22 December 07 - 03:01
Quotes.
Merck Institute. USA.
“The main goals of drug development are effectiveness (efficacy) and safety. Because all drugs can harm as well as help, safety is relative. The difference between the usual effective dose and the dose that produces severe or life-threatening side effects is called the MARGIN OF SAFETY. The wider the margin of safety, the more useful the drug. If a drug's usual effective dose is also toxic, doctors do not use the drug unless the situation is serious and there is no safer alternative. http://www.merck.com Note: Cannabis has a safety margin of 1:40,000
Journal of the American Medical Association.
"One of Cannabis’ greatest advantages as a MEDICINE is its remarkable safety. It has little effect on major physiological functions. There is no known case of a lethal overdose; Cannabis is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and analgesics. The ostensible indifference of physicians should no longer be used as a justification for keeping this medicine in the shadows.” June 21, 1995. Commentary. p. 1874-1875.
Thomas Jefferson. “If people let the GOVERNMENT decide which foods they eat and medications they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny“.
Dr. J. Russell Reynolds. Many eminent British and American physicians recommended marijuana as an effective therapeutic agent. Dr. J. Russell Reynolds, Fellow of the Royal Society and Physician in Ordinary to Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria's) Household, reported in Lancet in 1890, for example, that he had been prescribing cannabis for thirty years and that he considered it "one of the most VALUABLE we possess.
The Supreme Court of Canada. "In a FREE AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, the individual must be left room for personal autonomy to live his or her own life and to make decisions that are of fundamental personal importance."
Paul Flynn M.P, UK. "People around the world have testified in their thousands about the benefits of taking cannabis to relieve CHRONIC PAIN," he said. "But
because of our hang-up in this country with recreational use of the drug, we've condemned otherwise law-abiding citizens to risk jail." (Note: The cost of chronic pain in Australia per year is $34.3 BILLION. ‘Today Show’. 19/11/07).
Dr. Kerryn Phelps, NSW. “(Cannabis) was sometimes the only thing that helped people deal with the pain and intractable nausea of diseases such as leukaemia, lymphoma, and certain AIDS-related conditions and the treatment. Yet such people faced arrest and prosecution for using an illegal drug. "The bottom line is we are talking about people who on compassionate grounds need a medical treatment ..." she said. "I would challenge any politician to look any person in the eye who has intolerable symptoms ... and say we know there is something that might work for you but we are not going to make it legal."
Dr. Dean Edell, M.D. “Most of us in the medical profession believe this decision (banning medical cannabis) is POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.
Cannabis as medicine works“. - (Syndicated Radio Show Host & ABC TV Medical Advisor)
Dr. Andrew Weill M.D. USA. “I have seen in my own studies that cannabis is less toxic than most pharmaceutical drugs in current use, and is certainly helpful for some patients, including those with wasting syndrome, chronic muscle spasticity and tractable nausea. As a physician, I am frustrated that I cannot prescribe marijuana for patients who might benefit from it. At the very least I would like to be able to refer them to a safe, reliable, quality-controlled source."
Dr. Marian (Mollie) Fry. "I took an oath to do no harm. If a doctor is willing to give you a prescription for a drug that is addictive or could kill you, then why should you not be able to choose a non-toxic drug like cannabis?".
Prof. L. Grinspoon. Harvard University. 2006. "There are many thousands of patients who currently use cannabis as a medicine... There is no question about its safety. It is one of humanity's oldest medicines, used for thousands of years by millions of people with very little evidence of significant toxic effects. More is known about its adverse effects than about those of most prescription drugs." published in Cannabis Health (Vol. 4, No. 3, March/April 2006):
Dr. David Hadorn MD. “A society that can handle Codeine over the counter can learn to live with Cannabis”. ,
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