There is No Such Thing as "Medical Marijuana"
...at least, not yet. I work for a holistic health company that recently released several new products to their product line. One of those new products is in the cannabinoid family, which has led to me think a lot over the last couple days about the medical marijuana battle. In January of this year, the Utah Medical Association made a statement claiming that "there is no such thing as medical marijuana" because it has not been studied and approved by science or government. For this reason, the Utah Medical Association believes that until such studies are completed, marijuana should stay illegal with penalties (read about that announcement here ). This is a responsible approach to the legalization of marijuana. Just because a substance is presumably helpful doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous. I’m not adamantly opposed to medical marijuana – but there is a lot that we don’t understand about marijuana, and a lot that we do understand about physiology, pharmaceuticals, a