A doctor's case for medical marijuana | David Casarett

Physician David Casarett was tired of hearing hype and half-truths around medical marijuana, so he put on his skeptic’s hat and investigated on his own. He comes back with a fascinating report on what we know and what we don’t — and what mainstream medicine could learn from the modern medical marijuana dispensary.

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50 Comments

  1. Jimmy Doyle on December 13, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    That was really good if you could get all the doctors on board with what you’re saying maybe we wouldn’t have opioid crisis going on maybe we could somehow prescribed cannabis that would make people feel like they like like humans you tend to feel not like humans when you’re on the opioids and cannabis being illegal in Texas like it is it gives us no choice but to tighten opioids and not deal with cannabis because it is illegal we need our government to get it legalized and get it sanctioned where doctors can study it and make it the right thing the prescribed to people that is an in the life and need a quality of life



  2. Isaiah Granados Perez-Novoa on December 13, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    I’m in a situation where I have been taking psychiatric medicine specifically haldol I live in the state of CALIFORNIA and I purchased a CBD sleeping drop which has a smaller THC level and also CBN which I was told helps with sleep Doctor David is so right about how we as patients are seeking control it could be hard when you get pain for your medicine when your going through panic attack about your overall health it can just add more pain. I decided to go on my own hunch to using the marijuana CBD drops not necessarily paying attention to my mental health doctor because after 6 years of taking shots I need to know I have control for the very least this is my physical health that I’m questioning. I heard recently in another marijuana video here on YouTube that it could cause harm to use this plant while on medication by anyway I’m assuming why with reasoning I’m taking caution to take when in severe pain not just when I get a headache.For this reason is why I purchased at a dispensaries the sleep aid of CBD THC CBN I believe by getting more sleep will help with my overall pain using CBD drops. I like to stay busy in my day staying in movement and I can neglect slowing down which I feel is a build up on my head and trying to take time to re-energize with sleep by just taking naps can start a headache. I can get sleep through the night with the rare pain of my breathing. So CBD drop are my best bet and I sure to take precaution using so…only when my pain is unable to bear.



  3. sukhmanicambridge on December 13, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Love this man. He’s absolutely right to try to bring Focus back to patients. ❀️🀝



  4. Ek S on December 13, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    Weed is the best



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  6. Silvarajoo Muniandy on December 13, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    From day one modern medication is trial and error, offered by medical care operators, not real physicians.



  7. Stonedsquatch 420 on December 13, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    You need to know more about the risks of medical marijuana???? How are you going to learn more about the risk on something that doesn’t have risk???



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  9. Don on December 13, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    Another doctor who doesn’t know how dangerous marijuana is. Why doesn’t he visit the emergency rooms where people are showing up fighting for their lives every day because of the effects of marijuana ??? If something in marijuana helps people fine. Take it out of marijuana and give it to them. But do not give it to them with marijuana because of all the poisons in it especially THC.



  10. keyman keys on December 13, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    My doctor told me " I know you cant right now because of your job but when you retire you should try marijuana . I think you could get off half your meds " I told her " Well you are the doctor " Where I live marijuana is totally against the law even medically but my neighbor sells it and the state next to us it is legal even recreationally .



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  12. Mike Koster on December 13, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    AS someone with intractable EPILEPSY it has helped LOWER my Dilantin level back to something safe!



  13. timechanges everybody on December 13, 2020 at 10:21 pm

    Thank you for not just shutting her down and being open enough to investigate



  14. Vijay Zol on December 13, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    Which one is better to cure cancer???
    Smoking or taking cannabis oil???



  15. JAWN HUH on December 13, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    i appreciated this perspective so much – the honesty, his humility, and open mindedness. so beautiful



  16. Smudge Fingers on December 13, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    I just went to my doctor today asking if I can get my MMJ card and she said that there isn’t enough research and or evidence that it can be beneficial. She is also against it and never recommends it unless it’s needed, I think that’s disappointing because it’s 2020 and we need more doctors to open up and normalize the discussion around the medical marijuana community it’s just so weird that they will recommend drugs that are potentially very addictive and have giant lists of side effects but they won’t look into one plant.



  17. Arahantius Detache on December 13, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    Who cares if you can’t OD, people are dangerous when stoned. Here’s just one example https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/coroner-reveals-lead-up-to-frenzied-stabbing-of-british-backers-mia-ayliffe-chung-and-tom-jackson/ar-BB16c0WX?ocid=spartan-dhp-feeds . Stop pretending it’s not a psychotic inducer.



  18. Gadaa Tola on December 13, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    Marijuana makes you not think, paranoid, and not function? I drive and study for school and need something for that. Unless there is a strain I dont know about



  19. Lucy Lincoln on December 13, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    Absolutely sucks in my country. Knowing it’s highly illegal and being the only thing that actually works for me.
    Feeling like a damn criminal when I’m so unwell.



  20. Aaron Toro on December 13, 2020 at 10:27 pm

    But medically only. I’ve met too many formerly healthy people who’ve become addicted and let these ruin their life.



  21. The Adjuster on December 13, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    Any one have data for diabetes and use of mary jane?
    Did it lower a1c?
    Did it make difference on a daily bases on blood sugar level?

    And direction and data would be appreciated, thank you!



  22. DR. Destrukkto-Stien on December 13, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    smoke a bowl!!



  23. Silvarajoo Muniandy on December 13, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    Why can’t we have an AI government.



  24. Buddha159 on December 13, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    WE don’t need to hide behind that professional status, it hasn’t been proven to kill anyone. If governments are so worried about harmful substances ban alcohol



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  26. Steven w on December 13, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    Until you get chs and start uncontrolled painful vomiting…….. Ask me how I know……….



  27. Kevin Moore on December 13, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    I have a recurrent brain tumor which has been surgically removed twice, and, unfortunately, after 30+ neurosurgeries, and other treatments, it’s regrown. I have loads of chronic pains, mostly headaches, and occasionally vomiting. I am fortunate enough to get the same relief from severe chronic pain before, during, and after the headaches, and vomiting as I do from the opioids/opiates without serious side effects, or especially, the addicting nature of the opioid/opiates. Finally, I feel so much better than how I felt when I was on the heavier meds. having these meds professionally, and responsibly managed, and dispensed to the qualifying public. I understand that people are reasonably, hesitant about smoking marijuana, but, there are several other effective ways of administering the active ingredients other than smoking.



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  30. Anuj Dalal on December 13, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    Nice video



  31. Florence Joddy on December 13, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    Corona getting me high with the stay at home bullshit and I’m smoking my lungs out .lol just got my marijuana card anyways from +17192859179 vendor and I have absolutely no worries



  32. Mjhavok on December 13, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Medicare for all.



  33. monchichiyoshi on December 13, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    Why need research when there are so many testimonies? I am disgusted with the health β€œcare” establishment. All they do is finish you with pharmaceutical poisons that don’t work.



  34. Andres Quintanilla on December 13, 2020 at 10:44 pm

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  35. zacho cracy on December 13, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    "We need more evidence of the benefits of MMJ"

    How about the entirety of recorded history, is that enough? Wow this presenter is a POS.



  36. YaBoi_NicK C. on December 13, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    He said its baked in. He trynna be slick.



  37. Card & Code on December 13, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    Caffeine , Alcohol and Smoking cause more damage and are more addictive than Cannabis why not ban them ?
    SIMPLE Weed industry don’t have money to lobby your greedy politicians
    Who will buy your unhealthy Pharmaceuticals that cause more damage than weed? No one



  38. zacho cracy on December 13, 2020 at 10:47 pm

    No, it’s only illegal because they haven’t made synthetic "for profit" versions yet.

    Marijuana has been used as a medicine for all of recorded history except the past 80 years of propoganda brought upon by the corporations it threatened.
    http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/pot/blunderof37.html

    https://www.propublica.org/article/study-urges-cdc-to-revise-count-of-deaths-from-medical-error

    >Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch for the CDC, disputed that the agency’s coding is the problem. He said complications from medical care are listed on death certificates, and that codes do capture them. The CDC’s published mortality statistics, however, count only the β€œunderlying cause of death,” defined as the condition that led a person to seek treatment.
    **As a result, even if a doctor does list medical errors on a death certificate, they are not included in the published totals. Only the underlying condition, such as heart disease or cancer, is counted, even when it isn’t fatal.**

    – _i think the problem lies in people’s unwarranted faith in the healthcare system, when it was designed since the prohibition of hemp/marijuana to become a "for profit" industry that creates patients rather than cures them. this makes it much harder for people to realize they are being lied to_

    Medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death year after year according to an 8 year Johns Hopkins study (doctors are people too and make mistakes):
    https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us

    https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/03/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death/
    **Doctors take bribes and kickbacks to prescibe medications, even if it’s known to be deadly like Fentanyl:**

    https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/another-doctor-charged-taking-bribes-kickbacks-to-prescribe-fentanyl-alleged-insys-scheme

    https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-prescribe-more-of-a-drug-if-they-receive-money-from-a-pharma-company-tied-to-it

    _this is just a continuation of dishonesty. Today we live off the byproducts of the oil industry rather than using hemp…which is why it and MMJ was made illegal…because corporate profits suffered. Following this trail, tobacco industries created the roadmap for funding bias in science and medicine, and it’s never been trustworthy since. Nixon solidified "for profit" healthcare with the HMO Act of 1973 for his buddy Edgar Kaiser, then CEO of Kaiser Permanente_

