Your faith in the system is admirable Mr Chinney. However, doctors are only one example of an expert. The point is, who classifies things in the first place, and to what degree are the decisions that are made affected by personal agendas? You are correct to say that sugar isn't catagorized as a drug, but like a drug it causes changes in our brain chemistry, (release of endorphins) so how come? Based on this I would say that food is a very powerful drug indeed. You need food to exsist, but shops are full of what we want and this is a very important distingtion. Relating back to the original thread, who is to say what is good, bad, right or wrong? The government, the church, the doctor? Call me cynical, but all these people need to make a living, and from my experience some seem to need more of a living than others. Just look back in history to see what the medical establishment has been built on. A bunch of elitist patrearchal idiots that believe in little more than maintaining their own glorious position in society. Don't get me wrong, science has produced many advantages for most, but it doesn't give it's creators the right to play god!

Unfortunatly, it appears that for now cannabis will remain a,'Folk Devil' rightly or wrongly.