DEA Still Blocking Cannabis Research in US

[Skip]

Despite the promises of the Obama administration, the US DEA is still blocking attempts by scientists to research the medical benefits of marijuana.

Marijuana is the only major drug for which the federal government controls the only legal research supply and for which the government requires a special scientific review.

Why is that?

And why do sources such as this insist there is LITTLE or NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE for the medical benefits of cannabis, when research has been ongoing, unhindered in dozens of other countries for decades?

Just because all these studies weren't done in the USA does not invalidate them, nor make them unsuitable for review by NIDA, the FDA and DEA.

In fact, medical marijuana studies are ongoing at UCSD and possibly other places in the US right now, and the results seem very positive so far.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/health/policy/19marijuana.html

 

[kmk420kali]

I truly believe that the US has known Cannabis has amazing medical qualities...including fighting cancer...for decades--
They are freaking now, afraid this giant cover up will be discovered--
No, I don't go with most conspiracy stuff...but there has to be a BIG reason they are fighting this so hard--

 

[Blimey]

Job security...simple as that.

With no marijuana to pursue, the DEA loses 80% of it's raison d'etre.

 

[accessndx]

I'm inclined to believe exactly what everyone else thinks:

LEGAL DRUGS leaves NO ROOM FOR A DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

Means instant retirement.....no $$$ for the piggies.

And FTR....Blimey gets some +rep for being a disciple of Cthulhu.

 

[GrnMtnGrwr]

Take a look at this thread over at the Something Awful forums and you'll see exactly why it's illegal. Doesn't it seem kind of off to you that the USA has more prisoners per capita than any other country in the world, by a large margin?

 

[WhiteShadow]

....gotta love any business model that can only survive through the oppression of those underneath their given authority....can you find any more gross conflict of interest than to give a law enforcement authority all of the proceeds from their prosecution of their constituents....

 

[PoopyTeaBags]

its all in the industrial complex's

health - need sick people to make $$ so we treat we donnot cure...

Prison- privatized so now poeple make BILLIONS on sending people to jail for shit sakes the judge in my county own 1/3 of the jail that he send people too... So he makes money every time he sends someone to jail...

Military - why do you think we are always at war? we need to use reuse and get rid of old bomb/vehicles.... Not to mention the defense budget is the biggest budget of the us.... Billions are wasted and given away to corporations with nothing in return...

Home land security - weve spent BILLIONS on HLS since 911 and all it has done is made shit more confusing added tons of people to the payroll getting nothing done... are airports are no more secure, we cant even help out new orleans in the wake of katrina...

its all about $$ and once you create millionaires from this they will never go away...

greed and $$ rules the world...

 

[Kola Radical]

Some departments of the federal government are more powerful than others. The DEA, CIA, FBI, and a few others... play by their own rules.

Presidents and congresses come and go, but some of these corrupt bastards have been there since J. Edgar Hoover was dressing up as a woman.

 

[Owl Mirror]

Hi Skip, I was confronted with this dilemma when I asked my doctor to sign my medical marijuana form.

"Just because all these studies weren't done in the USA does not invalidate them, nor make them unsuitable for review"

He made the same claim, there are no valid scientific studies to show marijuana works.
I handed him dozens of studies from around the world and he refused to look at them because they were not performed in the USofA.

 

[Hammerhead]

Do you need a docs name for Oregon?

 

[Owl Mirror]

Do you need a docs name for Oregon?

ME? ... No but thanks.
I live in Michigan and already have my ID card.
I had to go to a clinic set up for Med patients.
In fact, I think the doctor was from Oregon.

 

[Pistil_Party09]

maybe a long time ago these banker-oligarchs who own the world realized that they could gain more power and money in the long run though prohibition, than through actually using cannabis for its intended purpose.

but what they didn't realize is that humankind doesnt function properly without cannabis.

while they get rich the world slowly dies...

 

[DoobieDuck]

this giant cover up will be discovered--
--

My wife and I were just discussing this issue last night...how I think we will look back soon and be in disbelief that we lived at a time that a government deceived the people so. Put out all their misinformation and the films. Blocked research, in cahoots with he drug companies. It is just unbelievable that sort of thing could take place in an educated society in our country in this day and age of technology. The cover up will start un-raveling and the finger pointing will be fast and furious. Doobie shakes head............it just baffles me. Quacks me up! DD

 

[Blimey]

The thing that has always puzzled me is the US Govts refusal to acknowledge that the whole witch-hunt on cannabis was effectively no more than Anslinger finding a way to keep all the agents and beaureaucrats involved in liquor-busting in a job.

When the Volstead Act was repealed, they all went "Shit! We'd better move fast, or we'll all be out of a job!". And so reefer madness was born....

 

[inthelight]

Its not about the drugs. People do cocaine and meth everyday. Its the fact they they KNOW what it actually does and they want us to be their slaves to this lifestyle of instant gratification so that we don't realize what the truth is. That it IS our "spice" that it IS the gift of health and happiness we so ever crave in our human lives. They want us to be afraid and submissive hoping the truth never surfaces.

 

[Skip]

what they didn't realize is that humankind doesnt function properly without cannabis.

I've come to this same conclusion too. WE NEED CANNABIS to be healthy human beings, otherwise we are subject to the whims of those more powerful than us...

Cannabis liberates our minds from the social program, that's why they keep it illegal.

Once we are free they know they can't control us anymore.

The ongoing process of cannabis legalization is the result and they (the powerful) are starting to freak out about it!

Get ready for a HUGE BACKLASH! It's coming soon. They are going to start doing the kind of 24/7 propaganda war that the UK, Canada and Australia are all doing now.

We have to be ready to counter it all.

Fortunately the media seems to be falling onto our side now. Guess enough of them use cannabis now to know a lie when they hear it.

 

[inthelight]

I've come to this same conclusion too. WE NEED CANNABIS to be healthy human beings, otherwise we are subject to the whims of those more powerful than us...

I agree. I believe our two species evolved in a symbiotic relationship in many ways. Like bee's and flowers. It gave us pain relief and enlightenment we spread its seeds through our droppings and everything else all the way back to the beginning.

 

[nowonknows]

I've come to this same conclusion too. WE NEED CANNABIS to be healthy human beings, otherwise we are subject to the whims of those more powerful than us...

Cannabis liberates our minds from the social program, that's why they keep it illegal.

Once we are free they know they can't control us anymore.

The ongoing process of cannabis legalization is the result and they (the powerful) are starting to freak out about it!

Get ready for a HUGE BACKLASH! It's coming soon. They are going to start doing the kind of 24/7 propaganda war that the UK, Canada and Australia are all doing now.

We have to be ready to counter it all.

Fortunately the media seems to be falling onto our side now. Guess enough of them use cannabis now to know a lie when they hear it.

Whats going on in OZ and Canada?

 

[Aeroguerilla]

fuck them! lets over grow this bitch. they will get the point eventually

 

[Norrath]

conservatism, nowonknows=)

fatigues will be the one to ask