    Medicine, sponsored by the Rockefeller Institute 😳



  39. Rob’s Reviews on December 13, 2020 at 10:48 pm

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  40. Mary Jane on December 13, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    There is no such thing as "medical" marijuana… Marijuana is simply herb that is beneficial to both the human body and brain, especially in very low doses. Same thing can be said with other herbs and plants and even food which are beneficial to our system. This herb should have never been illegal in the first place, should just be put into the kitchen counter along with oregano and parsley and other herbs. I blame the stereotype of the lazy stoner who doesn’t accomplish much… and the media for portraying characters as such. Even more appalling would be portraying them as violent and aggressive, which is simply not true unless the marijuana was laced with other, more harsher drugs..

    The evidence is in the pudding, people have been using this herb for a very long time, we came to be evolved with it. It’s time people all over wake up and include marijuana into their daily diets and habits. Eating it raw and or decarbed is more beneficial than smoking it would. Most people who smoke it daily are just harmless addicts and there is nothing wrong with that.



  41. Zachery James on December 13, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    My wife has recently been diagnosed with stage 3B cervical cancer. She has to deal with a lot of pain. She had just received her medical marijuana card, and her marijuana BY FAR, helps the most with her pain, and makes her eat after her chemo. We’re so thankful for the opportunity for her to use it



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  43. L C on December 13, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    Alcohol is legal and kills millions. Weed? HELPS PEOPLE AND IS ILLEGAL?!?!?



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  45. Carter, Irvin on December 13, 2020 at 10:56 pm

    Its a simple fix and that is to have (our) US Congress to suspend an eliminate, funding and its authority for these (2) two things #1 the CSA which is called the (Controlled Substance Act I, II, III, IV) where #cannabis aka.marijuana is listed as a schedule I drug. ie. along with heroin and cocaine. "Lets do this and … Once they are abolished. aka. #2 also banned or eliminated, also to include the #NIDA funding from and through the US Congress the #NIDA stands for the ‘National Institute for Drug Abuse its the elusive arm of the DEA and all those who want #cannabis aka.marijuana to remain illegal or under federal control… Also why does the US Government have a US Patent on Cannabis? DYK? kind regards thanks for all you do!



  46. AndrΓ© Silva on December 13, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    SO I WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING THAT THIS WHOMAN DOES.
    YOU SOULD SEE !

    DrΒͺ. CRISTINA SANCHEZ (Universidade Computense de Madrid)
    She has comproved what Rick Simpson (US) was saying:
    Canabinois and specificly THC kill’s cancer cells and
    inhibits
    angiogenesis and metastasis.
    That is about the Endocannabinoid System that is not teached in medicine schools around the world.
    Please somebody do something πŸ™
    Listen to DR.Robert Melamade (Colorado)



  47. Nikolaos Peterson on December 13, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    Very thoughtful. I have been using med cannabis for Crohn’s and I am much younger. I first acquired Crohn’s disease when I was a ten year old child. Now seven years later after little gelp from the mainstream medical community, I have found something that seems to demonstrate actual evidence that something is different like ymprovement of my own situation. I am not totally out of the woods, but at least I can see the pastures agead! In my case the pain has ceased, same with nausea, fatigue, and being homebound and virtually married to a toilet! Now I do still have diarrhoea but from on average 7 to 8 times a full 24 hour day, to now about from 3 to 4 times in a 24 hour day. I can even sleep better with THCA (tetrahydrocannabinolacid). Now I try to tell through word of mouth the positive effects of a plant that has been used for medicine at least 5’000 years!



  48. Rumble Reverend on December 13, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    I’m for the use of medical marijuana.
    Check out this episode on my podcast where I talk about this very subject.
    https://anchor.fm/rumble-reverend/episodes/The-use-of-medical-marijuana—An-honest-response-ejkmrr



  49. Justin LaVine on December 13, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    I’ve yet to hear a doctor say that smoking high-grade marijuana in public or in the home can lead to involuntary intoxication of minors. Filter less marijuana also increases your chance of developing lung cancer or having a heart attack. Monsters like this are profiteering off the general ignorance of the community. I agree medical marijuana is medicine. However, CBD is not a safe alternative to THC, nor is CBD part of an approved addiction rehabilitation program similar to methadone. In addition, if these drug users are putting FSC chemicals on the smokable marijuana product it will likely cause nausea or vomiting if consumed. The "crystals" from marijuana can also aggravate people’s pollen allergies. Furthermore, it is unknown if people can suffer from a general allergic reaction to Marinol or other marijuana based medicine.



  50. havel twink on December 13, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Cannibis is the only medicine that helps me. It’s time for national reform. On the federal level