420 Warrior
Well-Known Member
While I agree with your observation ( "Nasty outbursts do nothing for marijuana cause," Dec. 14 ) that marijuana proponents are not always fond of the rules of decorum, it seems inappropriate to castigate them like unruly children.
Please consider what is actually happening here: People dealing with serious medical issues are being systematically denied access to the medicine that best eases their suffering.
Faced with the looming likelihood of being unable to obtain relief from that suffering and dealing with stress caused by such knowledge, it is understandable that they find it difficult to be polite to those hellbent on worsening their situations.
It is time to consider the overlooked components of this issue - scientific facts. The results of several recent studies clearly show why federal reclassification of marijuana and an end to onerous local restrictions both make good sense.
The June 19, 2010, issue of Science News ran a five-page article on "The Promise of Medical Marijuana."
Research described in the article includes a study corroborating the effectiveness of cannabis derivatives against the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Further studies will investigate the possibility that the use of cannabis could actually slow the progression of the disease. Another project established that post-traumatic stress disorder patients slept better and stopped having nightmares while taking THC in capsule form.
Most amazingly, lab-dish experiments indicate that cannabinoids decrease a cancer tumor's size and slow its growth in cases of lung carcinoma and thyroid epithelioma.
They slow cancer proliferation in uterine and breast carcinomas, and cause programmed cell death - they kill cancer cells but not healthy cells - for glioma, lymphoma, leukemia, skin carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, and neuroblastoma. Human trials of these effects are in the planning stages.
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Dec. 7 described a study at UCSF that found that marijuana can be safely used in conjunction with opiate-based pain medications and that combining the two can allow the patient to reduce or even eliminate the use of more dangerous narcotic.
Although this story was apparently not covered in the Record Searchlight, a letter printed the next day tells the same story from a different perspective: A Redding man wrote about losing his daughter, who had multiple sclerosis, to an accidental overdose of pain medication.
He explicitly states that safe access to marijuana might have prevented the tragedy.
This is the type of voice our officials should heed, not the outdated misinformation and vague quasi-legal threats that currently enthrall them.
It is time to step out of the Dark Ages, choose enlightenment over ignorance, and end this present-day pogrom once and for all.
News Hawk - 420 Warrior 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Record Searchlight (Redding, CA)
Author: Ellen Kelley
Contact: Redding Record Searchlight: Local Redding, California News Delivered Throughout the Day.
Copyright: 2011 Record Searchlight
Website: Redding Record Searchlight: Local Redding, California News Delivered Throughout the Day.
Please consider what is actually happening here: People dealing with serious medical issues are being systematically denied access to the medicine that best eases their suffering.
Faced with the looming likelihood of being unable to obtain relief from that suffering and dealing with stress caused by such knowledge, it is understandable that they find it difficult to be polite to those hellbent on worsening their situations.
It is time to consider the overlooked components of this issue - scientific facts. The results of several recent studies clearly show why federal reclassification of marijuana and an end to onerous local restrictions both make good sense.
The June 19, 2010, issue of Science News ran a five-page article on "The Promise of Medical Marijuana."
Research described in the article includes a study corroborating the effectiveness of cannabis derivatives against the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
Further studies will investigate the possibility that the use of cannabis could actually slow the progression of the disease. Another project established that post-traumatic stress disorder patients slept better and stopped having nightmares while taking THC in capsule form.
Most amazingly, lab-dish experiments indicate that cannabinoids decrease a cancer tumor's size and slow its growth in cases of lung carcinoma and thyroid epithelioma.
They slow cancer proliferation in uterine and breast carcinomas, and cause programmed cell death - they kill cancer cells but not healthy cells - for glioma, lymphoma, leukemia, skin carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, and neuroblastoma. Human trials of these effects are in the planning stages.
An article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Dec. 7 described a study at UCSF that found that marijuana can be safely used in conjunction with opiate-based pain medications and that combining the two can allow the patient to reduce or even eliminate the use of more dangerous narcotic.
Although this story was apparently not covered in the Record Searchlight, a letter printed the next day tells the same story from a different perspective: A Redding man wrote about losing his daughter, who had multiple sclerosis, to an accidental overdose of pain medication.
He explicitly states that safe access to marijuana might have prevented the tragedy.
This is the type of voice our officials should heed, not the outdated misinformation and vague quasi-legal threats that currently enthrall them.
It is time to step out of the Dark Ages, choose enlightenment over ignorance, and end this present-day pogrom once and for all.
News Hawk - 420 Warrior 420 MAGAZINE
Source: Record Searchlight (Redding, CA)
Author: Ellen Kelley
Contact: Redding Record Searchlight: Local Redding, California News Delivered Throughout the Day.
Copyright: 2011 Record Searchlight
Website: Redding Record Searchlight: Local Redding, California News Delivered Throughout the Day.
