Cannabis vs Alchohol and Other Man Made Pharmacuticals (page 14)

acadian

I wonder why all the differant v erities of plants are on the earth? I guess man was suppose to wait thousands of yrs to find out. and then, when the FDA and USDA and DEA and NIh and and and ...figured it out, we would know?

Quick Reference just follow links for more info...

Quick Reference: Listing of Health Organizations By Position

Immediate Legal Access
	International and National Organizations
	State and Local Organizations
	Additional AIDS Organizations
	Other Health Organizations
Research

Health Organizations Supporting Immediate Legal Access to Medical Marijuana

International and National Organizations

AIDS Action Council
AIDS Treatment News
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Medical Student Association
American Nurses Association
American Preventive Medical Association
American Public Health Association
American Society of Addiction Medicine
Arthritis Research Campaign (United Kingdom)
Australian Medical Association (New South Wales) Limited
Australian National Task Force on Cannabis
Belgian Ministry of Health
British House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology
British House of Lords Select Committee On Science and Technology (Second Report)
British Medical Association
Canadian AIDS Society
Canadian Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs
Dr. Dean Edell (surgeon and nationally syndicated radio host)
French Ministry of Health
Health Canada
Kaiser Permanente
Lymphoma Foundation of America
The Montel Williams MS Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Society (Canada) The Multiple Sclerosis Society (United Kingdom)
National Academy of Sciences Institute Of Medicine (IOM)
National Association for Public Health Policy National Nurses Society on Addictions
Netherlands Ministry of Health
New England Journal of Medicine
New South Wales (Australia) Parliamentary Working Party on the Use of Cannabis for Medical Purposes Dr. Andrew Weil (nationally recognized professor of internal medicine and founder of the National Integrative Medicine Council)

State and Local Organizations

Additional AIDS Organizations

The following organizations are signatories to a February 17, 1999 letter to the US Department of Health petitioning the federal government to "make marijuana legally available … to people living with AIDS."

AIDS Action Council
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
AIDS National Interfaith Network (Washington, DC)
AIDS Project Arizona
AIDS Project Los Angeles
Being Alive: People with HIV/AIDS Action Committee (San Diego, CA)
Boulder County AIDS Project (Boulder, CO)
Colorado AIDS Project
Center for AIDS Services (Oakland, CA)
Health Force: Women and Men Against AIDS (New York, NY)
Latino Commission on AIDS
Mobilization Against AIDS (San Francisco, CA)
Mothers Voices to End AIDS (New York, NY)
National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Association
National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
Northwest AIDS Foundation
People of Color Against AIDS Network (Seattle, WA)
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Whitman-Walker Clinic (Washington, DC)

Other Health Organizations

The following organizations are signatories to a June 2001 letter to the US Department of Health petitioning the federal government to "allow people suffering from serious illnesses … to apply to the federal government for special permission to use marijuana to treat their symptoms."

Addiction Treatment Alternatives
AIDS Treatment Initiatives (Atlanta, GA)
American Public Health Association
American Preventive Medical Association
Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights (San Francisco, CA)
California Legislative Council for Older Americans
California Nurses Association
California Pharmacists Association
Embrace Life (Santa Cruz, CA)
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Hawaii Nurses Association
Hepatitis C Action and Advisory Coalition
Life Extension Foundation
Maine AIDS Alliance
Minnesota Nurses Association
Mississippi Nurses Association
National Association of People with AIDS
National Association for Public Health Policy
National Women's Health Network
Nebraska AIDS Project
New Mexico Nurses Association
New York City AIDS Housing Network
New York State Nurses Association Ohio Patient Network Okaloosa AIDS Support and Information Services
(Fort Walton, FL)
Physicians for Social Responsibility - Oregon
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Virginia Nurses Association
Wisconsin Nurses Association

Health Organizations Supporting Medical Marijuana Research

International and National Organizations

American Cancer Society
American Medical Association
British Medical Journal
California Medical Association
California Society on Addiction Medicine
Congress of Nursing Practice
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
Jamaican National Commission on Ganja
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop on the Medical Utility of Marijuana Texas Medical Association
Vermont Medical Society
Wisconsin State Medical Society

Did I miss any?

Personally I believe it should be legal with no restrictions, if your worried about kids then educate them!

My kids have no problem with food/plant/medication because they were properly educated as to their uses and effects.

Acadian

OpenFireGlass

Hmmm,,. I guess peoples cafeinne/coffee addiction is a touchy subject...

OpenFireGlass

Ok, so here's a different angle...

