New post American Medical Association Reconsiders Marijuana

[☭proletarian☭]

Tuesday-, T0he AMA announced that, after 72 years, it was reversing its pot policy—and urged the federal government to do the same. Precipitated by a similar decision by the group’s Medical Student Section, the AMA resolved that “that marijuana’s status as a federal Schedule 1 controlled substance be reviewed,” with the goal of facilitating clinical research, and presented a new medical report, conducted by its Council on Science and Public Health, laying out the drug’s various medical benefits.

The American Medical Association Reconsiders Marijuana. Will the Justice Department Follow? - The Human Condition Blog - Newsweek.com

 

[xsited1]

72 years to decide? Pot will do that to you. They probably have a terrible case of the munchies.

 

[Emma]

with the goal of facilitating clinical research

Considering what's come out in recent years, I certainly hope they do so.

 

[Oddball]

Doesn't clinical research pretty much amount to that "anecdotal evidence" we've been told about for so long?

 

[Emma]

No.

 

[Oddball]

Really?

Then how do you go about quantifying things like pain, hunger and anxiety, to measure the claimed efficacy of those medications?

 

[☭proletarian☭]

Doesn't clinical research pretty much amount to that "anecdotal evidence" we've been told about for so long?

Yes... all those clinical trials thjat found that Dioxin kills you, mercury and lead should not be consumed, and arsenic isn't food are all absolutely meaningless anecdotal evidence...

 

[Oddball]

It can be easily measured and confirmed when someone is dead.

Towering fail, JBuckwheat.

 

[RadiomanATL]

JB?

Makes sense now...

 

[☭proletarian☭]

What is jb?

Scientists discover way of measuring pain - Times Online

Study tests reliability of more accurate measure of patient pain | Eureka! Science News

god forbid Dude ever have a clue what he's talking about

 

[Oddball]

What if the subject tells you that the "pain" being measured really doesn't hurt?

 

[☭proletarian☭]

What if the guy the instruments say is dead gets up and walks around? Crap I guess we can't measure it like you said... heartbeats, brainwaves, and body temperature must be just anecdotal evidence with no scientific value...

 

[Oddball]

Way to not answer the question, dickweed.

Besides all that, I was asking someone who has experience in the medical field in actual reality.

 

[☭proletarian☭]

Really?

Then how do you go about quantifying things like pain, hunger and anxiety, to measure the claimed efficacy of those medications?

Scientists discover way of measuring pain - Times Online

Study tests reliability of more accurate measure of patient pain | Eureka! Science News

Way to not answer the question, dickweed.

Do you know how to read?

 

[☭proletarian☭]

Scientists can now measure how full or hungry a mouse feels, thanks to a new technique which uses imaging to reveal how neurons behave in the part of the brain which regulates appetite...

Scientists had already identified the part of the hypothalamus area of the brain which regulates appetite. In the new study, the researchers discovered that they could see the neurons there firing if they used a contrast agent of manganese ion to make the neurons visible on a magnetic resonance imaging scan.

When the mouse was hungry and hence the neurons showed increased activity, the contrast agent was taken up, making the neurons 'light up' on the scan. The intensity of this signal decreased as the mouse became less hungry and the neurons became less active.

Obesity Research Boosted By Watching Hunger In The Brain

 

[Oddball]

I know how to read and none of that dreck quantifies "pain" in any objective way....IOW, one man's pain is another man's discomfort.

Like with a lot of other human responses to stimuli, they're largely what is called "anecdotal". Which is the point in the first place.

 

[☭proletarian☭]

I know how to read and none of that dreck quantifies "pain" in any objective way....IOW, one man's pain is another man's discomfort.Like with a lot of other human responses to stimuli, they're largely what is called "anecdotal". Which is the point in the first place.

The experience of pain (a subset of discomfort) when set on fire is anecdotal? So we can't determine that the tissue damage caused by fire causes pain (in persons with normally functioning neurology) and that the pain response to fire is more intense than that caused by popping one's thumb?

 

[☭proletarian☭]

Pain
An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. Note: The inability to communicate verbally does not negate the possibility that an individual is experiencing pain and is in need of appropriate pain-relieving treatment. Pain is always subjective. Each individual learns the application of the word through experiences related to injury in early life. Biologists recognize that those stimuli which cause pain are liable to damage tissue. Accordingly, pain is that experience we associate with actual or potential tissue damage. It is unquestionably a sensation in a part or parts of the body, but it is also always unpleasant and therefore also an emotional experience. Experiences which resemble pain but are not unpleasant, e.g., pricking, should not be called pain. Unpleasant abnormal experiences (dysesthesias) may also be pain but are not necessarily so because, subjectively, they may not have the usual sensory qualities of pain.

International Association for the Study of Pain | Pain Definitions


he Web version of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica defines pain as:

...a complex experience consisting of a physiological (bodily) response to a noxious stimulus followed by an affective (emotional) response to that event. Pain is a warning mechanism that helps to protect an organism by influencing it to withdraw from harmful stimuli; it is primarily associated with injury, or the threat of injury, to bodily tissues.

 

[Oddball]

I asked someone who actually works in the clinical world (Emma is an RN), not a well known overly arrogant know-it-all navel contemplator.

But thanks for playing anyways, JBuckwheat.

 

[☭proletarian☭]

So you asked a stupid question and now you're mad because you got an answer?


Your objections to the trials have been thoroughly refuted.