It means if it's not good for one don't say it is therefore not good
for anyone. In logic class this argument is the first one they tell
you is faulty. I will get the reference but to tell you the truth I
only saw a blip of this on the news. I wonder why their is not much
more said about it? I smell the wonderful USA gov't at work. But, will
get back in touch with resource.

It means if it's not good for one don't say it is therefore not good
for anyone. In logic class this argument is the first one they tell
you is faulty. I wil

How about these links. I got dozens more. It only took seconds.

New England Journal of Medicine Editor, Jerome Kassirer, MD, wrote
about marijuana's medical value in the magazine's January 1997
editorial:

"I believe that a federal policy that prohibits physicians from
alleviating suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill
patients is misguided, heavy-handed, and inhumane. Marijuana may have
long-term adverse effects and its use may presage serious addictions,
but neither long-term side effects nor addiction is a relevant issue
in such patients.

It is also hypocritical to forbid physicians to prescribe marijuana
while permitting them to use morphine and meperidine to relieve
extreme dyspnea and pain. With both these drugs the difference between
the dose that relieves symptoms and the dose that hastens death is
very narrow; by contrast, there is no risk of death from smoking
marijuana. To demand evidence of therapeutic efficacy is equally
hypocritical. The noxious sensations that patients experience are
extremely difficult to quantify in controlled experiments.

What really counts for a therapy with this kind of safety margin is
whether a seriously ill patient feels relief as a result of the
intervention, not whether a controlled trial "proves" its efficacy."
(1-30-97) JPK

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Miles Herkenham, PhD, Chief of the National Institute of Mental
Health's Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation, IRP, noted
on the NIMH website (Updated January 25, 2002):

"Cannabinoid receptors are also located in areas that control emesis
(nucleus of the solitary tract) and pain, suggesting medical potential
of marijuana." (2002) MH

DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young made the following
statement in his 1988 ruling:

"The overwhelming preponderance of the evidence in this record
establishes that marijuana has a currently accepted medical use in
treatment in the United States for nausea and vomiting resulting from
chemotherapy treatments in some cancer patients. To conclude
otherwise, on this record, would be unreasonable, arbitrary and
capricious."

Jay Cavanaugh, PhD, National Director of The American Alliance for
Medical Cannabis, in a June 4, 2002 letter to California's Ventura
County Board of Supervisors, wrote:

"Medical cannabis has been clearly demonstrated to be a safe non-toxic
medicine, useful in the treatment of some of our most disabling
medical conditions including MS, cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, chronic pain,
and many more conditions too numerous to list.

At the same time, only the medical use of cannabis is legal in the
State. This fact requires that this important medicine that still
resides outside of the normal drug distribution chain, be
appropriately evaluated on the basis of community wide standards and
rational scientific information."

On and on and on.......

"IMO pot is safe and
I would do it at the end of the day to help with a good meal and get
some sleep".
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FOR RESIDENTS WITH POOR APPETITES THEY ARE ON A DRUG CALLED MEGACE.
BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU THAT 99% OF THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE ON THIS
MEDICATION HAVE GAINED THE WEIGHT THEY LOST, AND THEN CAN BE BALANCED
OUT AND THEIR REGULAR WEIGHT CAN THEN BE MAINTAINED.

AS FAR AS SLEEPING MEDICATIONS IF THEY NEED IT, THEY WILL GET IT AS
NEEDED. MOST OF THE TIME THEY ARE UP EARLY, SOME HAVE NO NAPS AND HAVE
NO SLEEPING PROBLEMS ONCE IN BED.  
PATTY