Posted by Elizabeth on July 18, 2001, at 0:20:51
In reply to Re: Methadone, posted by jojo on July 17, 2001, at 11:23:48
I think the "medical law" thing (I was a little confused by that expression too) was an attempt to say the following:
Effexor isn't considered to have abuse potential by the medical community. Discontinuing it can cause a withdrawal syndrome, but this is not the same thing as addiction; if it were, we'd have to consider a whole lot of people drug addicts who take antidepressants, anxiolytics, corticosteroids, antihypertensives, and numerous other common medicines.
> FDA rulings and laws passed by Congress and signed by the President are legal documents, and follow the Rule of Humpty Dumpty rather than those of science or medicine.
Well said. < g >
> Hence, Congress may determine that marijuana is a narcotic and has no medical use.
"Narcotic" is such a funny word, isn't it?
(Weird how marijuana has no "accepted medical use," while Marinol has been moved down to C-III.)
> Never the less, in most people marijuana does not induce narcosis,
"narcosis" ? (Do you mean, like, sleep?)
-elizabeth
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