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International News Syndicate, Oct. 19, 2007
BOSTON, Ma. - Charles Trimbach a 62-year-old engineer from St. Louis had never used marijuana in his life, but one morning after a three day gay-sex binge, he decided to give it a try.
Once the drug kicked in, Trimbach said, his homosexual desires seemed to just melt away.
"VH-1 was on the television, and I saw that woman Shania Twain. It was like, suddenly I understood what all the fuss was about," he said.
Trimbach is not alone. A study done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that as many as one in three recovered homosexuals attribute marijuana to helping them overcome their same-sex desires.
"Marijuana has a longstanding tradition among folk herbalists, but only now is academic science beginning to understand how powerful a remedy this can be," said Kim Dereksen, co-chair of the Centers for Research in Disturbed Sexualities at MIT. Dereksen and her colleagues have recently begun a five year study into the effects of marijuana on sexual health, subsidized by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
While the study has begun only recently, Dereksen said that early results have been promising.
"We are seeing a marked reduction in disturbed sexual impulses among many of the test subjects. In at least one case we seem to be on the way to a complete turnaround," she said.
The benefits of marijuana therapy may extend well beyond sexual health for many sufferers of sexual disabilities. Trimbach said that his life improved in several ways once his homosexuality was in remission.
"Now that I'm not gay anymore, I feel worthy to show up at church again," Trimbach said. Approximately one half of a marijuana cigarette in the parking lot before services is all it takes to prepare for worship, he said.
As successful as some claim it to be, this cure for homosexuality still has many opponents. Among them is Amid al-Ziwiharjimad, a researcher for the Royal Interfaith Ethical Assembly in Yorkshire, England. Al-Ziwiharjimad said that the trend to medicalize marijuana is not only scientifically unsound, but also dangerous.
"Marijuana is not medicine. It is an extremely addictive drug that destroys lives," he said.
The interfaith assembly, for which al-Ziwiharjimad works, has developed a program to teach younger school students about the perceived dishonesties in the medical marijuana movement. By informing younger children about the dangers of marijuana, and its ineffectiveness as a medicine, al-Ziwiharjimad said that a more realistic understanding of the substance can once again take social prominence.
"We need to remember that you don't smoke medicine. Is tobacco a medicine? No, it's a poison," he said.
However, efforts at informing students about the harmful effects of marijuana are seen by some as one sided.
"Instead of teaching children that something is good or bad, we need to tell them that science is still trying to understand it. We need to show them both sides of the issue. We need to teach the controversy," Dereksen said.
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International News Syndicate, Oct. 19, 2007
BOSTON, Ma. - Charles Trimbach a 62-year-old engineer from St. Louis had never used marijuana in his life, but one morning after a three day gay-sex binge, he decided to give it a try.
Once the drug kicked in, Trimbach said, his homosexual desires seemed to just melt away.
"VH-1 was on the television, and I saw that woman Shania Twain. It was like, suddenly I understood what all the fuss was about," he said.
Trimbach is not alone. A study done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found that as many as one in three recovered homosexuals attribute marijuana to helping them overcome their same-sex desires.
"Marijuana has a longstanding tradition among folk herbalists, but only now is academic science beginning to understand how powerful a remedy this can be," said Kim Dereksen, co-chair of the Centers for Research in Disturbed Sexualities at MIT. Dereksen and her colleagues have recently begun a five year study into the effects of marijuana on sexual health, subsidized by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
While the study has begun only recently, Dereksen said that early results have been promising.
"We are seeing a marked reduction in disturbed sexual impulses among many of the test subjects. In at least one case we seem to be on the way to a complete turnaround," she said.
The benefits of marijuana therapy may extend well beyond sexual health for many sufferers of sexual disabilities. Trimbach said that his life improved in several ways once his homosexuality was in remission.
"Now that I'm not gay anymore, I feel worthy to show up at church again," Trimbach said. Approximately one half of a marijuana cigarette in the parking lot before services is all it takes to prepare for worship, he said.
As successful as some claim it to be, this cure for homosexuality still has many opponents. Among them is Amid al-Ziwiharjimad, a researcher for the Royal Interfaith Ethical Assembly in Yorkshire, England. Al-Ziwiharjimad said that the trend to medicalize marijuana is not only scientifically unsound, but also dangerous.
"Marijuana is not medicine. It is an extremely addictive drug that destroys lives," he said.
The interfaith assembly, for which al-Ziwiharjimad works, has developed a program to teach younger school students about the perceived dishonesties in the medical marijuana movement. By informing younger children about the dangers of marijuana, and its ineffectiveness as a medicine, al-Ziwiharjimad said that a more realistic understanding of the substance can once again take social prominence.
"We need to remember that you don't smoke medicine. Is tobacco a medicine? No, it's a poison," he said.
However, efforts at informing students about the harmful effects of marijuana are seen by some as one sided.
"Instead of teaching children that something is good or bad, we need to tell them that science is still trying to understand it. We need to show them both sides of the issue. We need to teach the controversy," Dereksen said.
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