More Misinformation From The DOJ
Another Justice Department Web site with a cute name is hanging on to misinformation about the American Medical Association’s position on medical marijuana.
From JustThinkTwice.org:
The American Medical Association has rejected pleas to endorse marijuana as medicine, and instead has urged that marijuana remain a prohibited, Schedule I drug, at least until more research is done.
It’s false, and it needs to change. Please join me in sending an e-mail to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov and asking them to update this language.
Also of note is the relative silence from the drug czar’s office. You would think the Office of National Drug Control Policy would have something to say about a new marijuana position from the nation’s largest medical association, right? Wouldn’t that warrant a press release or blog post? It certainly has whenever the AMA said something negative about marijuana.
I guess they’re showing their true colors. The drug czar’s office isn’t about bringing you up-to-date, factual information on drugs and drug policy. Their job is to make sure you don’t question the laws we have in place — even when it puts them at odds with reality. So when the nation’s largest group of doctors breaks from the government talking points, all we hear is silence.
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Oh they’re gonna milk that quote as long as possible, some sites probably won’t remove it… I wouldn’t surprise me…
Send emails! Let them know we are watching them!
Cannabis is a drug? I thought is was a plant used as supplement.
Right back to where we were is what the drug czar and D.O.J. want. They say marinol and cannabinol are legal but to have the plant that produces these “drugs” are against the law. The reason the plant is against the law is because there is no profits gained by them. They will continue to argue for cannabis to stay illegal for their own greed. If weed was legal the taxes gained would go to the same place as all other taxes. That cuts out the cops and task force. If I was to loose that much extra income, I sure as hell would not want cannabis legal either. A drug is made by man mixing chemicles together. An herb is a plant. I would love to see someone try and make a cannabis plant by mixing crap in a test tube in a lab.Good luck. Keep tokin and overgrow big bro.
I sure don’t feel sorry for them.
The silence is deafing. I await the final big silence.
The fact that marinol is 100% THC(as I understand it) and it legal,and cannabis is anywhere from 5-20% and still illegal has to change.
They can have it this way. Its un-constitutional to make criminals of people for using the very same thing they produce and sell.
Its like telling your neighbor you wont allow them to put up a 10ft privacy fence but you have a 12 ft one with your other neighbor. (may be a weak comparission,but you get the Idea.)
It seems as if prohibitionists never point out vaporizing as a safe way to deliver the beneficial chemicals in marjuana. They always mention smoking and how it has tons of carcinogens making it unsafe even though some of the chemicals in marijuana are even protective against them.
Does anyone here know when the FDA will make a decision on approving Sativex? It seems sativex is basically marijuana spray. How will this turn the tide in our favor/against us (due to the fact prohibitionists will say there is a safe prescription form)?
You would think that the DOJ would have stopped quoting James Dobson and the Washington Times by now. href=”http://www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/marijuana.html” Didn’t we get rid of Bush and his cronies? Apparently an article in the Washington Times citing a non-existent Columbia study still constitutes a credible citation under the current administration. So much for science over dogma, huh…
Notice no “Contact Us” link? Guess they don’t want us to know that they know that we know the truth……In my minds eye I see a bunch of people standing around the DEA headquarters….fingers in their ears…saying blah, blah, blah really loud…
Holy Smokes. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee. Ooops…. coffee contains caffeine. And last time I looked it is sold to children at various corner “shops” all around town. In fact the sell it on college campus’ all over the country.
Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that is a psychoactive stimulant drug. What about the children. We need to make sure kids are not exposed to a life time of caffeine addiction. Whoa! Now that was a an odd thought.
rev.sleezy
The Universal Life Church of the Holy Smokes
I’m sorry, but e-mails will NOT do it. Do you honestly think they don’t have spam filters or a delete option? And do you further think they don’t consider e-mails from “potheads and hippies” spam? LOL Just write a fucking letter ya bums!
Remember when the tobacco industry would dress guys up like doctors and put them on TV to tell us how their cigarettes where good for us?
Well now the DEA is dressing their website up like a doctor and telling us marijuana is BAD for us. Isn’t that illegal?
Say, Dan-o, I agree with you that we should get off our lazy butts and write some letters and maybe some other stuff, too. But when I email these people now I get replies from some of them indicating they actually read them.
I didn’t get those when I first started emailing and I was sure they where filtering, but I think they might be buckling under the weight. Even the best spam filters can hide the fact they their systems are being brought to their knees by millions of emails.
Emails WILL work and they already have worked just this week:
http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com/dea
It’s an email campaign by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) to correct ALL the misinformation and it’s working!
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A message from LEAP:
Even though the DEA took down one false claim about medical marijuana
and the AMA from its website earlier this week, thanks to actions from
LEAP and other activists, some government sites hosted by DEA and ONDCP
are still spreading misinformation about the AMA and medical marijuana.
So, even if you already took action earlier this week, help us continue
the campaign for truth by sending another letter at:
http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com/dea
And tell your friends!
Thanks!
Tom
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Tom Angell, Media Relations Director
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Point, click, pass on, be free
Since the DEA changed their website within 24 hours of email to them about this same thing… Here is what I am sending.
The American Medical Association (AMA), our largest physician group, voted on Nov 10 2009 and reversed its long-held position that marijuana be retained as a Schedule I substance with no medical value stating “short term controlled trials indicate that smoked cannabis reduces neuropathic pain, improves appetite and caloric intake especially in patients with reduced muscle mass, and may relieve spasticity and pain in patients with multiple sclerosis.” Furthermore, the report urges that “the Schedule I status of marijuana be reviewed with the goal of facilitating clinical research and development of cannabinoid-based medicines, and alternate delivery methods.”
In Feb, 2008 a resolution was adopted by the American College of Physicians (ACP), the country’s second largest physician group and the largest organization of doctors of internal medicine. The ACP resolution called for an “evidence-based review of marijuana’s status as a Schedule I controlled substance to determine whether it should be reclassified to a different schedule.
In light of this information, plus newer, science based, information debunking other information in your website, why not put the science based information onto your website rather than the dribble you have there now.
Ok what is the deal? It’s not true. The more we study the effects of marijuana the more we find out it’s safer than cigarettes and alcohol. If the government is to stubborn to recognize the facts, than you know the people will, people want the truth and the truth always comes out in the end.
I would have to say you’ll never get marijuana legal. Sorry.
As much as we’d all like it to be the other way around, it’s been decades and medical marijuana is still taboo in 36 states. :\
Hey if you guys want to try and help out the cause some more head over to Facebook and become a fan of Chase Community Giving. They are giving out money to charities. Vote for the Marijuana Policy Project and any other groups for marijuana reform posted on there. (Leap and Students for Sensible Drug Policy are on there as well)
American medical assn. needs to check out Rick Simpson and see if what he is doing is for real. Just another simple miracle from the Creator. Google Phoenix Tears and check out Running from the Cure.
…another thing that you’ll notice that is different from FACTUAL sites, is that the DEA and similarly run sites NEVER provide any avenue for feedback. They leave no email address, no space for comments; it’s always just a ‘this is what we say and that’s that’ attitude. Sites that favor Freedom and real knowledge tend to have these things, as well as links to citations that back up our claims. Just something I’ve noticed.
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