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The FDA has approved medications that cause heart damage (Fen-Fen, Vioxx), medications that relieve symptoms in a very small number of people, medications that cause permanent dizziness, medications that cause liver damage, psychotic episodes, ad naseum (totally intended). But they think medical marijuana has "no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States."
Have any leaders of the
Fucking
Dumb
Asses looked at the side effects of ibuprofen? Aspirin?
ALCOHOL? Who the hell are the Fucking Dumb Asses to tell someone pot doesn't help them at all, and worse, it "adversely impacts concentration and memory, the lungs, motor coordination and the immune system." I'll admit I've never met a pot smoker who was sharp
while smoking pot, but try giving an IQ test to someone on Vicodin, morphine, codeine, OxyContin for christ's sake. OxyContin might well be one of the most addictive substances ever created (worse than heroin), with such a dangerous withdrawal that it can only be done safely under medical supervision in a hospital. Further, when said pot smokers weren't smoking pot, they seemed quite sharp and for all intents and purposes, quite functional. Find yourself a regular OxyContin user. Take their drugs away, and try to say the same thing.
Fucking
Dumb
Asses!