Posted on 12/16/2016 9:39:59 AM PST by rhett october
When my mother struggled with cancer, her appetite dropped to nothing. In my state, medical marijuana is legal, so the doctor prescribed it to help her appetite.
To say it worked would be an understatement. Within a couple of days she was eating normal amounts and felt hunger for the first time in a week. With the drug, she was able to maintain her weight and strength.
She stayed with me during her treatment but went home to dad some as well. On one of her trips home to dad, she ran out of the medical marijuana and went to a local pharmacy to have the prescription refilled. She said the pharmacist had an odd look on his face and asked if her local doctor prescribed this for her. She explained to him that she was seeing an oncologist in my state.
The pharmacist told her that medical marijuana wasn’t legal in her state and that she’d need to go back to my state to get the prescription refilled.
What struck me as so silly about that was that there are legal forms of drugs that are much more extreme and addictive such as morphine and OxyContin which are medicinal heroin. Marijuana is not even considered to be an addictive drug and the results of using it, even recreationally, are really pretty mild compared to other drugs. So why would my mom’s state allow medical heroin but not medical marijuana?
There are conspiracy theories told by wide-eyed potheads that aren’t worth spreading, but there is one conspiracy-sounding story that seems to be reasonable.
The story says that marijuana can be made into paper more efficiently than trees. And this was discovered back in the early days of big-logging. For the owners of logging companies, this was terrible news because it meant that companies who developed paper would buy from marijuana growers instead of buying logged trees.
So the wealthy loggers went to politicians and convinced them that marijuana was a drug that was worse than alcohol and made people crazy. Therefore, growing the plant should be illegal. They might have also bribed the politicians. Either way, the story says that the logging companies convinced lawmakers to outlaw their competition.
Then there’s the theory that says it’s because of THC, the mind-altering ingredient in the marijuana plant. It’s what creates the buzz. According to some, the THC is used to expand your mind to levels of enlightenment – spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. Government elites don’t want us peasants to expand our minds, or so goes the theory. I can’t say it makes sense to me.
As best I can tell, the conventional reason is that it’s a mind altering substance that is viewed as a gateway drug. And because it’s been illegal for so long, it seems like it’s chiseled in stone. But in terms of having medicinal value, I can tell you from what I witnessed with my mom, it most certainly is helpful. The United States has other drugs that are legal for medicinal uses and I think marijuana should make that list.
There are currently 28 states that have legalized medical marijuana and more will follow because it just makes sense.
Why is Medical Marijuana Not Legal In Every State?
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Because Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac, Xanax is more profitable?
“she ran out of the medical marijuana and went to a local pharmacy”
What am I missing here...even in medical mary jane states, you don’t pick it up at a pharmacy...so why would she even go there?
They also made CBD schedule I recently. Which does not get you high at all, is not addictive in any way and has shown evidence in trials worldwide that it actively kills cancer cells
Yet they can legally sell overpriced synthetic heroin to children. Subsidized by our tax dollars!
It’s not even veiled anymore. This is blatant corruption for pharma profits!
Because you can get Marinol, the drug that improves appetite, as a prescription without the “high” of marijuana.
Because we have good painkillers that don’t necessarily render someone unable to contribute to society.
I am well aware of the effective use of medical marijuana for glaucoma and for cancer, and in those instances I mostly approve. I am also aware that the overwhelming majority of “medical” marijuana prescriptions are written for nonsense. I imagine the restrictions on its availability are because of the large number of druggies who refer each other to the easy physician who writes that prescription to anyone who pays.
I don’t know the right answer on this question, but I see both sides. My instincts are toward less government (meaning no restrictions on that drug), but I see far more people who are hurt by drugs, including marijuana, than I see helped by them.
IMO, as someone who began using cannabis in early 2015 as medicine & experienced a huge improvement in my quality of life, cannabis should be legal to use as medicine in all 50 states if the states wish to make it so.
I hope President Trump will see to it that the DEA takes cannabis off the federal schedule list. Let states decide the issue.
Why is Medical Marijuana Not Legal In Every State?
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The fact of the matter is that MJ does have legitimate medical uses, such as the one you described, and MJ can also be abused like many other drugs.
Whether or not a person uses a drug responsibly or becomes a drug addict by abusing a drug is a matter of individual choice.
Each of us is the ultimate guardian of our own body. We only get one. We should cherish it and use it wisely.
sorry- was this article about your mom? If so- please disregard my comment- it was in bad taste- didn’t realize the article was about your mom-
“Because we have good painkillers that don’t necessarily render someone unable to contribute to society.”
Cannabis can be used as medicine without rendering someone unable to contribute to society. I know 1st hand this is so.
Maybe the other states don’t have witch doctors prescribing herbal remedies.
Only MDs pushing industrial remedies.
Because there are oral medications with the active ingredient of marijuana that are just as effective.
Simple.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
Bingo!
exactly- and there are powerful anti-nausea drugs that help with sickness-
The short answer is that it is a matter subject to state, rather than federal laws. And each state has different laws on the subject.
Answer:
Where does most of FDA funding come from? Big Pharma.
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