Leveque exposes a billion dollar medicine that turns out to be
useless, and the ignorance of the federal government wrestling with a
business threat called legal Medical Marijuana.
Published on Salem-News.com
October 1, 2007
Dr. Phillip Leveque
The federal government, working hand in hand with pharmaceutical companies, continues to disrespect the
wishes of legal voters by using false information as supporting data in
their arguments against legal cannabis. This advertisement for an American
marijuana medicine made before 1937, demonstrates that early laws
paralleled the pursuits of today's movement already legalized by voters,
but continually harasses by pharmaceutical manufacturers and their allies
in Congress.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - U.S.
Representative Mark Souder from Indiana was the head of this lynch mob.
Eli Lilly Company of Indianapolis was certainly one of his major
constituents. They had just chemically produced a new drug for A.D.D.,
A.D.H.D., etc., and were heavily advertising it as a miracle drug. A.D.D.
affects millions of children, so it was a multi-billion dollar
product.
Simultaneously in California, medical marijuana doctors
had found that marijuana cookies helped these A.D.D., A.D.H.D. patients.
This was an extreme financial hazard to Lilly's billion dollar a year
medicine. Something extremely drastic had to be done to quench this
disquieting news that a "weed" could be better than a billion dollar
medicine.
"Let's hold a Congressional hearing and trash medical
marijuana in general and bring in fake marijuana experts and the news
media in to get maximum publicity."
Boy, oh, boy did they bring in
the hired gunslingers:
1. Director National Institute of Drug
Abuse, NIH
2. Director of Office of Drug Evaluation, FDA
3.
Director of Institute for Behavior & Health
4. Chief of
Diversion Control Program, DEA
5. Dr. James Scott, Oregon Board of
Medical Examiners
There were some defenders of medical
marijuana:
1. Dr. Claudia Jensen, USC/ Medical school, who taught a
course in cannabis therapeutics at USC Medical School.
2. Robert
Kampia, Executive Director Marijuana Policy Project, D.C.
3. Dr.
Phillip Leveque, Oregon's leading medical marijuana doctor (ME)
I
was invited to pay my own way, but I was told by "friends" at Marijuana
Policy Project, "If you want to get chewed up and trashed by Rep. Mark
Souder, just come over." Souder had allowed me 5 minutes to defend myself
and my patients. I decided it wasn't worth it.
Souder tried to
trash marijuana from the first minute. Calling it "so-called medicine" and
that we were "convincing many Americans that marijuana was a true medicine
for many diseases."
Colonel Eli Lilly opened his business at 15 W. Pearl
St., in Indianapolis, Indiana in May 1876. Photo:
Eli Lilly and Company
Well, in fact it is a true medicine and a
quick look at history shows us that Eli Lilly Company in Indianapolis was
one of the major manufactures of cannabis medicine, up to the Marijuana
Tax Act of 1937.
Souder also stated that, "Marijuana's utility as
medicine was unproven." This despite the fact it has been used for at
least 4,000 years, Eli Lilly included, and was the leading medicine in the
U.S. for at least 50 years. Now it was a threat to Lilly's new A.D.D.
drug.
Souder also decries California and Oregon laws that, "Few if
any restrictions are placed on what conditions marijuana may be used to
treat and virtually no restrictions are placed on content potency or
purity of such medical marijuana." Wrong again!
The really strange
thing about this is that the U.S. Government itself says that 77 million
Americans have used marijuana and probably about 10 million use it daily.
Our experience in Oregon is that 99 percent of our new patients are using
it for "medical purposes." We estimate at least 100 thousand Oregonians
use it medically when they can get it.
Dr. Nora Volkow of the
National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) made the statement that, "of 21
million people who reported using marijuana in 2001, 2 million met
criteria for drug addiction." (Just because one uses it doesn't mean he is
an addict. Cannabis has a very low addiction potential.) She also made
comments about the bad effects of marijuana. I thought she was talking
about Oxycontin, which is widely prescribed and has caused thousands of
deaths. Marijuana/cannabis has never killed anyone.
In passing, I
must say she doesn't know much about marijuana. She thinks people smoke
the leaves. Wrong again!
I could go on. The congressional report is
20 thousand words over 31 pages. You get the idea though!
An
unusual aside to all this, I just found out, Eli Lilly's A.D.D. drug
doesn't work and they probably sold it to a subsidiary.
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