It is important to understand that the 'medical community' (research institutions, pharmaceutical companies) knows very little about marijuana and it's medically-beneficial non-intoxicating attributes. It is illegal for them to research. Understanding that some pretty miraculous things are happening--which do not involve intoxicants/hallucinogens--to aid epilepsy and migraine sufferers and have been developed more or less by unassisted para-pros in ad-hoc environments, a desire to stop this research is inhumane, unChristian and stupid.

Personally, I'm about as far from 'pro-pot' as you can get. But cannabis is a hugely misunderstood plant. Why we still cut down trees to make paper instead of using the non-thc variety of the plant is criminal.

If someone is dumb enough to smoke pot for fun, let them. It is their funeral. But not using this plant for its many other beneficial properties is punishing everyone else. It is way past time for these studies to be undertaken in a very serious