And those who favor smoked marijuana for medical purposes don't understand how dangerous that can be.
Were you on chemotherapy for your cancer? Did your oncologist explain that chemo compromises the immune ststem, and you were susceptible to infection? (While on chemo, my brother-in-law stubbed his toe, it became infected, and they had to amputate to stop the rapid progression.)
Did you know that marijuana may be contaminated with salmonella bacteria which gives diarrhea and with a fungus, aspergillus, which may cause severe bronchopneumonia? Bad enough for a healthy person -- lethal for those on chemo.
Do you still believe that people on chemo "would benefit greatly from MJ"?
"marijuana may be contaminated ...Do you still believe that people on chemo "would benefit greatly from MJ"?"
Perhaps the ill would benefit from a clean regulated and legal growing environment.
I guess what I'm *for* is research into medical use of marijuana and/or its consituent elements.
If the medically beneficial ingredients can be isolated, and appropriate dosages identified, that would be wonderful! Simply "smoking" enough off-the-street marijuana until you feel better is, as I believe you've said, pretty sloppy/archaic, and may be dangerous.
In the meantime, I'm still in favor of seeing states allowed to set their own policies regarding the medical use of such a (relatively) powerful drug.