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This is old news, let's get things into perspective.
This arguement is not about morality, it's about lobbists and greed over your rights!
Number of American Deaths per Year (1987)*
| *Federal Government Bureau of Mortality Statistics and The National Institue on Drug Abuse, 1987. | |
| Tobacco |
340,000
to 395,000
|
| Alcohol |
125,000+
|
| Aspirin |
180
to 1000+
|
| Caffeine |
1,000
to 10,000
|
| Legal Drug Overdose |
14,000
to 27,000
|
|
Illicit Drug Overdose |
3800
to 5200
|
|
Marijuana users have the same or lower incidence of murders and highway deaths and accidents than the general non marijuana using population as a whole.(Cancer Study, UCLA: US Funded. First and second Jamaica Studies 1968 to 1974) marijuana toxicity does not exist. |
0
(UCLA,Harvard)
|
| Viagra |
30
+ (1998/2000)
|
Coming soon
Britain's Misery Meter
British Medical Association News
Gives Prize For Letter Supporting Medical Marijuana
BMA NEWS REVIEW
October 1999 Page 32
Patients Abandoned Under Cannabis Bar
In his argument for delaying the medicinal use of cannabis, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins states that "many modern medicines such as quinine, morphine and dioxin have been shown to possess useful therapeutic properties - not from anecdote but from properly conducted clinical trials." ("Joint debate", BMA News Review, September 1999)
These drugs were in widespread use and anecdotally recognised for their clinical effect long before the days of clinical trials. Anecdote continues to be an important driving force for doctors to investigate new uses for drugs and other therapeutic measures.
I agree we need to investigate the medicinal properties of cannabis.
However, in my speciality of pain relief we use a wide range of drugs and therapies very successfully but without the backing of randomised clinical trials. Is this all rubbish? If Sir Michael believes so, then he should come and spend time in my pain relief clinic with the patients the rest of medicine has abandoned.
But what I really object to is his patronising tone when he describes doctors such as myself as "good and honourable people acting with the best of motives who should, though, think with their heads rather than their hearts.". I wonder whether he ever treats patients in severe pain?
I want to investigate the benefit of cannabinoids for patients who are suffering chronic pain. For too long politicians, big business and busybodies have obstructed this particular issue but have done little else to help this group of patients.
William Notcutt
MB,ChB, FRCA, James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Some Stats96 % of BBC WatchDog Viewers back medical use.
BBC 1 Watchdog Aug 1998
42,000 viewers of BBC1’s Watchdog Healthcheck programme took part in a telephone poll on the subject. Following a filmed report looking at the effects of the drug on patients suffering with conditions ranging from cancer, Aids and glaucoma to multiple sclerosis, 96 per cent of voters were in favour of legalising the medical use of cannabis. Only four per cent were opposed.
The programme-makers were surprised, both by the huge response to the issue and by the size of the majority that came out in support of liberalising attitudes to the drug.
Just five minutes after the filmed report had finished more than 30,000 viewers had called in with their votes. Source: Independent on Sunday, 1998*
