Reply #6: It's interesting that you favor going through a lengthy process to [View All]

[DemBones DemBones]

determine if marijuana is medically useful but admit that you favor decriminalization. If you favor decriminalization, what difference does it make whether it's proven medically effective? As long as it's been used, I think it could be approved as a food additive under the GRAS standards.

You've also not mentioned a major problem with FDA approval, namely that there would be pressure to make MM a patented prescription drug, with one of the big pharmaceutical companies inserting an alien gene in Cannabis sativa so that they could make a profit off the seeds they sell to farmers and a profit off the drug itself. Dean is playing into their hands.