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stego-techtoday at 12:42 AM0 repliesview on HN

This is not entirely surprising, as the evidence was always weakly correlated. I say this as a proponent of legalization, mind you.

Cannabis, like alcohol and tobacco, is a vice. It definitely helps with some physical ailments (like helping stimulate hunger in cancer patients), just like alcohol and tobacco can with other ailments, but it’s not a panacea for mental health disorders.

We need to stop marketing these things as curatives when they’re mostly just coping mechanisms or social lubricants. We’re doing more harm than good by leaning into the “legitimate pharmaceutical” angle.