Also, if it were a prescription alternative, do you think it would be abused any more than prescription medications are now?
2007-02-24 18:22:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Also, since it was mentioned: if marijuana has no medicinal effect on pain in smoked form, how is it that it works for people's pain? I'm just curious to know if there is any real science behind the concept.
2007-02-24 18:34:14 · update #1
If cocaine can be prescribed, marijuana should be as well. It all comes down to getting marijuana changed from a Schedule I drug, under the Controlled Substance Act of 1970, to a Schedule II or III drug.
As a Schedule I drug, marijuana is thought of as having no medical value and is considered to have a high risk for abuse.
If it stays a Schedule I drug, you can forget it ever becoming a legal medical drug. It does not matter how many cases the Supreme Court hears. If the FDA says it has no medicinal value, the courts will side against scientists every time.
Call, write, and e-mail your Congressional representatives. Every year this comes before a committee. Let them know you want the issue debated.
EDIT: Read this: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7002
2007-02-24 18:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Congress would just make it legal. All they would have to do is tax it up the wazoo...
No, I don't think it would be abused any more than any other prescription drug they have now. Sh*t, look at how they dispense anti-depressant drugs. I seriously don't think that if you had FEDERAL oversight that there would be that big of a problem.
Pot desensitizes the nerves just like any other pain killer. THAT is why they prescribe it to people with CANCER. Obviously the person above has never been around a person smoking pot before because they are numb to everything.
2007-02-24 18:32:21 · answer #2 · answered by hera 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It makes rational sense to legalize marijuana for at the VERY LEAST for medicinal purposes. Marijuana is a pain reliever, and appetite stimulator for the chronically ill and would have far fewer side effects than drugs like OxyContin (which is like legalized heroine in pill form). The pharmaceutical lobby has a strong grip in Washington and are very intimidated by a substance that could easily be grown at home and great relief for a cheap price...that takes $$$ out of their pockets. People have been brainwashed that the only way to get relief is from a pill and that pot is bad. I hope one day people will wake up and demand an affordable, homeopathic alternative to pain relief for the chronically ill...let's just hope our voice is louder than the dollars spent by those companies to shut them up!
EDIT: Marijuana can have pain relief when smoked it doesn't have to be in a pill form, ask anyone who has tried it. I will admit, I smoked it a few years ago, but my career choice prevents me from doing it now. Yes it relieves pain, and after a long night of waiting tables, when my feet and back were aching the relief was undeniable...and I wasn't crazy, aggressive, unsafe or irresponsible...just a regular person who doesn't like feeling the of over-intoxication that alcohol gives you. The irony is that you can overdose on alcohol, and even withdrawal from alcohol addiction can literally kill you...Delirium Tremens, etc...but alcohol is legal. Who is the government really trying to protect?
Plus, they already have it in a pill form, it's called Marinol, and I've given it to patients...it's a way for drug companies to get thier cut.
2007-02-24 18:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it should happen - because marijuana has proven medical benefits. But it will never be legalised, because Big Pharm and Big Med are making way too much money pushing prescription drugs.
They can't make any money from something that anyone can grow in their own homes.
2007-02-24 18:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by Mike J 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, but medically, marijuana cannot relieve pain in the current form it is put in. Unless it can be made into a real painkiller (like heiroine into morphine) or be used to some socially beneficial purpose (what used to be called empathy into ecstacy) it shouldn't be legalized in any form.
2007-02-24 18:31:16 · answer #5 · answered by urban_myth07 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If not as least for textile industry
2007-02-24 18:25:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can not picture America's society with legalize marijuana!!!!!
ADD: SEEMS LIKE, WE'VE GOT LOT OF POT HEAD HERE!!!
2007-02-24 18:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