It is medicine. Anybody unfortunate enough to be born into this horrible world deserves to medicate themselves with herbs as soon as they can hold their head up.

It is very difficult, logically, to say that MJ is beneficial while at the same time denying it to certain people. If I were a parent I would only disallow it so as to pretect my children from the law, but I would explain to them that the laws are oppresive and counterproductive to true spiritual health.