Second assumption: MJ needs more research. Dr Andrew Weil, head of the university of Arizona’s integrative medicine clinic and renowned expert in holistic healing, rejected the notion that more data was necessary to figure out what’s up with Cannabis (MJ). “We know more about MJ than we do about penicillin, says Weil. “MJ has been researched to death. MJ is one of the safest drugs known to medicine, it has a startling lack of toxicity compared to other drugs.”
	Published in various scientific journals, the results of four state-funded clinical trials [in California under supervision of UCal in 1999] showed that cannabis significantly relieved neuropathic pain and muscle spasms, while reducing the need for opiates [Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR), “Report to the Legislature and Governor of the State of California Presenting Findings Pursuant to California Senate Bill 847 Which Created the CMCR and Provided State Funding,” February 11, 2010].