is what I get trying to download patent info. Whats up?

How in the world can we be surprised by any underhanded tactic GWB and company use? This "war criminal" and the ones before him have had a great time controlling the "coloreds", within the war on drugs. Before you puu-puu this idea, let me tell you I live in Arkansas USA, known as the bible belt. I have never heard the language I hear every day. Its like the natives here are living 100 years ago. The "N word" is very popular, also they don't like them "damn mexicans" very much. In their collective little minds, the best thing to do is lock em up forever. (their words not mine) They still believe in the government as long as it agrees with their ignorance. So as our forefathers dreamed that an educated population would make great choices, an ignorant population will follow a snake oil salesman to insanity and death. My question is, if you give a crap about your kids, why are you letting the "officials" give control of dope to the outlaws? And we are suprised how?
J.D. Lape' south Arkansas USA

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html

"Abstract:

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the
treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. ..."

What Rev. Wright said...

-Richard Paul Steeb
San Jose, California
(glaucoma)

Link to the actual USPTO database: http://tinyurl.com/5598vx

Most folks are aware that the U.S. Government continues to maintain the old drug war refrain that marijuana has no accepted medical value... yet the same U.S. Governmet holds the patent for... are you ready for this... "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants".

That's right kiddies, your government currently holds U.S. Patent # 6,630,507 claiming: "Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties... cannabinoids are found to have particular applications as neuroprotectants... limiting neurological damage following... stroke and trauma... or in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases... such as Alzheimer's... Parkinson's... and HIV dementia"
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Please, someone tell me how a gov't that kills or incarcerates those that dare to disagree while claiming one thing while positioning itself to profit from the exact opposite can be legal or moral... even in this scoundrel ridden christian nation.

The government patent should be struck down as an illegally acquired property/intellectual right. The medical efficacy of Cannabis has been known by respected medical professionals for decades... literally centuries. Yet the u.s. government continues to prohibit, under the guise of regulation, the scientific study of the cannabis plant while obtaining the patent for cannabinoids.

It's not the THC that scares the crap out of uncle scam... it's the BSBs... the 'Bullshit Blockers'!

Billy B. Blunt
Tacoma, WA

Just remember, the main contributors to keeping marijuana illegal are the liquor industries. Think about it. Also remember, our government lies to us daily. Rich fat cats making laws benificial to themselves. It's all B$.

If they have this patent, they can make sure no one uses it. I'm not sure exactly, but maybe that means that noone can sell marijuana for antioxidant or neuroprotective purposes except the goverment (which won't). Also, the pharmaceutical industry might have been able to produce some nice medicines based on marijuana, but maybe this patent makes it illegal for anyone but the us government to sell it for antioxidant or neuroprotective purposes. Medical marijuana dispensaries might not be hearing much about this now because the federal gov't can just go after them based on the illegality of marijuana, but after it becomes legal, maybe the gov't will use this patent to say that noone can sell marijuana (as antioxidant or neuroprectant), so in that sense they can continue their war on marijuana. (although that probably wouldn't work because it would be way too transparent, but maybe they come up with some insane argument to justify it (would not be surprising at all)).

This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma

The government has created a monopoly on the medicinal value of Cannabis while implementing the dynamics of double speak and the tactics of a police state to maintain the grip and trump the legality and illegality of either constraint. The government is simultaneously holding two contradictory themes believing, exploiting, and profiting from them both. (Classic double speak)
The system will create as many income streams in which expansion of the government bureaucracy will super-exploit from both ends of the spectrum. Every time someone is arrested for cultivation, distributing and possession of Cannabis, it justifies the criminal actions of the government to protect their patent by either criminal prosecution or civil actions when in fact to make something criminal that is not a crime in the first place is the real criminal act.
“A true dichotomy of truth and lies.”
The supreme hypocrisy!
The Federal government will use whatever means to continue this concubine to oblivion.
The alphabet agencies and the U.S. attorney are addicted like a junkie to the seizure of monies, persons, and assets for the majority of their budgets rely on prohibition laws and will fight vigorously to keep the status quo. It is apparent after forty years of waging a war on drugs most of devoted to Cannabis, it has become a lost cause. The War on Drugs was never meant to be won it was designed to be a perpetual forever. Costing taxpayers at this time in history six hundred dollars per second, the cost of war rages on. Nothing has changed but the increasing costs of war, the propaganda, the rhetoric, and the lies. All of this will be paid for by the taxpayer and that is you and me.
The numbers look real good in the newspapers or on a government statistical ledger of how many were arrested and the revenues of seizure. All of these professionals that are involved in this lair of systematic industry and assembly line justice merely support or increase the price of contraband that they determined to eliminate from society. A giant control system grid created for outlaws and outlawed molecules. The foundations of career building that is as endless as time itself. The war on drugs is an infinite beginning that has no end conducted as a government inquisitional witch-hunt by the self-indignant, self-righteous and self sanctimonious thought police and corporate storm troopers with impunity from the crimes they commit in the process, to legitimize their sins, vindicate their existence, jobs, pensions and budgets. In history men have justified their professions on the foundation of lies and the basis and tenents of money.
History has not changed.

