Does Marijuana have Medical Value?

Does Marijuana have Medical Value?

You’re sick. Someone offers you marijuana, saying that it will alleviate your suffering. Do you take it? Many patients and doctors have insisted that marijuana is uniquely beneficial, while others say the dangers of cannabis far outweigh the benefits. We know that marijuana is a drug, but is it a medicine?

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  • GanjaBlue
    Drug Free America is also sponsord buy Drug Companies.

    Do you find it outrageously ironic that the Partnership for a Drug Free America is funded almost wholly buy alcohol, tobacco and pharmacuetical companies. Here are a few from the list: Johnson and Johnson, DuPont, Merk, Bristol Myers Squibb, P&G.

    Medical marijuana advocates are often accused of having biases. Of course we do, we side with reason and logic. We don't have a profit motive. It's just a damned plant.

    - GanjaBlueUS January 8, 2009 12:12PM

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