The Medical Marijuana Conversation Shouldn’t Be One-Sided

The problem with the JAMA articles, and many other recent articles, is that the title is misleading and inflammatory.  The title should be Medical Marijuana: Here is the Evidence.  For a substance that has been illegal to use or research for 70 years for deeply political and race based reasons, there is a stunning amount of research.  Search PubMed and find 20K articles on Cannabis and only 5k on EtOH.  There is no question that the government needs to change its stance and promote more, large scale clinical trials.  However, to say the cart is before the horse is just silly politics, again.

The Medical Marijuana Conversation Shouldn’t Be One-Sided

If you actually read the JAMA articles referenced here, there are two major implications that are overlooked.  First, the conclusion from both studies is that while more research should be done, particularly with regard to Cannabis use in rarer...

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