“Cannabis has a much longer history than deadly opiates.”
Perhaps. New finds change things all the time. Why did you bring that up?
“Not everyone needs to use doses of poison for their pain”
I didn’t say they did.
“small amounts of natural analgesics meet many needs just fine.”
Five mg of morphine *is* a small amount of a natural analgesic. The opium poppy is a plant, just like MJ.
My uncle died of bowel cancer. Opiates famously give rise to serious constipation. His choices were pain with the ability to eat and defecate, or opiates for pain the ability to eat and agonizing constipation or pain relief, powerful laxatives necessitating diapers or a cannabis extract.
The extract stimulated appetite, eased the pain and allowed normal defecation.
No one has ever died from a cannabis overdose, no one has ever suffered a physical addiction. Is cannabis perfect? No but for most medical purposes it’s way better than poisons like opium derivatives.