Originally Posted by Quaildog:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..._cannabis_by_country
It is legal in only a few countries. That tells me something. I'll have to take Weed's testimony that after a while one might just not give-a-dime. That could be the danger. With 400 or so chemicals found in the plant it would take a mountain of research to determine what medical use could be pinpointed as helpful. If one smokes it and finds it helps certain medical problems that could very well be the argument for some time to come. I watched the video crash recommended but I didn't see the science that would convince me of it's worth in specific medical problems. We understand the chemistry of the substance but our knowledge of biology has just not caught up with how this mixture of chemicals, being taken in to the body, may or may not for sure be good effects to the cell.
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Possibly a different way to look at the situation. That view seems to be "prove it is medicinally helpful before we consider legalizing it. I would suggest another way of looking at it:
Did you know, there has NEVER been a reported death from the overuse of MJ ?
That same claim cannot be made of most pharmaceuticals, even Tylenol.
So, I would say prove that it is harmful. This weed has been used for centuries in almost all cultures. In fact it was totally legal here in the US, until the Great Depression era where , as now, people started looking for some group to blame, and they settled on the Mexicans. (sound familiar). The recreational drug of choice for the Mexicans was MJ, so a newspaperman named Hurst pressured Washington to eleminate MJ. Since , as it turns out in reality, MJ is pretty harmless, so the only weapon the first "drug Czar" could use was false propagana , even making a movie called "Reefer Madness" the affects of which are still around today in the attitudes of the uninformed on the subject.
Said all that to say, as long as it helps people, or even if people think it helps them, and it produces no harmful affects, why the hell not ?