White House Admits Marijuana Has 'some' Medical Value

[+EdwardGlen]

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Just days after the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) insisted that there is no medical value to marijuana, the White House appeared to contradict the position, saying in a report that there may actually be "some" medical value to "individual components of the cannabis plant" after all.

 

 

 

The statement was just a small part of the Office on National Drug Control Policy's yearly update on the progress of the drug war and its goals moving forward. Overall, the document only serves to affirm the federal prohibition of marijuana and what it calls "'medical' marijuana," which it still views as illegitimate.

 

 

 

But a single passage, under their "facts about marijuana," seems to loosen a bit from the generation-old line that there is no value to cannabis whatsoever.

 

 

 

"While there may be medical value for some of the individual components of the cannabis plant, the fact remains that smoking marijuana is an inefficient and harmful method for delivering the constituent elements that have or may have medicinal value," the report says.

 

 

 

Still, today's medical marijuana patients and proprietors don't have much to cheer in the report, as it goes on to insist that smoking the marijuana plant itself is harmful and dangerous, especially for teens, and perpetuates the largely discredited "gateway drug" theory. Raw Story

 

 

 

FACTS & FIGURES

 

 

 

The most commonly abused drug in the United States by individuals over the age of 12 is Marijuana, followed by prescription painkillers, cocaine and hallucinogens. Michaelshouse.com

 

 

 

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug among youth in the United States. Current marijuana use decreased from 27% in 1999 to 21% in 2009.

 

Cdc.gov

 

 

 

Today, a full 61 percent of adults use at least one drug to treat a chronic health problem, a nearly 15 percent rise since 2001. More than 1 in 4 seniors gulp down at least five medications daily. Health.usnews.com

 

 

 

Current cocaine use increased from 2% in 1991 to 4% in 2001 and then decreased from 2001 (4%) to 2009 (3%). Cdc.gov

 

 

 

Lifetime use of ecstasy among high school students decreased from 11% in 2003 to 7% in 2009. Cdc.gov

 

 

 

Hallucinogenic drug use decreased from 13% in 2001 to 8% in 2007 and then remained steady from 2007 (8%) to 2009 (8%). Cdc.gov

[CedarSpringsCG]

Problem is, I am a patient, and I really don't like smoking it. I make oil, put it in foods, and rarely smoke it. So, to take it away because someone smokes it is silly.

 

Take a pill and chill...

[Kevin]

They're still calling it marijuana, and they're still calling it a drug.

 

They did say there's no value in cannabis. They equate the value of a thing with profit they believe they can make from it.

 

Now they say there may be some medical value in individual components. No. The entire plant including leaves, flowers, stems, roots are very effective in treating many medical conditions. Ask anyone who's cured their cancer, or quit opioids, or put their MS into remission due to the neuroproctant properties of cannabis, or saved their eyesight from the ravages of glaucoma, or threw their asthma pills and inhaler away, or...

 

It's really hard to trust anything they say. Fool me once, uhhh...shame on...shame on you, fool me twice, uhhh...won't get fooled again. Can't remember where I heard that.