You make a good point and it is a legitimate area of concern for the doctors and patients who make this choice. What we are talking about is the delivery system. There are edibles available in most places, and in Canada there is a company that provides some form of pills (saw that with Montel Williams on O'Reilly I think). There is also something called a vaporizer that basically cooks the plant material and extracts moisture and active ingredients as vapor, providing the effect of smoking it without the toxins.
More importantly, if it was actually legalized as a prescription medicine, drug companies could put research money into building more effective delivery mechanisms that have no side effects and allow for more precise dosage, e.g. an inhaler that delivers the active ingredients via some form of vapor like the vaporizer. The funny thing is that marijuana was made illegal during a fabricated panic about it causing potentially psychotic reactions in people who used it. Today, on the market in the United States, you can be prescribed medications that actually do have the potential to create psychotic reactions in some patients - anti-depressants. Yet those drugs remain legal while marijuana remains - for the most part - illegal. That makes absolutely no sense to me. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM, C. Hattonwrote: > > Since tobacco smokers are vilified and shunned in today's society for > their act of inhaling and exhaling the smoke created by burning dried > tobacco leaves (modified or unmodified), how would society at large > (driven by the same groups that have pushed the public against > smoking) regard and treat people who smoked non-tobacco products? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287248 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
