There has long been a controversy about marijuana versus tobacco?is smoking pot better than or just as bad as smoking cigarettes? And now that cigarette smokers have to go outside to light up, is this dangerous for NON-smokers walking by, who may inhale the secondhand smoke?
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One of the most horrifying acts of judicial barbarism in American history has just occurred, in yet another example of the insanity of our ineffective drug laws: A federal appeals court has decided that if the only thing that will keep a patient alive is medical marijuana, that individual may be put in prison, deprived of the substance, and left to die. “Oh my God,” were the words that desperately ill Angel Raich, a 41-year-old Oakland, California mother of two who depends on medical marijuana for her life, uttered as the savage ruling was read.
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We’ve written before about how some people think Marijuana is a wonder drug. Now a new scientific study proves that Marijuana is a “valuable medicine” for certain types of intractable pain that cannot be relieved any other way. This should make us take another look at our drug laws?which are NOT working.
In the Boston Globe, Lester Grinspoon reports on a new study in the journal Neurology that “is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine.” According to Grinspoon, who is co-author of Marijuana the Forbidden Medicine, this is nothing new. He writes, “From 1840 to 1900, American and European medical journals published over 100 papers on the therapeutic uses of marijuana, also known as cannabis.”
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Our War on Drugs is getting to seem more and more futile, especially since it has reached the point where marijuana is America’s most valuable cash crop, worth more to farmers than wheat and corn combined, despite the fact that both of those crops are heavily subsidized.
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