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Well, it's bad news for stoners and Chemo patients everywhere as the FDA says:

No sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use. There are alternative FDA-approved medications in existence for treatment of many of the proposed uses of smoked marijuana.

I was curious if anyone had anything interesting to say about it in the media, and I think that Scientific American's article and The New York Times article are the best. The Scientific American article is actually pretty funny too.

For instance, I didn't realize (from the Scientific American article) that the National Institute of Drug Abuse grows one big field of substandard weed, and if you want some for research purposes you have to use the NIDA's ditchweed. Lame. It's a certain stoner lore that the government actually grows some incredible stuff.

Well, maybe they do. But they're not sharing with the scientists.