Marijuana As Medicine – Prohibition kills the patient

Marijuana has been used as medicine for centuries, even millennia, research has shown that THC, the active ingredient in the herb, has anti-cancer properties, but courts in the US (and elsewhere) say no. Patients who use marijuana to ease pain or cure an illness are arrested, humiliated, bankrupted and some die as a consequence. Even where states have passed laws that allow the cultivation and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, federal law enforcement follows the prohibition mentality jailing patients leaving them to suffer. Official medicine with its chemically-based remedies has no alternative, in fact their pharmaceutical products have become a cause of death for hundreds of thousands every year….