Heavy Marijuana Use Doesn't Damage Brain

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You are welcome, and I hope you find something that helps you soon. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps. He is right, it is created in a lab. Below is from the website http://www.pdxnorml.org/HT_Marinol_0794.html And he is right also that it doesn’t work, it made me sicker. Unlike marijuana, which can be grown cheaply by the masses, Marinol is produced by pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and distribute it for profit. And unlike hemp seeds, which reproduce in the presence of light, water and a green thumb, Marinol is hatched in a lab, the product of chemicals and machines They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc). They have not ninnynoggingirl … Marinol is a testtube petroleum product … a synthetic. like synthetic cotton, or synthetic wood … its looks good but don’t work. Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy? azure

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phoenix in trouble, have to find a liveable solution

ahhh. sorry to hear that, Phoenix. azure

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If you have terminal cancer – I don’t think it matters much if you smoke it and if you have something else you need to make an intelligent decision – dragging out IV tubes for someone who is up and mobile is a bit drastic.

yeah Inhalers would be interesting – but it would take some reserach to get that dosage right in the spray.

i guess, but it’s particles in the vapor just like it’s particles in the smoke. the dosage varies quite a lot in smoke too… like where the plant comes from, how old is it, how well stored, etc. and people have fairly individual reactions to the stuff… like alan said, a certain percentage doesn’t get off at all. some people don’t get off the first five times, and then one toke and pow, like something in the brain figures it out. that happened to me, way back when. i grew quite fond of it for a while. one time i blew some smoke that disconnected something in my cognitive functions and i could recognize individual letters but couldn’t make them into words for about 4 hours. weird eh? if i hadn’t been so relaxed i might have been quite worried, especially since i was driving takeout at the time and got fired at the end of the shift for coming back without making any of my deliveries. i tried to explain that i couldn’t read the street signs and had to drive *very slowly* to avoid being stressed, but the guy who owned the place was a real nazi and he didn’t want to hear about it. so anyway, i would have said that dope was definitely laced with something, but i smoked up with four other people before leaving for work and i was the only one the total dyslexic blowout thing happened to. and it never happened again, before or after that. so that’s what i mean by individual. cal

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – thanks mica.. i do trust alan, but it is interesting for me to know that you tried that pill (even if i am really sorry that you had to); but i definitively will avoid the experience for myself thanks to both of you.. phoenix in trouble, have to find a liveable solution You are welcome, and I hope you find something that helps you soon.

i hope so, i still have a full week to work, then i will be on holidays for 3 weeks, i must find an adapted solution during that time…. i woked up at 3am with a blocked back again huge pains, can’t sit, can’t stand, cant be in bed – don’t know what’s left… thanks phoenix – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps. He is right, it is created in a lab. Below is from the website http://www.pdxnorml.org/HT_Marinol_0794.html And he is right also that it doesn’t work, it made me sicker. Unlike marijuana, which can be grown cheaply by the masses, Marinol is produced by pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and distribute it for profit. And unlike hemp seeds, which reproduce in the presence of light, water and a green thumb, Marinol is hatched in a lab, the product of chemicals and machines They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc). They have not ninnynoggingirl … Marinol is a testtube petroleum product … a synthetic. like synthetic cotton, or synthetic wood … its looks good but don’t work. Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy? azure

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Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps.

okay … but … that does not refute my point. or did you intend to reply to someone else’s post rather than mine? doesn’t the gel cap have to be swallowed and retained in the stomach in order to be effective? or can it be inhaled or stuck up the ass or whatever? (shiver. word to the wise: do NOT get the type of med you have to stick up your ass — Compazine. it does REALLY freaky things to you, whether you have ‘roids or not. the side effects can be far worse than vomiting yourself to death.) my point was that inhaled medication would be a more practical way to deal with nausea than a pill that, because of that very nausea, might easily be upchucked. azure, sincerely puzzled and whose mom died her cancer death with a joint in her purse – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy?

