In this response by a "credentialed" scientist to
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Posted On: 02/19/2014 12:21:12 PM
In this response by a "credentialed" scientist to the miracle of cannabis in all but curing Dravet's syndrome in Charlotte Figi's case and in a number of other cases, note well the source of her funding. You guessed it. Where does Big Pharma end and government begin or vice versa? It's a dangerous but lucrative symbiosis that retards medical progress and in the end does more harm than good.
From the same CBS report
February 7, 2014
Scientist Dr. Margaret Haney, director of the Marijuana Research Laboratory at Columbia University in New York -- one of a handful of U.S. labs that perform government-funded studies on marijuana -- told CBS News that she is “uncomfortable” with the absence of evidence that Charlotte’s Web treats seizures, despite parents clinging to the hope it does.
"I have heard of this and have deep empathy for the desperation of parents with ill children," Haney said. "Cannabis is not the world’s most dangerous drug by any stretch but that does not mean it is without potential long-term cognitive and psychiatric consequence, especially when it comes to exposure to children
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Dr. Margaret Haney is "uncomfortable." Did Big Pharma teach her that word? When Big Pharma can only sedate the afflicted children, fed by tubes, 20 hours a day to stop their hundreds of daily seizures, what would Dr. Haney have parents do? Take conventional medicine's follow-up advice and remove parts of their children's brains? Would invasive and supremely dangerous brain surgery on a 5-year old make Dr. Margaret Haney feel "comfortable"? Margaret, seek honest work from honest funders.
From the same CBS report
February 7, 2014
Scientist Dr. Margaret Haney, director of the Marijuana Research Laboratory at Columbia University in New York -- one of a handful of U.S. labs that perform government-funded studies on marijuana -- told CBS News that she is “uncomfortable” with the absence of evidence that Charlotte’s Web treats seizures, despite parents clinging to the hope it does.
"I have heard of this and have deep empathy for the desperation of parents with ill children," Haney said. "Cannabis is not the world’s most dangerous drug by any stretch but that does not mean it is without potential long-term cognitive and psychiatric consequence, especially when it comes to exposure to children
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Dr. Margaret Haney is "uncomfortable." Did Big Pharma teach her that word? When Big Pharma can only sedate the afflicted children, fed by tubes, 20 hours a day to stop their hundreds of daily seizures, what would Dr. Haney have parents do? Take conventional medicine's follow-up advice and remove parts of their children's brains? Would invasive and supremely dangerous brain surgery on a 5-year old make Dr. Margaret Haney feel "comfortable"? Margaret, seek honest work from honest funders.
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