Last comment by Eric Blair

"Much virtue in herbs, little in men."
Benjamin Franklin

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall … speak lies in hypocrisy … commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. (Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-3)

(and just for the record, I am 100% in support of not only the rights of patients to access medical marijuana, I also support the responsible recreational use of it by adults, so don't shoot the messenger if you don't like what I am about to say)

Just a bit of caution for those who would attempt to use this patent's existence as some kind of smoking gun-

This may come as a shock to the uninitiated, but the fact that a patent has been granted in no way proves conclusively that all of the supporting data is accurate or the process/product itself is viable.

Patent examination is far more a matter of determining that something isn't already common knowledge or "prior art", that it hasn't already been patented, that all the forms are filled out properly, etc...obviously they try to reject applications for things that are obviously not workable or that make outlandish claims and examiners do have technical expertise in the fields and technologies they are reviewing, but they are first and foremost clerical workers charged with keeping things running smoothly.

So- considering that things like antigravity space vehicles (U.S. Patent 6,960,975) and various devices that amount to little more than perpetual motion machines have been issued patents (despite PTO efforts to keep this from happening), one needs to tread carefully when attempting to use the existence of a patent alone as any kind of proof that the supporting documentation is accurate.

That isn't to say that the referenced government research into the medical efficacy of cannabinoids presented to the PTO is incorrect, just that it is *that* material that needs to be presented to refute the claim that cannabis deserves Sched. 1 classification to illustrate the Fed. governments hypocrisy in keeping it there- simply saying that the patent exists and used that research in the application, therefore the matter of efficacy is beyond question, is logically fallacious.

One other fact that isn't readily apparent until you really read the patent info is that it specifically states that one goal is to create therapeutic cannabinoid-derived DRUGS that "can be substantially free of psychoactive or psychotoxic effects"...

this patent is NOT about cannabis per se, but chemicals isolated from it. It in no way supports or promotes the use of medicinal marijuana, and in fact is an attempt to create a non-psychoactive cannabinoid delivery system...in other words, they specifically are looking for a way to administer cannabinoids in a manner that won't get anyone high.

And with that in mind, I would be willing to bet that the government research referenced speaks specifically to cannabinoids and not medicinal marijuana as well- Marinol has been around forever, is patented, and is now a Sched. III drug, so it isn't like the government is saying that cannabinoids themselves have no medicinal use; it's just the raw herbal form of cannabis that they take issue with.

So as much as I wish it were true, this whole patent angle doesn't really stop arguments against the medical use of herbal cannabis in their tracks at all, and in reality just shows how hard the government is working to eliminate arguments for it, by creating alternatives that won't get you stoned...when those exist, anyone who refuses them and still wants the herbal stuff can just be labeled as a stoner.

Even the DEA's own webpage about medicinal marijuana touts Marinol and even brags that that agency was instrumental in its development-

" The DEA helped facilitate the research on Marinol. The National Cancer Institute approached the DEA in the early 1980s regarding their study of THC's in relieving nausea and vomiting. As a result, the DEA facilitated the registration and provided regulatory support and guidance for the study. "

http://www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/marinol.html

So- be very careful in developing your arguments, and realize that "cannabinoids" and "cannabis"/"medicinal marijuana" are two related but entirely different things.

I totally agree with all that is said about Patent 6630507. BUT ! is a patent not in it's self a protection of an idea.So is the U.S. Government not protecting ( in some insane way ) Cannabis . ?

Its safe to say that the USA gov't has lied to the point we shoudl no longer reconize it and say fuk them and make our own gov't, or at least a new paolitical party, called the "Pro-Pot Party". Obama is back to letting the DEA dogs do their criminal activities.

C&P
The Marijuana Policy Project, along with a coalition of allies, has called for President Obama to withdraw the nomination of Michele Leonhart as DEA Administrator. Under Leonhart's leadership the DEA has staged medical marijuana raids in direct defiance of Attorney General Eric Holder's directive to respect state medical marijuana laws.

I used to think they guys they told us were bad, actually were the bad guys, but they messed up, they pushed too far with propaganda, now i see who the real bad guys are. They are the ones taking our freedoms, our own gov't. Well guess what, americans liek pot and the gov has basically declared war on american citizens and calling em We are the narco-Terrorists in their eyes weather we just smoke or grow and distibute..

