Doctor Mike

The risk profile is still pretty high.

If you have psychosis in your family, yada, yada, yada.

I say to my students, they say, should I take...

let's say you do you, but I would wait five years until there's actually a lot more good evidence on the downside.

Well, the one thing we don't know about is the risks.

Well, part of it is that we never did any RCTs because it was a scheduled substance, right?

And so the result was we couldn't actually figure out the risks with large populations.

We would have said, okay, oh, it turns out that if you have any psychosis in your family, you use cannabis, it's a really dangerous thing.

We don't know.

What we do know is that people just casually using it, they have alleviation of some symptoms of, they need to increase their hunger when they're on chemotherapy or whatever it happens to be.

So we're just learning about the downside.

And my guess is in five years, states will have recriminalized as a result of it because we're running the largest scale

human trials by making it legal for everybody.

What do you tell your patients about pot?

That seems pretty innocuous, and maybe...

I agree on that.

But it's, you know, the truth, a lot of these things is that when my students ask me, for example, about these things, I say, look, here's the deal.

Anything that's euphoric is probably neurotoxic.

There's a neurotoxic element to euphorics, but that's not dispositive.

I don't drive the safest car.