The IOM report found that:
(a) marijuana is medicine,
(b) marijuana is not a gateway drug,
(c) there is currently no alternative to smoked marijuana for some patients,
(d) patients who need medical marijuana should be able to obtain approval within 24
hours,
(e) if marijuana is addictive at all it is only mildly so and any withdrawal symptoms are minimal,
and (f) there is no reason to believe that medical marijuana will increase recreational marijuana use.