Comments on: Web MD: Chemicals In Marijuana May Fight MRSA

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:46:43 +0000

This is fantastic. A close family member mine suffers terribly from arthritus, as well as sore and unhealed musles and back due to a stroke which he survived. He has been prescribed vicodent for the pain, Soma, strong sleeping pills, and a myriad of other prescriptions. Dirty doctor? Not exactly, apparently this is somewhat normal for doctors in our day in age to do. Most of these pills have one thing in common: They are all both physically and mentally addicting.

Yes, pain killers are fun from time to time in my opinion, but I don’t know very many fuctioning and working adults who can go through every day being fucked up. In numerous situations, that isn’t exactly safe and may impair their ability to go through their daily routines in a normal manner.

This family member has the pills, refills the prescriptions, and rarely takes even one pain killer or muscle relaxer. Marijuana is the only medication that truly works for him. We smoke together every evening after work, we relax, and we love our lives. Rarely does this person suffer from his conditions and alas, has become a healthy and well person, with an increased positive attitude towards life.

I wish that everyone knew someone like that, especially politicians. The battle is costing us millions of dollars, and its time to make this fiasco be looked upon realistically!

Amazing artcle. Seriously.

By: SS

SS — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:50:51 +0000

Plain and simple, The way we elect dirty officials of a higher authority, is the way we need to get what we want in the law books. We have researched how supposedly bad MJ is for the society and human. But we haven’t researched and found the backgrounds on the corrupt government is. And why they keep the traditional ways of our society. Where is the Right to be Free, even if that means “My way or the Highway”.
Obviously there are good products that could come of MJ and the only reason we don’t produce them is the government thinks, the MJ will be even harder to control, so they risk global destruction because we make no effort for change. SS

By: D.O.C.

D.O.C. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:38:13 +0000

This is an interesting discovery and more interesting that it actually worked. I have seen this work outside the lab, at an actual gym. I know of people who smoked cannabis and people who did not smoke do exercises on a mat. Apparently this mat would soak up all the sweat keep it stored in there. Nobody was wise enough to thoroughly clean the mat but only the surface. The mat became a haven for bacteria and eventually MRSA. Unknown to the people working out, they still did their routines with their bodies exposed to the mat. After constant body contact to the mat, one individual who did not smoke cannabis started to get a “rash” around their face. They went to the doctor and found out it was MRSA. The individuals who smoked cannabis never received any symptoms of MRSA.

By: Buggsy 13420666

Buggsy 13420666 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:14:37 +0000

Do appreciate the correction Phil E. Drifter.
After working 31.5 in the steel mills, being exposed to all those chemicals and dust and heat in the mill environnent, I must have a touch of oldsheimers. If it was not for smoking marijuana, I would have never made retirement.

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:17:26 +0000

Bugsy, his name is Jack. Jack Herer, and you can read the entire book online for free at jackherer.com. He’s also in my top 24 on myspace, as are the rest of the spots, prominent politicians, NORML, SAFER, SSDP, etc. except for a few bands I grew up with and cherish: GNR, Janes whom I saw in concert in ‘97, and Alice in Chains. I’ve actually spoken (emailed) with both Jack Herer and Marc Emery, you probably couldn’t guess the glee I felt when I heard from each of them.

