From DigitalJournal.com
On the one hand, United States federal government officials have consistently denied that marijuana has any medical benefits. On the other, the government actually holds patents for the medical use of the plant.
Just check out US Patent 6630507 titled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants” which is assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The patent claims that -
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
The patent was obtained in October of 2003.
Cannabinoids, for those who were wondering, are a group of chemical compounds found in marijuana that are also referred to as terpenophenolic compounds. One specific cannabinoid compound found in cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol, more commonly known as THC. This substance gives marijuana its psychoactive effects.
The US government may hold this patent, but that will not stop their officials from consistently denying the benefits of medical marijuana. An FDA spokesperson, for instance, has claimed that “smoked marijuana has no currently accepted or proven medical use in the United States and is not an approved medical treatment.”I guess she didn’t get the memo.
It makes you wonder why the U.S. government is so unwilling to admit that marijuana has some valid medical properties. It seems unlikely that there is a popularity issue, especially when 60% of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to prescribe marijuana. Maybe there are some lobbyists or bigwig campaign contributors that would get a little upset.
Since one part of the government applied for the patent of medical marijuana, and another part of the government approved that patent, it seems logical to conclude that the federal government knows that marijuana has some valid medical properties.
Now the hard part. How do we get them to admit it?
How sad that information and studies would be ignored by major media for so long. Having watched as my amother in law die of lung cancer and all the while there were alternate approaches to treatment . They were hid.
Does this surprise anyone that this country that once was the pride of the people and the envy of the Earth could fall so far from grace?
Ask JFK.
We know its all about the money. Other countries have medical cures for things we are way behind on or literally prevented from knowing. If you have a mitrovalve prolapse for instance, you can get that fixed in France but not here. There is a cure for Diabetes in S. America but not here. If we were to actually approve something that would cure many diseases, or help people keep their immunity up while receiving the barbaric and archaic chemotherapy and radiation treatments, or even reduce CO2 greenhouse gases, those people who have become accustomed to their style of living would suffer. Marijuana is a plant, its level of mind alteration is not more than other herbs that are legal as herbal remedies (Melatonin, Kava Kava, Passionflower). Obviously, it is not about the truth of its safety or benefits, but more about the judgement placed on the people who use it and need it, and the loss of money to the FDA, insurance and drug companies, and Dr.s. This creates a problem, especially when patients who need or want Medical Marijuana when they ask their doctor. See most people with chronic pain have stopped seeing Dr’s for the very reason they are tired of being pumped full of many drugs that are very harsh on the body and cause a tyrade of side effects, something that herbal remedies do NOT do. The end result is usually a referral to a surgeon, not to a plant that affords them no kick backs. Dr.s are trained in Pharmaceuticals and their effects and will not recommend Medical Marijuana because it is not offered by a drug company that will give them a bonus for dispensing their medicine first. People with chronic pain are seeing chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, etc. because we address these issues much better than conventional medicine can and most people DON’T want surgery. This is a natural medicine, it should be available to any who choose it, it is better and more beneficial to our economy, environment and health than what we are currently doing. This has been proven. Its time to get up, stand up! Stand up for your rights! Dont give up the fight!
I believe everything that this website says is true, the statements made here are going to be the statements of the future, because i guarantee within the next 10 years, my children will be purchasing marijuana legally, and i believe it will be a damn good thing for this piece of shit country.
maybe we can vaporizing would be the way to consume THC…duh
The hypocracy of this is breathtaking…..My government tells me that cannabis is without medical value……Yet my goverment holds a patent for the use of cannabanoids in medicine?
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What worries me so much about the government holding patents for the medical uses of marijuana isn’t that one day people could have easy access to a natural wonder medicine. As it stands in my state, the people who use marijuana medically have access to it without fear of punishment or imprisonment.
What worries me is the “friends” of the government. The companies/corporations that have patented other plants and then rob everyday citizens of their rights to grow that plant. What worries me further is the genetic modification of marijuana (beyond selective breeding) that will have the plant reach new potency that can be considered a hard drug – a really hard drug.
Even more than all of that, I fear the drug becoming truly legal. Again, not because I don’t think people should use if they need. I fear legalization because once its legal and corporations have patents on it, there will be new, stricter, harsher punishments for patent infringement than there ever was for drug possession.
Take for instance a medical patient who currently has a license to grow. He gets a few seeds from a friend who has been growing illegally, but shhh. So the patient grows his crop, harvest, takes what he needs and then takes the rest to a dispensary. That dispensary sells his crop…
but oh no, in walks Mr. Corporate checker. He decides that he needs to make sure that the company he represents is not suffering a patent infringement… UH OH the seeds that the patient got from his friend were outside regulation, which shouldn’t matter, but this time it does, because those seeds genetic information was owned. So the Corporation decides that the Dispensary is in violation of federal law for selling a patented product without the proper licenses. Further more, the patient who grew it is also in trouble for cop right infringement because he did not purchase his seeds from the correct sources. Both will receive fines that will cripple them for the rest of their lives. As for the source of the seeds, the friend, well he is in the deepest poo poo of all because he had a patented product which he used to “make profit” whether he did or not is irrelevant, and also, he had a drug. So he is facing double the fines and jail time…
Marijuana needs to be decriminalized for sure. People should not go to jail for possessing or consuming it. And small time dealers are a waste of time and energy to prosecute. But it should not be legal.
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As long as there is a goverment body that pays the wages of police there will never be a full legalization of weed. To many scum bags rely on those wages…could you imagine a bunch of cops fired, persecuted and on wellfare while dealers lived the good life free of persecution.
michael, dealers would be out of business if you could get it legally. food dealers would be the booming business, munchie foods. =)