I don't know you. But if you're like MOST "medical" marijuana users you were sold a bad bill of goods. The entire "medical" marijuana propaganda movement was started and funded by leftists who want nothing more than to legalize pot for any means. The big money player is the Marijuana Policy Project which funded many ballot measures and ads to convince people that pot was "medicine". This group was started by members of NORML who for the longest time were considered fringe kooks who advocated for legalized pot. They rebranded themselves and came up with a strategy of turning pot into "medicine". Their propaganda is relentless and they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to push their leftist view of "pot is good" on the American people.
Some may be absolutely convinced that smoking pot is helping them. But for someone who likes to get high it's not a huge stretch to deceive ourselves into thinking that smoking pot is healthy and not unhealthy. Think about that. When I smoked pot I convinced myself that it settled my nerves. And it did....BECAUSE I wasn't coping with the real problem. And of course when someone STOPS smoking pot we've never learned to really deal with our issues...we've avoided it by drugging ourselves.
Our minds are tricky things. When we like something we'll fool ourselves in order to keep doing it. We'll make up symptoms. We'll rationalize. We'll do whatever it takes. And when we have someone else telling us that it's okay of course we'll defer to them because we want to keep doing it.
But the cold hard fact is that there was no such thing as "medical" marijuana until some enterprising leftists decided to create it as a cause in order to get pot legalized. And it's worked perfectly.
“I don’t know you.”
True! And if you did know me you would be HAPPY (assuming you are a decent person who abhors human suffering) I was no longer suffering from depression & anxiety.
“But if you’re like MOST “medical” marijuana users you were sold a bad bill of goods.”
From truth back to fallacy. I researched the issue, specifically whether cannabis in any form could treat my depression & anxiety otherwise, what would be the point? Just to get high? What good would that do if I was still depressed & anxious? None.
“Some may be absolutely convinced that smoking pot is helping them.”
So these folks in your opinion are just delusional?
“When I smoked pot I convinced myself that it settled my nerves. And it did....BECAUSE I wasn’t coping with the real problem.”
So you apply your personal experience using cannabis to anyone using cannabis & the broad fallacious brush you use to paint medical marijuana patients is born. Got it.
I’ve enjoyed the back & forth, KC. But now it’s time to accept the fact we are never going to agree on this issue. I’m sure we’ll tangle again in the future when it’s appropriate.
I would encourage you to seek out folks like me in your real life. Folks like me who’ve tried multiple doctors & medications & therapies to no avail who never in their life imagined they’d be using cannabis medicinally or that it was even an option.
Now take care & may the Peace of Our Lord, Jesus Christ be with you always.
Educate yourself; cannabis was used as medicine in Egypt as long ago as 1500 BC, and in China since at least the time of Christ and probably earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_medical_cannabis.