Comments on: Feds not friendly toward pot research http://healthexecnews.com/feds-not-friendly-toward-pot-research Healthcare Management News and Insights Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mr. legal highs http://healthexecnews.com/feds-not-friendly-toward-pot-research/comment-page-1#comment-2792 mr. legal highs Wed, 05 May 2010 22:53:17 +0000 http://healthexecnews.com/?p=934#comment-2792 The difference amongst recreational consumption and medical employment of marijuana begs to be acknowledged. While I believe that a responsible adult should have the right to use marijuana recreationally, I do think, without doubt, allowing for a sick person use of a plant with a long history of medical value should be accepted and legal. Marijuana has a great potential as a medicine and more awareness and acceptance is called for. In Summary, legalize it! The difference amongst recreational consumption and medical employment of marijuana begs to be acknowledged. While I believe that a responsible adult should have the right to use marijuana recreationally, I do think, without doubt, allowing for a sick person use of a plant with a long history of medical value should be accepted and legal. Marijuana has a great potential as a medicine and more awareness and acceptance is called for. In Summary, legalize it!

]]> By: Dean Knight http://healthexecnews.com/feds-not-friendly-toward-pot-research/comment-page-1#comment-440 Dean Knight Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:34:03 +0000 http://healthexecnews.com/?p=934#comment-440 This is politics masquerading as science. If NIDA doesn't want to know if marijuana might have positive effects, they are not allowing themselves to see the whole picture. A drug is appropriately evaluated with a risk/benefit analysis. Think about how cancer therapies would be viewed if we only looked for negative effects. Peculiar that NIDA has been adopting this attitude for many years and they haven't come up with much (if anything, really) that indicts marijuana. Alcohol and tobacco are far more harmful. This is politics masquerading as science. If NIDA doesn’t want to know if marijuana might have positive effects, they are not allowing themselves to see the whole picture. A drug is appropriately evaluated with a risk/benefit analysis. Think about how cancer therapies would be viewed if we only looked for negative effects.

Peculiar that NIDA has been adopting this attitude for many years and they haven’t come up with much (if anything, really) that indicts marijuana. Alcohol and tobacco are far more harmful.

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