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Listen, I smoked my fair share of pot in college. It ruined my post-college life. I don't care if it's legalized, but let's be honest here:

With the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes legal in about 20 states

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They're dishonestly pushing this agenda under the guise of medicine. They need to just come out and say, "We want pot to be legal for any and all purposes, not just medicinal."

The Lefties are even dishonest with themselves. You can't delude the foolish.

Absolutely. It's the old "abortion should be safe, legal and rare" thing -- when you know they have no interest at all in the "rare" part. Any effort to curb abortion is met with some particular sob story involving rape and incest and the health of the mother, and an outraged "You don't care about that girl!"

The abortion argument is an argument for 50 million dead babies because people couldn't be bothered to be responsible.
The "medical marijuana" argument is an argument in favor of listening to Pink Floyd through headphones and having a really good time.

And most people are afraid to say so.

They're dishonestly pushing this agenda under the guise of medicine

You're absolutely right. I still think that medicinal pot makes sense, though.

Many moons ago, my uncle was undergoing chemo. A friendly doc "talked hypothetically" about using pot to counter some of the side effects. Keep in mind that this would have been back in the 70s or early 80s. Pot was strictly verboten.

Uncle said that it didn't help with the nausea, but it did let him get some sleep, and that was 50% of the battle.

My uncle, however, was far from being a pot-head. Used it like you would any other medicine....just to treat a problem, or alleviate some symptoms, and he stopped taking it when it was no longer needed.

I think that there's plenty more that could be done with - for instance, opiates for pain relief - as far as medicine in this country, if it weren't for the fools who abuse drugs, the lawyers who are looking to stick up drug companies, and the government bureaucrats who are looking to "help". God save us rational people from all of the fools.

Your post is spot on (minus you blaming the plant in your post-college life).

I support legalizing marijuana. You want to smoke the plant? go right ahead, it is up to the user to be responsible or face the consequences (and no, we don't need any more laws, we have plenty to cover damn near every little facet of life already).
I can not stand this "medical marijuana" jive. It insults my intelligence and is nothing more than a ruse.

They're dishonestly pushing this agenda under the guise of medicine. They need to just come out and say, "We want pot to be legal for any and all purposes, not just medicinal."

That was about 10 years ago, wasn't it? Here in WA, the new law WAS based on "legal for any and all purposes", but with many restrictions (i.e. can't grow, no juveniles, no DUI (of course), can't buy except from state-licensed dealer, one oz. personal possession only (I believe)). I'm actually looking forward to finding out what all the fuss is about but it will be a year or so until first legal sales occur. No way should any young person use it regularly with the neurological harm during development that has been scientifically documented (I am not young and not an addictive personality in the least).