We already have drugs that do that. And since when do hospitals allow smoking?
Home grown or street marijuana may contain salmonella bacteria and/or aspergillus fungus -- unpleasant for a healthy person, but deadly to an immunosuppressed patient on chemo.
"What’s wrong with alleviating symptoms with an inexpensive remedy?"
I believe I just answered that question.
"Sometimes the old ways are still very relevant, but don’t pull in the big profits."
Then don't complain that there's no medical marijuana research going on -- the pharmaceuticals also realize that any marijuana discovery they make will simply play into the hands of those who want to smoke it, not take a pill.
You wouldn’t by chance work for the pharmaceutical industry, would you?
Just asking. First of all, most chemo is done on an out patient basis. Second, homegrown anything is suspectable to mold and toxins, but I’d rather grow my own spinach after what happened recently. In fact, I have a chub of Moran hamburger in my freezer that I plan to return, even though the date is slightly more recent that the recall dates.
Don’t be disingenious about bugs being dangerous to people with supressed immune systems. Hospitals and care facilities (and apparently jails)are hotbeds for things like MRSA. Who are in these facilities? Sick people, that’s who. Oh, by the way, marijuana hasn’t been shown to affect the liver and a few other organs, unlike some of the magical potions from drug companies.
I don’t smoke pot. If it were legal, I would for pain and nausea. To be honest, I did take a couple of hits several Christmases ago, so I could stand for 6 hours and cook a huge feast for my dear children. /s (except for a couple of them)
Now that we have hopefully gotten marijuana done, how about Milk Thistle extract (liver function), St. John’s Wort(natural antidepressant), echinacea (colds, etc), and a few others? They don’t feed the damn lawyers, that’s for sure.
Bottom line, the Lord put these substances on this earth for a good reason, although I can’t come up with one for magic mushrooms. Can you imagine going through surgery, or controlling post surgery pain, without opium deriviates?
Did you know people have been known to abuse opium deriviates? It’s called Heroin :( Cocaine also has its legitimate uses, one being that the native Peruvians chewed the leaves to deal with the high altitude? It’s also used in surgeries, or at least used to be.
If you feel the need to freak out over marijuana, I’ll give you a much better target: Meth. It not only kills the user, it turns the user in a psychopath first. There is nothing remotely natural about Meth. Meth is garbage cooked down into a lethal concoction, and apparently it will hook you quick. Meth users will steal the paint off your picket fence. We just had tools come up missing from the garage. We know who did it, but we can’t prove it. B@stard had the nerve to come up to borrow the phone soon after. Told my son he came over to see if we knew. We know. We moved all the way up here to keep away from these zombies, but they’re everywhere living with enabling relatives. So if you want to yell and scream, think about drugs like meth.
Have a great evening :)