Jacob Sullum takes on the Times

Check out this excellent rebuttal at Hit and Run to yesterday’s stupid New York Times article on medical marijuana.

Yesterday, in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s imminent decision in Ashcroft v. Raich, the medical marijuana case, The New York Times ran a bizarre story that suggests cannabis is more likely to drive a patient insane than relieve his symptoms. “There remains much confusion over whether marijuana in fact has any significant medical effect,” declares Times reporter Dan Hurley. The confusion, it turns out, is mostly in his own mind. …