Marijuana is medicine!

Marijuana is:

The SAFEST therapeutic drug know to man.

One of Humanities OLDEST medicines with a remarkable record of both safety and efficiency.

The BEST natural expectorant to void lungs of smog.

Used for the treatment of more than 100 separate illnesses or diseases.

One of the MOST TESTED therapeutic drugs. Used since 2737 B.C., it is tested by time, not the 10 or 50 years like the drugs of today.

The BEST AGENT for the control of nausea in cancer's chemotherapy or nausea disorders.

The BEST KNOWN overall bronchial dilator.

Marijuana is the safest know therapeutic drug:

The Cannabis plant, also know as Marijuana, has hundreds of demonstrated medical and therapeutic uses. It is used to treat rare congenital uses as well as common health problems, from simple headaches to AIDS and cancer.

More is know about the therapeutic uses of Marijuana than about most prescription drugs.

Marijuana has been tested by millions of people, for thousands of years. In all that time there is not a single recorded death caused by consuming Marijuana. Most prescription drugs have only been tested 10 to 50 years.

Marijuana is two to three times as effective as currently legal medicine for reducing ocular pressure, without toxic side effects associated with present legal glaucoma drugs.

Eighty percent of asthmatics could add two to four years to their life spans, by using Marijuana over the presently legal and toxic medicine used by asthmatics.

The greatest advantage of Marijuana as a medicine is its unusual safety. The ratio of lethal dose to effective dose is estimated to 20.000:1.

D.E.A. Administrative Law Judge Francis J. Young said on Sept. 6 1888 "That Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances know to man."

Facts about Marijuana as medicine:

Ninety percent of glaucoma victims can benefit from the use of Marijuana.

Marijuana is also the supreme dilator of the airways, the bronchi, opening them up to allow more oxygen into the blood. Marijuana is the best dilator of the little air tubes of the lungs, the bronchioles.

Medical research indicates that light Marijuana smoking would be the therapy of choice for mild emphysema to allow more fresh areas of bronchi to open up for more transfer and increase the quality of life for tens of millions of sufferers of emphysema.

Sixty percent of epileptics can benefit from the use of Marijuana. It is considered to be the best medication for many types of epilepsy and most victims' post-seizure trauma.

Marijuana completely alleviates most migraine headaches - Marijuana could replace 50% of all the valium, librium, thoracine, and stelacine used today

Research into oxygen transfer effects caused by Marijuana smoking indicates that chest pain, shortness of breath, headaches and such, which are symptomatic of heavy smog exposure, are usually alleviated entirely by light smoking of Marijuana throughout the day.

Marijuana is the best way presently known to dry the mouth's saliva in dentistry. If legal, it would replace the highly toxic and deadly Probanthine.

Marijuana has been proven to:

• Relieve migraine headaches
• Stop the advancement of glaucoma
• Control spasticity from multiple sclerosis (MS) and paralysis
• Alleviate nausea and pain associated with cancer chemotherapy treatments. Also helps in other cases of severe nausea
• Block epileptic seizures
• Help emphysema patients to breathe better, increasing their oxygen transfer
• Help in the treatment of smog illnesses
• Relievies the pain of arthritis and rheumatism and helps other chronic pain diseases
• Help in anorexia nervosa and other loss of appetite diseases
• Work as a back spasm medicine; Marijuana is the best relaxant of muscles short of morphine
• Relieve asthma attacks and improve breathing
• Help people with AIDS

  -relieve stress and depression

  -reduce pain

  -eliminate nausea, stimulate appetite

• Help skin diseases, like pruritis
• Help depression and other mood disorders and be an adjunct to psychotherapy
• Help overcome insomnia, deepen sleep
• Help paraplegia and quadriplegia patients
• Help alleviate the symptoms of withdrawal from alcohol and narcotics
• Have antimicrobal and antibacterial affects
• Cure fistulas, corns, and fibrosis when used in a poultice

What doctors say about Marijuana effectiveness:

-The journal of Clinical Oncology reported in 1989 that 48% of respondents to a survey of cancer specialists recommended Marijuana as medicine.

-Jocelyn Elders, the news Surgeon General of the United States, has said that she will back the medical use of Marijuana and "Marijuana is beneficial to many patients."

-Dr. James Malone-Lee, a consultant urologist at St. Pancras Hospital, London has several MS patients who smoke Marijuana. "I'm quite impressed by what's happened to patients who have used it", he says.

-Dr. Anthony Henman, former Secretary of International Anti-Prohibition League, says "one of the best effects Marijuana can have in any terminal illness is to produce a degree of euphoria which boosts morale in a depressing situation."

-"Marijuana is one of the best least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia", according to Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

-Nabilone (from Eli Lilly) a synthetic cousin of Delta-9 THC is still considered virtually useless when compared with Marijuana by doctors and patients alike.

-The U.S. governments leading scientist on pulmonary research, said in 1989 at UCLA "that you can't get or pontentiate emphysema with Marijuana smoking.

Marijuana uses as medicine is old news!!!

-The Herbal of Chinese Emperor Shen prescribed Marijuana as medicine in 2737 B.C.

-Queen Victoria was regularly treated with Marijuana by her physician for several illnesses.

-A report done in 1839 by Dr. W.B. O'Shaugnessey on the uses of Marijuana was just as important to mid-19th century medicine as the discovery of antibiotics were to mid-20th century medicine.

-Between 1840 and 1900, more than one hundred papers were published in the western medical literature recommending Marijuana for various illnesses and discomforts.

-Between 1960 and 1986, some of the most extensive medical testing and medical hearings ever done on a therapeutic drug where conducted by the United States government, U.S. State governments, other World governments, universities, public and private hospitals, and various medical institutions and doctors.