Today marks the
10-year anniversary of the publication of the Institute for
Medicine's landmark study on medical cannabis, Marijuana and
Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. At the time this report
was commissioned, writes Paul Armentano, many in the public and the
mainstream media were skeptical about pot's potential therapeutic
value. The publication of the Institute for Medicine's
findings—which concluded that marijuana possessed medicinal
properties to treat and control pain and to stimulate
appetite—provided the issue with long-overdue credibility, and
began in earnest a political discourse that continues today.
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