re: Is there proof of medicinal benefits of marijuana?

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all anecdotal bullshite

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I assume you are an ignorant troll but I'll bite. Have you done an iota of research on the endocannabinoid system? Or is that just a silly anecdote too?

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I'm ignorant on this. How does being on the Schedule 1 list affect bring prescribed under Fed law ? What about studies to provide proof of benefits?

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According to the DEA “Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” It is stupid because marijuana is on that list which can be prescribed at the state level and there are also drugs on it that the DEA admits do have currently accepted medical use and can be prescribed in all 50 states.

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It is stupid because marijuana is on that list which can be prescribed at the state level

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It's only a recommendation, not a prescription.

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there are also drugs on it that the DEA admits do have currently accepted medical use and can be prescribed in all 50 states.

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Dea actually says cbd is schedule 1 as well

But let's check out the patent held by our government...

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Why does it remain on the schedule 1 list?

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Fun fact: the state of Louisiana formally recognized the medical benefits of MJ way back in the 1990s. Curiously, the state did not bother to reschedule it. Logic is not always a strong suit.

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With Marinol a prescription is required.

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It's a schedule 3 though how that makes a lick of sense, when compared to marijuana is insanity.

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It's a schedule 3 though how that makes a lick of sense, when compared to marijuana is insanity.

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Well of course it doesn’t make sense and the newest synthetic THC drugs are being classified as Schedule 2. GHB is also Schedule 1 but when you do nothing to it other than give it a brand name it also magically becomes Schedule 3.

As the science and research behind pot has created CBD’s that provide the medicinal qualities and do not provide any hallucinogenic or high so to speak, it will be interesting to see if CBD’s get friendlier treatment than pot.

It’s difficult to argue or extol the virtues of pot smoking or edible ingestion versus a superior delivery of a pharma grade produced CBD in pill or oil form if the argument is the individual use case centers around a medicinal benefit.

Just like the euphemism that Christians sometimes can be the worst part of Christianity, stoners and recreational users are some of the worst-and most vocal-proponents of marijuana use, research and decriminalization.

I heard a great point about it in medicinal research the other day. It was in a discussion about coders in Silicon Valley having figured out through self experimentation how to microdose using both psyliscibin and MDMA/DMT in fractional amounts to achieve significant increases in mental acuity and focus while generating increased creativity.

The issue is that for decades, government’s model of Scheduling for narcotics stigmatizes and inhibits potentially legitimate research. Had we not adopted the Nixonian approach with Scheduling, we could have still allowed for clinical research and be much, much further along than we are with these substances as potential human performance enhancers or just as a medicinal benefit to mankind.

As it is, we lost decades of time for CBD’s. Same for LSD, psylocibin, MDMA, as well. Instead we have in many instances depended on DIY, home brew type research that doesn’t provide the same understanding that controlled clinical results and data would.

It’s no way for an advanced country with huge R&D budgets and robust research opportunities to behave from a policy perspective. We can still maintain our criminal justice policies while unleashing our strengths and assets to learn more about things like these and how to harness them for the betterment of humanity.

Some of the "benefits" of marijuana are shrinking of two areas of the brain, lower IQ from using heavily during teen years (IQ does not recover if person stops using), increased risk of testicular cancer, enlargement of male breasts, greater likelihood of testicular cancer and greater likelihood of psychotic episodes. The death rate from driving while stoned has gone up in Colorado which legalized it. It is not harmless.

What's funny is people used to be on some heavy shite.

Cocaine, Morphine, Heroin, Quaaludes, Opium and Methamphetimines..any housewife could go down to the drug store and get it without a prescription.