When marijuana was approved for medical use, it did not go through the normal FDA drug development process, says Dr. Ken Finn, president of the American Board of Pain Medicine and co-vice president of the International Academy on the Science and Impacts of Cannabis (IASIC). Today, it remains a poorly regulated industry. Virtually anyone can qualify for a medical marijuana card, and the “budtender” selling you the supposed medicine requires no medical training.
Finn describes the negative consequences of legalization, including accidental poisoning of children, the increase in cannabis-related psychosis, and the dangers of in-utero exposure, to name a few.
