A majority of states have approved cannabis to treat 42 diseases and conditions. And yet it remains a federally designated Schedule I drug (for now), with 'no accepted medical use' and 'high potential for abuse.'
Burnett recently testified before Congress in support of decriminalizing cannabis at the national level. His reasoning: to address the prejudicial way drug laws have been applied against people of color, and to help clear the 100-year logjam against medical studies of marijuana. Only then will the evidence sort itself out into what works and what doesn’t.
“It led researchers to look at the endocannabinoid system for lots of additional therapeutic possibilities,” says Burnett.plant—were gaining credibility as healing agents as well, first from the self-medicating public, but also from scientists. The latter were very late to the game: Cannabis had been cultivated for health reasons for 11,000 years, according to archaeological discoveries in China and elsewhere.
But he was also experimenting with cannabis at this time, as teens will do. Spivak-Spindorf noticed a correlation between his cannabis use and a lessening of his symptoms. Now he treats his condition with indica strains , taking prophylactic doses, say, before a Thanksgiving meal that might rile his digestive tract.
“She was down to 65 pounds” from her radiation and chemotherapy treatments, says Young, “so I packed up all my stuff and moved to be with her.”
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