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I already posted to cinnymngirl about marinol and the clinical aspects around it … remember phoenix these are sick Americans you are talking to.

yes, thanks, i saw your answer and the one from mica also… again, thanks to both, that is going to help me not try that med and i will "earn" some time in my research for helping my situation… There is a liberal left wing criminal conspiracy with drug lords to hook our kids on gateway drug marijuana making the granny hospice excuse – so toss granny in jail and let her die there … to protect the kids of course. They pray to a God that fucks around and when you go to the heaven of this God that fucks his kids – all I can say is watch your ass.

well, i think that my ass is safe…. it’s my back the problem… gosh alan, last night the pain was so strong that i almost couldn’t breathe and i was totally foggy in my head, couldn’t even read stright !!!! i am learning there are things that i am not allowed to do anymore, difficult teaching, but somewhere i felt ok to have that pain. i got it because the daughter of my boss with her children are in holidays, a boy 3 1/2 year old, and a girl 14 months old. their mother wants some holidays so she always let at least one child at work with us, and of course it is impossible to deal with – we are working lots and even now double because of the holidays next months. anyway the little girl was in the arms of her grand mother and of course picked some papers which fall down on the floor, her grand mother beat her on her hand and the little girl cried lots, she saw me close and i took her and console her and walked with her away from her grand mother, her little heart was really in pain; she hide her face in my neck and hold to me and had big pains in her baby heart with big sobs…. so, i kept her with me until she was in peace, but my back said no… so now i know that i can’t walk with a child in my arms…. i feel learning like she did, the hard way, only that she didn’t understood why she got a clap, at least i can learn and understand…. (let’s hope !!!) sumbuddie knows whats going on :)

yes, i believe that…. and i like aroma therapie.. phoenix going to start a list of what is not possible or is it stupid? i have to think about it – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i suppose a water pipe would avoid that effect isn’t it? as for making a pill, i don’t see any reason except to give more money to laboratories…. if this pill already exists, then why isn’t it used? something is wrong there isn’t it? phoenix

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The world is not flat Sherry, abortion is not murder, and Marinol is not extracted from plants. One of these days, you will start to get it. The human mind can not come out of denial overnight – it is too much of a shock to the system. I know you are in the disease and I make allowance for that … sumbuddie luvs ya and wishes you well. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps. He is right, it is created in a lab. Below is from the website http://www.pdxnorml.org/HT_Marinol_0794.html And he is right also that it doesn’t work, it made me sicker. Unlike marijuana, which can be grown cheaply by the masses, Marinol is produced by pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and distribute it for profit. And unlike hemp seeds, which reproduce in the presence of light, water and a green thumb, Marinol is hatched in a lab, the product of chemicals and machines

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Marinol will not help nausea if one is upchucking the pill … now will it ? what they can put in a pill, they can put in an IV bag. not that i’ve got anything against vapor inhalators either. c

aromatherapy is already happening with medical marijuana with the vapor inhalators, and marinol is not good to push down the veins … its a petroleum product … better for it to hit stomach acids first. sumbuddie luvs cal – but you gotta think a little better then this.

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thanks mica.. i do trust alan, but it is interesting for me to know that you tried that pill (even if i am really sorry that you had to); but i definitively will avoid the experience for myself thanks to both of you.. phoenix in trouble, have to find a liveable solution – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps. He is right, it is created in a lab. Below is from the website http://www.pdxnorml.org/HT_Marinol_0794.html And he is right also that it doesn’t work, it made me sicker. Unlike marijuana, which can be grown cheaply by the masses, Marinol is produced by pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and distribute it for profit. And unlike hemp seeds, which reproduce in the presence of light, water and a green thumb, Marinol is hatched in a lab, the product of chemicals and machines They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc). They have not ninnynoggingirl … Marinol is a testtube petroleum product … a synthetic. like synthetic cotton, or synthetic wood … its looks good but don’t work. Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy? azure

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Marinol will not help nausea if one is upchucking the pill … now will it

? what they can put in a pill, they can put in an IV bag. not that i’ve got anything against vapor inhalators either. c

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Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps.

