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RT_Fanatic

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Sun May-23-10 08:21 AM
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P-G: We Should Not Smoke Our Medicine

We should not smoke our medicine

Which means Pennsylvania legislators should not legalize medical marijuana without doing a lot more homework, warns DR. NEIL A. CAPRETTO of Gateway Rehabilitation Center

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Imagine you are sick and your physician informs you that instead of prescribing you a medication proven by scientific studies to be an effective treatment and one that has been found safe by the FDA, you will be given a substance approved only by your state politicians.

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Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10143/1059904-109.stm#ixzz0ol5fJZpD

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tularetom

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Sun May-23-10 08:32 AM
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1. Is it OK if we just eat it in brownies?

The good doctor is full of shit IMO.

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BakedAtAMileHigh

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Sun May-23-10 08:40 AM
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2. that's why we vaporize it, idiot

More 'experts" who have no clue what they are talking about...

By the way, this guy is a rehab doctor: he makes a lot of money from cannabis prohibition. Court-mandated treatment is a billion dollar industry.

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Bluenorthwest

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Sun May-23-10 09:26 AM
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3. What a crock! On so many levels...

First off, this 'smoking' thing is optional, of course, as everyone from Alice B to Betty C knows, as every vaporizing patient knows. So straw man deluxe there.
And also, this image of a doctor using the 'wrong' medicine is insane. In my state, doctors do not prescribe cannabis, they recommend or merely agree that it would be beneficial. It is not state politicians recommending it, it is the patients themselves, who know what works for them.
This sounds like the 'work' of someone who makes lots of money off of prohibition in one fashion or another. Anyone else would be ashamed of the lies and misrepresentations.

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geckosfeet

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Sun May-23-10 09:42 AM
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4. Medical cannibis is not typically smoked. State politicians need to educate

themselves on the issue before jumping on the knee-jerk-antis bandwagon.

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