Here is just one more thing they were wrong about !!

by elder-schmelder 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  elder-schmelder

  This is a quote from the Young People Ask – Answers that work book.

  Marijuana—A NewWonderDrug?

  There has been much ado over claims that marijuana may have therapeutic value in treating glaucoma and asthma and in easing the nausea that cancer patients experience during chemotherapy. A U.S. Institute of Medicine report acknowledges that there is some truth to these claims. But does this mean that in the near future doctors will be prescribing marijuana cigarettes?

  Not likely, for while some of marijuana’s over 400 chemical compounds may prove useful, smoking marijuana would hardly be the logical way to take such medicines. “Using marijuana,” says noted authority Dr. Carlton Turner, “would be like giving people molded bread to eat to get penicillin.” So if any marijuana compounds ever become bona fide medicines, it will be marijuana “derivatives or analogues,” chemical compounds similar to them, that doctors will prescribe. No wonder, then, that the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services wrote: “It should be emphasized that possible therapeutic benefits in no way modify the significance of the negative health effects of marijuana.”

  I guess that they were off on that one.

  elder-schmelder
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  WTWizard

  Another way the Washtowel Slaveholdery got it wrong. I have heard of situations where people taking the pills actually get high, and control of the condition is poor. When they smoke weed, they are getting the medicine in much more controlled doses, and will not always get high like they did on the pills. Plus, weed has other ingredients that could work along with the main ingredient, making the treatment more effective.

  However, like any drug, it has its risks. Abusing it is one. Another is the fact that smoking is always irritant to your lungs, and it could lead to cancer and other lung trouble down the road. But then again, so does just about every prescription drug that is prescribed for managing medical "diseases" and that needs to be taken for life.
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  hamsterbait

  If marijuana helps a chemo patient stop retching and vomiting, then COMPASSION dictates that it must be okay.

  After all it is just being used like a herbal remedy ( and most JWs prefer these to proper medicines)

  Don't you think it is an ingrained prejudice against sucking a drug in through the lungs, as opposed to eating or drinking it?

  Most of the best medications are drived from plants Digitalis, Morphine, Heroin, Aspirin, I suppose the real issue with the old Reptiles is how the medication is taken.

  Smoking = UNNATURAL

  Eating = Natural

  Drinking = Natural

  Injecting = Natural

  HB
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  shamus100

  Medicinal marijuana is legal here.

  The roof hasn't fallen in. Cats still eat cat food; dogs still eat dog food. Nothing has changed.

  Heroin is a much more prevalant drug used, and very addictive.
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  wha happened?

  Ya don't have to smoke it. There is a device called the vaporizer