Bravo! This is not our parents’ pot. There is no medicinal value comparable to legitimate medicines currently available.
Like opiates...?
Yep.
Marijuana use increases among pregnant women in California, study says
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/12/27/marijuana-use-increases-among-pregnant-women-in-california-study-says.html
Meanwhile, women who smoke pot have been feeding the stuff to their autistic kids and claiming in Internet discussions that it cures autism. Police aren’t doing anything about it.
How do you justify taking a leak on the 10th Amendment?
Go tell that to a PTSD war vet ya friggin POG Leg.
“This is not our parents’ pot. There is no medicinal value comparable to legitimate medicines currently available.”
Simply not true. As someone who has had chronic daily pain and migraine headaches for over 2 decades the only treatment that has had any positive effect has been opiates. They are toxic, dangerous, addictive and deadly with many side effects. No one has ever died from a cannabis overdose. I would rather not be on opiates. Other medications I have been treated with over the years have caused additional health problems that I now must deal with for the rest of my life.
There are several different strains of cannabis that could and have helped someone like me. Problem is access to a reliable supply of those strains in states where it’s illegal. Eating the cannabis is preferred as the dosage can be precise and lasts longer.
Legalizing it for medical purposes would save lives, both in terms of helping people to either stop or reduce the stronger more dangerous medications and keeping people out of the already over-burdened court system.
It’s outrageous for me to be able to get an amount of opiates that could kill dozens of people with a co-pay but I can’t get cannabis without risking jail time and or financial ruin from an arrest.
My parents never smoked MJ.....
“There is no medicinal value comparable to legitimate medicines currently available.”
I’m not buying that. I don’t use marijuana but I know quite a few people who get relief from various illnesses from migraines to cancer, pain, nausea, and much more.
I believe that big pharma is behind this because they wouldn’t be able to patent the drug and sell it for three figures a pill like they do with other patent drugs. The ability of ordinary folks to grow cannabis in their backyard would cost the drug manufacturers billions.
So, they use their influence (and money) to buy the cooperation of congress to ban the killer weed and get rid of private competition. Tell me I’m wrong.
Try Tramadol, and oxy for bone cancer. Or, I can eat MJ edibles and sleep at night pain free. Which is worse? The one manufactured for a huge profit and addiction. I smoked pot until 1976 when my first child was born. I am now using it to control pain while remaining happy and really unaffected like pain drugs do me. Either doze off, barely able to stand without being dizzy on pills or take a little bit of THC edibles.