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From: bliss@sfo.com
JohnR wrote:
> "Mr.B1ack" wrote in message
> news:1ajsf5tiucgkrn1u12c0da0i4inhkuq2hs@4ax.com...
>> The "drug war" is a HUGE industry. As such, laws against
>> marijuana have NOTHING to do with reason or evidence.
>> Approaching them that way will yeild nothing.
>>
>>
> The only chance is if big pharma sees an opportunity for profit and
> starts lobbying Power & Control Inc. to give them a new market.
>
>
Have you never hear of the synthetic THC marketed under
several names, Marinol and Drobinol(sic). This was allowed for
big pharma but while they adamantly denied the utility of cannabis.
"In a recent study, the scientists gave patients 20 mg of
Marinol by mouth to see if it increased their appetite. Not
only could they not detect much appetite-increasing effect, but
they learned the interesting fact that, in one-third of people
who take Marinol by mouth, you have no blood levels at all. The
drug is so poorly bio-available it's surprising that it got
onto the market. There may well be some reason to believe that
there are individuals in our government who are interested in
getting Marinol on the market to diminish the pressure for
marijuana smokers." - John P Morgan MD, Professor of
Pharmacology, City University of New York Medical School, at
the 10th International Conference on Drug Policy, 1996, USA
Notice that it is not a very good drug. A slightly smaller
pharmaceutical company in the UK is extracting a active
ingredient to use in inhalant spray for chronic pain.
For oral use I am sure we would be better off with
the Tincture of Cannabis, USP last listed in 1937 or 1938
as the Hemp Tax Act ran the big companies that produced
it out of the cannabis business.
later
bliss
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