More "fun and games" from our government! They have the MMJ research, but won't let us see it! 0ver 250 pages and 99% is redacted as being not fit for our eyes! The article has the full document at the end, such as it is. Don't expect much. Feds Release 250+ Pages Of Redacted Documents On Marijuana Rescheduling Recommendation, Detailing Cannabis’s Medical Value https://www.marijuanamoment.net/fed...mmendation-detailing-cannabiss-medical-value/ More than three months after news leaked that the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) was recommending that marijuana be moved to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the agency has finally released a tranche of documents related to its recommendation and the detailed review it undertook on cannabis’s accepted medical value. Among the materials newly made public are correspondence from HHS officials to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram as well explanations of the health agency’s reasoning for the recommended change after conducting a required eight-factor analysis under the CSA. Most pages are heavily redacted, however, and some were withheld completely. The documents were posted online Thursday by attorneys Shane Pennington and Matt Zorn, coauthors of the blog On Drugs. Zorn previously submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain the records. “We haven’t had a chance to wade through it all,” the two lawyers wrote, “but are putting it up here now and will follow up as soon as we’ve studied everything more deeply.” In response to the FOIA request, HHS “reviewed 252 pages of records,” releasing just two pages in their entirety. Another 236 were redacted in part, while 14 pages were withheld completely. All the released documents are embedded at the end of this article. Broadly, the documents outline new scientific information that’s come to light in recent years subsequent to an earlier denial of a rescheduling petition, which HHS suggests might now necessitate rescheduling marijuana. “The current review is largely focused on modern scientific considerations on whether marijuana has a CAMU [currently accepted medical use] and on new epidemiological data related to the abuse of marijuana in the years since the 2015 HHS” evaluation of marijuana under the CSA’s eight-factor analysis. HHS also notes that it “analyzed considerable data related to the abuse potential of marijuana,” but added that it’s a complicated consideration. “Determining the abuse potential of a substance is complex with many dimensions,” HHS wrote, “and no single test or assessment provides a complete characterization. Thus, no single measure of abuse potential is ideal.” Most subsequent pages of the document were withheld completely. (Snipped) Granny
Why all the secrecy? According to a cannabis industry lawyer, so the DEA can re-schedule cannabis, they have to have a public meeting to hear from both sides on the subject and you KNOW that someone is going to oppose it, like Smart Approaches to Marijuana. And several members of Congress wrote to the DEA telling them to flat-out reject the HHS findings and keep cannabis a schedule 1 drug.
Why all the secrecy? Because cannabis will totally turn the pharmaceutical industry on it's head! These are just a few examples why- "The opiate industry is worth billions. If you have a plant you can grow in your backyard for a fraction of that price, it's a threat." - Dr David Caldicott “Medicinal cannabis: Doctors, nurses and Nimbin 'elders' trade marijuana tips” (ABC) 'Why so uptight about this?': Doctors, nurses and Nimbin 'elders' trade cannabis tips “CBD represents the first nontoxic exogenous agent that can significantly decrease Id-1 expression in metastatic breast cancer cells leading to the down-regulation of tumor aggressiveness.” Cannabidiol as a novel inhibitor of Id-1 gene expression in aggressive breast cancer cells. (full - 2007) https://mct.aacrjournals.org/content/6/11/2921.long So nontoxic chemo! “Overall mortality was 9.9 per cent, however, mortality in the THC(+) group (2.4%) was significantly decreased compared with the THC(-) group (11.5%)” from “Effect of Marijuana Use on Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury” (PubMed - 2014) Effect of marijuana use on outcomes in traumatic brain injury - PubMed Study Finds Cannabis Users Had Better Covid-19 Outcomes where “The analysis determined that cannabis users had significantly lower mortality compared to non-users (2.9% compared to 13.5%). Cannabis users also had significantly lower rates of complications associated with Covid-19, such as intubation, acute respiratory failure and multiorgan failure.” Study Finds Cannabis Users Had Better Covid-19 Outcomes "4 of the 8 CBD subjects remained almost free of convulsive crises throughout the experiment and 3 other patients demonstrated partial improvement in their clinical condition." "Chronic administration of cannabidiol to healthy volunteers and epileptic patients" 1980! Chronic administration of cannabidiol to healthy volunteers and epileptic patients - PubMed “Nine of the 11 cannabinoids have the ability to protect cells in four distinct phenotypic neurodegeneration screening assays, including those using neurons that lack CB1 and CB2 receptors. They are able to remove intraneuronal Aβ, reduce oxidative damage, and protect from the loss of energy or trophic support.” (Aβ – amyloid plaque) “Efficacy of Cannabinoids in a Pre-Clinical Drug-Screening Platform for Alzheimer’s Disease“ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12035-019-1637-8 “Marijuana Is Associated With ‘Significant’ And ‘Sustained’ Health Improvements, American Medical Association Study Finds” (2023) https://www.marijuanamoment.net/mar...nts-american-medical-association-study-finds/ I don't think that this one really needs a quote! "For 2022, the total global pharmaceutical market was estimated at 1.48 trillion U.S. dollars." (statista) Big Pharma has some VERY DEEP pockets and politicians are greedy! Getting the picture, kids? Granny
I remember a NIH study from 1998 that seems to have disappeared from public view that indicated the medicinal benefits and dispelled the talking points against it but I didn't have the foresight to download it way back when. Here is the link (no longer valid) for my fellow internet sleuths in the hope someone can verify and reroute to the document. http://www.nih.gov/news/medmarijuana/MedicalMarijuana.htm
Thanks for jogging my memory, this seems to be what I felt was lost or hidden http://medmjscience.org/Media/pdf/NIHmedma.pdf . I'd mistakenly associated it with 1998 not 1997 when it was actually released. As I'm re reading it, the idealized version in my head isn't reflected in the text; the takeaway is that it calls for rescheduling to at least explore the potentials.
here is some info from 96 when an Aids activist group unearthed the research - 1972/1974 Biochemistry ( not lies - observed truth nine times) AntiNeoplastic activity of cannabinoids ( Virginia medical school biochemistry ) nine times the same biochemistry was used to observe that cannabinoids kill cancer cells ! each of those nine times the exact same result emerged leading to the EXACT conclusion ... one med school journal of the day posted the info , the Shaffer commission proceeded to BURY IT .