He is right, it is created in a lab. Below is from the website http://www.pdxnorml.org/HT_Marinol_0794.html And he is right also that it doesn’t work, it made me sicker. Unlike marijuana, which can be grown cheaply by the masses, Marinol is produced by pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and distribute it for profit. And unlike hemp seeds, which reproduce in the presence of light, water and a green thumb, Marinol is hatched in a lab, the product of chemicals and machines – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc). They have not ninnynoggingirl … Marinol is a testtube petroleum product … a synthetic. like synthetic cotton, or synthetic wood … its looks good but don’t work. Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy? azure

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Your PTSD keeps you from thinking clearly ninnynogginggirl … Marinol is a synthetic petroleum product … it is not extracted from the plant at all. The plant has 503 biochemicals that make up the medicine – Marinol has only one of the 503 biochemicals. Synthetic marinol is like synethetic thyroid hormone … or synthetic insulin .. or synthetic cotton or wood. The real thing is a lot better and healthier. I wish you will lady and I am so sorry you were abuse so terribly to turn out this way. sumbuddie luvs ya anyway – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps.

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a vaporizer – autolitizer is the best. the medical goo turns into a gas at 140 degrees F. when the smoke appears – the base material is burning and this is the notice to stop and toss the material away and get new – to toast. there is suppose to be NO coughing – it is just perfume sniffing really. aromatherapy … its a flower. sumbuddie knows whats going on – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i suppose a water pipe would avoid that effect isn’t it? no, just reduce it a bit like filtered cigarettes.

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snip i suppose the anarchist view would be, if government must exist, it should at least have the grace to fuck off and let everybody do exactly what they want with marijuana. that cuts right through all the supposed complexity ( = bullshit), and i like solutions like that. cal

yeah, not only *i like solutions like that, but i think i am going to need them much quicker and more strongly than ever… but for me a real democratic governement with respect for the population and knowing that the population is educated and mature enough to make the right choices of what is good for each individual … i want to be able as a responsible adult to make the choices i want and need for myself and the best for my health. period. of course, there is the "marketing"…. but on the other hand, if it would be legalized, as it is in holland, the dealers wouldn’t earn that much because it would be a normal substance, so not very expensive, just like buying a piece of bread, that would normalize the product and defeat the dealers markets…. phoenix

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They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc). They have not ninnynoggingirl … Marinol is a testtube petroleum product … a synthetic. like synthetic cotton, or synthetic wood … its looks good but don’t work. Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking)

indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy? azure

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Marinol is pure THC. It is not produced in a laboratory. It is extracted from the plant and comes in small gel caps.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc). They have not ninnynoggingirl … Marinol is a testtube petroleum product … a synthetic. like synthetic cotton, or synthetic wood … its looks good but don’t work. Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy? azure

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Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) indeed. isn’t that the whole point, when one is dealing with nausea induced by cancer therapy? azure

or nausea from AIDS or any other disease or hospice symptology of dying … that is the whole point … and eating a pill when one is nausea and tossing up water … one can not do. Marinol will not help nausea if one is upchucking the pill … now will it ? Medical Marijuana as aromatherapy just allows one to breath in the medicine until they find the medical effect (in 10% of humans marijuana has no effect on them, just like the other drugs – in 10% of humans heroin or morphine as an opposite effect and they can not use it). The first breath of pot – the headache goes away. The second breath of pot – the nausea goes away. The third breath of pot – the muscle spasms go away. The patient puts the pot away and has no more need until it metabolize out of the body – per their own body metabolism speed. Small people usually need small amounts – big people usually need big amounts. Every body is different – so recovery is different for everybody. Via la difference mon ami. sumbuddie said dis

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They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc).

