NFL and NFLPA joint agreement on pain management, potentially including marijuana

Nightman said:

The British recently INCREASED it’s illegality (to class B, stuff like crack is class A) after finally accepting the wealth of medical advice that habitual use of today’s stronger weed significantly increases the risk of chronic mental disorders, particularly if smoked from before one’s mid-20s.

As to supposed medical benefits, there are none – I refer you to the biggest review of its kind, in the Pain Physician journal, Sept 2017 (of which the pdf is free online) “Efficacy of Cannabis-Based Medicines for Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.” This looked at 43 – FORTY THREE – randomized clinical trials and found most of them found MJ showed absolutely no benefits over placebo, let alone even trying to see if they can out-do any established pain killers.

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While there is a correlation to mental illness, it is hardly a direct, isolated cause and even the "significant increase" is still a tiny minority in it happening within the population. It's not like alcohol and liver disease or lung cancer and cigarettes.

I do like how you chose a compendium of pre 2015 trials as if NIDA and their biasing doesn't matter. I also like how your study is basically a google search and I really don't feel like going through the tedium of their statistical method to compile their google search into marijuana's medical benefits. Normalizing and quantifying disparate studies and pointing to it as authoritative is not compelling.

Here I have a teacher from the Harvard Medical School listing the various diseases and symptoms that patients report marijuana being therapeutic for.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/author/pgrinspoon

The FDA has approved synthetic THC for decades at this point.

Nightman said:

The British recently INCREASED it’s illegality (to class B, stuff like crack is class A) after finally accepting the wealth of medical advice that habitual use of today’s stronger weed significantly increases the risk of chronic mental disorders, particularly if smoked from before one’s mid-20s.

As to supposed medical benefits, there are none – I refer you to the biggest review of its kind, in the Pain Physician journal, Sept 2017 (of which the pdf is free online) “Efficacy of Cannabis-Based Medicines for Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.” This looked at 43 – FORTY THREE – randomized clinical trials and found most of them found MJ showed absolutely no benefits over placebo, let alone even trying to see if they can out-do any established pain killers.

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Although the British did move Marijuana from a Class C to a Class B, it occurred over 10 years ago : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_the_United_Kingdom
In May 2008, under the leadership of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it was announced that cannabis would be moved back to Schedule B,[40] against the recommendations of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.[41]

So then I went and read the PDF “Efficacy of Cannabis-Based Medicines for Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.” which indeed is free online and it also makes the exact opposite claims that you posted:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/84ac/36d2de8da7a5e9396a730e4e62fa1855dd2d.pdf

So there is 41 pages to this study on the very first page it lists its Conclusion which states very clearly:
The current systematic review suggests that CBMs (Cannibas Based Medicine) might be effective for chronic pain treatment, based on limited evidence, primarily for neuropathic pain (NP) patients. Additionally, GI AEs occurred more frequently when CBMs were administered via oral/oromucosal routes than by inhalation.

On the last page of the study:
The current study’s results suggest that medicinal use of cannabinoids should be further investigated for chronic pain treatment, either as a single treatment, or as a combination treatment with the more conventional treatments, such as opioids and anti-NP medications, as we are not aware of the possible AEs of combination treatments with CBMs. In comparison to other indications, CBMs have most extensively been investigated on NP (42) and evidence suggests a moderate to good treatment effect. Furthermore, NP patients should be advised that the inhalation of cannabinoids showed relatively better pain reduction effects than other routes of administration. However, the inhalation route of administration for cannabinoids for medical treatment is not followed universally (i.e., in some countries inhalation of cannabinoids is not permitted).

Nightman said:

The British recently INCREASED it’s illegality (to class B, stuff like crack is class A) after finally accepting the wealth of medical advice that habitual use of today’s stronger weed significantly increases the risk of chronic mental disorders, particularly if smoked from before one’s mid-20s.

As to supposed medical benefits, there are none – I refer you to the biggest review of its kind, in the Pain Physician journal, Sept 2017 (of which the pdf is free online) “Efficacy of Cannabis-Based Medicines for Pain Management: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.” This looked at 43 – FORTY THREE – randomized clinical trials and found most of them found MJ showed absolutely no benefits over placebo, let alone even trying to see if they can out-do any established pain killers.

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That may be an argument against medical marijuana. It still isn’t a valid argument that it should be criminalized and we should be sending people to jail over it. Which again, is the least effective way to deal with drug addiction and a huge waste of money and other resources, leading to worse outcomes for the individuals who do get involved in the criminal justice system.