The following correspondence between the ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy) and me is in response to removing cannabis from CSA (Controlled Substance Act) (http://tinyurl.com/23sh5ys). Please enjoy the direct avoidance that the ONDCP makes in the following e-mails.
Thank you for contacting ONDCP.
On April 20th, 2006, the FDA issued an advisory concluding that no
sound scientific studies have supported medical use of smoked
marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human
data support the safety or efficacy of smoked marijuana for general
medical use.
There are alternative FDA-approved medications in existence for
treatment of many of the proposed uses of smoked marijuana. For
example, a prescription drug, Marinol, is currently available to
anyone with a doctor's prescription. Marinol contains THC, the active
ingredient in marijuana, and has been approved for some of the same
uses as medicinal marijuana.
To learn more about "medical marijuana," please visit the following
Web sites:
Medical Marijuana Reality Check
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/marijuana_fs.pdf
Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana Is a
Medicine
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01362.html
Medical Marijuana - Marinol
http://www.dea.gov/ongoing/marinol.html
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
http://books.nap.edu/html/marimed/
Marijuana Studies/Articles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugpages/marijuana.html
Marijuana Research Report
http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/default.html
The DEA Position on Marijuana
http://www.dea.gov/marijuana_position.html
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
ONDCP Clearinghouse
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
My Response:
As a matter of fact I do have a couple of questions. First is the fact that the words "smoked marijuana" were used together quite frequently. Now smoked cannabis may not be accepted medically but how about ingested cannabis, such as pot brownies and cookies? Also if there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
I look forward to your timely response!
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
Initial avoidance of my questions from the ONDCP:
Dear Mr. Crystal,
Thank you for contacting ONDCP.
Marijuana is a dangerous drug and remains in Schedule I of the
Controlled Substances Act. The President opposes marijuana
legalization as does ONDCP Director Kerlikowske, who provides the
following information:
Marijuana Legalization: A Non-Starter
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/news/press09/marijuana_legalizatio
n.html
The following resource and Web site provide information about
marijuana and why it remains a controlled substance:
Denial of Marijuana Rescheduling
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/TEXTgate.cgi?WAISdocID=973249
28153+0+1+0&WAISaction=retrieve
Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization
http://www.justice.gov/dea/demand/speakout/index.html
If you would like to view information about marijuana and its
effects, please visit the following Web sites:
The DEA Position on Marijuana
http://www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_position.html
Marijuana Myths & Facts: The Truth Behind 10 Popular Misperceptions
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/marijuana_myths_facts.
pdf
What Americans Need to Know About Marijuana
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/mj_rev.pdf
Marijuana Abuse Research Report
http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/default.html
Marijuana Facts and Figures
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/marijuana/index.html
Marijuana-Info.org
http://www.marijuana-info.org/
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Content Specialist
ONDCP Clearinghouse
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
My reply:
As a matter of fact I do still have a couple of questions, and they are the same questions you failed to answer in the prior e-mail. First is the fact that the words "smoked marijuana" were used together quite frequently. Now smoked cannabis may not be accepted medically but how about cannabis ingested through brownies and cookies, or for that matter how about vaporized cannabis? Also if there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
I look forward to your timely response and actually receiving an answer to my questions!
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
More avoidance from the ONDCP and the final correspondence:
Dear Mr. Crystal,
Thank you for contacting ONDCP.
What constitutes safe and effective medicine should continue to be
based upon reviews of the appropriate science by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). Medical evidence does not support the efficacy
of smoked marijuana for medical purposes. ONDCP will continue to work
closely with other stakeholders to review law, science, and medicine
to refine the Administration's marijuana enforcement policy.
Following is some specific information and resources concerning
medical marijuana:
On April 20th, 2006, the FDA issued an advisory concluding that no
sound scientific studies have supported medical use of smoked
marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human
data support the safety or efficacy of smoked marijuana for general
medical use.
There are alternative FDA-approved medications in existence for
treatment of many of the proposed uses of smoked marijuana. For
example, a prescription drug, Marinol, is currently available to
anyone with a doctor's prescription. Marinol contains THC, the active
ingredient in marijuana, and has been approved for some of the same
uses as medicinal marijuana.
