Why 'We Need More Research' On Cannabis Is Bullshit
By Russ Belville at HighTimes
...“A keyword search on the word 'marijuana,'” Paul explained, “yields over 23,450 scientific journal articles in the peer-reviewed literature.”
“Tylenol brings up 19,554 papers,” he continued, “which is a lot, but still not as much as marijuana.”
He went down the list—ibuprofen had 11,837 papers, Ritalin had 7,834, hydrocodone had 863 and Adderall had 188.“LD50 is the dose at which half of the laboratory animals die from the drug,” he said. Cannabis has no known LD50, he told us, and there is not a single instance in worldwide medical literature where someone has been known to die from cannabis poisoning, "...
Paul showed how cannabis has an infinite therapeutic ratio, since while a certain amount will be effective and get you high, no known amount can kill you.But a drug like alcohol, he taught, has a 1-to-10 ratio, or 1-to-9 for women." ...
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