12/06/2025
Anti Cannabis Bias In Medical Research And The Lone Research Paper That Told Them What They Didn’t Want to Hear
2025-12-03 by Richard C. Cowan
Again, let me emphasize that I am not any kind of “doctor” and I have never recommended that anyone use cannabis, either recreationally or medically. That leaves more for me.
However, I have been extremely skeptical about studies that begin with “marijuana use linked to…”, because I am old enough to remember the so-called “gateway theory” that said that hard drug use “began with marijuana.”
That is an example of “Post hoc, ergo propter hoc”, after that therefore because of that, or as Bill Buckley punned, “Post pot, ergo propter pot”. So now, whenever I see a report saying, “Ma*****na linked to…”, I am skeptical.
See
Why Don’t We See Any Research Reports About What Ma*****na Prohibition Is “Linked To”?
And
Ma*****na Prohibition and The Prostitution of Science
Recently I wrote about a more specific example of this,
The New York Post Can’t Figure Out Why Pregnant Women Use Cannabis. Perhaps Because They Are Not Getting Adequate Medical Care?
If you Google about “cannabis during pregnancy”, you will find numerous recent studies warning about the adverse effects of cannabis on the child at birth and later, most measurably “birth weight” but also many others.
However, there is one circumstance that might lead a woman to want/need to take cannabis during pregnancy, the extreme nausea that some women experience, Morning Sickness” or Hyperemesis gravidarum.
It would seem obvious that the developing fetus would be adversely affected by the mother’s health and malnutrition resulting from the hyperemesis.
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