Indopedia All Things Marijuana
The political discussion around cannabis keeps returning to the results of studies. Now that the opponents of cannabis are faced with the positive experiences in many US states, Uruguay and Canada, their arguments are petering out, so instead, they have begun referring to what they claim is a lack of results from studies on cannabis. So far…
The fault lies with those who refused to approve such studies for years, and who ensured that by means of this tactic and others, Germany’s largest manufacturer of plant-based medicines moved its research on medicinal cannabis over the border, to Austria. The same powers that are now speaking out against the legalisation of cannabis are those who for years have blocked any large and meaningful studies taking place on either medicinal or “recreational” cannabis. The latest examples of this were the 2016 rejection of the Coffee shop model trial in Berlin and the refusal of the Federal Ministry of Health to evaluate the data of several hundred cannabis patients, as they had offered…
