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Can you please explain why scientists disagree about the link between cannabis and addiction to hard drugs?

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Dr. Laurence Badgley answered

Specializes in General Practice

Political etc. : Medicinal cannabis arena turbulent with a variety of political, governmental, drug industry, and other vested interests' opinions. Many medical doctors have strong contrary opinion even absent literature review. An example of tainted cannabis science is study that proclaimed increased lung cancer risk. The study's esteemed clinical researcher later recanted with an admission of data falsification.

Answered 6/16/2016

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