They have not ninnynoggingirl … Marinol is a testtube petroleum product … a synthetic. like synthetic cotton, or synthetic wood … its looks good but don’t work. Marinol as a pill is very hard to titrate and control the dose … one swallow (if you can get it down without upchucking) and people say it is 15 times more potent then marijuana. it usually makes them sick it is so strong … people with AIDs and wasting disease – they can not swollow water – they upchuck. smoking (autolizing is better) makes a solid medicine go into a gas – pass the upchuck controls – medicate them and get some food in there. other ways of moving out the upchuck control are injection and suppository maybe. I am sure you are part of the culture wars the Republcians are having – toss granny in jail so the liberal left wing criminal conspiracy to hook our kids on gateway drugs not like Alcohol and DUIs (50,000 a year) is the deal. Those Republicans are protecting our kids … toss granny in jail for smoking pot on her way to the grave and engaging in adult responsible use just like any insulin shooter … who properly dispose of their needles. One of these days I suspect you will get it … at least I have hi apple pie in the sky hopes of it. sumbuddie luvs ya and wishes you well … really

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I already posted to cinnymngirl about marinol and the clinical aspects around it … remember phoenix these are sick Americans you are talking to. There is a liberal left wing criminal conspiracy with drug lords to hook our kids on gateway drug marijuana making the granny hospice excuse – so toss granny in jail and let her die there … to protect the kids of course. They pray to a God that fucks around and when you go to the heaven of this God that fucks his kids – all I can say is watch your ass. sumbuddie knows whats going on :) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – i suppose a water pipe would avoid that effect isn’t it? as for making a pill, i don’t see any reason except to give more money to laboratories…. if this pill already exists, then why isn’t it used? something is wrong there isn’t it? phoenix

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They’ve done it, Cal. The pill is called Marinol. The active ingredient is tetrahydracannabinol (thc).

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Analysis of Studies Finds Little Effect From Long-Term Use By Sid Kirchheimer WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Michael Smith, MD on Tuesday, July 01, 2003 July 1, 2003 — Long-term and even daily marijuana use doesn’t appear to cause permanent brain damage, adding to evidence that it can be a safe and effective treatment for a wide range of diseases, say researchers. it’s not a treatment for any disease in the sense that it cures it, just in the sense of symptom management and palliation. apart from that i would say yeah, great, except smoking isn’t medically advisable no matter what kind of smoke you chronically suck into your lungs. what they should do is extract the active ingredient of marijuana (i forget its name just now, but it’s a known chemical) and put it into a pill. then it could be dispensed by prescription along with other opiates already being sold like that, some of them much more potent. i don’t really understand why this is so controversial. cal

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i suppose a water pipe would avoid that effect isn’t it? as for making a pill, i don’t see any reason except to give more money to laboratories…. if this pill already exists, then why isn’t it used? something is wrong there isn’t it? phoenix — "the biggest mistake is to allow patriotism to prevail over humanism" – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Analysis of Studies Finds Little Effect From Long-Term Use By Sid Kirchheimer WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Michael Smith, MD on Tuesday, July 01, 2003 July 1, 2003 — Long-term and even daily marijuana use doesn’t appear to cause permanent brain damage, adding to evidence that it can be a safe and effective treatment for a wide range of diseases, say researchers. it’s not a treatment for any disease in the sense that it cures it, just in the sense of symptom management and palliation. apart from that i would say yeah, great, except smoking isn’t medically advisable no matter what kind of smoke you chronically suck into your lungs. what they should do is extract the active ingredient of marijuana (i forget its name just now, but it’s a known chemical) and put it into a pill. then it could be dispensed by prescription along with other opiates already being sold like that, some of them much more potent. i don’t really understand why this is so controversial. cal

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i suppose a water pipe would avoid that effect isn’t it?

no, just reduce it a bit like filtered cigarettes. as for making a pill, i don’t see any reason except to give more money to laboratories….

