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Jay's Stance on Medicinal Marijuana
We need to treat sick and dying patients with compassion and respect. Most pain medications are organ damaging, addictive, and have a huge number of side effects. Medical Marijuana can help with pain relief, depression, anxiety, nausea, Parkinsons Disease, and more. People with very serious illnesses, and severe pain, can find relief with medical marijuana.

Some Medical Marijuana Facts

Despite its medical value, cannabis (marijuana) remains in Schedule I of the 1970 Controlled Substance Act where it is categorized as "(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. (B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. (C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision."

The DEA's Administrative Law Judge, Francis Young concluded: "In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, 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. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care."

Medicinal Uses of Marijauna / Cannabis

Why aren't we using this amazing plant to its' fullest potential? Think about this:
THE OBSTRUCTION OF MEDICAL CANNABIS RESEARCH IN THE U.S.
A REVIEW OF THE GROWING CONTROVERSY REGARDING A FEDERAL
MONOPOLY ON THE SUPPLY OF MEDICAL CANNABIS FOR RESEARCH
The above link is to a PDF provided by Americans For Safe Access, an organization of medical professionals, scientists, and patients helping patients.

(cannabis and cancer)"Cannabinoids have a favourable drug safety profile. Acute fatal cases due to cannabis use in humans have not been substantiated, and median lethal doses of THC in animals have been extrapolated to several grams per kilogram of body weight. Cannabinoids are usually well tolerated in animal studies and do not produce the generalized toxic effects of most conventional chemotherapeutic agents. For example, in a 2-year administration of high oral doses of THC to rats and mice, no marked histopathological alterations in the brain and other organs were found. Moreover, THC treatment tended to increase survival and lower the incidence of primary tumours. Similarly, long-term epidemiological surveys, although scarce and difficult to design and interpret, usually show that neither patients under prolonged medical cannabinoid treatment nor regular cannabis smokers have marked alterations in a wide array of physiological, neurological and blood tests."

The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on medical marijuana stated, "The accumulated data indicate a potential therapeutic value for cannabinoid drugs, particularly for symptoms such as pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation."

"The abundance of CB1 receptors in basal ganglia and reports of animal studies showing the involvement of cannabinoids in the control of movement suggest that cannabinoids would be useful in treating movement disorders in humans. Marijuana or CB1 receptor agonists might provide symptomatic relief of chorea, dystonia, some aspects of parkinsonism, and tics."

"Advances in cannabinoid science of the past 16 years have given rise to a wealth of new opportunities for the development of medically useful cannabinoid-based drugs. The accumulated data suggest a variety of indications, particularly for pain relief, antiemesis, and appetite stimulation. For patients such as those with AIDS or who are undergoing chemotherapy, and who suffer simultaneously from severe pain, nausea, and appetite loss, cannabinoid drugs might offer broad-spectrum relief not found in any other single medication."

Institute of Medicine - Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base - 1999

"At this point, our knowledge about the biology of marijuana and cannabinoids allows us to make some general conclusions:

· Cannabinoids likely have a natural role in pain modulation, control of movement, and memory.

· The natural role of cannabinoids in immune systems is likely multi-faceted and remains unclear.

· The brain develops tolerance to cannabinoids.

· Animal research demonstrates the potential for dependence, but this potential is observed under a narrower range of conditions than with benzodiazepines, opiates, cocaine, or nicotine.

· Withdrawal symptoms can be observed in animals but appear to be mild compared to opiates or benzodiazepines, such as diazepam (Valium)."

"Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA [(N-methyl-D-aspartic acid] receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention."