Those who might benefit should be allowed to take it? That's like saying that giving placebos should be mandatory because it always helps some people.

You can't make medical or scientific judgments based on this logic.

Although certainly not the same, it reminds me of all the hemp people who say "man, you can use it to nake rope and other industrial products". I respond by saying, "I understand that you can smoke it and it will get you really stoned". Amazingly, they smile when I say this to them.

Oh now you like science? Or just the bits of it that don't contradict the bible?

Science is a tool. Like a hammer, it's useful in the hands of the responsible but you don't really want the immature wielding it.

Back in the midwest in the 1970s we used to joke about "ditchweed"-- survivors of the hemp grown during the 1940s for the war effort. Like trying to get drunk on 3.2 beer, it was possible, but physiologically taxing.

The real problem is that if you listen to the hempheads, you have to conclude that they seem to think that all that hemp is going be grown in closets with growlights, because that's the limit of the agricultural experience of most of them. There's no other way to explain their blather about how switching to hemp as a fiber source will cause reforestation because of the lack of a need for wood pulp.

Raoul, the ditchweed is probably pretty low grade dope. In any event, for a vast majority of the hempheads their concerns about the industrial applications for hemp are secondary to their desire to smoke dope and listen to Phish or other jam bands. Their main goal is to make dope smoking legal, plain and simple.