By: Blackbayou

Blackbayou — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:55:44 +0000

I think there would be A LOT more civil support if people were sure they could voice their opinion and not get harrassed by the local GOOD OLE BOYS . I live in a small town in TN and have ALOT of VERY old neighbors and a few neighbors that are members of the police force. I’m confined to a wheelchair 100% of the time and would LOVE to use MJ as a legal medication.. but BECAUSE of the Tennessee laws and the GOOD OLE BOYS(Police) .. Myself and A LOT of other people just can’t find a safe place to voice our opinions.. I’m sure if someone could find a safe way for everyone to voice their opinion about MJ .. things would change FAST. I commend NORML and MPP and some of the other organizations for standing up for us and letting us post on here.. I have a letter to the editor written and wanted to send it to my local newspaper.. they insisted on my real name and address before they will even look at it.. (ITS A REAL SHAME but understandably we are ALL scared!! I cannot afford to smoke and use it as medicine and have my Social Security disability taken from me.
I have seen this happen OVER AND OVER again.. Some doctors, Attorneys, even some police officers that are for legalizing it, or making it available as a medicine. wont/cannot say a word for fear of losing their jobs/lively hood..
Someone explain to us or come up with a way for us to anonymouly let our officials know what we want and Me and my wheelchair will be the first in line!!
BB

By: Phil E. Drifter

Phil E. Drifter — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:38:55 +0000

Bruno, I came to that conclusion myself after years of studying the war on (some) drugs online. It is a fact that these natural drugs were outlawed not because they were dangerous but because minorities brought their drug habits with them when they emigrated to the US, *instead* of being interested in alcohol, the ‘white mans drug.’

In grade school we studied (alcohol) prohibition and how making it illegal didn’t remove people’s interest in it, instead it just prevented the federal government from making any money from taxing and selling it. It was also around this time there was a ‘prohibitionist’ movement where everything was outlawed. But we required a federal amendment to outlaw alcohol, and another to repeal it, something that never happened for any of the other drugs. It didn’t happen because these other drugs weren’t *technically* outlawed, they were simply taxed; if you were caught with pot but no tax stamp for it (and the tax stamp cost thousands of dollars which you were required to buy if you had even a gram of pot on you; of course no one could afford to buy these stamps, therefore they were made criminals).

Check out these links. I made tiny urls for them because sometimes you can be very limited in how many characters you can enter, plus if/when I make bumper stickers, someone can see a tiny url and remember it til they get home and can check it out:

http://tinyurl.com/1mn
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
(this is a speech given before the annual judge’s conference in California in (i think) 1995 before California legalized cannabis for medicinal purposes.)

http://tinyurl.com/potconviction
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/vlr/vlrtoc.htm
(this is the research that led to ‘The Marijuana Conviction’ first being published in 1974. It has since been reprinted I believe 5 times and was lucky enough to get a copy cheap after it was reprinted again around 2003, from half.com. I got a copy for under $20, but the last time I checked, their supply must be ending it’s run because they were asking upwards of $80 for a copy. I haven’t checked it lately though so I don’t know what it’s going for now.)

http://tinyurl.com/gov74
http://www.alternet.org/story/9257/
(gov knew pot cured cancer in ‘74, study was finally reproduced by a University in Madrid in like 2002)

By: Buggsy 13420666

Buggsy 13420666 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:14:58 +0000

How are you doing Phil E. Drifter. I just wanted you to know I already have Mel Herers book and the hammer hits the nail right on head about medicinal marijuana. The realization is already there by the govt. years ago about medicinal marijuana. They sure do keep up with the THC levels and they do have their labs hidden away out there doing research right under our noses that are paid by our own taxes. They will just expose the ones publicly to pacify the population. OUT OF SITE OUT OF MIND. They do not need a license, remember they are the ones that have the money and the power to control. When the FDA approves a drug, we are the guinea pigs. You have the dead ones and the physical and psychological victims of FDA approved DRUGS. Has anyone heard of persons that have died from marijuana use.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:42:29 +0000

I’m not trying to be off topic but I think it’s important that everyone checking these comments should know there’s another thread on thehill.com relating to marijuana that everyone should comment on.

http://blog.thehill.com/2008/09/04/gov-palins-past-use-of-marijuana-is-significant/

By: Jáson

Jáson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:28:24 +0000

Everyday more and more research is piling up supporting marijuana, and yet the people we put in our offices still deny this wonderful gift from God. All because of the ignorance that was bred into this country almost 100 years ago. Its time to wake up people and spread the word, and pass the J’s.