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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (19388)4/16/2008 10:26:51 AM
From: d[-_-]b  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 25737
 
The bulk of all material is related to someone wanting to grow and smoke it for "medical" reasons - which is not the same thing as isolating the active ingredient and then selling a pill. Not many of these exist beyond Marinol:

druglibrary.org

I suspect the reason you can't grasp this is the effects normally reported are short attention spans and loss of memory. :-)

medpagetoday.com

Too Much Cannabis and Pain Relief Goes Up in Smoke
By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: October 24, 2007
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 24 -- Smoking marijuana may relieve pain, but only within a narrow therapeutic window, and higher doses can actually intensify pain, investigators here have found.