Quote from: ny2cafuse on July 03, 2014, 09:18:09 PM

Quote from: Viceroy on July 03, 2014, 09:07:47 PM

Quote from: ny2cafuse on July 03, 2014, 09:04:08 PM

I'm starting to wonder if you just have some personal vendetta against MMJ. Two shots of whiskey is medicine, but a joint isn't? I don't see the rationale behind that.

Two shots of whiskey, while not prescribed by modern doctors, is a measurable (titratable) amount of medicine and it has a specific effect in any who take such medicine.

A joint, for all the reason's I've laid out, is not medicine. It is not measurable, it has an inconsistent effect based on a number of things. Even the same strain will not have the same effect from patient to patient.

I am differentiating between eastern and western "medicine". As I pointed out the Chinese call rhino horn medicine, we in the west do not because it has not been tested to do what it is alleged to do.

So you're objections is with the fact that the amounts of CBD, THC, whatever, is not measurable from dose to dose? So if labs tested and measured these levels, so a consistent dosage could be derived, sans synthesis, you'd be ok with it?

And why is medicine not medicine, wherever it is? Are you saying that the only medicine that can be called medicine are those that are approved by our government? A government with insurance and RX industries being the top two lobbying parties in terms of money spent per year? I'm sure you'd understand why I'm not alway seeing eye to eye with our government "medicine" standards.

-Fuse

Yep, you've got it. It's not just me though... it's the entire medical community. In the US we don't accept "herbal remedies" or any other non-standardized, non-tested substance to be doled out in little pill bottles. And yes, when weed's components are synthesized and standardized it might become medicine. (All medicines are listed in the Physicians Desk Reference. If it ain't in there, it ain't medicine).