I’ve been personally close to a few heavy pot smokers in my time. Given a choice, I’ll take Alzheimer’s disease. At least it hasn’t yet been proven to be self inflicted. La La Land is La La Land, no matter how you get there. This is the most inventive excuse I’ve seen so far for The Weed. If it’s so effective, put it in a pill. It seems to get a lot less interesting in that form for some reason.
Somehow, I doubt a case of the munchies fueled this rage over McNuggets. Weed smokers want to go to sleep not bash in windows to get McNuggets. Based on what I have witnessed in my life from others smoking weed..I believe Weed can become addictive.
That's not rational.
Actually it has a pill form. Big pharma has made it prohibitively expensive.
Half of the states disagree with you and have enacted medical marijuana programs, as is their prerogative under the 10th Amendment.
This is a surprising result. Don’t many heavy pot smokers have memory issues as they age?
Rubbish. That’s like saying that because you’ve seen drunks, alcohol should not be used to disinfect a wound.
Most useful pharmaceuticals came from nature.
Living in Washington state, I can tell you that I run into habitual pot smokers on a daily basis. Understanding that marijuana might have some derivative health uses, I want to issue a challenge: Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis.
I have yet to find adult habitual marijuana user that I would look up to as a role model/mentor.
Just sayin’
Sounds like you don’t know much about marijuana or Alzheimer’s.
Evidently, you haven't been personally close to anyone with Alzheimer's disease.
” But THC can also bind to them in much the same way, and when they do, they start messing with your brain’s ability to communicate with itself. The can be a good and a bad thing, because while you might forget something important or suddenly be incapable of swinging a baseball bat, you’ll probably feel amazing, and want to eat all the snacks.”
Sounds like it’s not all good.
Yes, there are many good reasons:
It's been observed many times that the lab-created or lab-isolated form of THC (Marinol) is not nearly as effective as direct extracts from the plant. Multiple studies of cancer/pain patients have shown the synthetic pill to not be as good as natural plant compounds.
It is possible to make a plant-based pill. However it's IMPOSSIBLE to properly dose any cannabinoid pill since it is fat soluble AND partially acid soluble (unlike any other drug class). A Marinol pill is a tiny acid-soluble bubble that holds oil.
The pill acts extremely slowly, absorption is never the same each time and tolerance changes constantly. Its absorption is highly affected by the fiber, fat%, fat type, PH of the foods you eat and stomach acid levels. Even how hot your food is impacts absorption.
The best method for patients are inhale-able vapor versions of true plant-based extracts. They get the natural compounds, it doesn't matter what's in their stomach and they can perfectly regulate the dose each and every time they need medication. There are three ways this is accomplished:
1) A prescription drug known as "Sativex". Basically an inhaler made from true cannabis extract. Very promising, very good patient reviews but extremely expensive.
2) Using a plant extract vaporizer to inhale laboratory-tested extracts. Some people claim it is more effective that Sativex and about half the price.
3) Using a digital plant vaporizer to "strip" and vaporize the active ingredients you want from unprocessed plants without smoking the plant. The least portable but by far it is considered to have the most medicating effects and also the cheapest. Someone can grow completely organic plants in their backyard or closet and create practically free medicine that can be consumed without smoking.
Now. they ALL get you high. Just like EVERY effective pain medication gets you high. Only it is not physically addictive like the opiates, doesn't destroy your liver, doesn't kill your stomach/appetite and can be grown for free.
Now guess which cannabis medication is approved by big government: the least effective one that costs the most and is made in a lab by big pharma.
And if you try and grow your own free organic medicine, in most states you can go to prison! Even with no evidence of dealing. Aint graft grand?
And for the record I've been very close to dozens of cannabis users for decades. They're ALL far more successful than average and many daily smokers are extremely successful- business owners, lawyers, doctors, scientists, etc. The successful ones simply don't talk about using it. Especially not to new people who don't express acceptance of cannabis first. Yes, I've seen many people get carried away and ignore responsibilities (just like can happen with video games, TV, social media, porn, books and FREE REPUBLIC). But I've NEVER met anyone who wasn't completely 100% functional within hours of putting it down. And no study has ever proved any permanent negative effects in even one single adult- nomatter how heavy the use.
No kidding. Dope smokers are a special type of stupid. Tommy Chong’s performances in movies aren’t an act.