[Beckwith]

Smoked marijuana is not medicine

Who says so?

If I am not well and I smoke a doobah and become well, then it's medicine enough for me.

I need to say this dialog about medical marijuana is a smoke screen (pun intended).

I will say to my dying day, if I grow 6 plants out in the south 40 for my personal use it's nobody's business.

[gdani]

I agree with you.

That was an excerpt of an earlier robertpaulsen comment, hence the italics.

[robertpaulsen]

"If I am not well and I smoke a doobah and become well, then it's medicine enough for me."

How does it follow that it is then medicine for everyone? Anecdotal stories do not form the foundation of our medical and medicinal system.

We do peer-reviewed studies. We use control groups, placebos. Reports are written, studied, duplicated. The dosage is known. The frequency of the dosage is known. We know about side effects and drug interactions. The drug is then FDA approved.

It's just a little more than "I smoke doobah. Doobah good".

Criminy. We live in the most medically advanced nation in world history, and you're taking us back to Clan of the Cave Bear where we're chewing on roots and dancing naked in the moonlight.