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The cannabis plant – also known as hashish or marijuana – through its chemical compounds -- cannabinoids -- has been shown to have a beneficial, hypotensive effect. However, a drawback in the therapeutic use of cannabinoids has been its undesirable psychotropic properties – production of hallucinatory effects. Attempts to separate the hypotensive action from the psychotropic properties of cannabinoids have achieved only partial success until now.
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I get mixed emotions/opinions about stories like this
On the one hand it's great that medical breakthroughs are being made utilizing the magic plant - many people may be helped
On the other hand once technology advances to the point that individual components can be fractionated, and assuming these compounds work independantly from the plant as a whole, I fear the prohibitionists will have a renewed argument against medical marijuana. [those "patients" don't need the plant, we've removed the evil part and they can take the pill to get the medicine part]
Hopefully, we'll have the whole process at least decriminalized before these techniques advance too far