Ah, the joys of a wake-n-bake. Err, ummm, I mean, Cecil Adams takes a glance through recent cannabis research, discovering that some scientific studies are able to navigate the federal dictate that the weed is pernicious scourge, or whatever it is the kids are saying these days, but some scientists prefer getting more future grant money.
The Straight Dope: Still smokin’: What are the long-term effects of marijuana?
a staggering amount of research has been done--a search on marijuana in PubMed, the federally funded online medical-journal database, turns up close to 4,000 articles in the last ten years alone. Start reading up on the subject, though, and you quickly realize that however fine the wheels of science may grind, they sure grind exceeding slow. Believe it or not, some of these guys are still arguing over whether weed causes reefer madness.
Read more here, plus Mr. Adams' original 1985/1997 column, here
