Once upon a time it was only the great unwashed who would publicly extol the virtues of medical cannabis, but these days the situation is very different.

Dr Phil Leveque

Among the old stuff to be hauled off was a big bottle of cannabis cough syrup.

One day shortly after that he was sick, and while looking for something to take, he remembered that he had brought home the old bottle of medicine made of marijuana that was in fact really old, dating from pre-prohibition years when cannabis was a mainstay in American medicine.

Many people are surprised the first time they read that. They have no idea that this stuff used to be everywhere - legally. It was a movie and a press campaign that demonized marijuana.

In fact some of the very same pharmaceutical companies that today fear and oppose the legalization of medical pot, used to sell it like mad in the days before Reefer Madness and back then they swore by the stuff.

'Eli Lilly Co.'

Case at hand: the Eli Lilly Company in Indianapolis, (think Cialis - the 'weekender' viagra-like pill). History shows us this was one of the major manufactures of cannabis medicine, up to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937.

While trying to push company's new A.D.D. drug, a spokesman said, "Marijuana’s utility as medicine was unproven," yet Eli Lilly was among the leading manufacturer and seller of marijuana-based medicine in the U.S. for at least 50 years.

The company spoke out because medical marijuana's effectiveness at treating A.D.D. was a threat to the new Lilly drug.

In the video above Dr. Leveque and Bonnie King from Salem-News discuss many aspects of medical marijuana treatment and the slowly evolving laws that allow its use.

There are a large number of other videos available from Salem-News.com . I can't recommend highly enough you go check them out....Ed

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