Word: marijuana
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Furthermore, one of the DEA's tests of whether a drug should be available by prescription asks whether it has "currently accepted medical use." A current study by Kennedy School Lecturer Mark A.R. Kleiman showed that 54 percent of surveyed oncologists thought smoked marijuana should be available by prescription. Forty-four percent said they had already recommended pot to a patient...
...federal government understands this too, and in 1985 made available by prescription a synthetic version of THC, the active ingredient in pot. What's at issue now is the right of doctors to prescribe marijuana in smoked form. So. you may ask, if there's a pill that's just as good, why do those nasty, smelly little cigarettes need to be legal...
Numerous scientifically valid studies have shown that marijuana in smoked form can be more medically effective than purified THC. Most recently, a 1988 study in The New York State Journal of Medicine showed that 29 percent of those who did not respond to oral THC did respond to smoked marijuana...
...movement for medicinal marijuana has been around since the '60s, but its supporters have usually been those who also supported legalized marijuana, and legalized LSD and legalized glue sniffing. In the 1970s and earlier '80s, medicinal marijuana gained support from many doctors, but it was too late--the movement was inextricably associated with a lunatic fringe of burnt-out hippies making their last pathetic effort to salvage the '60s. In the Reagan-Bush years, that kind of coalition just doesn't float...
...step in the right direction. If the medicinal marijuana movement is to succeed, it needs to win over not only the medicinal community, but the political community as well. And even if the city council does not convince the feds, or the state, or anyone else, to legalize prescription pot, it is at least sending the right message: Medicinal marijuana--it's not just for hippies anymore...