What do doctors think of recreational marijuana use?

I can only speak for myself. In my experience, marijuana for recreational purposes decreases one's drive to achieve anything. I have a personal friend who has never achieved her potential due to marijuana use, and she freely admits it. read more

I can only speak for myself. In my experience, marijuana for recreational purposes decreases one's drive to achieve anything. I have a personal friend who has never achieved her potential due to marijuana use, and she freely admits it. read more

I think the problem with medicinal marijuana is the inability to correctly measure dosage, given that the supply is not regulated and there aren't studies to determine how to best dose it for efficacy and minimization of adverse effects. read more

Other physicians would like to see marijuana use decriminalized, but would not go so far as to make the drug completely legal for adult recreational use. Peter Friedmann, an addiction-medicine physician at University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate Health, notes that we already have two legal psychoactive drugs — alcohol and tobacco. read more