Dude!

I discovered that marijuana has a relatively positive effect on my MS a while back (I say "relatively" since at this deepening stage of my disease, no drug is gonna make me walk unaided or totally abate the mental pathologies of secondary progressive MS.). I'm talking just being able to manage the stress of day-to-day living a bit better.

I have taken many drugs over the years to slow my disease progression and to treat symptoms. None of the disease-slowing meds (all of them developed by Big Pharma with the requisite high price tag) did anything that I noticed. As for symptom treatment, three substances have worked: anti-depressants, periodic Botox injections to the bladder to quell incontinence (at an annual cost to Medicare of $30,000), and medicinal marijuana.

After I realized the (relative) wonders that weed might bring, I also noticed that there is no medical research--NONE--to guide me on how much to imbibe to get the desired benefit.

Here's a neuropsychopharmacology professor at Imperial College who notes that writing off MJ as a potential treatment for diseases is stupid and wrong.

"I can show you 150 papers telling you how the brain reacts to an angry face, but I can't show you a single paper that tells you what cannabis does."

Marijuana is still considered by the US government and by the most powerful voting bloc (old people)  to be as toxic as meth and heroin, and the guvmint don't fund research and development on illegal dope.

The president, who apparently smoked much ganja in his youth, is just a big old hypocrite on the matter.

"But over the past year, the Obama administration has quietly unleashed a multi­agency crackdown on medical cannabis that goes far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush. The feds are busting growers who operate in full compliance with state laws, vowing to seize the property of anyone who dares to even rent to legal pot dispensaries, and threatening to imprison state employees responsible for regulating medical marijuana."