Sativex isn't FDA approved yet, and neither Marinol or Cesamet are made from marijuana. (While this may seem pedantic, it makes a big difference if you're trying to argue for rescheduling in a federal lawsuit.)
> neither Marinol or Cesamet are made from marijuana.
Marinol's active ingredient is the main cannabinoid in marijuana. You could try arguing (as opponents have) that marijuana has no medical benefit while Marinol does, but it always struck me as bending over backwards to ignore the facts.
> (While this may seem pedantic, it makes a big difference if you're trying to argue for rescheduling in a federal lawsuit.)
Keep in mind that there's already enough to contradict a Schedule I treatment of marijuana (aside from the 25,000+ studies regarding marijuana's medical treatment, there's the government patent on medical uses of marijuana).
It's hard to construct a rational argument in favor of the current laws already, and yet they've still managed to persist.
"Marinol's active ingredient is the main cannabinoid in marijuana."
It's synthetic, not extracted. Again you can't argue that marijuana should be rescheduled because natural cannabis extracts are already FDA approved until Sativex actually gets approval in early 2014. Also, THC is the main psychoactive cannabinoid but not necessarily the main cannabinoid overall.
"You could try arguing (as opponents have) that marijuana has no medical benefit while Marinol does"
You're never going to prevent people from making that argument no matter how dumb it is. We just need to wait for Sativex to get FDA approval so that way they can no longer make it.
