It is primarily used to help with nausea and to promote appetite.
YOU ARE WRONG.
Yes, it has other benefits, such as controlling anxiety, but the primary benefit is to promote appetite and reduce nausea.
The FDA banned Thalidomide for pregnant mothers, to treat morning sickness. Thank Heaven because in England Thalidomide caused a great many very tragic birth defects, and “flipper babies”.
If a pregnant woman so much as touches a pill of this toxic drug, Thalidomide, she can absorb enough of the poison to cause a birth defect to her unborn child.
Pot is much safer.
No.
Thalidomide is banned in the US for administration to pregnant women, true. It is currently used in the US to treat leprosy and multiple myeloma, and number of off-label uses, all of which are serious or life-threatening medical conditions. It could be administered as an antinausea drug, I suppose, but why bother when Zofran is far cheaper and less problematic?
You can write the editors of Clinical Pharmacology and tell them they’re wrong, but I don’t think they’ll be very keen.