Okay, but you're being just as duplicitous in using the lack of studies to prove your point. When studies don't exist for whatever reason one has to at least listen to anecdotal evidence, and there's a lot more out there for MJ than there is for most of the other quack stuff available at the GNC.
Personally I don't smoke it though I claim the 5th on what I did 25 years ago. I do feel that having completely unenforceable laws such as banning pot only encourages further abuse of the laws and the system. Anyone can grow pot - it's just a weed, for pete's sake. If you couldn't ban alcohol, how do you expect to keep people from growing it?
I should have asked before. What kind of studies are you talking about? Are you talking about studies using smoked marijuana to relieve some condition?
Just how would that study be conducted? It wouldn't be all that scientific and it would probably be no better than anecdotal information.
C'mon. This isn't science.
"it's just a weed, for pete's sake. If you couldn't ban alcohol, how do you expect to keep people from growing it?"
"Weed" is an ignorant dysphemism! as are "pot" and "dope."
Some seem to believe that an herb given by God to man and beast alike at the beginning of time and which has grown freely almost everywhere,
including here long before our nation was formed, is permissibly eradicable or controllable by the federal government through powers granted by the
interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. Though, it is an impossible task to devise a logical explanation of how this could be true. In light of
the rest of the Constitution any such perceived mandate dissolves.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness."
Preamble: ...secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity...
Amendment V: nor shall (anyone) be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or
disparage others retained by the PEOPLE.
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the PEOPLE.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Nowhere in the Constitution is it enumerated what one may put into ones body. Therefore, that right is reserved for the states or the people. However,
since God has already specified in the Bible what one may consume, it is, in fact, the People’s God given right.