Legalization of marijuana benefits schools and decreases crime rate

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5. Because there is no demonstrated medical benefit

People have gotten encouraging results in animal models and in vitro tests, but if that's all there were to it then laetrile would have defeated cancer four decades ago - a lot of work, and failures, stand between an encouraging result and a demonstrated effective remedy. That is why the FDA goes through the bother and fuss of the four stage trails, to demonstrate that medicines and devices introduced into American medical practice are both safe and effective.

Before anyone gets angry, recreational marijuana is great and it should be legalized.

However, as a completely difference matter, we do have a problem with true believers in the miraculous (yet unproven) curative powers of cannabinoids who are trying to hijack the legalization movement and use politics to evade the medically and scientifically sound testing requirements that prevent charlatans from selling false hope to desperate people.

If a proposed cure is really any good, submit it for testing and demostrate that it works and everyone will be happy. The only people who will be blocked will be those who are pushing fake "cures" that don't stand up to scrutiny - exactly the kind of thing we don't want people selling.