CONS (FDA) ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA-ProCon.org

The US Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Public Affairs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote in a Sep. 30, 2011 email to ProCon.org:

"It is important to know that the statements in the patent document [United States Patent #6,630,507 (185 KB)  Oct 7, 2003] about the purported medical benefits [of cannabidiol] are based on in vitro data (antioxidant properties of this class of molecules, neuroreceptor binding studies, neuronal cell cultures, etc.), and in vivo rat studies.

In order to make a determination that these compounds have a role in medical treatments, clinical data would be needed.

'Does this patent indicate the US government's position that cannabidiol has medical value?' 'no,' (since that would be done through the NDA [New Drug Application] process and not the patent application process)...

DEA is responsible for administration of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). DEA has determined that cannabidiol is a Schedule I substance because it is derived from marijuana... which is also listed in Schedule I. Marijuana is defined under the CSA to mean all parts of the plant, as well as every compound and derivative and preparation, etc. of the plant.

Thus far, an [NDA] for cannabidiol has not been submitted to the FDA that shows that cannabidiol can be used therapeutically. Thus, cannabidiol has no accepted medical use in medical treatment in the United States. Having 'accepted medical use in the United States' of a drug is a necessary finding for drugs that are not in Schedule I, but listed in a less restrictive, Schedules II through V. Thus, currently Schedule I is the only possible CSA schedule where cannabidiol could be listed.

This is not to say that cannabidiol cannot be studied for development or to support rescheduling. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, dronabinol) was developed as an antiemetic and treatment for AIDS wasting and approved for marketing under the trade name Marinol. Marinol is listed in Schedule III. All research on cannabidiol would need to be conducted under a Schedule I license issued by the DEA.

(Ask someone who's had Marinol-see what they thought of how effective it was...)

An investigator wishing to remove cannabidiol from Schedule I would have to demonstrate that cannabidiol has NO abuse potential in order for it to be decontrolled. This would probably necessitate conducting studies to demonstrate that its pharmacology differs from other substances that have high abuse potential and that cannabidiol is not being abused by individuals...

FDA ON MMJ-CONS

These were taken this morning

And one walks on this how?

No daily stroll today!

I can't afford PT because our Governor cut that benefit when she "lost" $6M of the general fund. She made up for it but was never required to explain where it, forgive me, "walked off to."

ahhhh, how DO I hold my coffee and crutches?  That when this greeted me this morning it MIGHT hurt a bit-but oh, stick a needle in it, all is all better?  Ask how any food tastes when your whole body feels like this:

Ok, so then you mean that the following drugs have NO ABUSE potential???  NOTHING, I MEAN NOTHING, has "No abuse potential at all."  If it did: the FDA (Federal Dept of Ass***es), and I will say that until, and at the TOP of my crappy voice, ruined by so much of their "harmless" trash that they are in on sales with so that is why marijuana remains illegal and this list of shit IS not only legal, but sanctioned and paid for by Medicare and Medicaid!  How far off, though, do you think someone in my shape will have before I end up on say, Duragesic (fentanyl patches-and a 90-day supply of the 100mcg/hr to change every other day-due to the sweating from the RSD, it's doubtful they'd stick longer: that I show up and the pharmacist says (90 day supplies of opiates are actually given in increasing frequency to long-term patients to prevent gradual, unnoticed creeps up in dosages.  This way: you are STUCK with what you have for 90 DAYS, with no possible increase without extinuating circumstances-in which case, working with a dosages can be adjusted slowly with a local pharmacy, and then when arrived at-mailed off to go for

• hydrocodone (Lortab, Norco, Vicodin, omg, there are names for this shit, as a FORMER nurse, I haven't recognized, much less even given in 12 years of practice!)
• codeine
• oxycodone/OxyContin(R)
• Percocet/Percodan
• Vicoprofen (hydrocodone with ibuprofen instead of aceteminophen)
• Diladud/hydromorphone
• Morphine
• Fentanyl
• Oxyhydromorphone (sorta a combo of a toned down version of diladiud/hydromorphone-the hydromorphone works fine w/o help from oxy, for God's sake!)
• Levo-Dromoran (synthetic opoid)
• And since when was it determined that METHADONE is "GOOD FOR YOU?" 

 

 Then:

• any benzodiazepine
• muscle relaxers....
• some people hoard antibiotics and have refills on them-- 
• amphetamines that doctors give to CHILDREN? 

Shit, given the chance?  Some folks can get addicted to cotton.  And that whole list?  Cooked up in a chemistry lab, not too much different than a...meth lab?

So what's next?  Are they going to put other things with addictive potential even, on the C-I list?  Think about it before they do:

• shopping
• television
• gambling (even when not for money)
• goofing around on the computer
• Working too hard('work-a-holic?')
• This list could go on ad nauseum.
•  video games
• online chats where pedophiles hunt for a 12 year old?  One who is lonely-wait, that IS against the law, but a legal bud smoker is probably more likely to get busted (IMHO)

The remainder in full form is at the link below

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001656