The Medicalization of Marijuana: A Free Lecture at HSU

The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient ExperiencePress release from the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (HIIMR):

The Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (HIIMR) is hosting a public lecture by authors Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin who will discuss their recently published book, “The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience” from 5:30-7:00pm on October 10 in the Goodwin Forum on the Humboldt State University campus. Learn what their research on mid-life patients in Colorado reveals about what it means to participate in a state medical cannabis program. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information please call 707-826-4446.

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Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
4 years ago

This sounds terrific and could be informative beyond expectations.

Prior to $64 Californians would have been able to relate to the legalization in Colorado. But now, we’re on another planet, in another time, dealing with some unique circumstances. Our own experiment eclipses, by the numbers, all other American examples.

Do you suppose the 2 authors would entertain a Triangle version by the same title?

Dope is for dopes
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Dope is for dopes
4 years ago

Here is the short course:

Marijuana is not medicine. Marijuana is a poor substitute for actual therapeutic management of medical disorders.

Marijuana has not been demonstrated to be effective for the treatment of any condition whatsoever. Marijuana is an intoxicant, with addictive properties. It’s effects are difficult to predict, and impossible to manage. Marijuana and cannabis extracts are expensive, and have little effect on pain, anxiety, insomnia,or much of anything else. Marijuana is claimed not to be dangerous or harmful or addictive, but no long range studies have shown these assertions to be true.

Marijuana is a drug, and not a very efficacious one. The use of vaping devices has caused several deaths and over 400 cases of lung damage. Cannabis oil is an extremely toxic product.

Cannabis flower, if eaten raw, appears to have some anti-inflammatory properties, in some patients. It’s difficult to study this, since the patients tend to also smoke cannabis.

Cannabis-intoxicated patients give inconsistent and interesting accounts of the benefits of cannabis. I don’t believe any of them. People who routinely smoke weed will defend cannabis use to their last breath, but pot smokers have damaged thinking, and are often disconnected from reality. This is why we call it dope…

Please make a note of it.

Central HumCo
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4 years ago

Mark Twain was right— it would be easier to defraud you than to show you how you’ve been defrauded.

Opinions are like buttholes everyone has one
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Opinions are like buttholes everyone has one
4 years ago

That’s like your opinion man. You must be a DR. with your pharm pad ready to right some pharmaceutical 💊 to get your kick back. Sorry cannabis is cutting into your kick backs.

The vaping thing…. is not my cup of canna tea!

Government Cheese
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Government Cheese
4 years ago

Pure organic flower CBD is a medicine! Marijuana is a drug! Once “they” realize that there is medicinal properties in “cannabis” it will be illegal once again. The government will have complete control and you will not be able to purchase marijuana anymore. Let’s at least come to a common ground here…… marijuana “cannabis “ is not legal! It s controlled , taxed and regulated. Fun fact. Government Cheese is actually still made and stored in Kansas City for mass,quick distribution to any where in the United States in 24 hours. It is taxed, regulated and controlled ! Sound familiar?

Dope is for dopes
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Dope is for dopes
4 years ago

CBD is a joke, and not one of the good ones… CBD is the worst and most phony product since Snake-Oil was sold out the back of covered wagons!

CBD products are aimed at the old and the suffering, and contain little of value while robbing the aged and sick of their resources. The main effect of CBD is to separate funds from those who have funds…

Shame on you, charlatans, marijuana is for 12 year olds, and stupid people. Marijuana is a well known gateway drug, leading straight to heroin, methamphetamine and death. You start out paralyzed on your couch, then you start babbling about how it is “healing” you! That’s the paradigm of Cannabis… Next you are committing rape, stealing a car, and drying out in jail…

Pot is for idiots: Enjoy!

Propaganda is for Dopes
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Propaganda is for Dopes
4 years ago

Thanks for giving references for your outdated, uninformed opinions. CBD has transformed the lives of countless children with seizure disorders, and we are just beginning to discover the medicinal potential of the many constituents of the cannabis plant. Okay, now you can put your head back in the sand.

ps the crimes you are alluding to are generally fueled by alcohol. Even meth and heroin don’t come close. Stoner violence? Why were we fighting? I forget. Let’s order pizza.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/19/alcohol-is-still-the-deadliest-drug-in-the-united-states-and-its-not-even-close/
about 40% had been drinking at the time they committed [violent crimes).Drinking is especially common among perpetrators of specific crimes, including murder, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence.

