“It must be addictive in some way, I know many people that have been unable to give it up although it was illegal, people who have broken drug laws for 45 years, people who have lost their military careers because they needed it and could not stop.
A lot of the people here who are on the surface, law-abiding conservatives, who need clean records to live, will admit that they continue to use, decade after decade, close call, after close call, risk, after risk.
They are not ‘addicted’, yet they can’t stop, no matter the cost or what things that they must do outside of the law to stay supplied, even when traveling, and the horrors of the beheading, fish hook hanging in national parks, drug lords that they support does not overcome that need.”
The article is about legitimate medical research, specific use a chemical substance to treat a cancer.
The article does NOT suggest preventative medicine, ie self-prescribed smoking MJ like a chimney for decades, to guard against cancer.
Doctors prescribe addictive pain medicine when pain is involved. Ask them, and they will say immediate pain is the thing needing treatment; if addiction occurs they can treat that later.
Consider a family member with life threatening cancer. The doctor says it can treated with MJ; high success rate, possible side effect addiction, which they can also treat.
Finally prohibition worked wonderfully, as does the war on drugs now.
Treatments for cancer and addictions are two SEPARATE subjects, in medicine.
Post 13 was to post 8, look into it.