Promoting medical marijuana use is hot – smokin’ hot. States are racing to legalize this product, both for recreational and medical use. In my view, there’s a stronger case to be made for the former than the latter. Presently, marijuana is a Schedule I drug, along with heroin, LSD and Ecstasy. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines this category as drugs with no acceptable medical use and a high potential risk of addiction. Schedule I contains drugs that the FDA deems to be the least useful and most dangerous. Schedule V includes cough medicine containing codeine. On its face, it is absurd that marijuana and heroin are Schedule I soulmates. I expect that the FDA will demote marijuana to a more benign category where it belongs. It will certainly have to if marijuana is going to be approved as a medicine. There is no question that some advocates favoring medicalization of marijuana were using this as a more palatable route to legitimize recreational use. Th
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