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Federal marijuana patient in Montana to support cannabis
    #14123756 - 03/15/11 05:23 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Federal marijuana patient in Montana to support cannabis
March 15, 2011 - billingsgazette.com

Irvin Rosenfeld said he wishes the federal government was truly interested in researching the medicinal benefits of marijuana.

He said he would be the perfect subject. For the past 28 years, he has been smoking 300 marijuana cigarettes about every 25 days, compliments of the U.S. government.
He is walking proof that marijuana is effective as a medicine and harmless in other respects, he said, but the government's standard line about medical marijuana is that not enough research has been done to determine whether it's effective.

"They don't want to know that it works. That's what sad about it," he said.
Rosenfeld is a 58-year-old senior vice president for investments for a securities corporation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He has been in Montana since last week, meeting with the public to talk about cannabis and testifying last Friday at a Senate committee hearing on a bill to repeal the citizen-passed law legalizing medical marijuana.

Although Rosenfeld was pessimistic about the fate of Montana's medical marijuana law when he spoke with The Gazette on Monday morning, it was reported later in the day that the Senate Judiciary Committee killed the repeal bill on a tie vote. A subcommittee will now work on a bill to better regulate the drug.

Rosenfeld has made appearances in Helena, Bozeman and Billings with Hiedi Handford of Lincoln, founder and editor of Montana Connect, a magazine for medical marijuana patients and caregivers.

In 1982, Rosenfeld became the second person in the country to win permission from the federal government to use medical marijuana.

The government grows it on a farm in Mississippi, processes it, rolls it into cigarettes and sends the tin of 300 cigarettes to Rosenfeld's pharmacy every 25 days.

He qualified under what is known as the Compassionate Investigative New Drug program because he suffers from two conditions, multiple congenital cartilaginous exostosis and pseudohypoparathyroidism. They cause painful tumors to grow on his bones.

He had six operations to remove 30 of the most dangerous tumors, and, by the age of 14, he was on more than 350 doses of medicine each month. He said he smoked marijuana in college, and, though he experienced none of the euphoric effects associated with the drug, it lessened his pain right away.

Ten days after he started smoking it, he said, he sat and played chess for half an hour — the first time he was able to sit down for more than 10 minutes in many years. He then spent 10 years fighting the government to be allowed to smoke it legally.

The federal program was discontinued in 1992, but the few people in it were allowed to continue, and Rosenfeld has been receiving marijuana from the government longer than anyone else.

Rosenfeld and Handford both object to the use of the word "marijuana," saying it is a slang term for cannabis that perpetuates its illicit reputation. The human body is full of cannabis receptors, which is why it does so much good for so many illnesses, they say.

Rosenfeld said cannabis even contains neuro-protectors, which is why he has suffered no lung or other respiratory damage after having smoked marijuana legally and illegally for nearly 30 years.

And smoking is the best way to ingest it, Handford said, because it takes effect immediately and the patient can smoke only enough to deal with pain or inflammation.

The marijuana Rosenfeld gets from the government is low in THC, the chemical that induces euphoria, and Handford said the cannabis that she grows for herself is also low in THC.

As for complaints about the unregulated growth of the medical marijuana industry in Montana, Handford said the blame lies squarely with the Legislature, which failed to tighten regulations in three legislative sessions after the citizen initiative passed.

"We should not be punished because our legislators did not act," she said.


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Re: Federal marijuana patient in Montana to support cannabis [Re: veggie]
    #14123959 - 03/15/11 07:39 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I knew about the people that were grandfathered in because of the Compassionate Investigative New Drug program , but this just reminds me how fucking hypocritical our country is. Marijuana is not a medicine, but they are growing it, rolling it, and shipping it out of Mississippi to a pharmacy. :facepalm: The government is the biggest drug peddler around.


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Re: Federal marijuana patient in Montana to support cannabis [Re: destructo_low]
    #14124200 - 03/15/11 09:03 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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destructo_low said:
I knew about the people that were grandfathered in because of the Compassionate Investigative New Drug program , but this just reminds me how fucking hypocritical our country is. Marijuana is not a medicine, but they are growing it, rolling it, and shipping it out of Mississippi to a pharmacy. :facepalm: The government is the biggest drug peddler around.





It goes right to his doorstep actually, not a pharmacy. There are maybe ten other people who get the same service. All I now for sure is that regan ended the program in the 80's, so once all the patients on the "list" die off, no one will get it anymore :sad:


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