[caleb-allen]

Your first source states in the abstract that causality between marijuana use and altered brain function was not determined

edit: if anything I think more research is needed to inform effective regulation. I'm astonished how little there is on this drug

[CocaKoala]

Getting permission to do research on a schedule 1 drug is pretty tricky, from what I understand? Since marijuana is schedule 1 it's termed as having a) no medical benefit and b) a high potential for abuse, which puts you in something of a catch-22 situation: you can't justify the research on medical grounds because the drug has no medical benefit (or it wouldn't be sched 1), and you can't justify research for exploratory purposes because of the potential for abuse (or else it wouldn't be sched 1), and then it becomes hard to find research that says "Actually, weed has medical uses and isn't nearly as abusable as heroin" because no research can be conducted.

Edit: To clarify, that's not to say that marijuana _should_ be schedule 1, only that it _is_ schedule 1 and moving something out of sched 1 is challenging because the research position is tricky.

[lostgame]

>> Since marijuana is schedule 1 it's termed as having a) no medical benefit

Eye. Roll. I always thought this was the most absolutely bullshit, patently false thing I'd seen in law for time.

The medical benefits of THC have been well-established for decades. The sheer idea that there were ever arrests related to this plant is a disgusting mark on how shitty humanity can be, and how unwilling it is to acknowledge when it is wrong.

[CocaKoala]

Yeah, you can definitely look at the list of schedule 1 drugs and get a strong sense of "one of these things is not like the other".