Marijuana and Methadone: Two Very Dangerous Drugs

Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - When we get into a Pizzen controversy like this one we must inquire - who says so. This is really simple; U.S. government paid mouthpieces bleat that marijuana is as dangerous as heroin.

They don't give any references or quotations from physicians or toxicologists to back up this bleating but if a person being paid by the U.S. government says marijuana is dangerous and addicting they must believe it and say so or they will lose a good paying job.

As a matter of fact, the dumass chairman of the Oregon Medical Board asked me, "Dr. Leveque, don't you know that marijuana is very addicting and very dangerous?"

"Yes" I said, "dumass." Then he suspended my license and later revoked it releasing to the Oregonian newspaper that I was "a danger to all my patients and the public in general".

This was pretty scary to me, I had 5,000 patients on marijuana and I just didn't know I was harming them.

Now let's go to Methadone. This drug is highly recommended and prescribed to get morphine, oxycontin and heroin drug addicts off these drugs. It must be safe and good for those druggies because the FDA and the rest of the U.S. government bozos say it is good and safe. Whoa, there must be another side to this story.

Last week I picked up an interesting medical journal, The Ladies Home Journal, with an article about Methadone with information from the U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center stating that the number of Methadone deaths from 1992 to 2004 increased per year from 786 in 1999, to 3,849 in 2004.

They further report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network which compiles drug related ER visits reported in 2005 that there wee 598,542 drug incidents of which 46,316 were for Methadone.

Bruce Goldberg Ph.D., a forensic Toxicologist for the state of Florida, believes the Methadone related fatalities are under-reported.

Mercy me, how can we believe what the U.S. government bozos are flapping their lips about when they still won't admit that marijuana has never killed anybody?

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MATiseffective October 25, 2010 12:02 am (Pacific time)

While I'm a firm believer in marijuana as medicine, methadone is a medicine that is needed for some. I am one, I won't even begin to say how much it's helped. The facts are the facts, you obviously know the facts of marijuana as medicine, you should know the facts of methadone as medicine. The methadone deaths aren't related to the methadone clinic systems in anyway, it's the people getting it prescribed for pain relief diverting it. http://www.methadone.org/

The Editor May 22, 2008 2:02 pm (Pacific time)

Eazy Money: What I am trying to tell you is that any doctor who had this kind of knowledge and experience and was also willing to openly criticize the government, FDA, VA and pharmaceutical companies, would also have his license revoked.

Here it is: there were two handicapped ladies who were invalid and lived in eastern Oregon. The doc didn't make them come in for a physical visit because they practically couldn't, and because their medical histories showed them qualifying for medical marijuana on several levels. So he signed theirs without a physical visit and that is what they got him for, that was it.

It can be spun different ways, but this is a country doctor we are talking about here and a rare breed in this day and age. He isn't much of a golfer but he really is and was loved by his patients like few doctors. I know, they write here all the time praising him.

So please don't make it more than it is, understand that the system that strips valuable doctors from out society is not always right or perfect. Of course you appear to have glossed over everything else about his history that I stated, so you might just let it lay again, but I hope others who are reading this feel like they know a little more, thanks.
Tim King- The Editor

EazyMoney May 22, 2008 1:53 pm (Pacific time)

Well it does seem a bit funny that you use a doctor who's had his license revoked to do these interviews, regardless of his experience. It somehow makes him seem less credible. On the other hand I'd like to see all drugs legalized and taxed. And I'd like to see all the people incarcerated for using and selling drugs released as long as they are non-violent and that is their only crime. The war on drugs is obviously B.S , doesn't work, ruins peoples lives, and wastes a huge amount of money. Money that could be used in treatment and education, space in jails that could be used for real offenders. It would take the profit out of selling drugs and resolve a lot of crime. Police could save millions every year by leaving "drug offenders" alone and going after actual crime. And the government could make millions a year by taxing these things, (like they already do with pharmaceuticals). We could start becoming more environmentally conscientious with marijuana, by making paper with it, using it to produce fabrics and materials, and using it to produce oil and even fuel. Rather than cutting down trees and using corn to make bio-diesel and producing more non-biodegradable plastics. I'm against medicinal marijuana. I think it should be available to any adult who wants it. They also say wine has health benefits, but a prescription isn't needed for that. Maybe someday this country will grow up a little. I sure hope so.

The Editor May 22, 2008 12:48 pm (Pacific time)

Yes, because he would not play the role that the system expected him to. He has some great articles coming our way that explain more. He called the guy a name that is a French description for what it almost spells in English. The man he used the description on is connected with pharmaceutical companies on a personal level, he is tied to the system that has created all of the archaic laws that exist today.

At the age of 85, I think Dr. Leveque is ideally suited to now present his knowledge through these articles on Salem-News.com. He served with honor as a frontline combat infantryman in WWII, one day capturing 26 Nazi officers in a building by himself. He returned to the states, went to medical school here in Oregon, and began teaching at Universities after he completed not one but two Ph.D.'s. He then became a toxicologist which is still is, a pharmacologist, and a physician. Dr. Leveque lectured and taught for the University of London and trained the first medical doctors in Tanzania, Africa. His wife was a Holocaust survivor.

I have never met a person who knows as much or has lived in as many parts of the world, or survived war and endured the years of education, that he has. It is a serious honor to work with him and those still hung up on pot being a dangerous drug as your communities suffer from so many real problems, who still think some girl or some dude smoking a joint should be arrested, will probably never change because you are permanently programmed and you do not wish to see things differently.

EazyMoney May 22, 2008 12:12 pm (Pacific time)

"Yes" I said, "dumass." Then he suspended my license and later revoked it releasing to the Oregonian newspaper that I was "a danger to all my patients and the public in general". Is Dr. Leveque's license to practice medicine still revoked?

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