To learn more about "medical marijuana," please visit the following
Web sites:
Medical Marijuana Fact Sheet
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.org/drugfact/pdf/medicalmarijuanfactsh
eet.pdf
Medical Marijuana Reality Check
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/marijuana_fs.pdf
Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana Is a
Medicine
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2006/ucm1086
43.htm
Medical Marijuana - Marinol
http://www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/marinol.html
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
http://books.nap.edu/html/marimed/
Marijuana Studies/Articles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugpages/marijuana.html
Marijuana Research Report
http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/default.html
The DEA Position on Marijuana
http://www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_position.html
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Content Specialist
ONDCP Clearinghouse
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
My last two e-mails to the ONDCP have been waiting for a response for over a week:
You have completely avoided answering my questions yet again with this pish posh nonsense on "smoked marijuana." Now smoked cannabis may not have medical value, but how about cannabis ingested through brownies and cookies, or for that matter vaporized cannabis? If there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
Also under this fact of medical value; Why does the AMA (American Medical Association) and the ACP (American College of Physicians) accept medicinal value on cannabis? In fact the AMA has more than 7000 physicians that have accepted the use of cannabis for more than 400,000 patients.
If the ONDCP wants to avoid my first two questions yet again then here are some new questions. Under the Severability clause in the controlled substances act the drug laws should be abolished or changed. In a major, broad-ranging report released Thursday, the Associated Press declared that "After 40 years, $1 Trillion, US War on Drugs has failed to meet any of its goals." The report notes that after four decades of prohibitionist drug enforcement, "Drug use is rampant and violence is even more brutal and widespread." The AP even got drug czar Gil Kerlikowske to agree. "In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske said. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified." This should cause the following to become in effect:
TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I - CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
SEVERABILITY
Pub. L. 106-310, div. B, title XXXVI, Sec. 3673, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1246, provided that: ''Any provision of this title (see Short Title of 2000 Amendments) held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed as to give the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such provision is held to be utterly invalid or unenforceable, in which event such provision shall be severed from this title and shall not affect the applicability of the remainder of this title, or of such provision, to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.''
Why has this not been upheld, and why can't the ONDCP give me an honest answer to any of my questions? Is it because of the following text that basically requires lies to the citizens of America about these schedule 1 controlled substances?
According to Title VII Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998:
Responsibilities: The Director “Drug Czar”
(12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance (in any form) that--
(A) is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812); and
(B) has not been approved for use for medical purposes by the Food and Drug Administration;
I look forward to your timely response, and hope that the ONDCP realizes that there's people that are smarter than them.
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
To whom it may concern,
You failed to reply to my prior e-mail which will be included in this; however it will be revised once again. I presume the reasoning for not replying back to me is because the ONDCP knows the laws are wrong, doesn't want to change the laws, and doesn't want to say anything that could cause the laws to be changed. That would also explain the direct avoidance of questions that I've had, and the fact that these laws on cannabis are invalid. Every which way you look at it the cannabis laws should be abolished. There's accepted medicinal value in not 1 but 2 patents held by the Dept. of Health and Human Services. The drug war has been admitted as a failure by many politicians and law enforcement agencies including our current Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske. This should enforce the severability clause of the Controlled Substances Act. Prohibition of cannabis began because of yellow journalism winning over medical science in a case of who's got more money! Why does the ONDCP continue to avoid me...are you scared?
Previous e-mail revised:
Smoked cannabis may not have medical value, but how about cannabis ingested through brownies and cookies, or for that matter vaporized cannabis? If there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold US Patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
There is also US Patent 7109245 that was issued September 19, 2006 titled “Vasoconstrictor cannabinoid analogs”
The patent discloses that:
“The present disclosure concerns pharmaceutical compounds and compositions that are useful as vasoconstrictors, and the use of these compounds, for example in the treatment of shock. Septic shock is a type of vasodilatory shock that is often accompanied by a clinical presentation that suggests infection, such as fever, chills, warm, flushed skin, and hemodynamic instability (characterized by a falling and rising blood pressure). Septic shock is an often fatal condition that accompanies severe microbial infections, frequently with gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella or Bacteroides species. Gram-positive bacterialinfections can also lead to septic shock, particularly those infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and the Pneumococcus. The bacterial infections can be acquired by routes such as ingestion, personal contact, or trauma, but infections are oftennosocornial consequences of therapeutic procedures, including implantation of indwelling catheters or prosthetic devices. Septic shock often occurs in immunocompromised subjects, and therefore has been an increasing problem in recent years because of the increasing number of individuals who are immunocompromised. For example, subjects with HIV disease or who are taking immunosuppressive drugs for the treatment of cancer or organ transplantation rejection are at increased risk of developing septic shock. In view of the above, there exists a need for agents that counteract the vasodilation associated with shock.
