Below are 15 useful quotes that every patient of medical cannabis should check out. If you are new to cannabis therapy, these might relieve any apprehension or worry you feel regarding the safety and potential efficacy of this sort of treatment…
“Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.”
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Pediatrician, Public Health Administrator
“I have seen many patients with chronic pain, muscle spasms, nausea, anorexia, and other unpleasant symptoms obtain significant—often remarkable—relief from cannabis medicines, well beyond what had been provided by traditional (usually opiate-based) pain relievers.”
David Hadorn, MD, PhD, Medical Consultant for GW Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.
“I have found in my study of these patients that cannabis is really a safe, effective, and non-toxic alternative to many standard medications.”
Dr. Philip Denney
“It is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon
“Marijuana (cannabis) has been used medicinally for centuries. It has been shown to be effective in treating a wide range of symptoms and conditions.”
“Jurisdictions that have legalized medical marijuana, decriminalized possession of marijuana and/or other drugs, or tolerated limited, retail sales…have not experienced significant, if any, increases in marijuana or other drug use.”
American Public Health Association
“Marijuana doesn’t have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works…”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Neurosurgeon
“Contrary to what we’ve all been mis-taught [marijuana is] not a very harmful drug… it’s a drug remarkably free of toxicity providing it’s used intelligently.”
Lester Grinspoon, Psychiatry Professor at Harvard University
“Marijuana is seen as efficacious in reducing nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy”
“Marijuana worked like a charm…the sheer bliss of not experiencing nausea — and then not having to fear it for all the days intervening between treatments — was the greatest boost I received in all my year of treatment, and surely had a most important effect upon my eventual cure.”
Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science
“The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer, and AIDS …”
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Pediatrician, Public Health Administrator
“Cannabis is one of the best medicines for migraines. It’s so effective – it works rapidly, and it has limited toxicity, although lung damage from smoking is a concern.”
Dr. Phillip Denney
“Not only are there thousands of migraine patients who benefit from cannabis, but cannabis has been cited by such historical medical luminaries as Sir William Osler, M.D. (considered the father of modern medicine) and Dr. Morris Fishbein (long-time editor of JAMA) as the best treatment for migraines (back in the days before the Congress ignored the AMA and over the AMA’s objection, passed the Marijuana Tax Act).”
“Many of the chronically ill have successfully sought relief with the use of medical cannabis, an age-old remedy that now shows real scientific efficacy. Hundreds of thousands of the sick have replaced disabling narcotics and other psychotropic medications with nontoxic and benign cannabis. The anecdotal evidence is overwhelming. Folks with spinal injuries able to give up their walkers, AIDS patients able to gain weight and keep their medications down, cancer patients finding relief from the terrible nausea of chemotherapy, chronic pain patients once again functional with their consciousness restored from narcotic lethargy, and folks once disabled from crippling psychiatric disorders and addictions, returned to sanity and society with the assistance of a nontoxic herb with remarkable healing powers.”
Jay Cavanaugh, PhD, National Director of the American Alliance for Medical Cannabis
“Cannabinoids are now known to have the capacity for neuromodulation, via direct, receptor-based mechanisms, at numerous levels within the nervous system. These provide therapeutic properties that may be applicable to the treatment of neurological disorders, including anti-oxidative, neuroprotective effects, analgesia, anti-inflammatory actions, immunomodulation, modulation of glial cells and tumor growth regulation. Beyond that, the cannabinoids have also been shown to be remarkably safe with no potential for overdose.”
Gregory T. Carter, MD, Clinical Professor at the School of Medicine at the University of Washington and co-director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Center
