AMA Calls for Review of Medical Marijuana’s Legal Status

[onegreenday]

So you think they would assassinate the majority of the US public?

Oh yes .. they have already been fired and just haven't received the memo yet.

hope you r right but they NEVER

cared about us before.

Does the military/politicians care about

anti-war sentiment?

EDIT: Even if the people vote for it in Cali (unknown) the Fed's won't allow it.

 

[sac beh]

Was just reading Jack Herer's book, and his account of the AMA's attempts to block cannabis illegalization make the AMA's current change in policy even more interesting:

Dr. William C. Woodward, for instance, who was both a physician and an attorney for the American Medical Association, testified on behalf of the AMA.

He said, in effect, the entire fabric of federal testimony was tabloid sensationalism! No real testimony had been heard! This law, passed in ignorance, could possibly deny the world a potential medicine, especially now that the medical world was just beginning to find which ingredients in cannabis were active.

Woodward told the committee that the only reason the AMA hadn’t come out against the marijuana tax law sooner was that marijuana had been described in the press for 20 years as “killer weed from Mexico.”

The AMA doctors had just realized “two days before” these spring 1937 hearings, that the plant Congress intended to outlaw was known medically as cannabis, the benign substance used in America with perfect safety in scores of illnesses for over one hundred years.

“We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman,” Woodward protested, “why this bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation, even to the profession, that it was being prepared.” He and the AMA* were quickly denounced by Anslinger and the entire congressional committee, and curtly excused.3

* The AMA and the Roosevelt Administration were strong antagonists in 1937.

When the Marijuana Tax Act bill came up for oral report, discussion, and vote on the floor of Congress, only one pertinent question was asked from the floor: “Did anyone consult with the AMA and get their opinion?” Representative Vinson, answering for the Ways and Means Committee replied, “Yes, we have. A Dr. Wharton [mistaken pronunciation of Woodward?] and [the AMA] are in complete agreement!”

With this memorable lie, the bill passed, and became law in December, 1937.

Then, because of increased persecution of cannabis-friendly research and doctors, the AMA was bullied into reversing its prior position, beginning the 72-year old policy that was recently reversed (again):

He then used the full power of the United States government, illegally, to halt virtually all research into marijuana while he blackmailed the American Medical Association (AMA)* into denouncing the New York Academy of Medicine and its doctors for the research they had done.

*Why, you ask, was the AMA now on Anslinger’s side in 1944-45, after being against the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937? Answer: Since Anslinger’s FBN was responsible for prosecuting doctors who prescribed narcotic drugs for what he, Anslinger, deemed illegal purposes, they (the FBN) had prosecuted more than 3,000 AMA doctors for illegal prescriptions through 1939. In 1939, the AMA made specific peace with Anslinger on marijuana. The results: Only three doctors were prosecuted for illegal drugs of any sort from 1939 to 1949.

To refute the LaGuardia report, the AMA, at Anslinger’s personal request, conducted a 1944-45 study; “of the experimental group 34 were negroes and one was white” (for statistical control) who smoked marijuana, became disrespectful of white soldiers and officers in the segregated military. (See Appendix, “Army Study of Marijuana,” Newsweek, Jan. 15, 1945.)

This technique of biasing the outcome of a study is known among researchers as “gutter science.”

History is always so interesting..

 

[fdish]

I hope they help and not hurt the people by changing classes of a weed. At 51 I am almost out of time. This war on drugs has made me a POW since 1974.

 

[Pythagllio]

I'm not sure how the heck getting cannabis off of schedule 1 could hurt anyone, unless you actually believe in the propaganda.

I'm 49 and planning on being around for another 49 at least. Unless you've got a diagnosis that says otherwise, at 51 you likely still have decades to live.

 

[Pythagllio]

too weird. I made the post above in response to fdish's post which appears below.

 

[armedoldhippy]

even if they were to legalize the lovely bud, we would still need legislation passed forbidding testing for it by employers. THAT is gonna be the tougher fight, i think. they don't have tests that can quantify just how stoned you are, versus measuring the alcohol content of someones blood. they SHOULD just do a field sobriety test like POPOs do for suspected DWIs. being red eyed should NOT get you fired/arrested.

 

[onegreenday]

I'm not sure how the heck getting cannabis off of schedule 1 could hurt anyone, unless you actually believe in the propaganda.

I'm 49 and planning on being around for another 49 at least. Unless you've got a diagnosis that says otherwise, at 51 you likely still have decades to live.

it hurts the DEA and the gov's system of control.

It should not even be on a schedule.

"It's a plant " "so good for everything" Bob Marley

 

[Balazar]

It does hurt the DEA a lot. If it were to be moved to schedule II a lot of DEA agents would be out of a job and the DEA as a whole would loose funding and the source of income they have from seizing property used in trafficking. Insurance companies would shit a brick too. I'm sure both are plotting to stop this or slow it as much as they can.

 

[sac beh]

DEA Updates its Website!

Tuesday night, after a week of calls by activists, the Drug Enforcement Administration updated its Web site to reflect the American Medical Association’s recent call for a review of marijuana’s Schedule I status.

The update removed several references to the AMA, including: “the American Medical Association recommends that marijuana remain a Schedule I controlled substance,” and “the American Medical Association has rejected pleas to endorse marijuana as medicine.” These changes came just over a week after the AMA released its new position on marijuana.

Thanks to all the activists that made calls..

 

[onegreenday]

It does hurt the DEA a lot. If it were to be moved to schedule II a lot of DEA agents would be out of a job and the DEA as a whole would loose funding and the source of income they have from seizing property used in trafficking. Insurance companies would shit a brick too. I'm sure both are plotting to stop this or slow it as much as they can.

How do the insurance companies fit in?
thanks.

 

[Tony Aroma]

DEA Updates its Website!



Thanks to all the activists that made calls..

Now if they would only change their statement that "hemp and marijuana are both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing marijuana."

http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr100901.html

What do you think it will take to get that lie "corrected"?

 

[SOTF420]

The end is nigh for Cannabis prohibition. High Times ahead.