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Cockmaster posted:To be fair, effective medical treatment usually requires reasonably precise control over drug doses. That tends to be tricky when you're directly ingesting the plant instead of isolating the chemical you want from it - variations in plant genetics and growing conditions can result in wildly varying concentrations of the medicinal chemicals. Not necessarily. That would be true if marijuana were used to control, say, high blood pressure or to fight off an infection. But marijuana is used medicinally as a palliative treatment, ie. to treat the symptoms. By definition, the appropriate dose is the minimum dose which eases the symptoms and since the severity of symptoms can vary widely from individual to individual and even day-to-day or hour-to-hour for an individual, that dose is impossible to standardize. Because cannabinoids enter your bloodstream very quickly when you smoke or vaporize marijuana, it's very easy for users to titrate their dosage and stop ingesting cannabis when they've taken enough to treat the symptoms. What good is a standardized dosage system if you're using cannabis for chemo-related nausea and you need one dose on Monday, a lower dose on Tuesday, a huge dose on Thursday and a tiny dose on Friday?
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