well, we need the labs. i don’t have a problem there… they make products and sell them, like everybody else. their profits need to be watched and regulated though, as the products tend to be of vital importance. it’s human nature to take advantage when you’ve got a stranglehold. if this pill already exists, then why isn’t it used? something is wrong there isn’t it?

now that i know there’s a pill (thanks sherrie) i would guess it’s available for use, and probably is used by some, but others insist on being allowed to have the dried, crushed-up plant for burning and inhaling purposes. i don’t think most doctors would prescribe that even if it was legal, except maybe in a palliative situation. but i don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t be legal… not just medically, but recreationally like alcohol and tobacco products. in terms of addictive and mentally impairing properties, it’s a benign substance compared to those. in terms of carcinogenic properties, they’re about the same as tobacco if used in the same way. but people don’t seem to use it the same way because it’s much less addictive. (in moderate to heavy cigarette smokers, nicotine withdrawal pangs habitually appear within 20 minutes of not smoking.) but then others would say, we already have those, so why add another recreational drug to the list? to which i would say it’s already on the list, just like booze stayed on the list right through prohibition. making it legal would be beneficial in terms of quality control and price stabilization, it would relieve the justice system of a lot of frivolous cases, it would deprive organized crime of a source of revenue, and it would result in fewer people being arrested and maligned for trivial and unjust reasons. but just legalizing it as a "controlled substance" wouldn’t satisfy a lot of people who also want the freedom to grow the stuff in their back yard, and maybe even give it away or sell it, the way some like to make gin in the basement and maybe even give it away or sell it. so it’s controversy within controversy on this one. i suppose the anarchist view would be, if government must exist, it should at least have the grace to fuck off and let everybody do exactly what they want with marijuana. that cuts right through all the supposed complexity ( = bullshit), and i like solutions like that. cal

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Hey Cal — Kaiser hospital chain has done the largest long term study on smoking and lung damage … 30,000 smokes. What they found was that tobacco has a chemical hook in it that keeps the lung damage from signaling it is dead cell – so it is not healed and swept away. With marijauan smoke (and vaporising is the best way as the medicine appears at 140 degrees F … smoke is the base material that is burning away and it is not medicine) don’t do this to the lung damage – so it heals as it goes. Even people who smoke tobacco and marijuana – their lung cancer rate was the same as the marijuana smokes – and not high like the tobacco smokers. Still – I agree smoking is not good – and as soon as the cops let me keep a crop (they took the last three years worth) I can use the large amounts of material needed to medicate that way … as autolization uses much more material then burning it. A pack a day Camel smoker takes in about 28.5 pounds of tobacco – at an ounce a pack. Same for a medical marijuana patient – though the average use is 6-8 pounds a year as determined by the Federal Government in the New Drug Investigation Program opened by legal action and closed by Bush the First. Today as you read this there are 12 or so Federal Medical Marijuana patients – so the legal grounds federally for that is so … no doubt about it … and Bush puts cancer patients in jail for the crime of easing suffering. They are not criminals – they are good people who help out – like you Cal. sumbuddie not making dis up

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it’s not a treatment for any disease in the sense that it cures it, just in the sense of symptom management and palliation. apart from that i would say yeah, great, except smoking isn’t medically advisable no matter what kind of smoke you chronically suck into your lungs. what they should do is extract the active ingredient of marijuana (i forget its name just now, but it’s a known chemical) and put it into a pill. then it could be dispensed by prescription along with other opiates already being sold like that, some of them much more potent. i don’t really understand why this is so controversial. cal

