[mugs99]

Oh geez, screw that quack
ROFL!
The American Medical Association is a bunch of quacks?
Why don't you try to refute his statement instead of the ad hominem attack?

I'm referring to the Scripps Research Institute study YOU cited which concerned THC, not marijuana. You can't make these global assumptions about the efficacy of marijuana when the study limited itself to THC.

Still grasping at straws?
The title of the study: "A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology"
THC is the active ingredient in marijuana. It doesn't matter if you eat it, smoke it or swallow a THC pill. Doctors are treating Alzheimer's patients with medical marijuana. It works.

[robertpaulsen]

"Why don't you try to refute his statement instead of the ad hominem attack?"

Because he's a pro-marijuana quack. "Immediate needs of suffering people", indeed.

"THC is the active ingredient in marijuana."

Yep. And that's all that was studied -- not the other 399 chemicals in marijuana which may or may not have a counteractive effect.