minyan gal – “I believe that it is not as efficacious as the genuine thing. (I don’t mean that it is my belief, it is what the studies have shown).”
Those studies were from the potheads. Please post one study from a reliable medical source.
I’m absolutely shocked that people posting on a Frum blog are in support of drug abusers (pot heads). I just hope that none of them are actually pot heads. Here is what the US Drug Czar (previously) wrote:
In a White House press release, Drub Czar Walters urged Americans who depended on doctor-prescribed marijuana to look instead to “proven medicine by legitimate doctors,” for relief of pain caused by chronic illness. “Smoking illegal drugs may make some people ‘feel better.’ However, civilized societies and modern day medical practices differentiate between inebriation and the safe, supervised delivery of proven medicine by legitimate doctors,” stated Walters.
On June 6, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that federal law can be used to prevent doctors from prescribing marijuana for treatment of pain caused by serious illnesses, including cancer.
Walters also questioned the proven effectiveness of marijuana as a pain reliever. “To date, science and research have not determined that smoking a crude plant is safe or effective,” he said. “We have a responsibility as a civilized society to ensure that the medicine Americans receive from their doctors is effective, safe, and free from the pro-drug politics that are being promoted in America under the guise of medicine.”