I’ve been a cannabis user myself, and while I advocated for its normalization before my sister was diagnosed with colon cancer, now I’m clearly all in.
Although Ohio is having some difficulty getting its medical marijuana program off the ground, the state has decided that this would be an excellent time to expand its list of qualified conditions.
Now that the voters in Missouri have decided that medical marijuana should be available to patients suffering from any health condition whatsoever, law enforcement agencies across the state are starting to freak out a little.
To delve into the literature on medical marijuana can, at times, feel like wading into a sea of nonsense. But one of the claims that seems on its face to rank among the most supremely bullshittiest turns out to be true. Maybe.
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence showing that medical marijuana could be a reliable treatment for chronic pain conditions. But a lack of ironclad science and legal issues in most parts of the world has prevented the herb from...