Marijuana advocate Keith Stroup famously said that medical marijuana was a “red herring” for making the recreational use of the drug legal — and now the data have proven him 100% correct.

A bombshell new review from researchers at top-tier universities, appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, concludes that “evidence from randomized clinical trials does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids for most conditions for which it is promoted, such as acute pain and insomnia.”

In other words, Medical marijuana doesn’t work — right there, in black and white, despite years of promoters and addiction profiteers shouting that it was the next miracle drug.

It won’t cure insomnia or chronic pain or psychological problems.

What does it do?

The authors found that smoking weed every day more than doubles your risk of heart disease and stroke, and that the use of today’s high-potency THC vastly increases the risk of psychosis and anxiety disorders.

They also found that almost 30% of people using medical marijuana met the criteria for cannabis use disorder, better known as addiction.

For perspective, between 3% and 12% of people using opioids medically fall into that category.

While a handful of FDA-approved medicines contain........

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