FuzzyLumpkins
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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.
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.