I. Drugs that contain chemicals taken directly from the marijuana plant
Name/Trade Name Manufacturer Approval Status Suggested Medical Use Cannabis-Related Properties
1. Sativex GW Pharmaceuticals U.S. Phase III clinical trials started in late 2006

Approved for use in Canada (2005) and Catalonia, Spain (2005); Licensed to Bayer in the UK and to Almirall in Europe

Ongoing Phase III MS (Multiple Sclerosis) study in the UK due to report results in the first quarter (Q1) of 2009 and regulatory submission scheduled by the end of the second quarter (H1) in 2009.
Treatment of neuropathic pain and spasticity in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS); Analgesic treatment in adult patients with advanced cancer who experience moderate to severe pain. Mouth spray whose chemical compound is derived from natural extracts of the cannabis plant

II. Drugs that contain synthetic versions of chemicals naturally found in marijuana
Name/Trade Name Manufacturer Approval Status Suggested Medical Use Cannabis-Related Properties
1. Dronabinol/
Marinol Unimed Pharmaceuticals,
a subsidiary of Solvay Pharmaceuticals
FDA approved in United States as an appetite stimulant (1992) and for nausea (1985)

Approved in Denmark for multiple sclerosis (Sep. 2003)

Approved in Canada for AIDS -related anorexia (Apr. 2000) and for nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy (1988)
Treatment of nausea and vomiting for patients in cancer treatment; Appetite stimulant for AIDS patients; Analgesic to ease neuropathic pain in multiple sclerosis patients Synthetic Delta-9 THC
2. Dronabinol Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI)/
Marinol aerosol Solvay Pharmaceuticals
Not approved for use as of Feb. 15, 2008

Phase II clinical trials in the United States completed Sep. 7, 2006
Treatment of nausea, vomiting, migraines, spasticity in MS patients, and neuropathic pain Human-made THC inhale

Prohibition or Crime

Our elected legislators have allowed a federal bureaucracy to become so powerful that they could be causing the unnecessary deaths of American citizens.
It is mandated by congress that the ONDCP refuse and refute any clinical or scientific proof of marijuana as a medicine or recommends that marijuana be moved from schedule I. They are required to fight legalization by any means necessary.
The DEA is the main law enforcement in the federal government for interdiction and enforcement of federal drug laws . They are also the agency charged with the final approval of any studies or clinical testing of marijuana.
As of this date,they have routinely refused all applications trying to prove any medical uses of marijuana,in any form,except to the pharmaceutical companies,(Marinol).
The pharmaceutical companies also have several more medicines in various stages of testing,that are either derived from or are synthetically produced because the chemical compounds that are naturally in marijuana have shown to have medicinal properties.
Yet the ONDCP still claims that marijuana has no medicinal uses.
Every medical evaluation that congress has ordered,since 1972,has stated that marijuana is a possible therapeutic medicine and has recommended that it be removed from schedule I ,and they have refused to listen to the doctors and scientists.
Now there are four studies,one paid for by the ONDCP budget ,that has stated that marijuana in it’s natural form shows
cancer blocking properties and may prove to be a cure for some cancers.
They are still refusing to reschedule marijuana so scientific testing can be done to find out if we are possibly prohibiting a natural cancer blocker.
Any study that the DEA approves now,with their history of and continued anti-marijuana campaign,and a federal budget in the billions riding on the findings of such a study.would be tainted.
They are required by law, to lie if necessary,to keep protecting America,even if it kills us..
The pharmaceutical companies are trying to synthesize and extract the medical compounds from marijuana,so they can put it in a pill,to sell you,but the plant already has the compounds in it,safely. Big pharmacy’s one attempt at synthetic thc,marinol,
has been listed as the cause of death four times,and only been used by a very few patients. Marijuana has been used by millions,with real thc in it,and never been listed as a cause of death. And the same results may occur with the new medicines,derived from or copying compounds from pot.
Every day that goes by that they delay the testing to see if marijuana blocks cancer,may be allowing people too contract cancer that could have been blocked or treated with marijuana
and it is a dangerous game they are playing with peoples lives
just too protect who?

Whether marijuana blocks cancer 62% as claimed in one study,or even 1/2 that amount,wouldn’t it be better to block cancer than treat it. And big pharmacy has no cancer blocking medicines,and there are none going through any clinical testing
but they are working on some more cancer treatments, using cannibinoids that are in marijuana.
Pharmaceutical companies are suits and ties,not caregivers or even doctors,they are after the buck,for the buck and of the buck. They don’t want cancer blocked,or cured,they make billions treating it.
Someone STOP this INSANITY

PS.the stupid potheads are already blocking cancer as much as they can,please don’t tell the ONDCP or any DEA about this wonderful plant.

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There’s too much power in Washington.

Not all of the nation’s smart people live in the District of Columbia, but you’d never know it from looking at the amount of power we’ve concentrated there…

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Unfortunately, Cannabis will never enjoy the populous majority that alcohol does, even when legal. In a winner-take-all system will we ever amass the numbers necessary for political reform?

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This broke the back of the SC’s resistance to FDR’s plans…and also allowed for the passage of Wickard which formed the cornerstone for weakening the States’ independence of the Feds…and also allowed for the creation of the Federal anti-marijuana laws.

It was Wickard that the SC used as a cheap defense against Angel Raich’s claim that Fed cannabis laws violated the Commerce Clause since the cannabis she and other California MMJ users consumed did not cross State lines. By using Wickard as a defense, the supposedly ‘federalist’ SC judges belonging to the Federalist Society proved themselves rank hypocrites of the first order in their rulings. But it all got started back in 1937. More reason why SC appointments are so terribly important…

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The wall is crumbling and turning into rubble. The people are yelling, “President Obama, Tear down this wall!!”

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Seth and anyone else who’s curious about that, take a look at how the Founders capitalized the word ‘States’. This is because in essence the States were originally meant to be sovereign countries within a voluntary federation.

Now, why is it that only in a very few places do you ever see the word properly capitalized when referring to these supposedly sovereign entities, and you almost never see it that way when the media refers to them at all?

Because we are no longer such a voluntary federation. We are a de facto empire. The States have become the ‘states’, little more than a subsection of a postal address; the word has lost its’ meaning due to overweening centralization of government. In short, the once sovereign States have become provinces.

The consequences of that are all about us. Were it possible to claim that the States were indeed sovereign, then the Feds would have to ask permission to make raids on California’s MMJ dispensaries. Instead, we see just what the detractors of the Federalist Papers said would happen: a centralized government behaving unconcernedly tyrannical.

So, what has to happen? The States have to re-assert their 10th Amendment rights. And with the eventual shrinkage of the economy, with a corresponding shrinkage of (stolen) taxpayer dollars going back to the States, the States have every right to demand the Feds butt out of their affairs. it’s that, or adopt Tricky Dick’s Executive Order 11490 (and Clinton’s attempt with EO 13083) and eliminate the States altogether and form Federally administered Regions. Which is exactly what DrugWarriors would like see happen…

For the curious, I offer this link. It can explain better than I can what i am trying to impart.

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