(It's Come to This ...) Vet Wants to Legalize Pot for Dogs

Live Science ^ | 05 April 2013 | Tanya Lewis

[DogByte6RER]

Vet Wants to Legalize Pot for Dogs

Polls show the majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, but should dogs have it too? It sounds crackpot, but Veterinarian Doug Kramer thinks that the THC in marijuana could help dogs and other pets with painful conditions that don't respond to other treatments. VICE chatted with Kramer about his pot-for-pets campaign.

"A client first brought it to my attention," Kramer told VICE. "She had a pet that was not responding well to any of the pain medications or the steroids that we were giving it, and she wanted to talk about getting medical marijuana."

Some vets dismissed the idea, but Kramer was open to trying it.

[stuartcr]

Sounds ok to me

[stuartcr]

Why would that matter? It’s probably cheaper.

[freekitty]

Oh good grief.

[laplata]

And to ease nausia brought on by chemotheropy.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I’m not buying it for a moment..

[tob2]

Dogs do well on Benadryl.

[tob2]

Pill form of pot sounds great for people like me who get sick when inhaling second hand smoke from the plant.

[stuartcr]

yes...after all, it’s a natural medicine, not man-made

[laplata]

That’s right.

[Marcella]

My Yorkie drinks with me. When I make an alcoholic drink, she gets excitied waiting for her part - which is my finger dipped in the good stuff and she gets to lick it off my finger. One finger licking is her limit. I have wondered how a drunk dog would be but I wouldn’t try that with her. She is small and one finger is all she’s going to get.

[Slings and Arrows]

Doc, time to lay off the Ketamine, 'kay?

[berdie]

My dog has no money. He can’t afford pot. Besides..it’s illegal. He would not survive in prison. He really likes his Dog Whisperer episodes and Pupperoni.

I am suspicious of the cat. Her eyes often seem a little dialated and she sometimes acts eractically.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks DogByte6RER.

[CrazyIvan]

“If you take in a poor, sick, starving dog. Feed him, heal him, and help him prosper, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain

[Stormdog]

“Honest Officer, it’s a dog bone....”

[A_perfect_lady]

Well, why not? They don’t drive.

[STYRO]

From another recent FR article:

...a majority of the American people “Taking Our Temperature”

...”Progressive talking heads, including President Obama, recently adopted the idiom “a majority of the American people” in order to misrepresent public sentiment concerning their radical positions; suffice it to say that, in these cases, the truth has been quite the opposite.”

[faithhopecharity]

This proposal is Cool”! “ Hey, cop, that’s not my stash — its Fido’s!”

[ican'tbelieveit]

Wish it would have helped my poor guys. We did go through all kinds of testing with one of them, literally everything makes him itch, dust, dust mites, grass, trees, mold, think he had 22 allergens.