For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in toxic response. Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis cannabis can be safely used with a supervised routine of medical care. There have been occasional instances of panic reaction in patients who have smoked marijuana. Other reported side effects of cannabis have been minimal.
Sedation often results.
Sometimes mild euphoria is experienced. Short periods of increased pulse rate and of dizziness are occasionally experienced. Physicians could readily screen out such patients if cannabis were being employed as an agent under medical supervision. The gist of the Agency's case against recognizing cannabis's acceptance as safe is to assert that more studies, more tests are needed. But, as demonstrated in the discussion in Section V above, it is unrealistic and unreasonable to require unanimity of opinion on the question confronting us.