@icyfroth wrote:
"The medicinal value of cannabis is disputed. The American Society of Addiction Medicine dismisses the concept of medical cannabis because the plant fails to meet its standard requirements for approved medicines. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains that the herb cannabis is associated with numerous harmful health effects, and that significant aspects such as content, production, and supply are unregulated. The FDA approve of the prescription of two products (not for smoking) that have pure THC in a small controlled dose as the active substance."
I have nothing further to add.
by all means enjoy your recreational mj use, but don't kid yourself that it's good for you.
I like the odd glass of champagne too, but I don't delude myself that it's beneficial to my health.
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dispute away ...wiki... now there's a scholarly source...can I have a go........
Opium is one of the most addictive and harmful drugs of all
(it's a pity big pharma has control of the distributionisn't it)
........ here is what wiki big pharma preaches re opium on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine
Addiction
Morphine is a potentially highly addictive substance. It can cause psychological dependence and physical dependence as well as tolerance.
In the presence of pain and the other disorders for which morphine is indicated, a combination of psychological and physiological factors tend to prevent true addiction from developing, although physical dependence and tolerance will develop with protracted opioid therapy.
In controlled studies comparing the physiological and subjective effects of heroin and morphine in individuals formerly addicted to opiates, subjects showed no preference for one drug over the other. Equipotent, injected doses had comparable action courses, with no difference in subjects' self-rated feelings of euphoria, ambition, nervousness, relaxation, drowsiness, or sleepiness.
Short-term addiction studies by the same researchers demonstrated that tolerance developed at a similar rate to both heroin and morphine.
When compared to the opioids hydromorphone, fentanyl, oxycodone, and pethidine/meperidine, former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin and morphine, suggesting that heroin and morphine are particularly susceptible to abuse and addiction.
Morphine and heroin were also much more likely to produce euphoria and other positive subjective effects when compared to these other opioids.
Effects on human performance
In terms of cognitive abilities, one study (and big pharma bankrolled it see the link below) has shown that morphine may have a negative impact on anterograde and retrograde memory,[49] but these effects are minimal and transient.
Overall, it seems that acute doses of opioids in non-tolerant subjects produce minor effects in some sensory and motor abilities, and perhaps also in attention and cognition.
It is likely that the effects of morphine will be more pronounced in opioid-naive subjects than chronic opioid users.
COAT patients appeared to have difficulty following instructions and showed a propensity toward impulsive behaviour, yet this did not reach statistical significance.
It is important to note that this study reveals that COAT patients have no domain-specific deficits, which supports the notion that chronic opioid use has minor effects on psychomotor, cognitive, or neuropsychological functioning.
( link to actual study results below)
http://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924%2899%2900158-X/abstract
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-big-pharma-hooked-america-on-legal-heroin
The truth re opium and its derivatives
The End of Oxy
Addiction to and abuse of prescription drugs will exist no matter what pharmaceutical companies do. It’s impossible to know the number of addicts directly “created” by any drug, legal or illegal, and there is likely some proportion of society that would fall prey to drug addiction or abuse regardless of the specific substances involved.
The crucial question surrounding OxyContin is, how many inadvertent addicts has the drug and its marketing created?
Opioids in general are highly addictive – that’s not alarming.
It’s not news that Purdue admittedly defrauded the public concerning the safety of their drug.
What’s disturbing is that the practice of deception and data suppression, physicians and regulators acknowledge, is common throughout the industry.
Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects to the OxyContin story is that it asks what, exactly, we expect from
pharmaceutical companies.
Purdue Pharma knew, on some level, that the amount of OxyContin they were selling absolutely couldn’t all have been used for legitimate pain.
The CDC famously reported that enough painkillers were sold in 2010 to medicate every adult in America, around the clock, for one month.
We can’t all be in that much pain
......the much less addictive MJ looks like a btter alternative to me... but I understand it is a poor alternative to opium re
boosting big pharmas bottom line
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