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I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: CANNABIS PREVENTS SEIZURES. I’ve suffered with epilepsy throughout my life, from about the age of five. The medications play hell on my body and mind. Cannabis works for me.
You can say it before and say it all you want... if you like smoking pot...go for it. Just don't come up with the "scientific" miracle cure for all that ails the world when half the pot that most people get is cut with who knows what or dusted with another compound to really "get the buzz, bra..'".
It's anecdotal evidence that the marijuana you smoke is what made you stop having seizures. What chemical in the literal buffet of chemicals in the marijuana you are purchasing is the x factor that makes you stop seizing and by what mechanism? Being that you somehow have 100% anticonvulsant success with the special blend that you've come upon. By all means, subject it to a double blinded study with reproducible results and publish your data..... if you can put remember to put down the bong, wipe the Cheetos from the front of your shirt and amble on down to the lab.
Do you also feel that people who smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol are not able to compete in the job field?
Well if you operate a gas pump or work with flammable chemicals,work in a hospital with pulmonary patients and high flow oxygen, grain silo or in a coal mine... ya just might want to put down the cig...just saying
I can't think of any job that might be performed better if you drank on the job...maybe you can enlighten me on that one...
Is there any other morality that you would like to legislate? Maybe we can improve society if we court order church attendance?
You can't legislate morality. That's what is so pathetic about the marijuana legalization scam. It's a way for your senses to be dulled and for you to be easier to control. Eh... but if that's what you want... free country, blah, blah, blah.. light up and make sure your kids do to. In fact I advocate everybody in your gene pool should get a 50 gallon barrel in the morning, stuff it full of some choice Chocolope or Super Silver Haze .. maybe get some of those nebulizer machines that asthmatic or emphysema patients use, hook up the face masks and go to town. Cause my family and my self are competing with you for jobs, opportunities and creating wealth... I like it when my competition is chilling out and worried if Taco Bell is having a sale on hard tacos.
Good to know. Then I can steal your car and get away with it, right?
“You can’t legislate morality.” - Dick Vomer
All law is an attempt to legislate morality. Even speeding laws issue out of “Thou shalt not kill”, with the thought that speeding endangers the lives of others. Even the twisted laws liberals sometimes promulgate issue out of their confused morality. In Muslim countries where they cut off your hand for stealing, they don’t have much of a problem with stealing. I don’t agree with such a draconian punishment but they are effectively legislating morality. Many of the women having legal abortions now, would tough it out and not have an illegal abortion if abortion were still illegal. Many did when abortion was illegal and probably most are glad they did. Abortion laws legislate morality.
Thank you for your service to our country and I’m sure we agree about much more than we disagree about. But I just disagree with the idea that morality can’t be legislated.
“If you can’t legislate morality, what can you legislate?”
-Fr.George William Rutler
“The law is the great teacher.” -John Cardinal O’Connor
Well, you “caught me” in that I don’t own a lab, I’m not a scientist, and I can’t tell you the scientific reason why I don’t have siezures when I smoke pot, but I do when I don’t.
All that I do know is, it works for me.
And from what I hear, it works for other people too.
And I don’t think it’s any particular “strain”, as all of them seem to work as an anti-convulsant.
When I spoke to my neurologist about it, yes, my neurologist, the guy who probably *does* have a lab and knows all the names of the whositis and the whatsits, he told me that yes, cannabis *does* prevent seizures, but it can hurt your lungs. Whereas the synthetic medication can prevent seizures, but it wrecks my kidneys and my liver and gives me horrible, horrible mood swings.
Did you know that cannabis was used, successfully, to treat many neurologicial disorders during the 6,000 years of human evolution prior to the criminalization of cannabis in the 1930s because hemp was competing with nylon?
So you can go ahead and be smug and self-righteous and try to assure yourself that pot smokers are all hanging out in their parents basement munching on chips and watching the game all day, and you can go ahead and try to convince yourself that our “lack of ambition” gives you a leg up in the workplace. The truth is, you would probably be rather surprised at the professional careers that we hold. I don’t have to “compete” with you or your kin for a good career, I’ve already got one.
And this *is* all about people trying to push thier personal code of ethics on other people through legislation. Don’t like pot? How about you don’t smoke it? Should you ban alcohol because it can effect productivity in the workplace? Should you ban cigarettes in case someone flicks a smoke at a gas pump while they are working?
I prefer a world where I am free to make my own decisions instead of having Big Government tell me what I can and cannot do.
By the way, if you view everyone else in this country as “competition for creating wealth for you and your family”, you might have larger issues than I.