Is there any more pot?
What's the point of legalizing "medical" marijuana? It's a drug, plain and simple. Like all other drugs, it has harmful side effects. But, like all other drugs, it only masks the problem, it doesn't fix anything. Sure, it'll ease your pain, but you'll still get that pain time and time again until the problem is fixed. Most often, it is nerve interference. Your spine is out of alignment and your body is not functioning to its full potential. It's causing bodily systems to degrade, and your immune system doesn't do its job. Marijuana will take your pain away, and it will ruin your wits. You can't do anything useful while you're feeling its effects. They only last for a short while anyway. Besides, like just about every other perscription drug, aside from the laundry list of side effects, it is also very easy to abuse. You become addicted, all the while your original problem is still there and nothing has improved. So why make it legal? It doesn't fix anything.
Pot shots
Required Reading
posted by Kodiak @ 7:59 AM
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10 Comments:
I'm not really anonymous, I just forgot my blogger password... it's been a while. :)
Anyway, while I agree with your post in general; I would respectfully point out that cancer patients find chemo much easier to tollerate with the addition of THC. Which is, a temporary solution to a temporary problem as chemo rounds typically last about 14 days. Having witnessed the difference experienced, by people that I care about, I have to say that I think there are times when pot is extreemly helpful, benificial, and called for.
As to all the idiots out there who take it to "relieve stress", they're on their own as far as I'm concerned. But medical marajuana, when it really is for medical benifit, is not really something that should be tampered with by those of us who simply dissapprove of recreational drug use.
M
Hey man! Gotta have my weed, man. Gotta have my weed!!!
I gets the sniffles real bad, and ah, weed's the only thing that helps - me ignore the gigantic snot bubbles drooling outta my nose!!!
... ya, little Eichman. Oink, oink...
There is no scientific value to "medical" weed. None. Period. End. Fini. It's a smokescreen. .
The only reason the issue even exists is because of Woody Harrelson and leftist stoners who want to open the door to legalizing drugs someday. They think this issue is a stepping stone to that silly, and dangerous fantasy.
I wish everyone WOULD spend more time passing judgement and disapproving other's motives. Maybe there would less lunacy in the world if some of us experienced a little shame.
Say that to me again after you've watched your own mother burst into tears because she threw up all over your shoes 11 days into her 5th round of chemo, with no end in sight (except one very undesireable one, that came to pass anyway).
THC helps with the nausia and many other side effects of chemo. And frankly, most opiates such as vicodin and morphene which are frequently perscribed to deal with short term problems have similar effects but are also horrifically addicting. Thus letting the patient in for another hard recovery, after their recovery. I don't see either of you railing against the medical use of these drugs. Why is that?
Why not treat pot offenders as you would treat any pill head, instead of taking a tool out of the medical communities hands? It doesn't make sense.
Cheers, though. Good luck with all the snot.
M
Not all of the medical community agrees with your assessment of pot's supposed benefits. In fact, most don't.
Despite what your mother went through, anecdotal evidence does not wipe away the larger issues.
I'm truly sorry about what she went through but there is a bigger picture here. Many lives have been destroyed by this "gateway" drug. Some in MY family. Many more than it you allege it helped.
Exposing the Myth of Smoked Medical Marijuana
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ongoing/marijuana.html
This report was written during the Clinton Admin. surprisingly. But some very good data abounds throughout the report.
Contained with the DOJ document, if you took the time to really read it, referred to many, MANY respected, objective, serious medical professionals from the very best, national known ivy league schools and research facilities. Not politicians.
I'd rather hang with those serious scientists & doctors rather a student web site called "Go Ask Alice", a biased online petition, or laughably, a left coast study that included a chief of hematology/oncology, San Francisco General Hospital. LOL! Does advocate healing stones too?
Please. You take care now. We'll agree to disagree.
Yes, apparently we both feel that the other is blatantly proffering severly biased propaganda. Perhaps we should agree to disagree.
I would hope, however, that you would at least have enough respect for the weakest members of our society (the seriously ill), to be careful of bandwaggon jumping that might just break a few backs.
Whenever a leftist tries to score argument points they immediately go for, "well, the right just doesn't care about the weakest in our society...". Sigh. So very tired of that intellectually lazy and vapid tactic. You know what? So is most of America.
False promises for the "weakest in our society" is more cruel than any disease they face. Get an education and develop a cure rather than a lie.
Out.
mmmm... one might also comment on the tired old right wing trick of making some tacky little comment like "get an education" without having any backing for such a comment, other than disliking being challenged to think a little (or having your pre-shrunk morality questioned a little), and then closing with a refusal to further discuss the matter. Thus if one rebuts, one is "yapping" or "whining" but if one simply lets the comment go then it must be true and correct right? Pitiful. Go argue with children, perhaps your bullying will be more respected there.
Meanwhile, perhaps you can tell me what about defending the existing rights of the weakest members of our society is "making them false promises"? Your philosophy of not bothering to defend the weak because, after all it's "vapid" seems a little oh, what's the word?... selfish?...childish?...fascist! Yes, that's it! Failing to defend unpopular points of view because the people who benefit from those points of view are weak and unable to defend themselves is Fascist.. or perhaps I should say Nietzscheist?..
But, I appologise, I really don't mean to offend you or call you names, especially since you speak for "most of America". But then, you are "out" so you won't see this anyway and it doesn't really matter does it?
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