From: "Widder,NE" <N.E.Widder-AT-lse.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Deleuze and redemption..flowers of flight
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:26:47 -0000


>> > [...] also, as on the one hand,there are plenty of substances that have
>been
>> > around much longer than 200 years that are rejected out of prejudice
for
>> > medical use - despite having been proved conclusively to be effective -
>> 
>> For example ?  

>marajuana has been shown to be effective for alleviating severe pain
>suffered by people with various diseases. - there have been several
>attempts to legalise its medical use in Britain over the last few years.


Ok, but marijuana isn't usually listed among homeopathic remedies, no?  And
pain relief -- that is relief of symptoms, leaving the causes untreated --
is exactly what you have been criticizing in orthodox medical practices.
Bringing up examples like grass (or, for that matter, caffeine or nicotine)
hardly seem very relevant.

Also, there is of course a lot of room for the discussion of the politics
and power relations involved between doctors and patients, as well as the
mystification produced by doctors in this country to give the impression
that they actually know what they are doing, but suffice it to ask:  who
would trust a British GP in the first place?

Nathan
n.e.widder-AT-lse.ac.uk