The head of the federal government’s medical research agency told C-SPAN recently that cannabis’ status as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act prevents scientists from researching its effects. “Frankly, we know far too little about the benefits and risks of smoked marijuana,” said Francis Collins, who was appointed director of the National […]
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Reefer Madness, 2.0
For the first time since 1982, cannabis was issued its very own health advisory by the Surgeon General’s Office last week, which declared the need to raise the “national alarm” about the “dangerous drug.” Raising the nation’s top doctor’s hackles is what Surgeon General Jerome Adams lamented as a “rapid normalization of marijuana use” across […]