lumped in with all other cannabis plants, despite the fact that it does not include significant amounts of THC–the compound responsible for the “high” associated with marijuana. This classification is nonsensical since does not impart a “high” to users; but politics has done other irrational things as well. As a result, scientists were unable to carry out large-scale studies because of legal restrictions on all marijuana-derived products. For example, there’s only one derived drug approved by the FDA for a limited group of epilepsy patients, but many sufferers of the disease falling outside of the guidelines have been forced to obtain from unregulated sources. For a medically fragile person, this can be a serious problem, since research has not been done on drug interactions or even proper dosage. In