Posted on 05/10/2011 4:18:13 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
New Zealand
Are addictive medicines cures or problems?
“Legalising cannabis for medicinal purposes would be the thin end of the wedge towards increasing drug use in New Zealand, according to a former detective who now manages a drug education company.”
APN News and Media also reports: “Dale Kirk, managing director of MethCon, said taking a softer line on drug offenders would do more harm than good.”
“I think we'd see people suddenly developing medical problems to source the drug,” asserts Kirk.
The former detective is also concerned about impressionable children and vulnerable teenagers, but especially the many ways in which confusing messages threaten stability. “I think any moves to liberalise cannabis laws are not necessarily beneficial to the overall community, particularly young people,” stresses Kirk. “I think anything that makes it easier for young people to get their hands on drugs is not helpful.”
United States
But what critical-thinking New Zealanders fear is already a reality for duped Americans, thanks to drug-first libertarians.
“It's not cancer or Alzheimer's or glaucoma that had droves of Michiganders going to doctors over the past two years to get certified to use medical marijuana,” reports the Detroit Press. “The vast majority of about 64,000 people authorized to use marijuana as medicine have unspecified ailments that cause severe and chronic pain, muscle spasms and nausea, state data obtained by the Free Press show.”
As Americans were warned, the “medical marijuana” movement is a Trojan horse, and it appears as though an elite group of liberal doctors are benefiting. From the compelling data we can see that “just 55 doctors certified about 45,000 patients -- 71% of all the authorized medical pot users.” And: “In all, 2,197 doctors wrote at least one certification for a patient asking for marijuana approval.”
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Hey,dude! I need my “medicine”!
“I think anything that makes it easier for young people to get their hands on drugs is not helpful.”
It couldn’t be any easier now, so how about a little reality and some real solutions.
“Are addictive medicines cures or problems?”
As opposed to all the addictive medicines that YOUR doctor prescribes??
Or the one’s you CAN’T live without?
Who’s BSing who?
This is laughable because they're worried about cognitive problems from marijuana, but the mainstays of spasticity meds for MS are Baclofen and/or Zanaflex. Both put the patient in a stupor, and you can literally sleep your day away if you take a therapeutic dose high enough to help with the spasticity.
And my question would be: Why haven't studies been done? Because there's no money in it for the pharmaceuticals.
I sure hope they don’t legalize MJ. I really don’t want to become a pothead.
My wife, a 2 time breast cancer survivor, toked on a few during treatment. It was the only thing that stopped the nausea/vomiting. And, she scarfed many a Yodell as well. :-).
Pure THC is prescribed under the brand name Marinol and truly helps people every year. However, it has structural differences from the THC found in Cannabis and also lacks the modulating compounds (see paper on Synthetic THC by Dr Alex Shulgin). Only mother nature can create many of the compounds found in cannabis but real research is essentially prohibited.
In 1936, the year before the ban, there were over 40 registered medications produced by companies like Bayer and Merck directly derived from Cannabis. The cannabis boom happened the year before prohibition due to the invention of a processing machine (hemp's equivalent to the cotton gin). It was predicted to decimate the opium and cotton industries (follow the money). Before that, the US government made films touting the huge benefits of hemp over nearly all old crops. The importance of hemp has been wiped from all history books written after 1960 or so.
Our body has natural cannabinoids that participate in nearly every body function. Similar to opiods but far more extensive and diverse. Prohibiting research of a plant that produces such compounds so close to our own chemistry was a crime committed by a self-serving, corporate-owned government against all people.
You will too, and you’ll grow dreads and put up Peter Tosh posters...it’s that insidious.
The use of marijuana in the US has never hurt anyone. It is a victimless crime. Let’s not lose our heads over this like thousands of Mexicans have.
Medical marijuana has been approved by voters nearly every time it's been put to a vote. According to your understanding of the US Constitution, do you think states have legitimate authority under the Tenth Amendment to enact such policies, or do you think fedgov has legitimate authority under the Commerce Clause to shut them down?
I have been poking smot for 30+ years and to my knowledge have suffered no ill effects.
I prefer Medical Hashish. Black Afghani or Red Lebanese.
Here’s your “medicine” dude. If you have troubles feeling energized – the taxpayer will help fund your lifestyle. Also, feel free to crowd up our hospitals more if you have a psychotic fit.
Well, you live in America with soft drug laws, thanks for proving my point!
So your Orwellian argument is: Two wrongs always make a right! Great comeback.
I should have put an ‘s’ after that post. I’ve never used that stuff and never would.
So two wrongs make a right? More crazy drug use is the answer? Right. I don’t agree with your false comparisons, or the “principle” behind this argument.
But if the “Medical Marijuana” lobby is so ethical then they should lead by ethical example. Just admit it: they’ve lied and been caught out.
“I have been poking smot for 30+ years and to my knowledge have suffered no ill effects.”
LOL: Good one.
Compared to Australia?
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