Posted on 11/05/2018 9:04:56 AM PST by billorites
Citizens in four states vote Tuesday on ballot initiatives to legalize some form of cannabis. Residents of Missouri and Utah will decide on its medical availability, Michigan and North Dakota on recreational consumption for adults. If all four measures pass, the tally of states that allow some sort of cannabis use will jump to 32, nearly two-thirds of the U.S.
The trend could not be clearer: Cannabis prohibition is coming to an end. A Gallup poll last month found 66% of Americans favor legal marijuana.
I am now one of those Americans. It began when a friend of mine who suffered from chronic back pain found relief using medical cannabis. Intrigued, I looked deeper into the uses of marijuana. I learned that in April the Food and Drug Administration approved medication called Epidiolex, which can reduce the number of seizures epileptic children have to endure. It contains only nonpsychoactive components of cannabis plants.
Marijuana is helping people across the country. Since joining the board of cannabis operator Acreage Holdings this past spring, I’ve spoken with countless senior citizens, baby boomers and millennials about their experiences medicating with cannabis to thwart the rigors of chemotherapy, ease muscle pain, relieve anxiety and more. Convinced as I am by mounting scientific and anecdotal evidence, what resonates most with me is that one by one, our states have spoken.
Until cannabis is legalized federally, Washington needs to respect states’ rights to regulate it within their borders. The 10th Amendment clearly protects states’ prerogative to do so, and we must not allow the federal nanny state to dictate otherwise. The bipartisan Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act, introduced in the House and Senate in June, is a step in the right direction. It would let states make their own decisions about the possession,
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Thousands are killed every year from people who have been drinking before getting behind the wheel.
I don't think potheads are killing people in near the numbers that legal drunks are.
I think you’re talking to the wrong crowd here. They never blame the gun for murdering thugs but look how fast they jump on a relatively harmless drug. They sound like liberals “help us Big Government” to save us from this evil. It should be lock up any criminal who just happens to be using pot when they are committing a crime and then wants to blame the drug instead of the choices they made.
Pot is NOT legal in my state, and I hope it never is.
If it does become legal they had better abolish the random drunk driving checkpoints because I am not going to have my travel rights violated while other drivers who imbibed on an undetectable substance are free to wreck havoc.
They had also better end the tedious government harassment of people who smoke legal tobacco.
Lobby for pot legalization if you like. Just don’t pretend that it won’t have an impact on automobile safety stats.
Yes let’s prohibit alcohol now totally, with prison sentences for anyone who uses the stuff.
I actually don't have a dog in this hunt about legalizing marijuana. I don't care one way of the other.
Making it illegal doesn't mean people won't buy pot and smoke it.
I buy my pot on the black market like I always have. Nothing the politicians and government does will affect my use.
I just returned from a 2-month road trip to Arizona to visit friends and family and to sell a house I own there.
Everyone I know there who smokes, now has a $300 medical pot card and buys it legally at the legal dispensaries. It's basically the same price as I pay on the "illegal" market in rural Florida.
The notion that if the government keeps pot illegal, will keep people from smoking it is ridiculous and naive. It won't change my situation at all.
It is what he is doing to get paid these days.
You have my best wishes. But, from my life experience and observations of 61 years you would be a very rare exception to obvious mental impairment.
As I said, wish you the best.
This is the perfect tenth endment case. Just let States take care of it. Fed involvement should just be for interstate issues and banning foreign imports.
I don’t have a dog in this hunt either. I don’t smoke it but have friends that do (and some for medical and some for recreational purposes). I think the whole thing is ridiculous. Smoking cigarettes and liquor is worse but they’re legal. With so many chemicals in our diet and homes it would be impossible to pinpoint someones memory loss or brain cognizance issues with pot. My mother has signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s and eats a very healthy diet her whole life and never smoked or drank. I don’t think a little pot would help/hurt her in any way.
>>Just another unintended consequence of politicians wanting money.<<
>>More like pandering for votes from the mind numbed potheads.<<
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Except that it is not true. Until VT legalized early this year, all legalization has been by ballot. Prohibitionists are on the side of the politicians. Politicians are way out of step with he people on this issue.
I favor not using anything that impairs, and decriminalizing plants not legalization.
Know people alive today because of medical cannabis oil. Medical Cannabis Oil kills cancer if you take right kind and enough of it, half measures are a waste and do not kill cancer.
If you have severe pain use cannabis suppositories with moderate to high THC content. It bypasses the liver so no psychoactiveness (no high) and kills pain amazingly and is most effective anti-inflammatory there is and lasts longer than taking oil orally or smoking it.
A few drops of medical FECO oil under tongue will also kill pain and loosen your joints up so you will feel like you can run a marathon but you will get high. Take crushed black pepper corns (not grey or white) in veggie capsules half hour before taking oil orally, that will lessen psychoactiveness but you will still get high. Some people stomaches cannot handle black though. Your tolerance level for THC will change as you use it regularly and you will experience less and less psychoactiveness.
High strength organic Hemp CBD oil (no THC and at least 600mg CBD) has long list of health benefits if taken daily . Not Hemp seed oil but Hemp plant material oil (bud and leaf). Takes months to see most benefits, but I saw real good improvement in my breathing after a week. Great for anxiety, and as a safe effective anti-seizure medication, and cancer preventative among other health benefits.
Both high strength Hemp CBD oil and all Cannabis products are outrageously expensive, everyone selling it is really only interested in making as much money as they can, the whole bunch of you are total rip offs!...it is a plant; seed, dirt, water sunlight... it should cost same as tomatoes or lettuce. Don’t fall for the “ we are selling it to help people” bs, they just want your money, all of them! If we grow it ourselves with very few restrictions that would change that.
I haven’t taken a hydromorphone pill in a long time, good riddance. Thank you God!
“Just don’t pretend that it won’t have an impact on automobile safety stats.”
My point, and your anecdote, show that the ubiquity of pot makes legalization moot.
Lobby for pot legalization if you like. Just don’t pretend that it won’t have an impact on automobile safety stats.
Good post Bob.
There really are some ignorant just plain stupid people on FR. They make up shite like this ‘dope crazed potheads causing car crashes on streets’ bs because they really are big govt liberals who depend on the nanny state to make their drunken lives safe. They are an lunatic infestation on FR imo and really belong in Democrat party. I wouldn’t miss one of them.
What is being set up here is a two-tiered system.
Alcohol and tobacco smoking, BAD
Pot smoking, GOOD
And you don’t see any problems with that?
Legalize something and it will become more readily available. How can it not be? You’ll be able to buy it at 7-eleven and not from some random guy in a back alley.
No, you have to buy it from the pot store, which appear to be heavily regulated and conscious of the age of the customers in the store.
At least that’s how it was in Denver.
Basically like going to the liquor store, but it’s the pot store.
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