The only advantages to Marinol is that it is in a pill form and can have a longer duration of effect than smoking marijuana.
That sounds like a pretty good advantage to me.
If only there were a way to deliver asthma medication without resorting to pills. If only...
There are inhalers.
The only advantages to Marinol is that it is in a pill form and can have a longer duration of effect than smoking marijuana.
That sounds like a pretty good advantage to me.
It is, but it takes up to four weeks to build up in your system.
Look, I'll tell you the truth. I am a law-abiding citizen who does not take illegal drugs and hasn't since my twenties (thirty years ago). But if I got cancer or some debilitating disease that only marijuana seemed to help, all bets would be off. I wouldn't be asking anyone for permission for what I needed to do -- and I wouldn't give a good damn whether it was legal or not, or whether people approved or not. I'd do what I had to do to survive and/or make my dying a little less painful.
Do I think that recreational users are trying to use "medical needs marijuana" as a wedge to open the door to legalizing pot? Sure, I do. That doesn't mean that there isn't a medical need for marijuana, just that recreational users are pretty cunning.
I just think that we have been fighting a 50 year war on pot that shows no sign of relenting and it's just not worth it to fight it when so many people are just asking for the freedom to do what they want without damaging anyone else.
I believe in God, but God gave us free choice and it's not my place to take it away. And I don't like social engineering in either direction -- not to force liberalism down anyone's throat and not to force social conservatism down anyone's throat either. People always want to do precisely what you tell them that they can't do, precisely because you tell them that they can't. Let them do what they want and deal with the consequences. It will force people to act like adults, instead of acting like "the government's children".