[ClearCase_guy]

I can respect an argument made on Constitutional grounds that this is not a federal matter and that it should be left to the several states.

I can respect an argument that says government (state or federal) should not declare that plants found in nature are “illegal”.

I do not respect arguments which are sob stories. “Waaaaah! My Dad has Parkinsons! Waaaaah! Change your drug policy! Waaaaah!”

I’m not opposed to giving this guy what he wants. But the constant victimhood approach to politics now earns my constant scorn.

[Ueriah]

There is a lot going on in this country right now; the pot battle is a small, but significant, fight for liberty.

Pot doesn’t help everyone. It does help some people, probably a lot more then is realized.

It seems a little ridiculous to allow people access to cigarettes and booze but draw a line at pot, which is provably and demonstratably less dangerous then cigarettes or alcohol.

Live free or die.

[Prolixus]

I thought marijuana was “medical” by fiat (a fiat medicine). Thus there is no debate. It’s “settled science.”

[robroys woman]

Just in the cases of a few people I know who have used medical marijuana, it’s effects are far from placebo. This stuff works. And works well.

The comical part was when my friend showed such amazing recovery results after his chemo therapy for stage four cancer, when he told the doctor it was due to the medical marijuana he was using, the doctor got so angry he became almost physically violent. Something is going on here.

[robroys woman]

Just in the cases of a few people I know who have used medical marijuana, it’s effects are far from placebo. This stuff works. And works well.

The comical part was when my friend showed such amazing recovery results after his chemo therapy for stage four cancer, when he told the doctor it was due to the medical marijuana he was using, the doctor got so angry he became almost physically violent. Something is going on here.

Edit: I forgot to mention. My friend’s amazing recovery meant he didn’t have to go through some very expensive follow up procedures. :)

[TheStickman]

As someone who began using cannabis in 2015 for medical reasons & has experienced a dramatic improvement in my quality of life, I 100% agree with candidate Trump.

It’s an issue for the states to decide. Not Fedzilla.

[fireman15]

I have lived in Washington State my entire life and had a 25 year career responding to emergency medical calls. Legalization of marijuana has been nothing short of a nightmare where we live. It became legal for “medicinal purposes” long before it was legal for recreational use. That was nothing but a sick joke... absolutely anyone could recite the correct words to a quack doctor recommended by their local pot shop and then purchase marijuana.

I know dozens of people who have been using marijuana since their teens. Nearly all of them have problems related to their usage.

[DouglasKC]

I would not wish my dad’s illness on anybody, but I wonder if Attorney General Sessions would change is bulldog stance on medical marijuana if the next time he put his pen to paper he noticed a slight tremor in his hand. Nobody should take one of the most promising medications away from those who suffer.

Complete and total crap. IF pot WERE an effective medicine pharmaceuticals would be all over it. They already have THC based medicine but none are recommended for Parkinsons as far as I know.

The bottom line is that Parkinsons DOES have effective medicines. Much more effective then smoking pot with far fewer side effects.

See this link from the Mayo Clinic or read numerous other pages for REAL Parkinson's treatments.

The author of this piece is just using his dad's disease to further the pro-legalization's (LEFTIST) view of pot.

[1Old Pro]

Is anyone concerned about lung damage from smoking non-filtered joints?

[Springman]

Bump for later.

[little jeremiah]

So millions of people can be outright stoners and addicts, just so this guy’s father or grandfather isn’t in a wheelchair.

Got news for the idiot author, medicine using various parts of the mj plant is not equivalent to legalize dope across the board.

This fool should live in my county, welcome to the hell of legalized dope growing.

[hinckley buzzard]

The baby boom began after the war in 1946. Whatever the writer’s dad was, born in 1944, he wasn’t a boomer.

But then the writer is most likely an ignorant millennial a—hole who doesn’t know that history is, like, a real thing.

[Bonemaker]

I am of your dad’s generation...actually a few years before and agree with your argument on drugs in general and marijuana in particular. However, “It was a crazy time marked by free-love, tie-dyed shirts, pot-smoking, a free-wheeling youth, and the chaos of Vietnam..” a whole bunch of us were not amused by that era. It seems that history is repeating itself as we speak and ever since Obama was first elected.