Summary:
The present inventors (George Kunos and Raj K. Razdan) have demonstrated that abnormal cannabidiol (Abn-cbd) is a selective agonist and cannabidiol is a selective antagonist of an as yet unidentified cannabinoid-like or non-classical receptor distinct from the known cannabinoidreceptors CB1 and CB2. Agonists of these receptors, such as Abn-cbd, are believed to cause vasodilation. Even cannabidiol itself, which is generally an antagonist of the putative receptor, has been found to cause some vasodilation, and it therefore acts as a partial agonist, or mixed agonist/antagonist. It would therefore be desirable to have an agent that acts as a pure, or substantially pure, antagonist at the CB1-like receptor. Such an agent would be particularly useful in the treatment of diseases in which hypotension is the result of the action of endogenous cannabinoids and drug-induced vasoconstriction is desirable, for example in hypotensive states, such as shock. The antagonist would have particular application in vasodilatory shock states, such as septic shock, but it could also be used to achieve selective hemostasis to stop bleeding induced by trauma or surgery.”
Also under this fact of medical value; Why does the AMA (American Medical Association) and the ACP (American College of Physicians) accept medicinal value on cannabis? In fact the AMA has more than 7000 physicians that have accepted theuse of cannabis for more than 400,000 patients.
If the ONDCP wants to avoid my first two questions yet again then here are some new questions. Under the Severability clause in the controlled substances act the drug laws should be abolished or changed. In a major, broad-ranging report released Thursday, the Associated Press declared that "After 40 years, $1 Trillion, US War on Drugs has failed to meet any of its goals." The report notes that after four decades of prohibitionist drug enforcement, "Drug use is rampant and violence is even more brutal and widespread." The AP even got drug czar Gil Kerlikowske to agree. "In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske said. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified." This should cause the following to become in effect:
TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I - CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
SEVERABILITY
Pub. L. 106-310, div. B, title XXXVI, Sec. 3673, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1246, provided that: ''Any provision of this title (see Short Title of 2000 Amendments) held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed as to give the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such provision is held to be utterly invalid or unenforceable, in which event such provision shall be severed from this title and shall not affect the applicability of the remainder of this title, or of such provision, to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.''
Why has this not been upheld, and why can't the ONDCP give me an honest answer to any of my questions? Is it because of the following text that basically requires lies to the citizens of America about these shedule 1 controlled substances?
According to Title VII Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998:
Responsibilities: The Director “Drug Czar”
(12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance (in any form) that--
(A) is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812); and
(B) has not been approved for use for medical purposes by the Food and Drug Administration;
I look forward to your timely response, and hope for the sake of my fellow Americans; the hard working, non-violent, taxpaying citizens that on a daily basis are having their lives destroyed, careers ended, and families’ torn apart; that the ONDCP realizes there wrongs and takes any and all means necessary to correct them. It's not a war on drugs; it's an unnecessary evil that are government has forced upon us called prohibition. God didn't put us on this Earth with the prohibition of this plant so why is the ONDCP enforcing this?
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
I have all the information required for the drug wars to be abolished by law, without law change. The government has held us to the lies of prohibition by creating rules such as the responsibilities of the drug czar. Our government has used the drug laws to for property rights infringements. Let’s hold these people that have enforced these laws responsible by law. I am not going to post this additional information in the same post please watch for it!
Part 2 will be posted very soon!
Thank you for contacting ONDCP.
On April 20th, 2006, the FDA issued an advisory concluding that no
sound scientific studies have supported medical use of smoked
marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human
data support the safety or efficacy of smoked marijuana for general
medical use.
