Medical Marijuana: Whole Plant Better Than Isolated Components in Pain Relief, Italian Study Finds
Scientists at the University of Milan have published a study finding that whole-plant marijuana extracts provide better relief for neuropathic pain than isolated components of the plant, like THC alone. The research is an intervention in the ongoing debate between medical marijuana supporters and herbal and alternative medicine advocates on one side and the US government, some politicians, and the pharmaceuticalized medicine industry on the other.
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Congressional drug warriors like Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) have long argued that marijuana is not a medicine and that any medicinal compounds in the plant should be isolated or synthesized, as is the case with Marinol, which contains one of the hundreds of cannabinoids found in the plant. The DEA takes a similar approach.
But this latest research only adds to the evidence that that position is mistaken.
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Run from the Cure Transcript
Comment posted by Right Reverend Gregory Karl Davis on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 6:51pmis available on the Brothers for Mercy website:
http://www.brothersformercy.org/Transcript%20Run%20from%20the%20cure.pdf
In Jesus Anointed (with marijuana) who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
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Comment posted by David Dunn on Fri, 07/25/2008 - 11:07amAll the more reason people should be eating hemp foods, using hemp creams, salves and balms for overall good health.
This is also another reason why the house of hemp should not be divided into different camps, such as industrial, recreational and medical hempsters.
Evolution has provided humanity with a plant that, as nearly ideal as possible, provides for all basic needs.
There's no reason for hemp to be classified as a schedule 1 substances under the Controlled Substances Act. Congress needs to remove it from there, and place all things hemp under the Department of Agriculture where it belongs.
Neither should American universities be denied to the right to grow, research, test and market their own hemp products. How recreational hemp is controlled should be left to state governments.
Hemp is not an enumerated item in the Constitution. For Congress to claim that hemp is contained in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution (Art 1, § 8, Clause 3) is a perversion of the Constitution.
According to cannabis-smoking James Madison, the states have a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over hemp. Madison wrote in Federalist Paper 39:
— Thomas Jefferson