Jill U. Adams wrote a fantastic article in yesterday's L.A. Times:
Medical marijuana: What does science say?
The truth, these researchers say, is that marijuana has medical benefits -- for chronic-pain syndromes, cancer pain, multiple sclerosis, AIDS wasting syndrome and the nausea that accompanies chemotherapy -- and attempts to understand and harness these are being hampered. Also, they add, science reveals that the risks of marijuana use, which have been thoroughly researched, are real but generally small.
My thanks to Bruce Mirken at Marijuana Policy Project for blogging this to my attention.