They're still doing research, although some research has leaked that at least the U.S. is trying to cover up... that smoking pot reduces risks of cancer, etc., but in general, the scientific community is quite unsure about the effects/benefits exactly are.

It's been illegal for so long and nobody was allowed to really do research besides at the one research center (in the US) in like... the South, like Alabama where they made kind of mediocre weed for research so that the results came up with little to nothing good to say.

In this day and age, prohibition is slipping and more legitimate research is being done in Europe and the like, and some places in the US. The government doesn't want to research legitimately good marijuana...

It is people like you, Jew Sun Ra, that keep Such a relatively harmless substance(in comparison with just about any other substance) illegal. You think it's propaganda going into the issue of legalizing pot? Well tell me, what the hell do you call the bull**** that they put into the case for making pot illegal? All the "Reefer Madness" claims, that is the pinnacle of propaganda. It is not propaganda that goes into the case for legalization, it is concrete fact that disputes the propaganda that was put into the case of Marijuana prohibition. It's those same facts that people use to try and educate people like you, people who are fooled by the true propaganda.

Please, please stop spreading misinformation like this. The effects of cannabis on the human body have been well known by legislators for over 60 years because every US government-sponsored study has openly shown the benefits and medicinal capabilities of marijuana. The government chooses not to use this information, but each of these reports is accessible to the public and clearly state the efficacy of marijuana for a number of symptomatic and even cancerous ailments. Ever heard of Sativex? Marinol? Those are the names of THC and CBD based perscription drugs given to hundreds of thousands of people accross North America and Europe every year in a crude attempt at replicating marijuana's effects. Pharmaceutical lobbyists pay exorbitant amounts of money to cover up the fact that there hasn't been a single synthetic product made that can ever compare up to the real thing.

Here's a great little copy and paste for anyone who thinks I'm just blowing smoke...(get it?):

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH3, and COCH3.

This comes from U.S. Patent # 6630507, filed by US Department of Health and Human Services due to new findings by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Give this a read.

Pot Kills Cancer and Our Government Has Known for 36 Years | Garden State Alternative | Medical Marijuana


Please, if it was you and Jew Sun Ra who had us up against the ropes in a discussion, you would not be saying this.

So everybody in here is doing pot for medical reasons then?

Oh ok

Glad to see you haven't lost your wit. Don't really remember saying everyone uses marijuana medicinally. He challenged the idea that cannabis has medical value, I simply posited that it does and proved it. Can't we have an intelligent arugment without hurt feelings getting in the way, or am I back in second grade here Urban?

Never said that. But recreational pot smoking isn't near as harmful as recreational tobacco smoking or alcohol drinking, FYI. Somehow there are some people who haven't managed to get that through their thick skulls.

I just find it hilarious that people are in here defending it's medical properties when you know you the people in here who smoke it only do to get high.

Tomatoes have properties against cancer too y'know.

Why is that hilarious? Just because we don't use it for medicinal purposes means that we shouldn't care about the truth behind it and the people who do need it for medical purposes?

Meditation is more useful than any drug.