It's official: Marijuana is medicine

Most major news media outlets, however, have spun the JAMA papers negatively
East Bay Express (US)
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

medical-useThe nation's top medical organization released a major series of papers on medical cannabis last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in a move that constitutes a small step for the AMA, but a giant leap in cannabis medical history. In five key papers, teams of researchers systematically reviewed dozens of clinical studies of marijuana, speaking in clear language that the "use of marijuana for chronic pain, neuropathic pain, and spasticity due to multiple sclerosis is supported by high-quality evidence."