Come to the cancer ward and spew this dogma. Your words are hollow here.
If any freeper disagrees with me on this, I suggest they accompany a cancer patient to an infusion session and see what chemo does to people first hand. The IV bags in the infusion suite have big bio-hazard stickers on them. Chemo's a b!tch and if the patient thinks some pot will help them, I'll be first in line to light their joint.
You think anybody buys that "cancer ward" BS?
Just explain why hospital cancer wards need a "store" in dozens of neighborhoods (where other illegal activities take place routinely) in order to service their patients who are in so much pain they can barely move... ?
Cancer wards have better drugs than pot and many need morphine.
I don't happen to agree with about 25% of the articles and columns that I post on FR. I put some pieces up just to generate discussions on issues which I feel are important to debate.
In my own case, I could be the most neutral observer, because I have only taken two puffs, one time 30 years ago, from a marijuana cigarette, and quickly handed it over to someone else. I thought that it was bilious.
I have never known anyone who smokes marijuana, let alone who uses it for medicinal pain relief.
I have, however, experienced excruciating pain a few times in my life, and if that "weed" were available, and if it relieved the pain that I was feeling, I would be the very first person to demand that it be legal.
My personal belief is that this should NOT be the "big deal" issue that it is, and that legalizing this plant does NOT produce catastrophic consequences.
So-o-ooooooo, FR readers should probably not leap to the automatic conclusion that the FR member posting a specific piece is in agreement with its premise or argument. Many times things are posted for the purpose of generating lively discussion.........which this seems to have done.
In a "free Republic" we can freely speak out for or against issues and not "blame" someone for having brought up a subject for others to consider and offer their opinions on.
I hope I've cleared things up.
Char :)
"Come to the cancer ward and spew this dogma."
Doesn't anyone find it ironic that smoking is known to cause cancer yet you and cancer patients want cancer patients to smoke (marijuana)?!! Smoke is smoke and in your lungs smoke is lethal no matter what type of tobacco it is. IMO, smokers period are passive masochistic suiciders.
"Come to the cancer ward and spew this dogma. Your words are hollow here."
Been there, done that. Dope does dick for pain. Who the hell do you think you are fooling? If you think it does, then the pain is in your head.
For REAL pain, try fentynol, a little morphine (iomg) in 100ML bag for a little extra help.
Dope makes you stupid, dope makes you giggle, it makes you DEPRESSED, it will even help with a lack of apetite,
it makes you dumb as a brick, but it does NOTHING AT ALL for pain.
Time after time, study after study, hospital after hospital,
people with REAL pain say BS!
I survived that illnes, and the pain that came with it, too bad this "dope helps pain" BS lingers on.