On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:20:35 -0400, Aleisha Saba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
which said:
> You made me really wonder here, involuntary - about use of medical
> marijuana and what it really does. Feds say no medicinal value? Maybe
> that is true; but, nicotine is a drug used in medicines, but forget what
> for.
>
> What you said made me wonder......some people go through chemotherapy
> and feel pretty good; others become very, very ill and are given
> medication now with the therapy.
>
> What if marijuana just relaxes people - for it is said stress can really
> cause cancer victims unheard of problems.....
Well, that's one of my main positive points about marijuana. It's a
stress reliever, and yes, stress does cause health problems. That much
has been proven.
> Know two women who went to chemothrapy daily....each continued to work
> daily - while others had really adverse reactions.....
>
> What if marijuana relaxes a person, relieves the stress, creates a sense
> of well being, and at no cost if you can grow it free......but one there
> was a patent pending on first marijuana cigarette - was aware of this in
> 1972 but never checked it out, for had no reason.
I think it boils down to money. Companies aren't interested in selling
products you can grow for free, but oddly enough, they do it with
tomatoes, oranges, apples, plums, cattle, etc.... People would buy
commercially grown marijuana as long as there are no nasty additives
added to it. But they want a PATENT, and quite frankly, I'm surprised
if they can't get one. These genetic research companies are getting
patents for the genetic code they engineer. If I go to a geneticist and
get, say, green eyes instead of blue, I guess basically that company
owns the rights to my green eyes.
> So.....Zoloft - a drug to improve serotonin to do with neuro
> transmitters....supposedly eat a banana or potatoes have same effect.
I have noticed that eating a banana does revitalize me. I thought it
had to do with the potassium, though.
> I really wonder about this because going through some of the treatments
> for cancer - this is a traumatic experience and stressful.
Well, I don't know about cancer, but in the case of AIDS, marijuana
works becasue it allows the patient to keep his medicine down because
the nausea is relieved by getting high. AIDS patients can gain weight
because the marijuana causes the munchies, giving AIDS patients ravenous
apetites, and that's what they need. Good nutrition and a way to keep
the food down. Marijuana does both for them.
> What if marijuana just releases the stress which reduces some of the
> side effects?
>
> The man who died recently who could not smoke marijuana - how horrible -
> his life was made a living hell, and something that could have given him
> an easier path to follow was denied.
>
> So guess marijuana is illegal because like butterflies, it can be free
> in your own back yard.
Probably so. One of the things is that these pharmaceutical research
companies say that smoking anything isn't good. But they NEVER bring up
that you can simply eat cannabis right off the plant, fresh, like the
herbs basil, dill weed, thyme and others. Cannabis doesn't have to be
smoked to be effective, but smoking it does result in the quickest
effects. These pharmaceuticals want to take the marijuana and make it
into a patch, while still keeping the plant itself illegal. It's
obvious that they want to keep their cash registers ringing. If I'm not
mistaken, it's illegal to grow your own tobacco, and it's illegal to
make some kinds of alcoholic beverages. These companies want to do it
for us so we can pay them. Marijuana patches or pills won't be as
effective as a smoke. Swallowed Marinol would take a couple of hours to
kick in, if you could hold it down that long. Smoking a few puffs
causes the effects to kick in in only 5 to 10 minutes, then you swallow
your meds and they stay down.
> Am still stashing up on the catnip and maybe I make a catnip cigarette
> and find some marijuana and give it a try.
If you've never tried pot, you might not like it so much the first time.
I didn't really care for it the first time. I just felt sort of light,
like I was sort of filled with helium. After about the third or fourth
time, I started liking it because I realized I wouldn't turn into a
lunatic.
Ty
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