Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment.
(MOLALLA, Ore.) - When we get into a Pizzen controversy like this one we must inquire - who says so. This is really simple; U.S. government paid mouthpieces bleat that marijuana is as dangerous as heroin.
They don't give any references or quotations from physicians or toxicologists to back up this bleating but if a person being paid by the U.S. government says marijuana is dangerous and addicting they must believe it and say so or they will lose a good paying job.
As a matter of fact, the dumass chairman of the Oregon Medical Board asked me, "Dr. Leveque, don't you know that marijuana is very addicting and very dangerous?"
"Yes" I said, "dumass." Then he suspended my license and later revoked it releasing to the Oregonian newspaper that I was "a danger to all my patients and the public in general".
This was pretty scary to me, I had 5,000 patients on marijuana and I just didn't know I was harming them.
Now let's go to Methadone. This drug is highly recommended and prescribed to get morphine, oxycontin and heroin drug addicts off these drugs. It must be safe and good for those druggies because the FDA and the rest of the U.S. government bozos say it is good and safe. Whoa, there must be another side to this story.
Last week I picked up an interesting medical journal, The Ladies Home Journal, with an article about Methadone with information from the U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center stating that the number of Methadone deaths from 1992 to 2004 increased per year from 786 in 1999, to 3,849 in 2004.
The deaths were in the 15 to 24-year old age group.
They further report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network which compiles drug related ER visits reported in 2005 that there wee 598,542 drug incidents of which 46,316 were for Methadone.
Bruce Goldberg Ph.D., a forensic Toxicologist for the state of Florida, believes the Methadone related fatalities are under-reported.
Mercy me, how can we believe what the U.S. government bozos are flapping their lips about when they still won't admit that marijuana has never killed anybody?
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