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Physiology & Medicine / Re: Cannabis
« on: 31/12/2004 18:48:24 »quote:
Originally posted by Donnah
I want marijuana legalized. To penalize the sick who could benefit from its use because of others who abuse it makes no more sense than banning pharmaceuticals that are sold in the black market.
Who are "the sick who could benefit from its use"? For every claim of a "medical use" for marijuana there is evidence that the risks outweigh the benefits. The delivery system for marijuana, smoking, is very unhealthy. We already have marinol which is based on THC, the active ingredient in marijuana that is available in a safer oral dosage. The tired argument of a small number of people that have problems with nausea taking an oral medicine is like refusing chemotherapy for cancer because chemotherapy causes nausea.
Marinol has one other difference compared with marijuana -- you don't get high. And that is why advocates of legalization want it. It doesn't have anything to do with "medical use", only with getting high.
There is no medical need for marijuana.