“MJ is a controlled substance with no proven medical use. Being stoned is not a therapy. I know many freepers libertarian streak will call for my “stoning”, but this is truth.”
Cannabis actually contains hundreds of known active compounds and most do not get you stoned at all. Not a single one has been found to be toxic or have damaging withdrawal at any dose (unlike nearly all other drugs).
The endocannabinoid system modulates almost every aspect of the body and there are so many still undiscovered treatment possibilities. We are only now learning the full potential in a few jurisdictions since research was ridiculously banned for so long.
And even among the few compounds that DO get one stoned as a side effect, they are far less impairing and less likely to cause addiction than many other medicines that are perfectly legal.
Opiods, benzos, hypnotics, amphetamines, etc (even medical meth!) are all legal for prescription by any doctor in ALL 50 states. Many even to children. Yet there is no roadside test for them even though many are far more impairing than any cannabis.
Many of these Rx drugs are PROVEN to have potential side effects like blackouts, violence and suicide. It says right on the label with a skull&bones yet no restrictions on gun ownership for them.
The law banning medical use of cannabis is clearly NOT for our protection...
Sure. Dope has all sorts of benefits. Been reading that for decades.
Regardless, the mind altering effects are still the issue. Just as it is with alcohol, prescription meds and other substances.
Doesn’t matter if prescription or illicit, impaired is impaired.
But, we agree that possessing arms when not under an impaired influence is not the issue.
A pot user is under an influence.
A person who used pot sometime in the past is not prohibited.