Reply #90: What test/study results? You are blowing smoke and it doesn't smell medicinal!

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Unless you post some links to these supposed "studies" for me to be "denying" it is rude to accuse me of something I couldn't possibly have done.

Massive amounts of research have been done around the world, especially in Europe, to learn more about the chemistry and pharmacology of cannabis.

Although there have been some studies done in the USA, generally the results have been suppressed or skewed because the permission to possess cannabis is, and has been for 60+ years, tightly controlled by the Federal Government. They have sponsored almost all scientific investigations and often refused to release results because of how they contradict the propaganda and conventional wisdom. He who pays the piper usually calls the tunes!

You wrote, "Denying that any drug had an effect is silly, unless one wants to sell the drug. For example, anhedonia is a great treatment for manic-depressives... no high, no crash.... good. Most SSRI's work on this principle." I didn't deny that cannabis had effects, I just disagreed that those effects included most, or all, of those you mentioned in your, or someone's, list of cannabis "side effects".

You wrote, "As far as going point by point, we can slam studies at each other all day and night, but my central point would be that we need to really test, and not accept the past results. Science is science, and new results inform." We could? Why don't you start since you have made some claims that I aver are completely bogus and contrived. Start with anhedonia, I would be fascinated to learn more about where you gleaned any information that indicated causation unequivocally! Especially in an environment where the use of cannabis is illegal and suppressed, those, who for whatever reason imbibe, are, of course, bound to be poor testing candidates for any objective psychological or psychiatric analysis.

New results absolutely inform, I agree with you about that, especially if the studies are objectively conducted and financed by an entity interested in the truth rather than grist for their propaganda mill.

I certainly am not interested in selling cannabis, I want it to be given away to those who can use it to improve their lives.

Why not?