text: This article completely misses the point: MJ use, when balanced levels of THC/CBD are consumed, is a voluntary method to calibrate the endocannabinoid system, one of the most important medical discoveries of the 21st century. Yet it is easy to see why The Globe would wish to disparage MJ use, as it poses a grave threat to Big Pharma, and to scientific orthodoxy by revelaing the brain and body have natural repair kits, built-in mechanisms of protection and regeneration which can (and do!) ease pain, mend damaged nerves and brain cells.
  
  Ironically, U.S. and CDN governments' unending search for harmful proerties of MJ have yielded astonishing scientific insights that serve only to validate the herb's therapeutic  utility. By stimulating Cb-1 & Cb-2 receptor signaling, MJ functions as a substitute "retrograde messenger" that mimics the way our bodies try to maintain balance (214, Smoke Signals, by Martin A. Lee).