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.
No, personal observation of addicts.
Because she can have her doc prescribe marinol
Also if you look at the states that have medical marijuana laws they are a joke. Dispensaries would have a doc on site to write a scrip for anyone.
You cannot buy morphine on the street. It is still prescribed. There is a prescription available called marinol.
Lets walk down the OP’s story (the newbie member who posted his own blog btw).
Grandma lost her appetite, doc prescribes marijuana in Tennessee, it works...but alas she couldn’t get the prescription filled in a neighboring state’s pharmacy.
So gosh darnit, medical marijuana should be expanded from 28 to 50 states. Heroine is legal as medicine so why not marijuana.
1. Medical marijuana in Tennessee is extremely rare, only for seizures, and administered in a doctor’s office.
2. When confronted with this, the OP’s story changed to it being a liquid...the oncologist only jokingly called it marijuana...he thinks it was synthetic marijuana.
3. If true, the synthetic marijuana could have been picked up at any pharmacy in any state - no explanation.
4. And if grandma was taking synthetic marijuana, then the screed about heroine vs marijuana makes zero sense - because they are exactly alike, in that they are both legal medicines in synthetic form, in all states.
Because if the synthetic helped her when she was so weak and, basically, we were losing her, then legalizing pure marijuana for medical purposes makes sense to me because the synthetic is still a cannabinoid based on cannibas and, according to what I’ve read, the synthetic has more risk and side effects.
The observation is simply that if it is helpful for helping cancer patients with their appetites - and it is or else a synthetic wouldn’t have been developed for it in the first place - then why not legalize it for medical use?
No money in it??
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I remember back in the 80s an oz. was about $60-75.
Check these out. Colorado
Denver, Colorado $1000 an ounce high quality December 14, 2016
Colorado Springs, $250 an ounce high quality December 12, 2016
Aurora, Colorado $70 a half ounce high quality December 8, 2016
Boulder, Colorado $10 a gram medium quality December 7, 2016
Brighton, Colorado $75 a quarter medium quality December 4, 2016
Fort Collins, $20 an eighth high quality December 4, 2016
Englewood, Colorado $10 a gram medium quality December 3, 2016
Boulder, Colorado $30 an eighth high quality December 2, 2016
Sterling, Colorado $1000 an ounce high quality November 30, 2016
Trinidad, Colorado $84 an ounce high quality November 30, 2016
Castle Rock, Co $300 an ounce medium quality November 30, 2016
Colorado Springs, $170 an ounce high quality November 30, 2016
Aurora, Colorado $25 an eighth high quality November 29, 2016
Montrose, Colorado $150 an ounce medium quality November 28, 2016
Colorado Springs, $200 an ounce medium quality November 27, 2016
Wow, Had no idea the stuff was that expensive.
Your OP was intended to give people the impression your grandma took natural marijuana...and I believe that is exactly the impression you wanted to give.
But accepting the revised story, let me work on a caveat/disclaimer for the OP:
-Although this story is meant to promote legalization of medicinal marijuana, this story has nothing to do with that, and I have no first hand accounts of how well that may or may not have worked. Rather, my story contradicts the entire legalization movement, and describes how a synthetic version of marijuana was very effective-
When I stopped using it, in 1977, it was $10 a lid. I believe that was an ounce.
And you could plant the seeds. At one point I had 30 plants from seeds GIVEN to me by other guys. I only bought a lid one time. I never sold it though and really didn’t use it much.
I quit dope because It made me feel paranoid. I wasn’t even a Christian yet and I just quit cold turkey. It was as hard as quitting sticking your finger on a hot stove burner.
Someone was praying for me.
One would think that with such a prescription, when travelling to another state, one might type a few words into a search engine.
You know.. try to find out info on availability and such like.
I think people actually look up info like that, even for prescriptions in their own town.
20% of America uses recreational drugs destabilising Mexico and helping finance terror.
It was my mother, not my grandma.
I never said it was anything but a liquid.
The only part that “changed” was that I said it could have been synthetic marijuana. Then I added that the oncologist called it marijuana. He joked with us in his office that mom would get “the munchies.”
The pharmacist in her state refused to refill it.
That’s it.
My point is simply that there are legal forms of heroin because they are helpful and that, because of that, I ask why certain states don’t legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes because it is helpful.
The plant prevents spiritual blindness???? There are probably millions of pot smoking libtards who absolutely HATE conservatives, many of which also openly mock Christians, and you’re saying all the pot they smoke keeps them from going spiritually blind? They must be doing it wrong.
I live in the heart of Cornbread Mafia territory. You should hear the stories. I was actually in a band with members that were in the band that played for a lot of those guys’ parties.
We get a lot of DEA flights over our acreage.
i.e. marijuana is also a domestic product. Still.
Again, I think it is stupid to use it recreationally, but I’d rather see it legalized and turned into a domestic crop, which would be really easy in a lot of this country.
She was coming back to stay with me for her next round of chemo in a couple of days, so it wasn’t urgent. The doctor had told us the effects linger. So we picked it up a couple of days later when she came.
“The only part that “changed” was that I said it could have been synthetic marijuana”
Not a minor change.
According to the interview here with someone from the Drug Enforcement Administration (http://huffpost.com/us/entry/3908171), synthetic marijuana is still, technically, marijuana.
Question: So are synthetic cannabinoids/synthetic marijuana technically even marijuana?
Yes it is. And I know some people get upset about that wording — but it’s because it mimics THC. It’s a cannabinoid, but it’s hard to say that so they’ll call it “spice” or “synthetic marijuana” so it makes it a little easier to differentiate between what’s spice and what’s bath salts. Just like [bath salts] would be like a synthetic cocaine. It mimics the attributes of THC, that’s why it’s called that.
Maybe because the states are independent entities and get to decide for themselves.
Maybe because the states are independent entities and get to decide for themselves.
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Maybe because so many have been misled for a long time. I’ve known far more people that have had alcohol and legal prescription problems than with pot.
You are all over the map. The story you cited refers to a class of synthetic STREET DRUGS, which are manufactured to circumvent sometimes overly-specific drug laws.
This has ZERO relevance to the synthetic marijuana prescribe by doctors (other than, like with other drugs, if you possess it without a prescription, it is considered illegal).
According to its makers, Marinol CAN get you high: "You should not smoke marijuana while using MARINOL Capsules. It is possible to get too much dronabinol (an overdose), especially if you use MARINOL Capsules and smoke marijuana at the same time. Signs of a mild overdose would include drowsiness, euphoria , heightened sensory awareness, altered time perception, red eyes, dry mouth and rapid heart rate (tachycardia)." (http://www.rxabbvie.com/pdf/marinol_PIL.pdf)
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