Tina van der Walt, Lucky Mathunjwa-Dlamini, Sue Visser, Mark Zuhrbrigghen, Desiree Botha, Guido Habets Dwight Muller: How do people like this Dr Bertha Madras manage to live with themselves? Quoted from this article: Debate continued as to the definition of “medicine” and whether cannabis qualifies as medicine. Prosecution witness Dr. Bertha Madras, an adviser to the George W. Bush presidency, presented the argument that cannabis does not count as medicine. The defense attorney Zenia Gilg was quick to point out that Dr. Madras had never actually treated patients or witnessed the effects of cannabis as medicine, unlike defense witnesses Dr. Carl Hart and Dr. Phillip Denney who have expert clinical experience (according to The Leaf, Dr. Hart directly studies the effects of cannabis on human subjects in his laboratory, and Dr. Denney attended to over 12,000 patients in his career as a physician). When the results of numerous double-blind, placebo controlled studies revealing the benefits of cannabis were brought up, Madras “stammered noticeably before explaining that she only meant to say that she would have preferred a more stringent study design,” in addition to admitting that when it comes to dozens of studies researching individual cannabinoids like CBDs, “she had never actually read them.” In other words, the government expert arguing that cannabis is not medicine had limited knowledge of the relevant research and never treated any patients or observed any patients treated with cannabis.
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