I've seen several shows cooking with Cannabis---one was on PBS (I forget the name) and I think the other was on The Food Network (or Channel). It was so interesting to see that on "mainstream" TV.
I remember wondering (back in the day) how bad my lungs would be after smoking weed for years and noticed a friend who had been smoking cigarettes for at least 40 years and his cough was more pronounced than mine and I found out he'd had lung cancer. Maybe I'm just lucky, because I have smoked cigarettes in the past, off and on since I was a teenager. But I've not smoked a cigarette for at least 3 years now.
I do believe there are vast medicinal benefits Cannabis gives us. I even had a Rastafarian friend once who told me stories from the Kebra Nagast and how Jesus smoked weed and all....back then it was pretty amazing to me, because I'd never heard such things. Marijuana was bad!
Now it's coming out that it combats cancer? Helps epilepsy patients? It's not just for glaucoma any more!
The truth sets us free--in more ways than one!