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In reply to the discussion: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)in order for that to happen, the legislature needs to change bad law.
mj should be regulated recreationally through the ATF (this is the model DC has taken for medical, not recreational, in fact.)
medical use should not be taxed (this distinction is what CO is doing now.)
any tax has to stay low enough to make illegal sales not worth the effort. home cultivation should be allowed.
adults who supply teens with recreational cannabis should be subject to the same laws as those providing alcohol to minors.
And true, Lester Grinspoon, a psy/prof who had a son with leukemia, wrote long ago that mj would never be FDA-approved b/c of the way drugs are understood (isolated components, not whole plants) and noted no one would be motivated to do clinical trials for aspirin any longer b/c the cost is so great to bring anything on to the market for something you cannot copyright.
This is why Sativex has had Republican lobbyists claiming that their product isn't cannabis - even tho it is. Well, that and the reality that former Drug Czar officials under Bush, etc. are now lobbying to legalize something they previously abhorred - the pay must be good either way.