There are alternative FDA-approved medications in existence for
treatment of many of the proposed uses of smoked marijuana. For
example, a prescription drug, Marinol, is currently available to
anyone with a doctor's prescription. Marinol contains THC, the active
ingredient in marijuana, and has been approved for some of the same
uses as medicinal marijuana.
To learn more about "medical marijuana," please visit the following
Web sites:
Medical Marijuana Reality Check
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/marijuana_fs.pdf
Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana Is a
Medicine
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01362.html
Medical Marijuana - Marinol
http://www.dea.gov/ongoing/marinol.html
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
http://books.nap.edu/html/marimed/
Marijuana Studies/Articles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugpages/marijuana.html
Marijuana Research Report
http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/default.html
The DEA Position on Marijuana
http://www.dea.gov/marijuana_position.html
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
ONDCP Clearinghouse
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
My Response:
As a matter of fact I do have a couple of questions. First is the fact that the words "smoked marijuana" were used together quite frequently. Now smoked cannabis may not be accepted medically but how about ingested cannabis, such as pot brownies and cookies? Also if there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
I look forward to your timely response!
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
Initial avoidance of my questions from the ONDCP:
Dear Mr. Crystal,
Thank you for contacting ONDCP.
Marijuana is a dangerous drug and remains in Schedule I of the
Controlled Substances Act. The President opposes marijuana
legalization as does ONDCP Director Kerlikowske, who provides the
following information:
Marijuana Legalization: A Non-Starter
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/news/press09/marijuana_legalizatio
n.html
The following resource and Web site provide information about
marijuana and why it remains a controlled substance:
Denial of Marijuana Rescheduling
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/TEXTgate.cgi?WAISdocID=973249
28153+0+1+0&WAISaction=retrieve
Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization
http://www.justice.gov/dea/demand/speakout/index.html
If you would like to view information about marijuana and its
effects, please visit the following Web sites:
The DEA Position on Marijuana
http://www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_position.html
Marijuana Myths & Facts: The Truth Behind 10 Popular Misperceptions
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/marijuana_myths_facts.
What Americans Need to Know About Marijuana
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/mj_rev.pdf
Marijuana Abuse Research Report
http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/default.html
Marijuana Facts and Figures
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/marijuana/index.html
Marijuana-Info.org
http://www.marijuana-info.org/
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Content Specialist
ONDCP Clearinghouse
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
My reply:
As a matter of fact I do still have a couple of questions, and they are the same questions you failed to answer in the prior e-mail. First is the fact that the words "smoked marijuana" were used together quite frequently. Now smoked cannabis may not be accepted medically but how about cannabis ingested through brownies and cookies, or for that matter how about vaporized cannabis? Also if there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
I look forward to your timely response and actually receiving an answer to my questions!
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
More avoidance from the ONDCP and the final correspondence:
Dear Mr. Crystal,
Thank you for contacting ONDCP.
What constitutes safe and effective medicine should continue to be
based upon reviews of the appropriate science by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). Medical evidence does not support the efficacy
of smoked marijuana for medical purposes. ONDCP will continue to work
closely with other stakeholders to review law, science, and medicine
to refine the Administration's marijuana enforcement policy.
Following is some specific information and resources concerning
medical marijuana:
On April 20th, 2006, the FDA issued an advisory concluding that no
sound scientific studies have supported medical use of smoked
marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human
data support the safety or efficacy of smoked marijuana for general
medical use.
There are alternative FDA-approved medications in existence for
treatment of many of the proposed uses of smoked marijuana. For
example, a prescription drug, Marinol, is currently available to
anyone with a doctor's prescription. Marinol contains THC, the active
ingredient in marijuana, and has been approved for some of the same
uses as medicinal marijuana.
