Marinol Vs. Cannabis (food and drug administration)

coolalright · Jun 25, 2009

This is the FDA's view on medical marijuana.

Medical marijuana already exists. It's called Marinol.

A pharmaceutical product, Marinol, is widely available through prescription. It comes in the form of a pill and is also being studied by researchers for suitability via other delivery methods, such as an inhaler or patch. The active ingredient of Marinol is synthetic THC, which has been found to relieve the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy for cancer patients and to assist with loss of appetite with AIDS patients.

Unlike smoked marijuana--which contains more than 400 different chemicals, including most of the hazardous chemicals found in tobacco smoke-Marinol has been studied and approved by the medical community and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation's watchdog over unsafe and harmful food and drug products. Since the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, any drug that is marketed in the United States must undergo rigorous scientific testing. The approval process mandated by this act ensures that claims of safety and therapeutic value are supported by clinical evidence and keeps unsafe, ineffective and dangerous drugs off the market.

There are no FDA-approved medications that are smoked. For one thing, smoking is generally a poor way to deliver medicine. It is difficult to administer safe, regulated dosages of medicines in smoked form. Secondly, the harmful chemicals and carcinogens that are byproducts of smoking create entirely new health problems. There are four times the level of tar in a marijuana cigarette, for example, than in a tobacco cigarette
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The thing is, they say that marijuana is so bad and marinol is better and all this bullshit, but the thing is they don't say that you can use vaporizors or cook it into food with marijuana and they just make it seem like marijuana is a terrible thing even though we know how much more effective it can be. My grandpa takes Marinol and it doesn't seem to work very well, I would offer him marijuana but he'd turn it down and my whole family would just bitch at me. Well at least everyone on this site will know to take advantage of the great medical benefits marijuana has for us.

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