Medical marijuana isn’t a joke...once again, it is the government handling of the issue that’s a joke.
I worked for the police, my son is in the police, and I have ‘experience’ in this area.
The police all say they have never broken up a domestic disturbance of potheads.
In moderation I think the effects are sometimes even beneficial. Too much, though, CAN BE A SERIOUS PROBLEM
I have not smoked it in 20 years- my job tests for it and it is not allowed. If it was legal I might indulge, but I don’t think the criminalization of it has helped anyone.
feel free to disagree, i don’t mind. The usual response though is “oh yeah go smoke a rope dummy pothead”
legalize marijuana NOW!!! Tax the hell out of it, and move on. I had rather run across a stoner than a drunk, any day...
Truly one of the silliest articles on the subject to have been posted to FR . . .
I think some people genuinely get relief from marijuana that they were unable to find in other (conventional) drugs. But I KNOW that “medical marijuana” is HUGELY abused as a loophole by people who simply want to get high.
Pay the exam fee and your radical 60’s physician will prescribe it for your hangnail.
Decriminalize? I can live with that. Legalize? No; it will only serve to increase the number of non or semi-functional individuals needing care from the public dole.
...meets the not-so-laughable scam that is called the War on Drugs.
I have a sensory disorder and medical MJ was one of the few things that helped.
When I looked at the side effects of legal drugs(addiction, death!) compared to side effects of MJ(being hungry, laughing, forgetting), it’s a no brainier. Legalize and stop politicians in the pockets of big pharma.
Any thing that reduces or eliminates the war on drugs is okay by me.
I am just eagerly waiting to hear about “gasheads” people who commute several hours a day in fuel guzzlers and are giving up the basic needs like meat to pay the cost of fuel.
Soon we will see emaciated drivers behind the wheels of the tuna boats, we will see ads on Craigslist of parents selling children for gas, we will be seeing new individual owners starting their own car pools like the trophy wives in the oversized SUVs, I can just see them parked in groups near Walmarts tossing catcalls of a suggestive nature at passing commuters to “ride” with them all in a similar fashion to streetwalkers on a busy street.
And a new snob society will be borne, status now is not being able to just buy an expensive car or SUV, its how much or rather how less fuel the car needs, pure electric are now at the top of the list. The lowly much taunted Prius is now the school yard bully, the Hummer crowds cower in fear or lie gasping for fuel alongside the road.
This calls to mind a tale from my youth. A long-serving deacon in the Baptist church I attended as a child, in rural North Carolina, in the early 80’s, was busted for growing pot in his basement. Here was a pillar of the community who had raised an upstanding family, had multiple grandchildren, was active in the community, a member of the PTA, and never had a criminal record. It turned out that the drug was strictly for his personal use to combat the effects of debilitating chronic bursitis, so that he could play a weekly round of golf at the local country club. Apparently, there was never a prescribed drug that could alleviate the pain of his affliction. I know very little about the marijuana and it’s supposed benefits, but I do believe that it’s a little naive to stereotype the people who claim that there is potential good in the plant as junkies. I don’t know whether it was the associated embarrassment or his health, but after the incident he relieved himself of his duties as a deacon.
I once knew a lady with cancer, who when she went to the oncology specialist, everybody there, doctors, nurses and patients, all chatted about “The ‘M’ word”.
From their perspective, marijuana gave cancer patients six months to a year longer to fight. Time critical to their struggle, which may mean at least a chance for life.
It did give her six months, and she still lost. But it was six more months she wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Medical marijuana is not a scam. It is good for some things
But the medical marijuana industry is a scam largely.....it’s turned into a way to cop dope legally and grow it legally for large profits
and the DEA’s obsession with it is a scam too....a scam of undue attention on something RELATIVELY harmless...compared to hard drugs or even to a degree hard drinking.
I'd rather be able to run to the local tobacco/MJ shop and buy a pack of joints, of the type I like, than grow, harvest, dry, and prepare my own.
I'd rather pay the tax and have the grunt work done for me.
Why are we spending trillions to keep self destructive morons from giving Darwin his due?
Wow! This chick is a real C.U. Next Tuesday. Not only is she an idiot on this, I looked at some of her other articles and she’s also a gun-grabber and ChiCom apologist. SOP for drug warriors.