To learn more about "medical marijuana," please visit the following
Web sites:
Medical Marijuana Fact Sheet
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.org/drugfact/pdf/medicalmarijuanfactsh
eet.pdf
Medical Marijuana Reality Check
http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/marijuana_fs.pdf
Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana Is a
Medicine
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/2006/ucm1086
43.htm
Medical Marijuana - Marinol
http://www.justice.gov/dea/ongoing/marinol.html
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
http://books.nap.edu/html/marimed/
Marijuana Studies/Articles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugpages/marijuana.html
Marijuana Research Report
http://www.drugabuse.gov/ResearchReports/Marijuana/default.html
The DEA Position on Marijuana
http://www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_position.html
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Content Specialist
ONDCP Clearinghouse
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
My last two e-mails to the ONDCP have been waiting for a response for over a week:
You have completely avoided answering my questions yet again with this pish posh nonsense on "smoked marijuana." Now smoked cannabis may not have medical value, but how about cannabis ingested through brownies and cookies, or for that matter vaporized cannabis? If there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
Also under this fact of medical value; Why does the AMA (American Medical Association) and the ACP (American College of Physicians) accept medicinal value on cannabis? In fact the AMA has more than 7000 physicians that have accepted the use of cannabis for more than 400,000 patients.
If the ONDCP wants to avoid my first two questions yet again then here are some new questions. Under the Severability clause in the controlled substances act the drug laws should be abolished or changed. In a major, broad-ranging report released Thursday, the Associated Press declared that "After 40 years, $1 Trillion, US War on Drugs has failed to meet any of its goals." The report notes that after four decades of prohibitionist drug enforcement, "Drug use is rampant and violence is even more brutal and widespread." The AP even got drug czar Gil Kerlikowske to agree. "In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske said. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified." This should cause the following to become in effect:
TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I - CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
SEVERABILITY
Pub. L. 106-310, div. B, title XXXVI, Sec. 3673, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1246, provided that: ''Any provision of this title (see Short Title of 2000 Amendments) held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed as to give the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such provision is held to be utterly invalid or unenforceable, in which event such provision shall be severed from this title and shall not affect the applicability of the remainder of this title, or of such provision, to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.''
Why has this not been upheld, and why can't the ONDCP give me an honest answer to any of my questions? Is it because of the following text that basically requires lies to the citizens of America about these schedule 1 controlled substances?
According to Title VII Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998:
Responsibilities: The Director “Drug Czar”
(12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance (in any form) that--
(A) is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812); and
(B) has not been approved for use for medical purposes by the Food and Drug Administration;
I look forward to your timely response, and hope that the ONDCP realizes that there's people that are smarter than them.
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
To whom it may concern,
You failed to reply to my prior e-mail which will be included in this; however it will be revised once again. I presume the reasoning for not replying back to me is because the ONDCP knows the laws are wrong, doesn't want to change the laws, and doesn't want to say anything that could cause the laws to be changed. That would also explain the direct avoidance of questions that I've had, and the fact that these laws on cannabis are invalid. Every which way you look at it the cannabis laws should be abolished. There's accepted medicinal value in not 1 but 2 patents held by the Dept. of Health and Human Services. The drug war has been admitted as a failure by many politicians and law enforcement agencies including our current Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske. This should enforce the severability clause of the Controlled Substances Act. Prohibition of cannabis began because of yellow journalism winning over medical science in a case of who's got more money! Why does the ONDCP continue to avoid me...are you scared?
Previous e-mail revised:
Smoked cannabis may not have medical value, but how about cannabis ingested through brownies and cookies, or for that matter vaporized cannabis? If there is no accepted medicinal value on cannabis, which is a requirement for a schedule 1 controlled substance; then why does the US Department of Health and Human Services hold US Patent 6630507 titled "cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants" that reads as follows?:
“Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia.”
This patent was obtained in October of 2003.
There is also US Patent 7109245 that was issued September 19, 2006 titled “Vasoconstrictor cannabinoid analogs”
The patent discloses that:
“The present disclosure concerns pharmaceutical compounds and compositions that are useful as vasoconstrictors, and the use of these compounds, for example in the treatment of shock. Septic shock is a type of vasodilatory shock that is often accompanied by a clinical presentation that suggests infection, such as fever, chills, warm, flushed skin, and hemodynamic instability (characterized by a falling and rising blood pressure). Septic shock is an often fatal condition that accompanies severe microbial infections, frequently with gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella or Bacteroides species. Gram-positive bacterialinfections can also lead to septic shock, particularly those infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus and the Pneumococcus. The bacterial infections can be acquired by routes such as ingestion, personal contact, or trauma, but infections are oftennosocornial consequences of therapeutic procedures, including implantation of indwelling catheters or prosthetic devices. Septic shock often occurs in immunocompromised subjects, and therefore has been an increasing problem in recent years because of the increasing number of individuals who are immunocompromised. For example, subjects with HIV disease or who are taking immunosuppressive drugs for the treatment of cancer or organ transplantation rejection are at increased risk of developing septic shock. In view of the above, there exists a need for agents that counteract the vasodilation associated with shock.
