Greetings:

In my post "Here We Go (Yet) Again," I mentioned that in 14 years as an patient of immunologist Dr. ROSS G. HEWITT --- I have participated in 11 seperate clinical drug trials. I also mentioned that I have been able to get access to new meds (if I need them that is) before they are approved by the FDA.

This is called the COMPASSIONATE USE program. All we have to do is make a COMPASSIONATE USE APPLICATION to the FDA, and it is easy, since Ross runs a federally mandated experimental drug trial clinic --- it is extremely easy to receive approval.

Now here is the INSTITUTIONAL HYPOCRASY --- courtesy of the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION and our federal DRUG WAR ROBOTS:

I can get --- and do get --- and have gotten --- prescriptions for MARINOL --- a synthesized liquid THC in a sesame seed oil base. This is 1000% LEGAL and I have this on hand at all times. The maximum Rx for this is 1 capsule, three times per day --- a maximum of 100 per month.

This 100 casule bottle is the equivalent of one ounce of marijuana.

The amount of money that the makers of MARINOL --- ROXANE LABORATORIES --- charge my BLUE CROSS major medical plan is $8.00 per capsule, or $800.00 per bottle of 100 of these orange 10 mg round pellets! Eight hundred dollars for an ounce of marijuana --- funneled through the pharmaceutical industry. I could conceivably grow marijuana for almost no cost, and certainly never $800 per ounce of effectiveness!

These orange round pellets are exactly the same size as a vegatable pea --- same exact size. So, basically this comes down to $8.00 per single joint of average grade and quality merchandise.

Because marijuana remains illegal --- I continue to have to overpay for MARINOL, which is not even as effective as the herbal analogue.

P n P = KDB