Why Pharmaceutical Cannabis Is A Pipe Dream

October, 2010

Instead of the current medical marijuana industry, what about real medicalization—making marijuana a normal prescriptionould be distributed by stead of dispensaries. In principle, a company that wanted to offer some form of cannabis as a pharmaceutical would conduct two large-scale clinical trials showing it to be safe and effective in treating some disease or condition (appetite loss and nausea in chemotherapy, for example, or the muscle spasms that sometimes accompany multiple sclerosis) and s...