Summary:
The present inventors (George Kunos and Raj K. Razdan) have demonstrated that abnormal cannabidiol (Abn-cbd) is a selective agonist and cannabidiol is a selective antagonist of an as yet unidentified cannabinoid-like or non-classical receptor distinct from the known cannabinoidreceptors CB1 and CB2. Agonists of these receptors, such as Abn-cbd, are believed to cause vasodilation. Even cannabidiol itself, which is generally an antagonist of the putative receptor, has been found to cause some vasodilation, and it therefore acts as a partial agonist, or mixed agonist/antagonist. It would therefore be desirable to have an agent that acts as a pure, or substantially pure, antagonist at the CB1-like receptor. Such an agent would be particularly useful in the treatment of diseases in which hypotension is the result of the action of endogenous cannabinoids and drug-induced vasoconstriction is desirable, for example in hypotensive states, such as shock. The antagonist would have particular application in vasodilatory shock states, such as septic shock, but it could also be used to achieve selective hemostasis to stop bleeding induced by trauma or surgery.”
Also under this fact of medical value; Why does the AMA (American Medical Association) and the ACP (American College of Physicians) accept medicinal value on cannabis? In fact the AMA has more than 7000 physicians that have accepted theuse of cannabis for more than 400,000 patients.
If the ONDCP wants to avoid my first two questions yet again then here are some new questions. Under the Severability clause in the controlled substances act the drug laws should be abolished or changed. In a major, broad-ranging report released Thursday, the Associated Press declared that "After 40 years, $1 Trillion, US War on Drugs has failed to meet any of its goals." The report notes that after four decades of prohibitionist drug enforcement, "Drug use is rampant and violence is even more brutal and widespread." The AP even got drug czar Gil Kerlikowske to agree. "In the grand scheme, it has not been successful," Kerlikowske said. "Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified." This should cause the following to become in effect:
TITLE 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 13 - DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I - CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT
SEVERABILITY
Pub. L. 106-310, div. B, title XXXVI, Sec. 3673, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1246, provided that: ''Any provision of this title (see Short Title of 2000 Amendments) held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed as to give the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such provision is held to be utterly invalid or unenforceable, in which event such provision shall be severed from this title and shall not affect the applicability of the remainder of this title, or of such provision, to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.''
Why has this not been upheld, and why can't the ONDCP give me an honest answer to any of my questions? Is it because of the following text that basically requires lies to the citizens of America about these shedule 1 controlled substances?
According to Title VII Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998:
Responsibilities: The Director “Drug Czar”
(12) shall ensure that no Federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalization (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812) and take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance (in any form) that--
(A) is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812); and
(B) has not been approved for use for medical purposes by the Food and Drug Administration;
I look forward to your timely response, and hope for the sake of my fellow Americans; the hard working, non-violent, taxpaying citizens that on a daily basis are having their lives destroyed, careers ended, and families’ torn apart; that the ONDCP realizes there wrongs and takes any and all means necessary to correct them. It's not a war on drugs; it's an unnecessary evil that are government has forced upon us called prohibition. God didn't put us on this Earth with the prohibition of this plant so why is the ONDCP enforcing this?
Thank you,
Sean Crystal
420_freedom
I have all the information required for the drug wars to be abolished by law, without law change. The government has held us to the lies of prohibition by creating rules such as the responsibilities of the drug czar. Our government has used the drug laws to for property rights infringements. Let’s hold these people that have enforced these laws responsible by law. I am not going to post this additional information in the same post please watch for it!
Part 2 will be posted very soon!