Re: marijuana, well, I can tell you that a leading ferret vet who excels
in endocrinology said that he considers it unsafe to expose ferrets to
marijuana.
 
BTW, wouldn't it be a sorry shame if some of the adrenal or common
adrenal complication (anemia, prostate problems, etc.) cases out
there were due to marijuana's documented effects on estrogen levels?
(Documented in boys just entering puberty according to past discussion
with a breast surgeon who had to perform mastectomies on a series of
such teens who were apparently especially vulnerable to the effects.
Ever notice how marijuana used during the most vulnerable years of change
in humans gets lost in discussions of endocrinological abnormalities?)
 
Unless a substance has been proven safe for ferrets don't assume it is.
Such assumptions have killed ferrets when they were given Tylenol and an
assortment of other OTCs (over the counter medications), so it would be
foolish and unloving to take the same sort of risk with any thing else,
including marijuana.
 
Let's face it, it just does not make sense to give a substance which
messes with the endocrinological balance to an animal so prone to
endocrinological tumors.
 
Studies of the compounds in it, though, may leads to useful drugs which
don't have such a potentially negative side effect.
[Posted in FML issue 4317]