Pot Scientists Brace for Marijuana Meltdown as Laws Ease
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/pot-scientists-brace-for-marijuana-meltdown-as-laws-ease.html
Three out of every four dollars spent this year on pot studies funded by the government.
The only marijuana available for research in the U.S. is locked down by federal regulators who are more focused on studies to keep people off the drug than helping researchers learn how it might be beneficial.
Marijuana is a trend that “will peak like tobacco then people will see their error,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which serves as the gatekeeper for U.S. marijuana research through its oversight of a pot farm that grows the only plants that can be used in clinical trials.
Meanwhile, marijuana advocates say NIDA’s control over research has made almost impossible their ability to test the drug against ailments such as pain, cancer-related nausea and epilepsy.
The federal researchers aren’t “set up to study potential medical benefits, so it’s inappropriate for NIDA to have a monopoly on supply,” said Dan Riffle, director of federal policies at the Marijuana Policy Project, a Washington-based group that lobbies to change marijuana laws.
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with a smaller peak around 1998
http://www.samhsa.gov/data/mjinitiation/chapter3.htm
Tobacco use has been in decline since the late 60s:
Comparing tobacco and MJ is popular but seems to be based only on the fact that both are usually smoked. It ignores large differences between the two. For example, THC is psychoactive and not addictive while nicotine is serious stimulant and one of the most physically addictive drugs ever studied. MJ is smoked in very small amounts, a few grams per day, while tobacco is generally used every 30 minutes or so during waking hours, around 2 to 4 ounces per day.
Meanwhile, the number of overdoses from marijuana use remains steady for the last 10,000 years at zero while the number of deaths from prescription medications looks like this...
Pot Doritos. get high and munch as the same time. 
medical edible - that could be it:
and get findings from the research in Canada and other countries. 
I recently voted in the Dem primaries for a governor candidate who will legalize, tax, and regulate it as an economic stimulus for Maryland. I hope she wins.
I hope so. Meanwhile, back at the cop funding fight: http://www.adn.com/2014/06/18/3523383/alaska-police-chiefs-say-legalizing.html
Doncha know, legalizing the evil weed will cause us all to need more cops, more training and more jails, cuz pot smokers are so MEAN.
