No. It's because some people are just too ignorant and/or stubborn to believe the medical research that has shown time and time again that marijuana is a valuable medicinal plant. For the life of me I do not understand how someone could be so cruel or uncaring towards the sick to think that they have the right to withhold medicine because they, in their self-righteous glory, don't happen to "approve" of it.
> For the life of me I do not understand how someone could
> be so cruel or uncaring towards the sick to think that
> they have the right to withhold medicine because they, in
> their self-righteous glory, don't happen to "approve" of
> it.
The answer may lie here:
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness -- to bring him down to the miserable level of "good" men, i.e., of stupid, cowardly, and chronically unhappy men.
-- H L Mencken, Alistair Cooke, ed., The Vintage Mencken
For the life of me, I do not understand how anyone can use the sick and dying as pawns in their quest to legalize marijuana. Smoked marijuana is not medicine. It's a scam. No major medical organization supports it.
Why is marijuana so special that we're expected to make an exception for it and not treat it as we would any other drug? Study it. Trial it. Publish peer-reviewed reports. List drug interactions, dosages, frequency. Get FDA approval. Have a physician prescribe it through a pharmacy.
AS WE DO WITH EVERY OTHER DRUG.
What is wrong with that? I'd really like to know.