[zeke99]

https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ply/50581346/1

The AP asked the agency that administers the program, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, for documents showing how much marijuana has been sent to patients since the first patient in 1976.

The agency supplied full data for 2005-2011, which showed that during that period the federal government distributed more than 100 pounds of high-grade marijuana to patients.

Agency officials said records related to the program before 2005 had been destroyed, but were able to provide scattered records for a couple of years in the early 2000s.

The four patients remaining in the program estimate they have received a total of 584 pounds from the federal government over the years. On the street, that would be worth more than $500,000.

All of the marijuana comes from the University of Mississippi, where it is grown, harvested and stored.

Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly, who directs the operation, said the marijuana was a small part of the crop the university has been growing since 1968 for all cannabis research in the U.S. Among the studies are the pharmaceutical uses for synthetic mimics of pot's psychoactive ingredient, THC.

ElSohly said the four patients are getting pot with about 3 percent THC. He said 3 percent is about the range patients have preferred in blind tests.

The marijuana is then sent from Mississippi to a tightly controlled North Carolina lab, where they are rolled into cigarettes. And every month, steel tins with white labels are sent to Florida and Iowa. Packed inside each is a half-pound of marijuana rolled into 300 perfectly-wrapped joints.

With Musikka living in Oregon, she is entitled to more legal pot than anyone in the nation because she's also enrolled in the state's medical marijuana program. Neither Iowa nor Florida has approved marijuana as a medicine, so the federal pot is the only legal access to the drug for the other three patients.

The three other people in the program range in ages and doses of marijuana provided to them, but all consider themselves an endangered species that, once extinct, can be brushed aside by a federal government that pretends they don't exist.

All four have become crusaders for the marijuana-legalization movement. They're rock stars at pro-marijuana conferences, sought-after speakers and recognizable celebrities in the movement.

Irv Rosenfeld, a financial adviser in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has been in the program since November 1982. His condition produces painful bone tumors, but he said marijuana has replaced prescription painkillers.

Rosenfeld likes to tell this story: In the mid-1980s, the federal government asked his doctor for an update on how Rosenfeld was doing. It was an update the doctor didn't believe the government was truly interested in. He had earlier tried to get a copy of the previous update, and was told the government couldn't find it, Rosenfeld said.

So instead of filling out the form, the doctor responded with a simple sentence written in large, red letters: "It's working."

[Canna-Bass]

And the DEA said it has no medicinal propertys...facepalm...

[foomar]

ElSohly said the four patients are getting pot with about 3 percent THC. He said 3 percent is about the range patients have preferred in blind tests.

Not sure i could grow anything that low and would gain little from it if i did , they must be chainsmokeing them.

[supermanlives]

3 percent thc. what are they smoking mexi swag.why would anyone preferr such a low thc. dont make sense.

[toohighmf]

most people on the government program have serious pain concerns. in a lot of cases, THC is not as effective as CBD's or CBN's for pain relief. perhaps this low THC strain was engineered just for that pourpose. some don't want to be high, but want the pain relief.. I get it, I just don't don't get how to produce so low a percentage of THC. even shwag has like 7-15%

[krunchbubble]

ive know Elvy Musikka for more then 14 years and have partaken in some of her government weed, if you can call it that....

its 90% stick, stems and fan leaves. its so damn dry, it goes up almost instantly. Elvy has to unravel each one and spray it with water to rehydrate it and take all the stems out and re rolls it....

she says the government told her there are no buds because "it gums up there rollers".....

[Dudesome]

I don't know if I sound ignorant or not, but to me it seems kinda.... stupid

[zeke99]

Originally Posted by krunchbubble

ive know Elvy Musikka for more then 14 years and have partaken in some of her government weed, if you can call it that....

its 90% stick, stems and fan leaves. its so damn dry, it goes up almost instantly. Elvy has to unravel each one and spray it with water to rehydrate it and take all the stems out and re rolls it....

she says the government told her there are no buds because "it gums up there rollers".....

That's very interesting and funny. Thanks for sharing. Even with this program, the Feds are chizzlers.

[bentom187]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn8XAp67nNI

[Hammerhead]

Maybe its a super strain of Hemp I know Hemp is 1% or less.