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Discovering and addressing marijuana's benefits and harms: Four perspectives.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Image from public domain. Recently, I spoke about marijuana's safety and marijuana laws with a forensic chemist who typically testifies for the criminal defense side. He believes very strongly in keeping marijuana illegal -- even for medicinal use -- and that its benefits are far outweighed by its risks and harms.  I have known and respected this chemist for too many year to just ignore what he says, even though he has not swayed my strong belief in the importance of legalizing marijuana, and that the world would be a better place if all alcohol drinking were replaced by marijuana consumption.  Here, briefly, are four people's perspectives on discovering and addressing marijuana's benefits and harms:  The above-referenced chemist talked of the presence of over 150 chemicals in marijuana, and spoke of marijuana's harms being like shooting a shotgun, having a minority of the pellets being beneficial -- not being sure which of those pellets are beneicial -- and having a substantial number of the pellets dangerous...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).