adrienne wrote on November 18, 2009 02:44 AM: medical marijuana helps people with lots of life altering diseases amd disorders, i recently found i have Crohns disease which is a life long challange of food and the intestines and bowls. it helps me with nausea, helps so i can eat because crohns makes u loose weight rapidly. it helps with the pain of some bowl movementsthat leave me nauseous and very dizzy. And before i obtained my card or even knew what crohns disease was i still used marijuana to help with these symptoms unfortunently it took me almost dying from perfriated intestine and emergency surgery and 1foot of intestine removal for a medical dr. to take me seriously about my symptoms of this condition. Just a suggestion to all non believers think back when we didnt have dr or medicines dummed up by pharmisudical companies to make us even sicker and or dependent there was holistic medicine, our creator has put everyhting we need to surive on earth, chemicals in the medications often cause worse side effects than the symptoms, and that is wrong. The drug companies know exactly what they are doing. I suggest finding a dr that also believes in holistic side of healing not just text book cuz in my expierience my holistic healer has helped me more than any dr could. They are"Practicng" medicine..

Granville Savidge wrote on September 23, 2009 11:17 AM: This problem of ignorance, marijuana inexperience, and suspicion is systemic.

In Medical Colleges, often for very practical reason, Doctors are programmed and driled to deal within the box.

They are in bed with convention and the "pharma" industries. They have a hard time dealing with anything that may invoke "congative dissonace" as they must be right as lives are depending upon it.

Just look to the progress made in Isreal and Canada and the lack of progress in the US medical studies. Doctors must be made aware of their own bias instead of being silent or yesed to death. I want a doctor that I can feel safe telling about current drug usage. They should know to better do their job. Too bad when they have the all too typical zero tolerance it actually means "don't tell me" to avoid the issue.

Tom Hamilton wrote on September 09, 2009 12:27 PM: I don't know anything about glucoma, all I know is that marijuana when smoked,(or better yet eaten, in cookies, cakes, brownies,etc. works quite well to keep my stomach from becoming upset from medications, thereby allowing me to keep much needed food , and medications, down and effective inside my body, rather than thrown up,rendered ineffedtive, and flushed down the toilet. I think MANY Doctors Know that Marijuana IS INDEED EFFECTIVE, and will sell out and say otherwise, for other than medical reasons. (possibly to sell new and often more dangerous drugs for their kick-backs

mvieira wrote on September 07, 2009 08:50 PM: Nevada Marijuana Policy Regulation:

Personally, I feel that Nevada’s Policy on medical marijuana is very effective. The process of obtaining pot seems extensive and quite drastic as well as ridiculously expensive and a huge hassle. It seems almost easier and not as pocketing to buy it illegally. Although, I like the intense system; it keeps the “posers” away. The background check is a wonderful idea. The one part I disagree with is the expenses, but that comes along with any drug prescribed today. I feel that if someone is in that much pain to where they will use an “illegal” drug, they really need it. Let the dying patient some slack and let them smoke some pot!

Should the federal government legalize marijuana? What benefits or drawbacks would that pose to society?

I think marijuana should be legalized for certain cases. Last year, my grandfather died from stage 4 cancer and everyday I looked at him with his eyes drowning with tears from the pain he had to endure everyday. His last 2 months of his life were in a hospital bed, covered with IV’s and medicine that did not do him much good. In those types of situations, I think an individual has the right to smoke whatever he or she wants. I don’t necessarily think it will benefit our society or have any drawbacks. To me it is that simple; if you are in that much pain at the end of your life getting high will not hurt you anymore than the damage done previously.

Eddie Gin wrote on September 06, 2009 06:23 PM: "For marijuana to work, the patient would have to be stoned around the clock," he said. "When you're not stoned, the pressure goes back up, and that's when damage occurs to the optic nerve." Isn't that what we are talking about?

reno wrote on September 03, 2009 07:01 AM: we have medical and scientific proof that medical marijuana does help chemo/cancer patients as well as many other ailments and illnesses, what proof {if any} do they have that it doesn't? in the pros and cons of medical marijuana, the pros have given full proof of it's potential, the cons have yet to give us any proof that it does'nt except for thier own private opinion, which can't be weighed as evidentual proof.

Kevin Lee wrote on September 03, 2009 05:32 AM: Dumber by the second. Yeah that seems to fit you.Maybe that's why you don't seem to understand that just because a doctor chose to specialize in a certain field , it does not exclude the fact that the doctor in question DOES happen to be one of the LEADING internists in Las Vegas. Enjoy your next visit to your Proctologist!

stacey wrote on September 02, 2009 08:32 PM: I am very sick. I have lupus sle, for starters, and it has attcaked my digestive system, I have herniated and torn disc's in my back ,etc... The only other thing that helps is marijuana,not only for the pain but for my nausea,etc...

Dumber by the second wrote on September 02, 2009 01:50 PM: Kevin Lee, so your new doctor is a pediatrician? LOL!!!

David wrote on September 02, 2009 11:52 AM: PFIZER is paying a $2.3 BILLION FINE for its illegal kickback scheme to Doctors. There's one of your Drug Lords and the Doctors are the dealers! What kind of f*cked up world is this?

Marijuana works better that all the chemistry that the Pfizer chemists can cook up.

http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/02092009/325/factbox-pfizer-settlement-drug-promotion-compliance.html

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