Seventy-three percent of surveyed medical specialists providing health care think cannabis benefits their patients, but only forty-six percent felt comfortable recommending it. Topping the list of complaints is the usual drug war collateral harm involving uncertainties in marijuana strains versus specific medical effects, product availabilities, and punitive state or federal regulations:
“I think in some cases we’re missing out on providing a useful tool. Providers think it has benefit,†says Ashley E. Glode, PharmD, assistant professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the study’s first author. […]
Providers … reported legal and regulatory concerns, especially providers working in academic medical centers who expressed uncertainty whether recommending medical marijuana could jeopardize federal funding (marijuana remains a [DEA] Schedule 1 drug). Providers felt as if additional clinical data describing the effectiveness of medical marijuana and endorsed guidelines describing the conditions and situations in which it should be used would increase their comfort in prescribing. […]
“Knowledge is an issue,†Glode says. “If we could do a better job educating our healthcare providers, it might be used more often….â€
Continued use of DEA scheduling to deliberately obstruct education and research on marijuana is futile. Research gets diverted elsewhere to countries such as Canada, making Canadians the first to profit from any patentable discoveries in their labs. Even those who reject marijuana for moral reasons become better informed about cannabis and its consumers when confronted by a diversity of people–some of them medicating cancer patients–who exemplify the fact marijuana use has nothing to do with a person’s moral character.
One possibility for US hesitancy to reschedule cannabis is it sees it as an admission of an embarrassing and crushing trillion-dollar defeat. Perhaps the beleaguered traditionalists in the federal government can find some comfort in knowing that defeats like those of the drug war, Viet Nam, General Custer’s last stand at the Little Bighorn, are a new national tradition thanks to prohibitionists.
The UK continues to use the law to prevent even the most obvious and needy patients from getting the meds that they need to relieve their suffering:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jun/07/mother-of-epileptic-girl-teagan-appleby-has-medicinal-cannabis-seized-for-second-time
Meanwhile three of the leadership contenders to take over as prime minister have admitted using illegal drugs, including cannabis, in the past. Collectively they justify this as a right to a private life before they entered politics. Too bad for the millions who have been permanently stigmatised by convictions for doing exactly the same thing.
https://news.sky.com/story/michael-gove-accused-of-rank-hypocrisy-over-cocaine-use-11737595
I haven’t looked at this site in years and came back today to see what’s new. The answer is nothing. The same dudes saying the same things over and over and over. Get a life guys.
and we haven’t missed you… actually hadn’t even noticed you weren’t here.
He was here? Didn’t notice him when he WAS.
Tell that to the people who are STILL getting arrested and the kids STILL being denied life saving medication on a daily basis. They don’t have the chance of a life because of prohibition. Are you suggesting we should just shut up about it because you are bored? (Must be a quiet day at the precinct)
Hitting the track
to see if smoking weed impairs driving
https://t.co/f8xMcTrVOW
New Saliva Marijuana Drug Test Fails Miserably
https://t.co/eyvClDX2Fe
Data Overstate Cannabis-Impaired Driving Danger,
a Congress Study Finds
https://t.co/jjZET3bE5l
Don’t be a dummy!
https://t.co/fMvA9E0Xci
The Try Guys get high and test their driving skills on a closed traffic course to experience how smoking marijuana compares to driving drunk and explore the dangers of driving under the influence.
The origins of cannabis smoking: Chemical residue evidence from the first millennium BCE in the Pamirs
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw1391
The Ancient Pots That Hint at Cannabis’s Early Use as a Drug
https://twitter.com/DendeCannabist/status/1139176467735072769
☛ The origins of cannabis smoking
☛ Humans started smoking cannabis 2,500 years
☛ The Scythians – High Plains Drifters