If all the links I provided to the "Pro" side of the disscusion are bogus... Why haven't the pharmacuetical companies team up with the doctors and government to disband "NORMAL" and shut them down on the grounds of slander/mis-information?

I mean, the BEEF industry shut "Oprah" the hell up... and the watchtower shut sites down too...

freedomlover

OFG-

**Hmmm,,. I guess peoples cafeinne/coffee addiction is a touchy subject...**

LOL! yeah.

don't forget SUGAR addiction. IMO sugar is a HUGE addiction that is a culturally "accepted" addiction. especially among the JW's. did you ever attend a gathering where there wasn't gobs of sugary foods??!! the only addiction you're still **allowed** to have as a witness.

Acadian hit the nail on the head. it's about educating yourself and your kids.....

OpenFireGlass

freedomlover

don't forget SUGAR addiction. IMO sugar is a HUGE addiction that is a culturally "accepted" addiction.

well sweetie (pun intended)... the sad thing is, unless it's home-made, it's not even sugar anymore... It's "high fructose corn syrup" that's "more than likely" made from GMO corn..

as far as people being unproductive lazy citizens... two words: "Woody Harrelson"

OpenFireGlass

and a whole bunch of other productive people (not limited to musicians)


POSSIBLE POTHEAD: Louisa May Alcott	John Lennon	Walter Benjamin	Morgan Freeman	The Brothers Grinn

Mezz Mezzrow	Lord Buckley	François Rabelais	David Crosby	Bhang Brothers

Pierce Brosnan	Tallulah Bankhead	Norman Mailer	M. Scott Peck	Buddy Rich

Neal Cassady	Matthew McConaughey	Woody Harrelson	Ed Harris	Victor Hugo/Alexandre Dumas

John Trudell	Randy Moss	Phil Lesh	Robert Louis Stevenson	Bill Maher

Groucho Marx	Sarah Silverman	Will Geer	John Denver	Melissa Etheridge

Arnold Schwarzenegger	Bing Crosby	Jennifer Aniston	Queen Victoria	Carl Sagan

Newt Gingrich	Montel Williams	Donna Shalala	Rodney Dangerfield	Bill Bradley
		POSSIBLE POTHEAD		POSSIBLE POTHEAD
Ross Rebagliati	Margaret Mead	William Shakespeare	David Hockney	George Washington

Gary Hall	Louis Armstrong	Robert Altman	Frances McDormand	Diego Rivera

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Richard Feynman	Candy Barr	Walker Evans	Willie Nelson

John Hay	Jack London	Larry Hagman	Bob Denver	Paul Bowles

Paul McCartney	Bob Marley	Daryl Hannah	Art Garfunkel	Chrissie Hynde
				POSSIBLE POTHEAD
Robert Mitchum	Gene Krupa	William F. Buckley Jr.	Michael Bloomberg

bikerchic

LOL @ OFG!

and a whole bunch of other productive people (not limited to musicians)

I for one wonder what they could have achieved sober?

OpenFireGlass

I for one wonder what they could have achieved sober?

You worded that so well, that I can't come up with a smart-ass comment..

Now I'm gonna re-word it so I can make a smart-ass comment...

I for one wonder what they could have achieved ~~sober~~ if they didn't use cannabis?

they would ended up dying on the toilet from a heat-attack, caused by the alchohol and pill poppin' like Elvis (who hated cannabis users)...

Yeah, just imagine what they could have accomplished if they didn't have to spend "X" amount of time in jail, or "X" amount of time in court... what a waste

Now I better go hide from bikerchic, for putting words into her mouth..

bikerchic

Now I better go hide from bikerchic, for putting words into her mouth..

LMAO @ OFG, nahhhh not to worry it's only when ~~you~~ I put my foot in my mouth.......

Nonetheless I do wonder how much more these great achievers could have done, if only, sigh. To an underachiever (or make that a pea brain) like myself who decided the sober way of life is my best course I can only be irritated at least at those who use (dope) and waste an otherwise brilliant mind, heavy sigh.

OpenFireGlass

To an underachiever (or make that a pea brain) like myself who decided the sober way of life is my best course

Now we all know that's not a true statement

I can only be irritated at least at those who use (dope) and waste an otherwise brilliant mind, heavy sigh.

ok. I'm not putting words in your mouth on this one... but I am a little confused.(ya didn't word that one so well) So I will ask you.....

irritated by brilliant people that threw it all away, or never succeded cause they used (dope)?

OR... irritated that succesful people that use (dope) could be more brilliant?

And (dope) is... heroin...pills.. alchohol.. caffine?, all of the above?

,Mike

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