One eyebrow went up at "...he made the heretofore unthinkable suggestion that I finally focus on my novel. I actually felt OK taking him up on the offer and spent a few weeks at the artists' colony Yaddo".

The other eyebrow went up, and the jaw dropped open, at "Salvation came in late October when Organic Guy managed to score some White Russian...Within two weeks, the number of times J was marked for behaving aggressively at school dropped back to the single digits, even zero on some days. This was all the scientific evidence we needed."

I'm very, very much in favor of medical cannabis. I don't doubt she saw some positive results...but her home sounds like it might itself be a bit 'dramatic' if not in fact 'volatile'. To say her story is even anecdotal evidence is a stretch -- in no way is it scientific.

Let's be scientific about coming to scientific conclusions, is what I'm suggesting. I'd love to see a valid, scientific study done on this topic, for I believe we would find benefit in cannabis. Stories like these, though well-intended, make it all seem like more of a Moonshine and Snake Oil movement.