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

 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

The pharmaceutical giants, whether they know it or not, are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

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

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

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

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

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

\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
Emboden

  

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