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- From: lamont@hyperreal.com (Lamont Granquist)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs,alt.hemp
- Subject: Idiot DEA Agent from Hell in the Seattle P-I
- Date: 10 Dec 1994 02:41:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <3cb4h0$cso@nntp1.u.washington.edu>
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- (...do get the bloody attribution correct so no one thinks i wrote this, 'k?
- better yet, just remember to erase the attribution line...)
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- Seattle P-I, Friday, Dec 9, 1994, A16
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- Marijuana: There is no medical use for the drug
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- Your Dec 5. editorial advocating marijuana as medicine is insupportable.
- Marijuana has been rejected as medicine by the American Medical Association,
- the American Cancer Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the
- National Multiple Sclerosis Association. Not one American health association
- accepts marijuana as medicine.
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- For the past 50 years, drug evaluation experts at the US Food and Drug
- Administration have been responsible for protecting Americans from unsafe
- and ineffective new medicines. Relying on the same scientific standards
- used to judge all other drugs, FDA experts rep[eatedly have rejected
- marijuana for medical use.
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- Donald H. Silberberg, M.D., is chairman of the Department of Neurology,
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is also president of the
- National Medical Advisory Board for the NAtional Multiple Sclerosis Society.
- He has testified, "I have not found any legitimate medical or scientific
- works which show that marijuana is medically effectivve in treating
- multiple sclerosis or spasticity. The longe-term treatment of the symptoms
- of multiple sclerosis through the use of marijuana could be devastating.
- The use of (marijuana), especially for long-term treatment would be worse
- than the original disease itself."
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- We have put "snake oil" salesman out of business by requiring proof of
- safety and efficacy for new drugs. Marijuana passes none of those tests...
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- A petition to put marijuana in a less restrictve schedule of the Controlled
- Substance Act was rejected by the DEA, after public hearings. The US Court
- of Appeals upheld the ruling unanimously.
-
- Frank D. Rodriguez
- DEA, Seattle
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- Lamont Granquist (lamont@hyperreal.com)
- Q: How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?
- N: None! If it needed fixing, the market would take care of it!
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