RE: Marijuana may stave off Alzheimer's

If we must micromanage people's personal habits through laws, shouldn't we at least get it right?

Does that mean you accept the fact that we must engage in the micromanagement? I certainly don't. American drug laws are schizophrenic and illogical.

I know you probably don't want to entertain this, but all this micromanagement didn't start until we began toying around with participatory democracy and universal suffrage. In fact, the entry of women into the political arena was the harbinger of the loss of a laundry list of freedoms.

But to the article's specific references, does one have to smoke pot to get the benefit? I believe I read once that smoking pot is probably even more harmful to your lungs than tobacco. Apparently the resins (or "tar") in marijuana smoke are far heavier and do more permanent damage to lung tissue. The article didn't mention synthetic THC either. I wonder if that works as well.