Medical Marijuana, DEA Prostitutes and 10,000,000 Users

Response from the STATE OF NIRVANA: FREEDOM FROM SUFFERING, GREED, HATRED & DELUSION.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I am utilizing the third definition of prostitutes, namely “to devote to an unworthy or debasing cause. Actually, I have no concern for what D E A employees do on their off-duty hours. It’s a matter of “don’t ask, don’t tell.

The latest load of crap from the D E A is replete with Reefer Madness offal which requires correction and I am a person who can do it.

I have 50 plus yeas of studying the Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Cannabis as medicine which was widely used from about 1850 to 1937 in the U.S. with Government approval of three main Cannabis medicines for at least 100 medical conditions and the Government states 10,000,000 use it daily obviously without harm.

There are at least 10,000 medical articles in the literature attesting to its value as medicine and the lack of harmful or adverse effects. To quote from the D E A article “science views Marijuana as medicine” and secondly, “the D E A targets sick and dying patients using the drug” BOTH ARE TRUE. It is also the safest medicine ever found.

These D E A imbeciles bleet about the danger of smoking Marijuana. Wellll, smoking it causes mild respiratory irritation about as harmful as barbecue smoke. The F D A responsible for monitoring drugs and their good and harmful effects should direct their monitoring to Oxycontin and anti-depressant drugs which they approved and are killing or have killed thousands.

Marijuana never killed anyone! and the Controlled Substances Act (C S A) is a complete idiotic farce.

The D E A quotes adverse blathering about the false allegations of harm of the drug by

The American Institute of Medicine (I O M) published a book in 1999 using obsolete medical information about very poor grade Cannabis which was about as useful and harmful as Alfalfa Hay. Currently used Medical Marijuana is much safer with less adverse side effects than ANY other medicine.

The F D A (and their hirelings) falsely state that there are better, safer drugs than Cannabis. They are full of feces.

The F D A touts Marinol, synthetic THC, patients hate it and won’t use it if they can get the natural substance. If Marinol THC is good how come natural THC is harmful?

The D E A article decries the advocates for Marijuana legalization such as Marijuana Policy Project (M P P); Ed Rosenthal, senior editor of High Times; billionaires who support legalization such as George Soro, Peter Lewis, George Zimmer, and John Sperling. They have contributed about $2,000,000 for support. The U.S. and State Governments spend about $80,000,000 combating Marijuana use each year.

They also decry self medication with Marijuana. They should compare it to the DRUGS alcohol and tobacco which kill close to millions every year.

The D E A points out the many states, cities and counties which have legalized Marijuana. One would think this would have caused numerous and massive adverse medical problems. NOT SO, it is successfully and safely treating hundreds of medical conditions.

I have read 15 pages of the D E A Marijuana dangers report. It is more ribald fun than the movie REEFER MADNESS.

Dr. Phillip Leveque has degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and minors in physiology and biochemistry. He was a Professor of Pharmacology, employed by the University of London for 2 years, during which time he trained the first doctors in Tanzania. After training doctors, he became an Osteopathic Physician, as well as a Forensic Toxicologist.

Before any of that, Phil Leveque was a Combat Infantryman in the U.S. Army in WWII. He suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder more than 60 years after the war, and specialized in treating Veterans with PTSD during his years as a doctor in Molalla, Oregon. Do you have a question, comment or story to share with Dr. Leveque?
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denbee February 14, 2011 3:18 pm (Pacific time)

I urge everyone who knows the truth to use your vote and remove these people from office who cling to the "reefer madness" mentality. People power is going to be only way to remove these leeches from the public teat.

Malcolm Kyle February 13, 2011 2:59 am (Pacific time)

Dr Phill, from the bottom of my heart, thank you sir for all you do!

I have no doubt you are fully aware of the following studies, but, for the benefit of the readers of this thread, here they are again:

Here are just some of the many studies the Feds wish they'd never commissioned:

01) MARIJUANA USE HAS NO EFFECT ON MORTALITY:

A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. Sidney, S et al. Marijuana Use and Mortality. American Journal of Public Health
. Vol. 87 No. 4, April 1997. p. 585-590. Sept. 2002.

