# medical marijuana as medicine

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-marijuana-as-medicine/846806>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-marijuana-as-medicine/846806 "2020-01-22T17:36:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-marijuana-as-medicine/846806/24 "2020-02-09T17:27:52Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Medical marijuana laws as they now stand put us further away from actual marijuana-based medicine, not closer. They remove the incentive to put in the long and difficult work needed to turn a plant into a medicine, by instead pretending that the plant by itself is already a medicine.

That’s probably true but it was unfortunately a necessary step before full legalization. I had a med card before it was legal here and the process for getting one was a silly formality.

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