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Legalize IT

Monday, August 18th, 2003

Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a Harvard professor and huge supporter of the legalization of marijuana, has a piece in the Boston Globe on the wrongheaded attempts to distill the medicinal properties of marijuana into pill form rather than simply legalize the weed. Marinol is the “pharmaceuticalized” version of marijuana, but Grinspoon writes:

[Marinol] is less effective than marijuana for several reasons. Because it must be taken orally, the effect appears only after an hour or more. That eliminates one of the main advantages of smoked or vaporized inhaled cannabis, which works so quickly that the patient can adjust the dose with remarkable precision. Furthermore, Marinol is more expensive than marijuana, even with the prohibition tariff that raises the price of illicit cannabis.
Several other products, including extracts of marijuana, are in the pipeline, but they are unlikely to be any more useful or less expensive than plant marijuana.

I don’t usually follow this debate because I think it’s a mistake to justify legalization on purely medicinal grounds, but Grinspoon goes on:

The realities of human need are incompatible with the demand for a legally enforceable distinction between medicine and all other uses of cannabis.

Read the whole thing.

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19 Responses to “Legalize IT”

  1. #1 |  Critical Minds |  August 18th, 2003 at 10:51 pm

    The Shifting Medical View on Marijuana

    Medical Marijuana
    I opposed medical marijuana initiatives when they were on the ballot in San Marcos, making more than a few friends unhappy. My reasoning was that if you give

  2. #2 |  Amy Phillips |  August 19th, 2003 at 11:05 am

    Perhaps the most important problem with Marinol is that it doesn’t work if the patient is so nauseated that s/he can’t keep down solids. Smoked marijuana helps many patients with extreme nausea because there’s no chance that the patient will vomit it up before it has a chance to work.

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