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Re:Prescription painkiller deaths fall in medical marijuana ... by fnordfnordfnord on Friday November 06, 2015 @08:51AM (#10519404)
One does not need a PhD in chemistry or botanics or horticulture, or genetics or anything else to know, for example:

* This cannabis was produced without the use of a potentially toxic pesticide.

* This cannabis has been treated with no other adulterant.

Even knowing very little about the specific properties of the cannabis one consumes, one can have a high degree of confidence that it will not cause harm if they have grown it themselves.

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Re:Prescription painkiller deaths fall in medical marijuana ... by grhino on Friday November 06, 2015 @09:22AM (#10519560)
The way we know the harm a material (plant byproduct, animal byproduct or synthetic compound) will do to a human body is by its history of ingestion by humans. Yes, we may have a longer informal history of ingestion of cannabis.
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Re:Prescription painkiller deaths fall in medical marijuana ... by fnordfnordfnord on Friday November 06, 2015 @09:32AM (#10519610)
>Yes, we may have a longer informal history of ingestion of cannabis.

Yes, and the reason we have to rely on that informal history is a political one, which has resulted in the avoidance of primary research on the effects of cannabis consumption.

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