No way, that is so funny
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No way, that is so funny
4 years ago

you are so funny. You must be just shaking up things for dialogue. You sound like you wrote the script for ……

Dope is for dopes
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Dope is for dopes
4 years ago

Not as funny as the guy above who thinks “countless children” have been helped by CBD!
Uninformed people think that some CBD product and not Epidolex is used to treat rare cases of Epilepsy. Very rare cases…

Actually, persons who give Cannabis or products to children, should be put in jail and then given psychological treatments… Cannabis is useless in almost all cases, and every time I hear some clown say that it “cures Cancer”, I have to go over to the cemetary to tell my Aunt Edna that she should have listened to those stoners and then she would be alive today…

Delusions of the stoned and the obtuse. In fact, that’s the main effect of smoking weed:
It makes you right 100% of the time, a legend in your own mind…

Dear Stoners: Ah, never mind, you’re right…

SmallFry
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SmallFry
4 years ago

No.. no.. I would say ‘Anti Doper’ should do some more actual research. If you were a parent with a child with such an affliction like epilepsy, and there was something natural and hopeful that might give that child a chance at some sort of functional life, wouldn’t you want and deserve that right to try? CBD isn’t the cure for epilepsy, it has to be combined with some THC, to be most effective.. No family should face percicution for trying to curb suffering of such a child.. WTF is wrong with you? Maybe stoners are not the problem, but Idiots like you.. There are numerous studies showing the medical benefits of Cannabis and all you have is lame ass ‘opinions’… Maybe you should do some actual research instead of infecting people with a useless opinion.. Did your “Aunt Edna” even try cannabis? My elder family used Cannabis thru cancer, and other Ailments and it made them much more comfortable in thier journey thru old age.
I don’t think Cannabis “cures” cancer, but it definitely has an effect, and it definitely helps with the symptoms. It’s way more gentle than opioids.

But, you seem fairly intent on your Opinions Anti Doper… it must just be the absence of brain cells because, you can’t blame Cannabis I assume..

Central HumCo
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4 years ago
Reply to  SmallFry

~the “Load dose” is important, not only in CBD oil, but whatever other item you are swallowing or sublingualing. I highly doubt these Dispensary do-gooders know much about what they are prescribing. BTW, the word Dispensary is defined for us in, yes, The Freeman’s Charter of Eureka – a licensed care practitioner is the stationary foundation of a Dispensary. Otherwise, they could just call it a “Drug” store. Ironic as Greenhouse gas – and the Triangle is overwhelmed with Greenhouses.

Flummoxed in Carlotta.

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
4 years ago
Reply to  SmallFry

Thank you, Kym, for printing such anti-cannabis propaganda. It makes it easy for those who have not made up their mind to realize the anti-cannabis crowd are peabrains stuck in their small, scared world of dumb! Dope cites nothing like a typical dope; who would believe such a cretinous phony except another cretinous phony!

Rod Gass
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Rod Gass
4 years ago
Reply to  SmallFry

How sweet does the truth sound? Thanks, SF.

“Maybe stoners are not the problem, but Idiots like you..”

That is pure knowledge. If our society of idiots don’t attempt to seek knowledge concerning cannabis usage, then, idiot is the correct terminology.

SmallFry
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SmallFry
4 years ago

Who the F cares.. get your pill pushing laws off my Body! Flower hata, I know Many who use Cannabis instead of Opiotes for pain management, and are much better off for it! Cannabis “oils” are a new realm, true enough. Sugar is really bad for people. Sugar kills people and creates huge epidemics. Round up.. kills people. Yet, that is perfectly acceptable. Cannabis flower, grown wit consciousness, has never been proven to harm people! Cannabis has helped many thru Cancer. My family friend had throat cancer, they pushed many pills on her. The only thing that truely helped was Marijuana. I truely do not think she would have survived without it! She couldn’t eat anything, Cannabis stimulated her appetite to eat. Cannabis is a life saving medicine that can be grown at home if needed. It’s also a relaxing recreational substance that proposes little effect to the user. Mush less effects than Alcohol and or tobacco. Not everyone is required to buy into the pill pushers methodology..

Some guy
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Some guy
4 years ago

@ Dope is for dopes. Your wrong.. the end… have a good day

As I See It
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As I See It
4 years ago

There are many plants which are healing. I once went to a workshop where an 80 yr old Native American woman talked of making an elixir for fire fighters to help with their compromised lungs using crushed hemp seeds that proved successful for them. Pharmaceutical products are much more harmful and have been proven so. I agree the hype is over the top at times in regards to the overwhelming cannabis products on the market and like ALL drugs can be abused…however I have found it useful in my own journey with cancer and anxiety.