02) HEAVY MARIJUANA USE AS A YOUNG ADULT WON'T RUIN YOUR LIFE:

Veterans Affairs scientists looked at whether heavy marijuana use as a young adult caused long-term problems later, studying identical twins in which one twin had been a heavy marijuana user for a year or longer but had stopped at least one month before the study, while the second twin had used marijuana no more than five times ever. Marijuana use had no significant impact on physical or mental health care utilization, health-related quality of life, or current socio-demographic characteristics. Eisen SE et al. Does Marijuana Use Have Residual Adverse Effects on Self-Reported Health Measures, Socio-Demographics or Quality of Life? A Monozygotic Co-Twin Control Study in Men. Addiction. Vol. 97 No. 9. p.1083-1086. Sept. 1997

03) THE "GATEWAY EFFECT" MAY BE A MIRAGE:

Marijuana is often called a "gateway drug" by supporters of prohibition, who point to statistical "associations" indicating that persons who use marijuana are more likely to eventually try hard drugs than those who never use marijuana - implying that marijuana use somehow causes hard drug use. But a model developed by RAND Corp. researcher Andrew Morral demonstrates that these associations can be explained "without requiring a gateway effect." More likely, this federally funded study suggests, some people simply have an underlying propensity to try drugs, and start with what's most readily available. Morral AR, McCaffrey D and Paddock S. Reassessing the Marijuana Gateway Effect. Addiction. December 2002. p. 1493-1504.

04) PROHIBITION DOESN'T WORK:

The White House had the National Research Council examine the data being gathered about drug use and the effects of U.S. drug policies. NRC concluded, "the nation possesses little information about the effectiveness of current drug policy, especially of drug law enforcement." And what data exist show "little apparent relationship between severity of sanctions prescribed for drug use and prevalence or frequency of use." In other words, there is no proof that prohibition - the cornerstone of U.S. drug policy for a century - reduces drug use. National Research Council. Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us. National Academy Press, 2001. p. 193.

05) PROHIBITION MAY CAUSE THE "GATEWAY EFFECT"?): U.S. and Dutch researchers, supported in part by NIDA, compared marijuana users in San Francisco, where non-medical use remains illegal, to Amsterdam, where adults may possess and purchase small amounts of marijuana from regulated businesses. Looking at such parameters as frequency and quantity of use and age at onset of use, they found the following: Cannabis (Marijuana) use in San Francisco was 3 times the prevalence found in the Amsterdam sample. And lifetime use of hard drugs was significantly lower in Amsterdam, with its "tolerant" marijuana policies. For example, lifetime crack cocaine use was 4.5 times higher in San Francisco than Amsterdam. Reinarman, C, Cohen, PDA, and Kaal, HL. The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and San Francisco. American Journal of Public Health. Vol. 94, No. 5. May 2004. p 836-842.

06) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER (PART 1):

Federal researchers implanted several types of cancer, including leukemia and lung cancers, in mice, then treated them with cannabinoids (unique, active components found in marijuana). THC and other cannabinoids shrank tumors and increased the mice's lifespans. Munson, AE et al. Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Sept. 1975. p. 597-602.

07) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER, (PART 2):

In a 1994 study the government tried to suppress, federal researchers gave mice and rats massive doses of THC, looking for cancers or other signs of toxicity. The rodents given THC lived longer and had fewer cancers, "in a dose-dependent manner" (i.e. the more THC they got, the fewer tumors). NTP Technical Report On The Toxicology And Carcinogenesis Studies Of 1-Trans- Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, CAS No. 1972-08-3, In F344/N Rats And B6C3F Mice, Gavage Studies. See also, "Medical Marijuana: Unpublished Federal Study Found THC-Treated Rats Lived Longer, Had Less Cancer," AIDS Treatment News no. 263, Jan. 17, 1997.

08) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER (PART 3):

Researchers at the Kaiser-Permanente HMO, funded by NIDA, followed 65,000 patients for nearly a decade, comparing cancer rates among non-smokers, tobacco smokers, and marijuana smokers. Tobacco smokers had massively higher rates of lung cancer and other cancers. Marijuana smokers who didn't also use tobacco had no increase in risk of tobacco-related cancers or of cancer risk overall. In fact their rates of lung and most other cancers were slightly lower than non-smokers, though the difference did not reach statistical significance. Sidney, S. et al. Marijuana Use and Cancer Incidence (California, United States). Cancer Causes and Control. Vol. 8. Sept. 1997, p. 722-728.

09) OOPS, MARIJUANA MAY PREVENT CANCER (PART 4):

Donald Tashkin, a UCLA researcher whose work is funded by NIDA, did a case-control study comparing 1,200 patients with lung, head and neck cancers to a matched group with no cancer. Even the heaviest marijuana smokers had no increased risk of cancer, and had somewhat lower cancer risk than non-smokers (tobacco smokers had a 20-fold increased Lung Cancer risk). Tashkin D. Marijuana Use and Lung Cancer: Results of a Case-Control Study. American Thoracic Society International Conference. May 23, 2006.

