[BenLurkin]

Administering a palliative substance is a far cry from “healing.”

[Nifster]

exactly....

[Kenny Bunk]

Cannabis was part of the Pharmacopeia for centuries.

If a doctor wishes to prescribe it for a patient, what exactly is the big deal? It has some fairly well described medical effects, or at least as many as other "legal" drugs. It has an "herbal" source, and contains hundreds of pharmacologically active compounds, just like morphine, quinine,digitalis, or many another medical stand-by.

The problem with it is unrestricted recreational use*, or "self-medication," as apologists for addiction like to call it.

*Heavy use of which makes people demonstrably stupid-er.

[virgil283]

"...alcohol is much more harmful than marijuana"...man I have strong reservations about 'more harmful'.....others have stated figures about this better than I can but if you compare the two there are glaring problems in that many accidents aren't attributed to pot because there weren't tests to show pot use. If you want to prescribe THC in a pill for pain maybe but what is really happening is every one who wants to get high comes up with some ailment....I don't say this lightly but because I know potheads and they don't want to do anything unless the get high first...

[Vaduz]

Indeed many will use any excuse to justify use.