THERE IS ONLY 1 WAY TO DEAL WITH a a GOV't THAT SUPRESSES FREEDOM.
And there are way more of us then them.
Time to take back the country, gets the economy back on track, and lock up all these anti-freedom leaders.
If i was leader, i woudl ship them to afghan, and let them deal with them. I bet they would not last long, even tho they are "HELPING". The people there will show them exactly how much help they are worth.,

collect all the seeds you can and throw em everywhere. Court house flower gardens, police stations, ditches, in public parks, the more the merrier. hand out flyers detailing to the american people the gov't new stance on pot. Spread the word and pass the doob/.

It not only helps with actual medical conditions, it helps deal with the gov and their supressions. what is all to funny is they apparently tried to sober us up, well i guess enough of us are AWAKE now uncle sam, and now we are doing somethign abotu you. We dont want to get high to have to deal with you, we want to deal with you so we can get high again, the way nature intended.

From the abstract:Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. 

In other words, cannabinoids are a general class of compounds. They point out that it is really only useful on versions that are not psychotic and don't cause brain damage and motor impairment...

From the abstract:Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. 

In other words, cannabinoids are a general class of compounds. They point out that it is really only useful on versions that are not psychotic and don't cause brain damage and motor impairment...

My understanding of it, is of all the actual research done, with legitimate facts reported, that pill forms and other such methods of cannabinoid delivery don't hold their weight against either smoking (reasonably decent way to acquire the effects, however, wears off after approx. 2 hours), or by ingesting as a food product, e.g. made into peanut butter, brownies, butter, cookies, tea, etc., (a much more substantially long lasting 'high.' The effects of eating THC usually don't start to wear off until 6 or more hours later). I say, quit trying to find ways to administer a 'drug' that gives your pharmaceuticals control over it. They're simply looking for a way to help Pfizer, Merck, Bayer and so on make MORE money. Like that's anything they need more of. They can keep their poisons and piss off IMO.

Patentstorm is now defunct, here is the official link at the patent office's website: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6630507.PN.&OS=PN/6630507&RS=PN/6630507

Its not a patent on marijuana, its a patent on cannabinoids used as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.

If pfizer wants to sell synthetic cannabinoids, fine.  But when patents and montesanto miracle grow GM cannabis and lies, corruption and violence are used to deny natural, free medicines to the people in the name of profit, THE PEOPLE MUST SAY, F. NO!  They should also consider CRIMINAL LIABILITIES for those who continue to propagate suffering and violence through FRAUD AND MISINFO.

Schedule 1 is a joke and the pharm companies WILL make their cures available, eventually, maybe, for those who can afford it. The government knows it has medicinal value, the AMA even knew that in the 30s, didn't even realize it was being prohibited until after Anslinger called the whole plant "N-Bomb White Lady Rape Mexican Marihuana" to protect his investments from the coming Hemp Boom.

Bottom Line:  Cannabis can heal cancer, MS, MD, and a whole lot more, RIGHT NOW, IT CAN DO THIS.  But you'll go to jail for medicating yourself or your loved ones. 

Time to REMOVE ALL RESTRICTIONS ON NATURAL PLANT MEDICINES.  OR CONTINUE TO ACCEPT YOUR ENSLAVEMENT, AND YOUR DEATH SENTENCE.

making nature against the law is unnatural.

anyone who tries to separate me from, or diminish my connection to, the earth, the stars or the one, will find their end, under that banner they serve.

all those who attempt to sever us from our birthright will fail, losing their own instead.

reject the fear, reject oppression, reject the unjust, the criminal, the vicious and the corrupt..

RISE WITH THE  AND FIGHT BACK.

this message is for all the people of the world but especially the Americans....

home of the brave? 

or home of the paralyzed by  ignorance, poisoned and medicated, obese and bankrupt, church and dollar sponsored rape of the world (and it's own people) at gunpoint?

it's your choice.. do something about it, TODAY.  

NOW!!   

get off the computer and DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, this is a real eye opener for sure! This is beyond being a hypocrite!

I'd like to see a total end to the "drug war" like Portugal has done, it works!

The United States Government has "Morning Glory Seed Extracts" listed as Schedule I along with MMJ ! HA!

how many people have you ever met addicted to Morning Glory Seeds ? None...so why does our Gov. say Morning glory Seeds have "the high potential for abuse...? Marijuana is an Natural Herb not a drug; Marijuan is actually an edible healthy food; Leaves for Salads; Stems for Tea; Seeds for Oil and Hemp Seed Butter; duh?