Hoping to "learn it" or "research it" on a public forum is like learning medicine from Facebook.

If you go to the doctor with a medical issue and find out that he knows less about medicine than you do, are you going to feel comfortable working with him? 

White Coat InvestorPhysician on FireTough to manage business/property while in medicine, particularly in med school and residency.

If it is for medicinal purposes, it may be protected, does anyone else know? 

There is a new documentary (From the maker of "Enron - The smartest man in the room" ) called "Money Driven Medicine" that documents the exact issue.For a little taste go to ABC Nightline site http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/and click on "Health Care Sound and Fury"

Quite honestly, I am a bit embarassed for the lack of research US based medicine has done in this area.

This includes the Badlands, Devil’s Tower, Medicine Wheel and Bighorn National Forest, Mt Rushmore, Deadwood, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Craters of the Moon, Petrified Forest, Taos/Santa Fe/Albuquerque, Sedona, Utah and Colorado, White Sands, and Roswell. 2018: Our goal is to return to South Africa by end of year and participate in the Living With Orphaned Rhinos volunteer program.

, if he was a Surgeon would you call the Chief of Medicine?

However, when someone is in favor of socialized medicine, taking from those of us that work to give to the lazy, anti-God, etc, I'd say that, yes, they're a socialist.

If you keep driving east on this street you will eventually run into USC's Keck School of Medicine.