Pubdate: Fri, 03 Jun 2005
Source: High Point Enterprise (NC)
Copyright: 2005 High Point Enterprise
Contact:  http://www.hpe.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/576
Author: Bill Moore
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n851/a06.html?72416

CREDITABLE INFORMATION REFUTES MARIJUANA USE IN HEALTH CARE

"Research shows medical marijuana helps many people" (5/26). Not true! Just 
as physicians connected to the tobacco industry downplayed tobacco's 
harmful effects, physicians connected to the marijuana legalization lobby 
portray marijuana as nonaddictive, safe and therapeutic. This is a cruel 
scam perpetrated on the American people.

Robert Gregg has shown nothing other than word-of-mouth in refuting the 
harmful effects of marijuana that I mentioned (5/19). However, I have a 
wealth of creditable information that I will share with anyone who wants 
it. I'm in the phone book, call me and I will send it to you.

As of January 2001, the Mississippi Research Center for the National 
Institute on Drug Abuse had on record more than 15,000 studies on cannabis. 
None of them shows the raw material marijuana to be safe or effective for 
medical use. Medical authorities agree that smoking is not an appropriate 
delivery system for a medication.

Medical and health-related organizations who continue to reject marijuana 
as a medical solution include: the American Medical Association, American 
Glaucoma Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology, International 
Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, National Institute for 
Neurological Disorder and Stroke, National Institute of Dental Research, 
National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases and American Cancer 
Society.

Institute of Medicine: "Study of medicinal use of marijuana has been 
misinterpreted and exploited by pro-legalization groups, as well as the 
U.S. media in general."

The report concludes that "the future of cannabinoid drugs lies not in 
smoked marijuana, but in chemically-defined drugs that act on the 
cannabinoid systems that are a natural component of human physiology."

Marijuana is a danger to the entire physical health of any human being, and 
highly additive. If you want facts, I've got them.

BILL MOORE

High Point
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