Posted on 01/06/2018 1:43:47 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
Excerpts - Forty-six states — including Sessions' home state of Alabama — have legalized some form of medical marijuana in recent years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Eight of those states also allow recreational marijuana.
The only legal protection now for medical marijuana growers, processors, sellers and users is a temporary measure sponsored by Republican California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and Democratic Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer prohibiting the U.S. Department of Justice from using government funds to target them.
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Your statements are nonsense and contradictory.
There are variations. Some take out the part that gets you stoned.
It comes in a pill.
My friend who took it when she had cancer had a supplier that she liked who went out of business. The pills helped her appetite and she didn’t get stoned.
She had to switch suppliers. She said she tried one and got very stoned. Her oldest daughter knew what was going on, but she didn’t want her younger daughter to know. She had a good sense of humor about the whole thing. She was dying of cancer and laughing about accidentally getting stoned.
She really wanted it to be more regulated so she could know she was getting the type that didn’t make her stoned.
She was the finest person I have ever known. Her love for the Lord just grew as her physical body withered away.
Her experience with the medical marijauna just solidified my position.
My brother died of cancer too. He didn’t have access to it, and I think it would have helped him. Morphine has terrible side effects.
‘’Have you ever been high from pot’’? More times than there are stars in the heavens. Sorry, alcohol is far deadlier especially to the human body. It damned near killed me. And yes, it is hell on the family involved. They used to tell us AA’s in Alanon “You AA’s don’t know squat about drunks’’.
"If you are nauseous and you roll a bump of coke youre going to be hitting the cheetos shortly. If you smoke a little china you’re going to relax, lose the nausea, and dig in to some dinner."
Oh boy that is some super scientific proof of both drugs being appetite stimulants if I've ever not seen it!
"That’s like me saying that smoking/gourging a pound of weed will make you throw up and therefore will not cure nausea."
Another marvel of evidentiary fact on your part.
And look at you acting like you've made a point, when the only thing you have pointed out, again, is your own stupidity.
But to be honest, I didn't expect anything greater from you.
You are incorrect.
Marijuana is not physically addictive at all, whereas alcohol is physically addictive.
Ever heard of delerium tremens?
It’s amazing to see people on this thread acting like they know something when they obviously know nothing, yourself being a prime example of that.
Extremely addictive. Non addiction is a myth. As addictive as tobacco or more. This is why you see so many lifer pot heads brains totally ravaged. That is scientific fact, not myth.
No, sir, it isn’t a fact at all.
You don’t even know what the word “addiction” means.
You do not have the slightest clue, obviously.
Stop making a fool out of yourself.
It’s simply not the same level of impairment
Sorry
And your pronouncing it so doesn’t make it so
Pot impairment is like a 2-7 on 10
Alcohol is 2-10
And it’s that high range that’s the problem with alcohol and where most wrecks happen weaving all over the world
It’s not like that high on pot
It’s more hypersensitivity to how am I doing
Have you been high on marijuana
You would know this already hon
Both impair but alcohol far more so
"I just respectfully believe that to be nonsense. Noone forces you to be addicted. Addiction is a choice that you make every day. I know a man that smoked 2 packs a day for 45 years. The Doctor told him he had cancer and maybe 6 months to live. He quit right away and never smoked to his dying day.How can that be?" - raiderboy
You are, of course, correct. And most of the medicinal applications do not involve smoking it or a ‘high’.
I never really liked the stuff and it used to make me throw up when I was a teenager, and one time I thought I was going to die from a rapid heart rate. I stopped giving into peer pressure and told them I didn’t want any.
Every single person I know that has smoked it for twenty years or more went to abuse opiates for a bigger high from doctor offices, one being my brother-law, a 34 year old woman who I knew in my twenties who was crazy for Vicodin, and a childhood friend who smoked it while pregnant to combat morning sickness. Both those kids ended up dopers and one a heroin addict in and out of jail, but according to her that’s the “pigs” fault even when he has three kids in the foster care system.
Most of those people are right in line who abused opiates and because of those idiots, people suffering with real chronic pain are paying the price.
After 20 something years, none of them work, are in their late forties with pot-bellies from horrible munchies, and toothpick legs.
I live around a popular, urban city where it’s all over the inner city population, and it sure hasn’t done any good for them.
I don’t have the answers to what kind of legalization should be done since there are exceptions to every rule when it comes to abusers, but I haven’t see one yet.
We had a president who thumbed his nose at the law. Now we have one who does not. This is the chaos we get for having a president who runs a dictatorship.
The problem is that federal law, as it is, does not allow it to be left to the states. Change the law or interpretation thereof, and the issue is ended. But to pretend the law and regulations do not disallow such usage is illegal and immoral.
I hope it happens to you so you can find out first hand.
What a jerk you are.
I'm in agreement with you on the situation and the mess. Not sure we agree though that it is time for for Congress to act, make it legal.
It really does help and I'm convinced that there are all kinds of benefits of marijuana that have nothing to do with getting high. I do believe in medical marijuana for those with cancer and other conditions that it really does help alleviate the symptoms and get those patients to eat when they otherwise may not.
I don't subscribe to recreational marijuana although it's getting more and more difficult to see "why not?" and tax it the same way alcohol is taxed and put the same restrictions on it. Anyone who wants to get high is going to do it anyway and I don't believe that people like me who don't do it and won't do it even if it's legal aren't going to magically going to start getting stoned every day.
At this point really, what is the difference between marijuana and alcohol? I'll tell you: the police can do a breathalizer to see if you're driving drunk. Figuring out whether or not someone is high on pot is a whole different problem for which there isn't as simple as a diagnosis. That and people these day vape pot so they don't smell like they've been smoking it....
“breathalizer”
Far from a conclusive method of testing and I have complete faith they’ll come up with an equally fallible test for pot.
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