The Medical Marijuana Delusion

Gaul was divided into three parts, but marijuana needs only two: medical use and recreational use. Even that classification is twice what we need, because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—the federal agency responsible for deciding what is a “drug” and what drugs are “safe” and “effective”—could never approve the marijuana plant as a safe and effective drug or smoking marijuana as a nonhazardous route of medical administration. The claim that the plant form of marijuana can and should be smoked for medical purposes is a hobgoblin. People have practiced rudimentary forms of medicine for millennia. In that process, they used whatever plants were handy, or ancestors had found useful, in the hope of curing illness or obtaining relief from its misery. Cannabis is one of those plants. Archaeological evidence shows that people used it more than 10,000 years ago. Some commentators argue, therefore, that private parties should…

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