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Brian J. Rosenberg’s op-ed (“The Medical Marijuana Mystery,” Dec. 9) was right on. The reason there is zero scientific research on cannabis is quite simple. If the feds allowed the research to show marijuana??s efficacy, they would be stuck with the facts. Today every politician has plausible deniability. No research shows that pot is effective. Therefore, they cannot support people having legal access to it. Knowing they would lose billions in sales, the pharmaceutical companies pay off the politicians to keep God’s free medicine...
...Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a majority opinion contending that marijuana has “no currently accepted medical use.” In the United States, this is true, but one cannot be sure whether this is because marijuana truly has no medical use, or simply because marijuana??s medical benefits have not yet been proven...
From the little research conducted thus far, two drugs—which use a synthetic version of the main active ingredient in marijuana??have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are currently on the U.S. market. Yet there are hundreds of other compounds in botanical, or smoked, marijuana; their effects have never been fully explored. Until they are, the government’s assertion that marijuana does not have a legitimate medical use rests on faulty conclusions...
...only way to make informed decisions on how marijuana should be used is to ground those decisions in hard scientific fact. Currently, a critical mass of data that would incontrovertibly support or refute marijuana??s medical use is simply not available. The government should devote funds to finding a scientifically sustainable answer to these pressing questions. Until then, any laws or decisions pertaining to marijuana are bound to be grounded in hype, myth and mystique...
...exploration of cannabis as a medicine, but as encouraging as that development is, it represents only one category of marijuana use. The others are sometimes grouped under the general heading of “recreational,” but that is hardly an adequate description of, say, marijuana??s capacity to heighten the appreciation of music and art or to strengthen the sense of connection to the natural world. It can deepen emotional and sexual intimacy, crystallize new ideas and insights, and expand one’s capacity to appreciate new aspects of life. Experienced users know that...