Posted on 11/11/2015 11:22:02 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
Medical Marijuana=Gay civil unions
Backdoor legalization, the endgame is Cheech and Chong.
“Sometimes there are not “other things†to relieve pain, and in point of fact, “pain management†is one of the medical travesties of our time. The fact is, the medical profession has not done a decent job of understanding and successfully treating pain.”
Agree wholeheartedly.
I will also add that I don’t have a problem with someone with cancer smoking marijuana if it gives them any relief.
My problem is that in California MM is basically a way of people getting it for recreational use. The shops are sleezy, and the product is unreliable.
I’d rather it be dispensed like other meds. Of course getting drugs approved by the FDA is a whole other mess.
You mean the guy who started this thread, Einstein?
Have anything to say about the issue at hand, or just here to be the peanut gallery again?
Many medicines have negative side effects - should they all be banned?
Stoners going to "clinics", getting pot and sitting around smoking pot are not medicating.
How is that relevant to your original point about the risk of respiratory disease?
Since young people report that they can get pot more easily than beer or cigarettes, it seems that the best way to keep pot out of their hands is to legalize it for adults; sellers of legal drugs typically card minors, whereas sellers of illegal drugs never do.
Qualifications for employment? Professional licensing?
Matters for employers and licensers, not government.
That's why nobody smokes pot, right? ROTFL!
“Lyrica did nothing...zero...zip for me.
The only relief I got was from Norco and I damn well know how it can make one feel.
So, seriously, how does one abuse Lyrica?”
Everyone reacts differently to different drugs. I was on Neurontin for 4 years and it kept getting less effective until I was up to 1200mg 3x a day. I talked to a couple of people who were on less than 100mg a day (TOTAL) and they said they couldn’t function.
Lyrica for me basically feels like I’ve had about 3 beers in rapid succession. Being someone that has about 3 beers a year, each separated by several months, means I feel rather tipsy. Taking several Lyrica at once would amplify that.
The propensity for abuse is the reason the pharmacy has to check your id and log it when it’s purchased. I can’t see that I’d abuse it but then I’ve never tried drinking cough syrup for the side effects either but some people do.
So even though you’ve been told not to ping us, you continue to stalk and ping us Einstein?
2014 signup. Troll.
Obviously the potheads of America figured out that shoving medical marijuana bills past state legislatures was the best way to get pot legalized state by state. Marijuana, the drug that gradually makes you an idiot. Pot and other drugs are a big factor in giving us more tax sucking losers and parasites
Maybe I should just bow out and let both of you discuss...
Frankly, I have no position in this, other than the obvious. I think it should be illegal
I don't have any problem making it illegal. I have serious problems with the idea that embracing the New Deal "substantial effects" interpretation of the Commerce Clause in order to make it a federal issue is worth the collateral damage.
Not familiar with the issue...Is not illegal enough?
Just thinking briefly about this, I don’t understand why commerce would even be a issue with a drug that simply needs to be put on the class or schedule whatever list...which I assume it is...
If the problem is the smokable form, them maybe they should just allow that form of the substance and dispense it through the normal pharmacy distribution network with a doctor prescription.
Then get rid of all this medial MJ nonsense. and laws like Colorado’s which is just plain nuts.. After which you have a legal pharmaceutical the is regulated the same way as Oxycontin. Thus it would still be illegal to grow, but they will still do it, however it will be readily available via prescription.
That’s the only answer to this mess...But I don’t use the stuff...smoked it when I was a 60s hippy wanna-bee, but I note that todays MJ is nothing like the weak pot, we had back then. This new stuff is closer to a good hashish. Had a smoke a few years ago, it almost made me unconscious. It needs to be regulated.
The question is, by who and on what authority.
FDA
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