You don't think that the pharmaceutical lobby wants to keep it illegal because of it's easy availability without their involvement/profits? Any hippie can grow marijuana plants. yeah, but that's not exactly a conspiracy, it's just rich and powerful people trying to stay rich and powerful. smoking weed isn't going to cure your cancer and there's not some shadowy organization determined to let people die of cancer so they can keep selling advil Yeah, I do realize that it's CNN and Sanjay Gupta, but that documentary showed examples of cases similar to what I've read in articles recently. It does seem to have genuine medicinal value in cases of Parkinsons, epilepsy and just general quality of life during chemo.