[NobleFree]

"There is conclusive or substantial evidence that cannabis or cannabinoids are effective:

"For the treatment of chronic pain in adults (cannabis) (4-1) [...]

"There is limited evidence that cannabis or cannabinoids are effective for:

"Increasing appetite and decreasing weight loss associated with HIV/AIDS (cannabis and oral cannabinoids) (4-4a)"

"4 Therapeutic Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24625.

[DouglasKC]

More propaganda. The left wants SMOKED marijuana. It has convinced people that SMOKING POT has health benefits. That is absolute tripe. You listed some things that MAY be helpful in a medical sense (i.e. deriving use from the plant) but even then for each one of those there are MUCH more effective drugs available which is WHY pharmaceuticals don't really focus on this garbage.

And yet here we are, every day, having to read about how healthy it is to smoke pot. Keep up the propaganda.

[be-baw]

Well, I have chronic pain (I sit on my ass all day long with a heating pad on my neck and back), and I need help with my appetite (I’ve lost 40 lb in the last year, not because of HIV/AIDS, but because I have massive thickening in the folds of my stomach).

I need help. My doc doesn’t want to prescribe tramadol any more (he doesn’t want to prescribe any controlled substance), and I’m at a loss to find something to help me eat (long story).

So, I’m open to using cannabis. I’ve spent a lot of time researching it and I’m willing to try. I toked a lot for a couple of years in the early 70’s and it really messed up my grades because I was stoned all the time. I don’t ever want to be like that again, but I feel like I’m boxed into a corner.