Posted on 05/31/2013 11:50:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Old Man Bloomberg ignored the opinions of medical professionals and various other data today on his weekly radio address to deem any non-recreational use of the nation's favorite herb fake. "Yeah, right, medical, come on," he said. "There's no medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time." While the mayor famously said, "You bet I did. And I enjoyed it," when asked if he'd ever smoked weed, he insisted, "I don't have any personal experience in terms of today," before reverting to his recycled talking points like, "marijuana is much stronger today than it was 20 or 30 years ago" and "If [drug dealers] can't sell marijuana, they'll sell something else."
“Do you really want the government to become a drug dealer?”
Become? They already are. I pay more to various governments for my cigarettes than I do to the tobacco companies.
Exactly. My first thought was about the blind sow finding an acorn.
What is available instead is not so great for terminal patients, with numerous side effects that are very unpleasant. Who cares if a dying person cannot drive? They're not going to drive anyway.
I’ll take “none of the above”, thank you. I don’t need left-wing authoritarians telling me how big my soda can be, and I don’t need right-wing authoritarians telling me which plant I can possess or smoke.
...a most salient post indeed, right on the money...
Like all drugs there are warnings about side effects. No psych text (so far) that I have studied recommends the use of marijuana because the shrinks know what they would have to say in speed reading at the end of the commercial.
The Mayor is never correct and can leave for hell now.
I’m sure he does believe in taxing it at say 35% though.
From what I have observed, first hand, in Colorado, Medical Marijuana is most definitely a hoax.
Amen, brother. Weed saved my life (quite literally) during chemo and radiation treatments for colon cancer. It allowed me to drink water without puking and even eat a little here and there.
I tried every other nausea med and even the synthetic Marinol, and nothing worked like a few puffs of marijuana.
I would have died from dehydration way before the cancer killed me. Before I tried the weed, they put me in the hospital so I could get fluids 24/7. I got infections just from being there, and I knew I had to get out of there. When I talked my doc into letting me go home, I thought it was the end. Then someone brought over some weed and everything changed.
I don't wish it on anyone because it is a living hell, but if you or anyone you know is going through cancer treatments, get some weed and a pipe any way you can. The relief is nearly instant.
It is true that there are people who just want to use it for fun, but if you ever find yourself about to die a miserable death because you are puking dozens of times a day, you will realize there is a place for it.
4 years cancer free, btw.
He also feels that California set back the medical community by allowing for sham operations like the ones in Venice Beach to sell to anyone that walks in and complains of any type of pain. He said no one has ever died from smoking pot, but people have died from taking Marinol (synthetic THC).
Bless you Semper911!! My Mom finds relief from her chronic pain by ingesting it, occasionally (especially when she can’t get any more pain killers, for fear of her becoming addicted, at 78, WHO CARES?). Whatever I can do to help her, I will. Screw the feds. IT DOES WORK, all the naysayers can go suck an egg.
Do you agree that states should make decisions regarding intrastate marijuana regulation, per the Tenth Amendment?
Marinol did nothing. A few puffs on a pipe and she felt hungry in about twenty minutes. She’d eat pretty well, fall asleep and sleep well. It wasn’t recreational but it was a break from a regemin of nausea.
Yes, but with a major reservation.
We currently have Democratic-controlled welfare states who live off of the wealth of other states via constitutionally indefensible federal welfare. It is not fair for such states to encourage welfare recipient citizens to smoke pot all day and vote for Democrats while having other states pay for their food and shelter via such welfare.
So the states can grow anything they want to under their 10th Amendment protections after we lose federal welfare.
The actual marijuana smoke gave an almost instant wave of relief to my stomach/intestines that I will never forget. I didn't like the high feeling it also gives, but all drugs have side effects, and getting high was a small price to pay for being able to stop puking up yellow goo every 20 minutes around the clock.
I don't worry about the whole medical marijuana issue, because I know it will always be around and I will always be able to get it if I need it. I have cop friends who say not to worry about it because they don't bust cancer patients, and no DA would ever try to prosecute one. All my doctors knew I was using it and said it helped their patients who tried it.
You wouldn't believe how many different meds I took that were supposed to help with nausea. Some were so expensive they had to call my insurance to get special permission for them to pay for it. And not one of them did a damn thing. So for the medical marijuana debate, follow the money and you'll see why the cancer clinics aren't allowed to give it to their patients.
God bless you for helping her, and so glad she has the good sense to use it if it helps her. Many seniors wouldn't dream of smoking a bowl because that is "doing drugs", but have fully-stocked arsenals of narcotics they take without a second thought.
You are right that it does work. Too bad the stoners have ruined it for the people who could really benefit from it.
Seems like they could make an inhaler type thing with tincture in it (like e-cigs) and make them available by prescription. What a lifesaver that would be for so many people. But if I need it again I'll just buy it from the creepy guy down the street (or the hairdresser, or the landscaping dudes, or whomever), and problem solved. No prescription needed.
IOW, "no".
May I suggest a change in screen name to an amendment that you will support without "major reservations"?
As far as I know, Marinol does little to help with nausea, but 10 to 15 MG a day significantly helps with appetite. That is if the patient can cope with the psychological effects of the drug, which can be very debilitating.
Throw it in a Cuisinart with butter and garlic, saute it up, let it cool, put it into tubs with lids and keep it in the fridge, for nausea, glaucoma or other medical conditions that can benefit. Eat the herb butter on a baked potato, smeared onto hot toast, etc.
A good friend’s father had an intestinal cancer, the nausea from treatment and wasting from the diease itself nearly killed him. That gave him a measure of comfort, quelled the nausea, halted the wasting. He was very opposed at first but the relief was undeniable so he ran with it. Going this route is a lot less surreptitious and druggie-feeling than smoking. Sort of similar to oregano, so anything that uses oregano or works with it.
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