Should health insurance cover marijuana? Should it cover vodka? Lucky Strikes? Bacon cheeseburgers?

Like all those substances, marijuana contains pleasure-giving, mind-altering chemicals that the brain desperately wants more and more and more of (especially at today’s ultra-high potencies).

It’s not medicine and never has been. Health insurance, which is supposed to keep people healthy, not promote addiction, should not cover it.

A political decision, not scientific

Yes, there are medicines derived from marijuana. Marinol is used to help cancer patients eat. Epidiolex is used to treat people with seizure conditions. These are already covered by health insurance.

However, Ozempic is derived from a chemical found in the saliva of the gila monster. That doesn’t mean letting venomous dese

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