Medical marijuana seen at risk following move by Sessions

ABCAP ^ | January 5, 2018 | Andrew Selsky

[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.

[Ken H]

“Other long-term effects of cocaine use include being malnourished, because cocaine decreases appetite, and movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, which may occur after many years of use.”

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/cocaine

[Ken H]

Meant to ping you for post #81, as well. The following is from narcanon =>

______________________________

Heroin Addiction Signs

One: Inexplicable weight loss

Heroin addicts often waste away and shed weight until they develop an emaciated appearance. Very often, the drug will cause nausea in a user, and a person taking heroin may experience a loss of appetite.

http://www.narconon.org/blog/heroin-addiction/10-signs-of-hidden-heroin-addiction/

[chris37]

No idea where this person is coming from. Sure seems to be incredibly proud of their inexplicable ignorance of the blatantly obvious, especially considering their alleged daily interaction with drug addicts.

[wardaddy]

What unsubstantiated nonsense

Even drug warriors admit pot use for chemo nausea and appetite and glaucoma and acute seizure syndrome in children and pain relief enhancement in conjunction with other pain meds

It’s free republic though

You can say about anything except racism or anti semitism

So fire away

Btw your precious booze....now that is a national problem,

I’ve had destructive selfish drunks in my family

I’ll take a couch locked Spicolli any day
You got it back asswards

[wardaddy]

A shot of Dickel cured my hangover this morning.

witty pithy and well done...proper

[wardaddy]

Nobody is espousing weed as a cure for anything are they

It’s palliative meds for a few things

[going hot]

Weed definitely does take the edge off, multiple ragged edged highs..

[jmacusa]

There is no medicinal use for alcohol, NONE! Actually alcohol is one of the most physically and emotionally destructive substances humans ever invented. It damn near killed me but because it almost did I don't think it should be made illegal, again, simply because I had a problem with it. Millions of people don't have a problem and have the right to enjoy a drink. Why can't the same like minded adults enjoy marijuana?

[raiderboy]

Sounds like you over powered your sdiction. I think you are a strong person and i sdmire that you did. Marijana is far more adictive and destructive physiically that alcohol. Especially with the newer concocktions. Dont replace a bad with a worse.dont kill your brain with that crap. That is why it is listed as illegal by the federal government and prople are punished for possession and distribution.. dirty rotton weed.

[raiderboy]

I have cancer.i would never compound my problems with marijuana. They have acual nausea medications that work. Actually marijuana makes you nauseas.dont fall for all that illgal weed bs.

[wardaddy]

I know folks who take it including two of my own relative

Phenegran works great but boy is it a drowsy dope

Zofran never worked for me

My best friend is under going chemo cream and radiation for skin cancers from living the life of the Flipper kid in Naples Marco Island as a pale cotton haired boy

He doesn’t like weed he prefers scotch and used to like marching powder in the cowboy days in south Florida

Claims weed is for hippies

But he likes it for chemo

But good luck whatever works

I haven’t smoked since the 80s

And I hate booze

I like women

[eyedigress]

Alice Cooper was the opposite.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/only-women-bleed-alice-cooper-ml-video-yhc.html

[wardaddy]

Marijuana is more destructive than alcohol?

I couldn’t disagree more but I want to hear a lucid reasoning for that

I’ve dealt with serious alcoholism as close to me as one can get

It was brutal brutal on all of us

My little brother is a chronic 10X

Pretty lazy and procrastinates

But that is nothing and I mean nothing compared to a drunk Tallulah

Alcohol kills a lot of folks

Nobody dies from pot itself

Maybe some impaired drivers

I drove high and it’s not anything like being drunk and driving

I’m not advising it but it’s not even half the issue drunk driving is

Drunk driving is like quaalude or Xanax driving

Stoned driving rarely is more incapacitating than a glass of wine

You may zone out and miss the green light waiting thru the red and likely to drive too slow and of course uber paranoid but not so much weaving and reckless

Have you ever been high from pot?

[SirLurkedalot]

And incredibly addictive as well.

Pick your poison.

[SirLurkedalot]

Yet damages the liver.

Pick your poison.

[Noamie]

You refer to extensive experience, but you post links to articles. How much heroin and cocaine have you used? Or, how many addicts have you worked with?

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.

You are posting links to severe binging addiction effects and acting like you have made a point. That’s like me saying that smoking/gourging a pound of weed will make you throw up and therefore will not cure nausea.

You just arent serious and you seem terrified that I can so easily link pot with heroin and coke. Why? You arent all about infringing on people’s natural rights, are you? Coke and heroin legalization is a tenth amendment issue. Same as pot. And that is why I found your orihinal post to be so silly and naive.

[trebb]

Perhaps this is just a way of highlighting that no law is too big or too small to require enforcement - and to display that the Congress is not doing its job - if they realize a law is bad, they should get rid of it, not leave it as a hidden hammer for when they decide it “needs to be enforced to send a message” or maybe for when they have no other way to get someone they think needs getting.....

[Noamie]

I drove high and it’s not anything like being drunk and driving
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^ example # one why the pro-pot movement is not taken seriously by a great deal of people.

[Noamie]

“...long term effects...”

You post one link about “long term affects”? Lol. Ken, you never fail.

That is like me posting the effects of drinking 10 pots of coffee and declaring that coffee is a hallucinagen.

[lilypad]

When we were in Colorado my husband gave a ride to a young man back to his cannabis shop where he dispensed the stuff. He told hubby he has a fold out piece of literature that he uses for dosages. I believe it has its place in the medical field but more study needs to be done in some cases.