Reply #30: so then how do you explain the govt's continued refusal to acknowledge decades of research?

[RainDog]

I mean, honestly - what do you think is the rationale of the federal govt to refuse, as recently as a few weeks ago, that non-pharmaceutical cannabis has medical value?

Their refusal cannot be based upon evidence because the evidence exists in the patients for whom they must legally supply 300 cannabis cigarettes a month to treat things like glaucoma and a rare form of bone tumor-induced pain.

Why is our govt. unwilling to face facts and respect the science about this plant? What's your take on it - why this continued refusal to acknowledge evidence? To me, it's like cannabis prohibition is the creationism of the WoD - just a stubborn refusal to accept facts that disprove someone's myths.

For some of us, the cognitive dissonance between the science and our govt's policies are starting to look like federal idiocy.