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Analysis of Studies Finds Little Effect From Long-Term Use By Sid Kirchheimer WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Michael Smith, MD on Tuesday, July 01, 2003 July 1, 2003 — Long-term and even daily marijuana use doesn’t appear to cause permanent brain damage, adding to evidence that it can be a safe and effective treatment for a wide range of diseases, say researchers. The researchers found only a "very small" impairment in memory and learning among long-term marijuana users. Otherwise, scores on thinking tests were similar to those who don’t smoke marijuana, according to a new analysis of 15 previous studies. In those studies, some 700 regular marijuana users were compared with 484 non-users on various aspects of brain function — including reaction time, language and motor skills, reasoning ability, memory, and the ability to learn new information. Surprising Finding "We were somewhat surprised by our finding, especially since there’s been a controversy for some years on whether long-term cannabis use causes brain damage," says lead researcher and psychiatrist Igor Grant, MD. "I suppose we expected to see some differences in people who were heavy users, but in fact the differences were very minimal." The marijuana users in those 15 studies — which lasted between three months to more than 13 years — had smoked marijuana several times a week or month or daily. Still, researchers say impairments were less than what is typically found from using alcohol or other drugs. "All study participants were adults," says Grant, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research Center at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. "However, there might be a different set of circumstances to a 12-year-old whose nervous system is still developing." 10 States OK Marijuana Use Grant’s analysis, published in the July issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, comes as many states consider laws allowing marijuana to be used to treat certain medical conditions. Earlier this year, Maryland became the 10th state to allow marijuana use to relieve pain and other symptoms of AIDS, multiple sclerosis, cancer, glaucoma, and other conditions — joining Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Medicinal marijuana is available by prescription in the Netherlands and a new marijuana drug is expected to be released in Great Britain later this year. In the U.S. and elsewhere, Marinol, a drug that is a synthetic form of marijuana and contains its active ingredient, THC, is available by prescription to treat loss of appetite associated with weight loss in AIDS patients. Grant says he did the analysis to help determine long-term toxicity from long-term and frequent marijuana use. His center is currently conducting 11 studies to determine its safety and efficacy in treating several diseases. "This finding enables us to see a marginal level of safety, if those studies prove that cannabis can be effective," Grant tells WebMD. "If we barely find this effect in long-term heavy users, then we are unlikely to see deleterious side effects in individuals who receive cannabis for a short time in a medical setting, which would be safer than what is practiced by street users." Grant’s findings come as no surprise to Tod Mikuriya, MD, former director of non-classified marijuana research for the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Narcotics and Drug Abuse Studies and author of The Marijuana Medical Handbook: A Guide to Therapeutic Use. He is currently president of the California Cannabis Medical Group, which has treated some 20,000 patients with medicinal marijuana and Marinol. ‘Highly Effective Medicine’ "I just re-published a paper of the first survey for marijuana toxicity done in 1863 by the British government in India that was the most exhaustive medical study of its time in regards to possible difficulties and toxicity of cannabis. And it reached the same conclusion as Grant," Mikuriya tells WebMD. "This is merely confirming what was known over 100 years ago, as well as what was learned by various government findings doing similar research — marijuana is not toxic, but it is a highly effective medicine." In fact, marijuana was available as a medicinal treatment in the U.S. until the 1930s. Lester Grinspoon, MD, a retired Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who studied medicinal marijuana use since the 1960s and wrote two books on the topic, says that while Grant’s finding provides more evidence on its safety, "it’s nothing that those of us who have been studying this haven’t known for a very long time. "Marijuana is a remarkably safe and non-toxic drug that can effectively treat about 30 different conditions," he tells WebMD. "I predict it will become the aspirin of the 21st century, as more people recognize this." —- SOURCES: The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, July 2003. Igor Grant, MD, professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; director, UCSD Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research Center. Tod Mikuriya, MD, president, the California Cannabis Research Medical Group, Oakland; former director of non-classified marijuana research, the National Institute of Mental Health Center for Narcotics and Drug Abuse Studies. Lester Grinspoon, MD, professor emeritus of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston; author, Marijuana: The Forbidden Medicine and Marihuana Reconsidered. — "the biggest mistake is to allow patriotism to prevail over humanism"

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