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
4 years ago
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Let the narrow minded succumb to those illnesses cannabis is proven to be efficacious. The less peabrain prohibitionists the better!

Big Bang
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4 years ago

Dope is for Dopes is 100% correct! The great and powerful Big Bang has spoken… Next stoner comment, please…

SmallFry
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SmallFry
4 years ago
Reply to  Big Bang

The “Big Bang” chokes once again on it’s own primal spew.. Unsuprised…

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
4 years ago

Just hope these peabrain prohibitionists NEVER use cannabis when they get one of the many diseases cannabis treats.
“Scientific study of the chemicals in marijuana, called cannabinoids, has led to two FDA-approved medications that contain cannabinoid chemicals in pill form. Continued research may lead to more medications. Because the marijuana plant contains chemicals that may help treat a range of illnesses and symptoms, many people argue that it should be legal for medical purposes.”
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine

Sparkelmahn
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Sparkelmahn
4 years ago

“Researchers at The University of New Mexico found that medical cannabis provides immediate symptom relief across dozens of health symptoms with relatively minimal negative side effects. In two recent studies titled, “Patient-Reported Symptom Relief Following Medical Cannabis Consumption,” and “Effectiveness of Raw, Natural Medical Cannabis Flower for Treating Insomnia under Naturalistic Conditions” published in the journals, Frontiers in Pharmacology and Medicines, respectively, UNM Department of Psychology Associate Professor Jacob Miguel Vigil and UNM Department of Economics Assistant Professor Sarah See Stith, document that patients experienced statistically and clinically significant therapeutic benefits when they used cannabis for symptoms ranging from chronic pain to insomnia.” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-medical-cannabis-effective-wide-range.html

Peabrain prohibitionist don’t need no stinkin’ research. Their peabrain minds are already made up!

Dope is for dopes
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Dope is for dopes
4 years ago
Reply to  Sparkelmahn

Holy Cow! The best drug, is no drug at all!
That’s the message here! If you want to sit, paralyzed by cannabis, your whole life, then enjoy! Getting high is probably the only thing you are good at, and the only activity you feel happy about.
Keep dreaming that marijuana will cure you of the catharsis of living, the chaos of life’s cacophony, the delightful psychic angst of existence! If you just want to get stoned and forget about everything, well hell, at least admit it, because you don’t need an excuse! Hell, it’s legal now, do all you want!
Please stop spouting nonsense, you grow the stuff for money, so you can buy other stuff! Right?
That doesn’t make marijuana beneficial, for a non-user, it just makes it profitable!
The idea that pot can cure anything at all, is laughable, and only a stoner would think so!
The shortness of life will eventually smack you in the face! Now is a gift, that’s why we call it the present! Wake the heck up, and try sobriety for awhile, you might learn something.
Not everyone gets high, not everyone cares about pot. Lots and lots of people don’t take drugs at all. Just because you use, doesn’t make you right…

Government Cheese
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Government Cheese
4 years ago

Western medicine has been and is today a complete flop. Look at our recent opioid crisis. Look at the amount of experimental drugs Americans take in a daily basis because a Dr Rx them to you. Nature holds ALL the secrets to cure just about any ailment out there! When found in nature it is manipulated and found illegal for people to use than sold back to them at an exorbitant price. Western medicine is money made off of sick people, they don’t want a cure, they want a band-aid. PS band aids are patented!

Dope is for dopes
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Dope is for dopes
4 years ago

I agree in principle, since most medical care is dispensed in a way that maximizes flow of resources to “professionals”, and most medications commonly dispensed are useless, and sometimes harmful. If you study opioid use, you will find that the patients are, most often, begging for unnecessary drugs which they desire but do not exactly “need”…

Marijuana falls into this category. People who like it, want it. Everyone else, probably, it won’t help, and wastes their resources.

Western medicine IS a failure, but YOU try treating patients who know SO much more than the physician! It’s nearly impossible to control patients, and quite impossible to control drug use! The average physician is lost, doesn’t know what to do next, and, adding marijuana is probably easier than figuring out how to actually help.

Providers should be focused on maintaining and improving your health. Marijuana will not help anyone, and completely deserves to not be called “medicine”. Treating “symptoms” with “medication” is futile, and the average “patient” could do as well on his own if marijuana is the medicine recommended!