They suggest that the only solution is to make marijuana cigarettes available as prescription drugs. Before getting into the dispute over the merits of medical use of THC, one has to question the logic in using cigarettes of any type as a vehicle for administering medication. More than half of the active dose of the drug is destroyed by the combustion, and the remaining drug is commingled with toxic tars and particulate matter in the smoke. We don't smoke aspirin when we have a headache and don't smoke penicillin for an infection. Inhaling any type of smoke is injurious to one's health.
Smoking is an inefficient and potentially deadly means of drug administration.
A national scientific consensus panel of the National Institutes of Health studied the issue of potential medical use of marijuana. Scientists at the National Institutes if Health indicate that, after carefully examining the existing preclinical and human data, there is no evidence to suggest that smoked marijuana might be superior to currently available therapies for glaucoma, weight loss associated with AIDS, nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy, muscle spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis, or intractable pain. Voth EA, Marihuana and its reviews. This option allows for a more efficient system for absorption of the THC, and avoids the health hazards associated with breathing any type of smoke. The pro-marijuana activists don't like this option, since users of the tablet don't get very high.