Pubdate: Thu, 06 Oct 2005
Source: Core Weekly (Madison, WI)
Copyright: 2005 Core Weekly
Contact:  http://www.coreweekly.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3593
Author:  Al Byrne
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

SUPPORT MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Thanks. It is rare that a patient is given the opportunity to speak bluntly 
and with room for explanation of our cause of returning therapeutic 
cannabis to the National Pharmacopeia. I would respectfully contend that 
your sentence indicating that cannabis has been lightly studied as a 
medicine is inaccurate. I understand this is "common knowledge" and that 
the anecdotal is the source of therapeutic cannabis knowledge in our modern 
world, say the pundits.

Punditry is hardly a science based enterprise but clinical research is all 
about science.

I would refer you to www.drugscience.org. This site is the home of "The 
Petition to Reschedule Cannabis" where you will find a 60 page plus demand 
for rescheduling that has been passed with merit by the Drug Enforcement 
Agency to the Deparrtment of Health and Human Services for evaluation. The 
press, journalists such a you, can help us to educate the medical 
community, and elected officials of the totality of cannabis research but 
only if you and I can express the complete story of this plant and its 
human interface with accuracy, accountability and exposure.

Al Byrne co-founder, Patients Out of Time. Howardsville, VA
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