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Terrible article, repeatedly ignoring patients' lived experience. Biased, patronising, and outdated. Misinformation like this belongs in the past century. > a
by lioeters 11mo ago
Terrible article, repeatedly ignoring patients' lived experience. Biased, patronising, and outdated. Misinformation like this belongs in the past century.
> a gulf between how the public perceives cannabis and what gold-standard science shows
> The evidence does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids at this point for most of the indications that folks are using it for
> Pain is a leading reason people use medical cannabis, but the review found no evidence to indicate that cannabis could ease acute pain
> cannabis is classified federally along with heroin and LSD as having no medical purpose and a high propensity for misuse
- metadope 11mo agoThe timing of this article's publication is provocative, don't you think? Isn't there a pending Executive Order in the works that would move marijuana from the federal Schedule I list, making it a Schedule III (less restrictions)? As near to a federal legalization as you can get without rousing rabble to react with a Just Say No! I would love a peek at the NYT editorial calendar to see when this piece got, um, scheduled. And I wonder what it says about their editiorial intentions. (As my old buddy Jethro used to sing, I'm just Wondering Aloud.)
- jaggs 11mo agoYep and definitely don't follow the money as to who loses if restrictions are eased (cough...alcohol business). To say there's no medical benefit to cannabis is patently false, just ask those who use it for pain or epileptic relief.