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Title: It's Official: Marijuana Is Medicine
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East Bay Express/JAMA
URL Source: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakla ... s-medicine/Content?oid=4381482
Published: Jul 1, 2015
Author: David Downs
Post Date: 2015-07-02 18:00:23 by Operation 40
Keywords: cannabis, medicine, hemp
Views: 1348
Comments: 13
A series of papers in the Journal of the American Medical Association is starting to correct the shameful legacy of drug war politics over cannabis science. But a research catch-22 persists. The nation's top medical organization released a major series of papers on medical cannabis last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in a move that constitutes a small step for the AMA, but a giant leap in cannabis medical history. In five key papers, teams of researchers systematically reviewed dozens of clinical studies of marijuana, speaking in clear language that the "use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence." The review validated what doctors and patients in California have risked their freedom to say for twenty years. The findings also directly refute critics who maintain that "marijuana is not medicine." "They concluded cannabis is useful," said Dr. Frank Lucido, a Berkeley physician who specializes in cannabis. "I don't think a single study didn't show benefit. ... I think it was very positive." "It is somewhat affirming to see this come out," said Clint Werner, best-selling author of Marijuana: Gateway to Health. "It's invalidating that talking point that 'it's just a Cheech and Chong show.'" "What's driving this is a tremendous cultural shift that's preceding the political shift," said Martin Lee, of author Smoke Signals. The AMA is acknowledging "what's been known for 5,000 years."...SNIP If Cannabis is not medicine, why does the Federal Government hold a patent on the use of cannabinoids? Look for yourself: US Patent #6630507
By David Downs East Bay Express July 1, 2015 
Complete article: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/its-official-marijuana-is-medicine/Content?oid=4381482
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#3. To: Operation 40 (#0)
Because isolating, purifying and concentrating the cannabinoids found in cannabis, they may prove useful in medicine. Cannabis is not medicine. Cannabinoids, maybe.
Can you patent purified sugar?
No. Can you extract tetrahydrocannabinol by putting marijuana plants in a screw press?
Can you patent extraction as such, including all methods known and unknown?
The government can. Obviously.
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#5. To: misterwhite (#3)
Because isolating, purifying and concentrating the cannabinoids found in cannabis, they may prove useful in medicine.
#7. To: A Pole (#5)
"Can you patent purified sugar?"
#8. To: misterwhite (#7)
Can you extract tetrahydrocannabinol by putting marijuana plants in a screw press?
#10. To: A Pole (#8)
"Can you patent extraction as such, including all methods known and unknown?"
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