As a matter of fact, the health and mental consequences from pot use far out weights any imaginary benefits.
The truth, per researchers, is that "marijuana has medical benefits -- for chronic-pain syndromes, cancer pain, multiple sclerosis, AIDS wasting syndrome and the nausea that accompanies chemotherapy -- and attempts to understand and harness these are being hampered. Also, they add, science reveals that the risks of marijuana use, which have been thoroughly researched, are real but generally small."
If you or the author or one of your loved ones ever had to go through extensive chemo, you would change your mind, I did. And yes, I know there is a pill form...but if you can't keep it down, it doesn't work. Been there, done that with someone I love. As for his 12 year old son, he needs to educate him, not use him as an excuse to deprive others of relief. And the "gateway" excuse is pure garbage and has also been debunked.
And no, I am not a "doper", I am a respected professional administrator with a 23 year career, so the meme that only "dopers" want medical marijuana legalized is also false.
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