AMA Says Marijuana has Medical Benefits

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"The American Medical Association (AMA) voted today to reverse its long-held position that marijuana be retained as a Schedule I substance with no medical value. The AMA adopted a report drafted by the AMA Council on Science and Public Health (CSAPH) entitled, "Use of Cannabis for Medicinal Purposes," which affirmed the therapeutic benefits of marijuana and called for further research."

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  • added November 10, 2009

11 comments // AMA Says Marijuana has Medical Benefits

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    Finally some the AMA has come around!

    partyrager
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    It only took them 72 years to say what they have known all along. Cannabis is medicine. Legalize It!

    pcole
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    Finally some research! Finally some common sense! I wanna smoke....i mean take some medication!

    Is there enough of a wave of pro-cannabis citizens to start something revolutionary? When is the tipping point where enough is enough?

    ii386
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    approved...decades overdue if not a millenium

    dreamsenvoy
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    this is exciting news but, they could easily say that it has no medical value and we will be worse off than before.

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    Oh yes, this news is exactly what I have been waiting for! No longer will I have to endure the unsubstantiated claims of marijuana being a detriment to society. No longer will I have to worry about my civil rights being restricted because I chose to medicate my ailments with an herb instead of synthetics. No longer will the ignorant, the fearful, the bigoted, and those with agendas have the institutional support necessary to suppress the multitude of benefits that cannabis can bring to our nation and or world.

    Finally, I am particularly ecstatic that I will no longer have to listen to the preposterous "gateway drug" propaganda that has been shamelessly asserted, especially by my in-laws, in order to brainwash children into fearing marijuana. Next time I hear that being tried, I am going to reference this little tidbit of news while I smoke a joint approved by the AMA. Yes!

    Kari_Heaberlin
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    Pot should be mandatory. Excuse me while I light this up!

    panichead
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    Take a look at the book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer. He provides the 'facts' necessary to end the war on cannabis. http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html It wasn't until my sons were in high school, that I learned, I had been lied to. Cannabis hemp has history! Positive history! Politicians were using 'madness' to perpetuate a war of choice, for political gain.

    I agree with Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and John Adams:

    "Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

    "Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
    - Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

    "Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
    - George Washington, U.S. President

    "We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."
    - John Adams, U.S. President

    How can their voices be ignored, while spinning 'madness'?

    Conniepae
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    about time!

    Jjjjason7
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    PRAISE JESUS! I mean my dealer. He's a Healer Dealer!

    melynda

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