10) MARIJUANA DOES HAVE GREAT MEDICAL VALUE:

In response to passage of California's medical marijuana law, the White House had the Institute of Medicine (IOM) review the data on marijuana's medical benefits and risks. The IOM concluded, "Nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana." The report also added, "we acknowledge that there is no clear alternative for people suffering from chronic conditions that might be relieved by smoking marijuana, such as pain or AIDS wasting." The government's refusal to acknowledge this finding caused co-author John A. Benson to tell the New York Times that the government "loves to ignore our report … they would rather it never happened." Joy, JE, Watson, SJ, and Benson, JA. Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. National Academy Press. 1999. p. 159. See also, Harris, G. FDA Dismisses Medical Benefit From Marijuana. New York Times. Apr. 21, 2006

The American Public Health Association, American Nurses Association, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, National Academy of HIV Medicine, two former U.S. surgeon generals, and hundreds of other medical professional groups all say that marijuana should be available to patients whose doctors recommend it.

Jyonasan February 12, 2011 9:49 am (Pacific time)

Actually, according to the film documentary „The Union“ — there has been zero [0] deaths from the use of marijuana ALONE.

Duncan20903 February 11, 2011 2:13 pm (Pacific time)

Dr. Phil, Dr. Phil, how could you forget the Iowa Board of Pharmacy's 6-0 vote last year to move cannabis to schedule II? They did that after being sued, court ordered, and dragged kicking and screaming to the table to consider the rescheduling petition.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2010/feb/18/iowa_board_pharmacy_recommends_m

Then the Oregon BoP went and did the same thing by a 4-1 vote!

http://www.oregon.gov/Pharmacy/Imports/News/June2010PressReleaseMarijuana.pdf

I've heard they put people on State Pharmacy Boards that know what is and isn't medicine. Have I been misinformed?

Toodles!

AncientMedicine February 11, 2011 1:18 pm (Pacific time)

What's up with this physician drive for the DEA? The DEA has already heard from dozens and dozens of medical experts on the medical safety and the medical efficacy of cannabis. Just google "DEA Judge Francis L. Young Medical Marijuana," and you'll see that the DEA knows the truth; but they have never been concerned about scientific or medical fact when it comes to cannabis. The DEA administration is fully aware that their stance against medical marijuana is purely "political," and they fully understand that their jobs demand that they make all attempts -- including the dissemination of blatant lies -- to keep cannabis from being prescribed at the federal level. The DEA's own Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young already concluded that cannabis should be rescheduled so it could be prescribed at the national level; but instead of listening to the experts and their own Administrative Law Judge, the DEA fought in court to ignore their own Judge Young's conclusions. And the DEA already has quite a few contract physicians or other ethically-challenged experts, like Dr. Gabriel Nahas, who are not taken seriously be the real scientific community, as they are such pure propagandists.

Etruscan February 11, 2011 1:14 pm (Pacific time)

What many do not realize is that Law Enforcement is generally not subject to drug testing like the rest of the workplace. The anecdotal reports of corruption, stolen evidence, and planted drugs are likely to be true.

seabourne February 11, 2011 3:34 am (Pacific time)

One would think the DEA and ONDCP has doctors or scientists on staff. Sadly this is not so - we would like to see that changed and believe it is a step to change.

It makes no sense that the DEA and ONDCP are run solely by law enforcement officials. These individuals have no medical or scientific training. It is obvious they do not take any scientific studies into consideration. Someone in charge of a drug policy should have scientific knowledge about drugs or at the very least medical training in medicines and drugs. The science done over the last 40 years needs to be taken into consideration, not simply ignored.
Drug policy should be based on science not idealogy.

Please read and sign the letter petition to appoint a doctor or scientist to the DEA and ONDCP.
http://www.change.org/petitions/appoint_a_doctor_or_scientist_to_the_dea_and_ondcp

Ed D February 11, 2011 6:37 am (Pacific time)

This is your country on Fascism. Any questions?

2crudedudes February 11, 2011 6:10 am (Pacific time)

Its so sad that more people have died in the nearly 40 years of the War on Drugs than have ever died directly from cannabis use (toxicity, impairment, or accidental) over thousands of years. More people have been killed by LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS than have ever been killed by cannabis.

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