“Medical marijuana” is just cover to push recreational use into acceptability.
MM is any oxymoron.
My view on the whole MM issue is its legalization is an incremental step to recreational legalization. I will also say that the vast majority of MM users are just potheads.
However, for many it is helpful. BTW I tried it in the 60’s, but never developed a fondness for it. My mother, however used it in teas, brownies, etc. (never smoked it) for her cancer and chemo treatment issues. It did wonders for her and made things bearable.
The American Academy of Neurology is as conservative an organization as you will find in Medicine.
https://www.aan.com/Guidelines/home/GetGuidelineContent/651
And they have weighed in on Cannabinoid uses in Multiple Sclerosis
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Kentucky's Incoming Republican Governor Supports Medical Marijuana
His Democratic opponent said letting patients use cannabis for symptom relief would produce a "lost generation" of adolescent potheads.
https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/04/kentuckys-incoming-republican-governor-s
“We can have an intellectually honest debate about whether we should legalize something that is bad and dangerous, but don’t call it medicine — that is a joke.”
Maybe if the federal government would go back to its enumerated powers and butt out of matters like this that it has no authority over, we could have that debate.
DEA is a criminal organization and their opinion is as good as any other criminal’s opinion. All they do is protect Mexican drug cartels, entrap victims on trumped up changes and fill up the prisons. What we need is border security and interdiction, an end to the Afghan poppy protection program.
Eliminate the DEA and let states decide on drug laws. As far as I’m concerned, if one or a few states go ahead with MM or even recreational marijuana, other states will benefit by studying the results and the people of the states can decide based on the results and their preferences.
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Do any of the advocates for medical marijuana posting here OPPOSE legalizing recreational use?
But...wouldn’t the heat from grow houses and smoking it lead to more global warming?
Like all "medical" marijuana pushers the author is dishonest. The quote from the DEA is exactly right. Smoked marijuana isn't a medicine. The author then attempt to prove him a liar by referring to JAMA about cannabinoids...which ARE those elements that have promise. NOT smoked marijuana. Furthermore from the JAMA page he linked to:
Conclusions and Relevance There was moderate-quality evidence to support the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of chronic pain and spasticity. There was low-quality evidence suggesting that cannabinoids were associated with improvements in nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, weight gain in HIV infection, sleep disorders, and Tourette syndrome. Cannabinoids were associated with an increased risk of short-term AEs.
In other words, drugs derived from pot have only modest results or evidence that it works in cases of chronic pain or spasticity. And scant evidence that it works for anything else. In fact there are better drugs with less side effects for all these issues.
The ONLY reason there is such a thing as smoked marijuana being called "medical" is that a bunch of leftists want to make pot legal.
And there will be regulation required because society contains innocent children, who will be affected.