9 cured ounces a month???? Now THIS is a fucking welfare program. Shit, that's 36K a year - a full income worth of pot. It at least amuses me slightly that some small percentage of the good Rev. Falwell's tax income is supporting these seven+ doobious salaries.

I.....have glaucoma.

i don't understand. what's this program? and why did it end in/around '91? i have a hard time believing the federal stance on MJ was more lenient in the 80's than it is now. why would the FDA bother sponsoring it if not to study the effects?

I... have a rare bone disease.

Based on my asking around, the marijuana grown at UMiss isn't very good. Also, they actually pre-roll the marijuana before delivering it to the patients, making around 40 cigarettes per ounce. So, when you compare to some chain-smokers, it's not so different.

I don't know much about the history of how the program got started, but I'm told that it got shut down by George H.W. Bush after too many AIDS patients (from his perspective, I guess) started applying.

you mean all the AIDS patients his predecessor created?

I love that Judge Kozinski is on there. So much for the strict constructionist Federalist.

Wouldn't the strict constructionist Federalist agree?

I don't even think it's possible to smoke 9 ounces in a month, but if it'll make me feel better . . .

I have . . . um . . . a really bad cold.

This probably isn't a popular viewpoint here, but you've got to be kidding me that there's not a more effective MEDICAL treatment for ANY condition than pumping smoke into your lungs.

I'm sure the patients like it, and we should just let them buy it on those grounds, but I can't honestly believe that there's not a more effective medical treatment to any of their medical problems than smoking pot.

What ailments exactly (besides missing pot) are we treating this way?

Enter the Volcano:

http://www.canorml.org/healthfacts/vaporizerstudy2.html

yeah, i'm sort of all set with calling it "medicinal" marijuana. isn't it more "pain relieving" marijuana? you know what else works? chocolate. you know what else? aspirin. you know what else? doin' it.

i'm in favor of legalization (sort of), but the medical thing is a dumb loophole.

If I were a medi-pot patient, I would probably make cannibutter precisely because smoking is bad for the lungs. Mmm, medically necessary brownies.

True, true, pot food is an excellent delivery mechanism.

Is a percoset not medicine but a "pain-relieving pill"? Doob is psychoactive in a way that chocolate and aspirin are not. And what besides loopholes do we have at hand to work with? Imagine if we could only push for legalized abortion through pure consensus-building. (And no, I don't want to take the parallel between doob and abortion any further than that- sorry for even taking it that far.)

i just don't see pot as a viable alternative to other painkillers that don't have side effects that include baby-eating.

ps you totally just made a parallel between legalizing abortion and legalizing marijuana.

But I did preemptively apologize.