Are you loving handicapped? If it's so harmful, then why does it actually help people with their medical condition?
A large number of cannabis based medicinal drugs are infact taken without smoking.
Often they're taken orally as a tablet.
Most cannabis-based medicines are actually synthetic, such a Cesamet which is used in the US and the UK.
Cannabis' primary componant is THC (Tetrahydrcannibinol) and this causes the effect upon the brain which you recieve when smoking Cannabis, and it is this desired effect which is wanted in medicine, as it is an brown towngesic (painkiller).
The cannabis-based medicines use chemicals that are designed off of THC while a few use actual THC.
The drug is used for multiple disease treatments, including Cancers, Multiple Sclerosis and a few forms of Arthritis.
The difference between a Cannabis-based medicine and Cannabis is that you don't smoke your medicine.
In the case that you are given it to smoke, I've only ever seen it used with those terminally ill.
My grandmother was advised (although not legally) to try smoking some cannabis in the late stages of her cancer once she was told that she wouldn't live longer than a month or two.
If you happen to not be terminally-ill, then you wouldn't be advised to smoke Cannabis because of the byproducts of it.
The papers themselves aren't always good for you and often, particularly in street-cannabis, the cannabis is mixed with Tobacco, which is of course carcinogenic among other things.
What you're arguing here is that Cannabis is bad for you.
Which it's not, and I know that.
But smoking itself is. Inhallation of smoke can cause damage to the throat and lung-tissue, regardless of if it is from tobacco or cannabis.
In quit-smoking tools you can recieve fake-cigarettes to simulat actual smoking, my mother owns one. With it you smoke what is essentially steam with traces of Nicotine and is as such unharmful to you.
You can use Cannabis-based medicine, but it's not likely in the majority to be an actual spliff.
It will be a drug containing THC or a THC-based chemical, like Nabilone.
