REEFER MADNESS!!!
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.
“Because we have good painkillers that don’t necessarily render someone unable to contribute to society.”
I’m pretty sure medical marijuana won’t stop granny from “contributing to society”. Heck, she might even double up the amount of cookies she brings to the next church bake sale.
It should not be legal. Why turn people or especially kids into drug brained dependents?
Keep in mind 20% of Americans are recreational drug users and that 20% keeps the Mexican drug cartels and Isis financed.
If the want to rehab from drugs the going success rate is 3%.
Agree that it should be available for those who would actually benefit medically. The trouble is that most of the “outlets” aren’t properly controlled and it’s become an avenue for recreational users. There’s also medical grade cocaine that is tightly controlled. I guess they wanted it available w/o the “medical grade/controlled” costs that always go with anything the government gets its hands around and made it too easy for folks who just wanted the high to get hold of. Since TCH isn’t the ingredient that makes it “medical in nature”, and it’s benefits can be effected with low content of THC, they could stop the abuse by using very low THC content but instead have boosted the THC to previously unheard of content.
Wow, do you work for a drug company?
“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.”
If it’s cheaper, then great.
But if a personal hangup about pot is going to artificially remove competition for this other medicine, so that whomever makes it can jack up the price into the stratosphere, then that’s not going to work.
Because in the end, if a person is that sick to need this alternative, then I’m not seeing them as someone that is going to be out working a job anywhere anyway.
My guess is that this newbie blog pimper snuck into her stash.
Does your mom take a drug called marinol or simply smoke pot as her “treatment?”
Well we always picked it up at the Pharmacy. The Publix one and a chain. That was in Tennessee.
“It should not be legal. Why turn people or especially kids into drug brained dependents?”
Yet we scream at the left for going after cigars and cigarettes, and laugh at Prohibition?
It’s Marijuana, not cocaine.
“Why is Medical Marijuana Not Legal In Every State?”
Because it creates more problems than it is said to solve?
The states are known in civics class as “laboratories of democracy”. One or more states can undertake an unorthodox course of action while all the others can observe and judge the results.
Works here, IMO.
Another reason:
ATF demands their funding for their pay raises, pensions, job security, etc.
There is no way they want marijuana legalized for any purposes. It’s job security to them.
“Because there are oral medications with the active ingredient of marijuana that are just as effective.”
Marijuana has more than one active ingredient though.
Do you think everyone prescribed MJ smoke it? Most do take it in another form, but it still has to be legalized.
Because there are legal drugs that are more effective safer then smoking pot. And because the “medicall marijuana” movement was all about getting the camel’s nose under the tent so that smoking pot by stoners could be legal.
Really glad it helped your mom, no one wants to see their mom suffer. I have heard that it was cotton farmers who got it classified as a schedule one drug because of fear of competition. Have no idea if that’s true. A real pothead did tell me that....so who knows!? I don’t use it, but I think it is ridiculous that it’s not legal everywhere.
This was something she drank. She said it was nasty. It only took about a tea spoon’s worth and in about two days she had an appetite.
“Faster, play faster! Play faster, come on, play faster!!”
Smoking anything is idiotic. Medical brownies possibly.
The plant prevents blindness, physical, and spiritual.
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