Guide to Dangerous Drugs

Legislators cite various justifications for their ban on possession or use of marijuana. One of those supposed justifications is its dangerous qualities. Another supposed justification is its unproven medicinal value. What goddamned hypocrisy. As shown in the table below, prescription drugs in wide use have well-established or suspected side-effects that dwarf those of marijuana. As for absence of proven medicinal value, it is precisely because marijuana DOES have medicinal value that it remains banned. Pharmaceutical lobbyists contribute heavily to politicians' campaigns in order to insure that patients will be able to legally obtain only those products that put dollars in drug manufacturers' coffers.

The use of marijuana for medical purposes has been endorsed by such groups as the American College of Physicians, the Institute of Medicine, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of HIV Medicine, the American Nurses Association, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the Canadian Medical Association, the British Medical Association, the American Pain Foundation, the American Medical Women's Association, the American Public Health Association, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the Rhode Island Medical Society, the California Medical Association, the Arthritis Research Campaign, the HIV Medicine Association, the American Medical Students Association, the Lymphoma Foundation of America, the American Association for Social Psychiatry, the AIDS Action Council, the Alaska Nurses Association, the American Preventive Medical Association, the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, the California Academy of Family Physicians, the California Pharmacists Association, the Connecticut Nurses Association, Cure AIDS Now, the Florida Medical Association, the Los Angeles County AIDS Commission, the National Association for Public Health Policy, the National Association of People with AIDS, the Nation Nurses Society on Addictions, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New Mexico Medical Society, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the San Francisco Medical Society, the Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions, the Wisconsin Public Health Association, state nurses associations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin, the Medical Student Section of the American Medical Association, and the American Medical Student Association.

NJMarijuana.com neither endorses nor encourages possession or use of the products listed in this section. Nor does NJMarijuana.com endorse these vendors. NJMarijuana.com provides this information as a service to its viewers. Armed with this information, viewers can decide for themselves what products are truly dangerous.