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(It's Come to This ...) Vet Wants to Legalize Pot for Dogs
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| 05 April 2013
| Tanya Lewis
Posted on 04/06/2013 6:31:05 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Vet Wants to Legalize Pot for Dogs
Polls show the majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, but should dogs have it too? It sounds crackpot, but Veterinarian Doug Kramer thinks that the THC in marijuana could help dogs and other pets with painful conditions that don't respond to other treatments. VICE chatted with Kramer about his pot-for-pets campaign.
"A client first brought it to my attention," Kramer told VICE. "She had a pet that was not responding well to any of the pain medications or the steroids that we were giving it, and she wanted to talk about getting medical marijuana."
Some vets dismissed the idea, but Kramer was open to trying it.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: canine; cannibis; dog; doggieping; dogs; dopeydog; k9; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; napl; pot; smokingdog; thc; veterinarian
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To: laplata
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posted on
04/06/2013 7:23:35 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: Viennacon
Why would that matter? It’s probably cheaper.
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posted on
04/06/2013 7:24:12 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: DogByte6RER
23
posted on
04/06/2013 7:25:26 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: stuartcr
And to ease nausia brought on by chemotheropy.
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posted on
04/06/2013 7:26:25 PM PDT
by
laplata
(The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
To: Viennacon
I’m not buying it for a moment..
To: ican'tbelieveit
Dogs do well on Benadryl.
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posted on
04/06/2013 7:27:09 PM PDT
by
tob2
(I may not be perfect but I'm always me)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Pill form of pot sounds great for people like me who get sick when inhaling second hand smoke from the plant.
27
posted on
04/06/2013 7:30:22 PM PDT
by
tob2
(I may not be perfect but I'm always me)
To: laplata
yes...after all, it’s a natural medicine, not man-made
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posted on
04/06/2013 7:31:06 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: stuartcr
29
posted on
04/06/2013 7:37:53 PM PDT
by
laplata
(The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
To: DogByte6RER
My Yorkie drinks with me. When I make an alcoholic drink, she gets excitied waiting for her part - which is my finger dipped in the good stuff and she gets to lick it off my finger. One finger licking is her limit. I have wondered how a drunk dog would be but I wouldn’t try that with her. She is small and one finger is all she’s going to get.
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posted on
04/06/2013 8:01:48 PM PDT
by
Marcella
(Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
To: DogByte6RER; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Doc, time to lay off the Ketamine, 'kay?
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posted on
04/06/2013 8:11:30 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: DogByte6RER
My dog has no money. He can’t afford pot. Besides..it’s illegal. He would not survive in prison. He really likes his Dog Whisperer episodes and Pupperoni.
I am suspicious of the cat. Her eyes often seem a little dialated and she sometimes acts eractically.
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posted on
04/06/2013 8:15:23 PM PDT
by
berdie
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
04/06/2013 8:17:10 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: blam; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
04/06/2013 8:54:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
“If you take in a poor, sick, starving dog. Feed him, heal him, and help him prosper, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain
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posted on
04/06/2013 9:00:56 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: DogByte6RER
“Honest Officer, it’s a dog bone....”
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posted on
04/06/2013 9:12:41 PM PDT
by
Stormdog
(A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
To: DogByte6RER
Well, why not? They don’t drive.
To: DogByte6RER
From another recent FR article:
...a majority of the American people Taking Our Temperature
...”Progressive talking heads, including President Obama, recently adopted the idiom a majority of the American people in order to misrepresent public sentiment concerning their radical positions; suffice it to say that, in these cases, the truth has been quite the opposite.”
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posted on
04/06/2013 9:48:05 PM PDT
by
STYRO
(War sucks. Living in slavery sucks even worse.)
To: DogByte6RER
This proposal is Cool”! “ Hey, cop, that’s not my stash — its Fido’s!”
To: tob2
Wish it would have helped my poor guys. We did go through all kinds of testing with one of them, literally everything makes him itch, dust, dust mites, grass, trees, mold, think he had 22 allergens.
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