I voted for marijuana legalization in Oregon the last round.

[ShadowLiberal]

7. Medical Marijuana is a chicken & egg riddle with the current laws

While I definitely agree that we ought to study Marijuana and how good/effective it is (if at all) on sick patients, it's really a chicken and egg riddle at actually getting that to happen.

Legal studies on it can't be done because Marijuana is illegal under law, and classified under the law (written by congress) as having zero beneficial medical uses.

At the same time, without medical studies to show it's effective on sick patients, there's a bunch of people with your opinion that are skeptical it's of any use, and who unlike you, support keeping Marijuana illegal because of that.

That said, even though there's no medical study on it in the US, often things like this that aren't proven today get proven in the future. For example, asbestos being dangerous used to be unproven, and people who believed it were somewhat thought of as conspiracy theorists for believing such an unproven thing, yet those people who believed asbestos was bad were proven correct decades later.

I have a grandfather who's still alive today at the age of 92, who had a brother that worked in the same career as him, a plasterer. My grandfather was always skeptical of asbestos being safe and never used it. Under union rules the company couldn't force anyone to use asbestos (a required thing in his industry to finish a job), so they had to pay bonuses to incentivize employees to use asbestos, even though it was thought to be perfectly safe at the time. My grandfather's brother practically always took the bonus money and used the asbestos, while my grandfather never did once. His brother died middle aged of asbestos related causes, while my grandfather is still alive at 92 thanks to his rightful fear of asbestos when it wasn't proven to be dangerous.