Act
ww.420med.com
Marihuana,
often blamed for crime and insanity among its users who smoke it in
"reefers," "muggles" or "goof-butts," was reported as a drug of
potentially "great usefulness in the treatment of drug addicts" and
patients suffering from mental depressions and other nervous disorders
... the drug was found to increase the appetite and induce calmness and
relaxation in those previously agitated
Science Newsletter, May 30, 1942
There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments
Jack Herer
In 1990, Keith Vines, a prosecutor in the San Francisco
district attorney's office, prosecuted what was one of the biggest drug
busts in the city's history. Three years later, he was near death
because of AIDS wasting syndrome. The recommendation: marijuana. 'As a
patient, I made the decision to save my life,' said Vines
Los Angeles Times
Half of the modern [pharmaceutical] drugs could well be thrown out of
the window, except that the birds might eat them
Martin Henry Fischer
If laughter really is the best medicine,
then hemp is the Mayo Clinic
in a window box
-- Tom Robbins
\In the fifteenth century BC a Chinese book known as the Rh-Ya
describes the first ritualistic or shamanistic use of the herb known as Ma
This ancient history brings forth a connection to cannabis that runs
further back than even the oldest of western medical books
When grown outdoors and under favorable conditions,
the stalks of the ganja plant can become very thick and woody
The early Chinese made a practice of carving this stem into a rod
with a serpent coiled around it
This rod was very similar to the caduceus or Staff of Aesculapius
from ancient Greco-Roman times
This image was used in curing rituals; a relative of the patient beat
on the sickbed with the snake rod in order to dispel evil spirits
It is interesting that the Chinese not only valued the
physical healing properties of the herb but they were also very in touch
with the spiritual aspects of this plant
Their relationship with ganja was so powerful that they carved the serpent,
one of the most sacred symbols of convalescence, around their healing rods
Whether or not the patient was healed by the power of the rod, by medicines
or both we cannot deny the longstanding spiritual and physical relationship
that Chinese culture shares with ganja
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