Feds Shut Down Marin Pot Club, (California's) Oldest

[Webster Green]

41. You are just wrong.

The DEA, as well as the others mentioned will pay lip service to advocating further research. That is a distraction. Of course further research is a good thing, as long as the researchers are objective. The US has been preventing that sort of research for quite a while now. They have no problem with "research" that will arrive at their desired conclusions however.

The current position of the DEA is that cannabis has no medicinal value. That is one of the reasons it is still classified as schedule 1. One of the criteria for that schedule is that the substance has no medicinal value.

The cannabis-based products you mentioned are not approved in the US.

Neither the AMA or the American Cancer Society are being honest about this. As a matter of fact, the Cancer Society had posted information about research indicating the anti-cancer effects of cannabis on their website, but then mysteriously removed the information from the site. I wonder who compelled them to delete that rather important information?

Anyone who denies the medical benefits is uninformed or dishonest. When I did 9 months of chemotherapy, while waiting to get my injections, my oncologists would clue other waiting chemo patients that I was out on the fire escape toking up, and that they might want to join me. That was in 1978. The benefits of cannabis to combat the nausea associated with chemo are undeniable, and have been well known for some time.

The current position of the US government is that cannabis has no medicinal value. You can deny that all you want, but you are simply incorrect. I've been a cannabis activist since 1966. I follow it closely. I was very active in getting CA 215 passed, as well as the successful Marin County initiative that preceded it. I know what I'm talking about, and you are incorrect.