Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

this debate reminds me of a discussion i had at the gym the other day with a guy who has a masters in Molecular Biology and does cancer research.

i asked him why there were hardly any studies on the effects of marijuana on people ... he said that simply "there is no money in it" - the government provides the largest percent of funding for scientific research and there is no political agenda to be furthered by funding a study on marijuana