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> The motivation to find medical benefits, to redress the social injustice of people being imprisoned for cannabis (A) There's huge motivation to find medical
by feoren 4y ago
> The motivation to find medical benefits, to redress the social injustice of people being imprisoned for cannabis
(A) There's huge motivation to find medical benefits to anything. Indeed you should be skeptical of any "substance X improves Y!" claims, as they're usually in rats and not reproducible anyway. (If there's an actual backing study at all!) The idea that cannabis is particularly singled-out by researchers with some woke agenda seems rather silly to me.
(B) Nobody needs to prove cannabis is helpful to show that it's an extreme social injustice to imprison people for its use. It would be an injustice to imprison people for drinking soda, and soda is awful for you.
- LarryMullins 4y ago> (B) Nobody needs to prove cannabis is helpful to show that it's an extreme social injustice to imprison people for its use. The specific nature of American federal drug laws concerning cannabis makes dodgy medical research an effective method for breaking those laws down. And the severity of the American penal system makes it easy for activist researchers to decide that the ends justify the means.