Posted on 06/07/2022 11:00:12 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Absolutely 100%. The biggest problem today is everyone has their nose in someone else’s business and not their own. splinter, log... Congrats on 32 years⭐
Who do you consult when you get ill?
Thank you.
This isn’t about me. Pay attention.
Oh, you mean believing all the medical experts and their evidence regarding COVID-19?
Right??
The risk of course is that you might learn something new that does not fully fit with your current views -- and then be compelled to change your views. I do not mean any form of insult but only to prod you toward engaging with the evidence and to think for yourself based on the evidence. Otherwise, discussions on the issue are an expression of belief and prejudice instead of logical and informed opinion.
I speak from experience. Decades ago, I was given the task by my employer at the time (a senior level judge) to research the current medical evidence on the harms of marijuana and to write a short summary. The judge was in favor of legalization while I opposed it. To my surprise, at the time, there was a lack of persuasive medical and scientific evidence as to the harmful effects of marijuana.
This had legal consequence because the case for marijuana being illegal then had to be anchored on the constitutional authority of legislatures to rely on common experience that marijuana was harmful. The judge felt vindicated, while I moved to being a skeptic on the issue and expecting that medical and scientific research might within a decade or two lead to the legalization of marijuana.
That did not happen though because medical and scientific research -- much of it undertaken by skeptics -- gradually accumulated as to the harms of marijuana. As I became aware of that material, I slowly shifted to again be strongly in favor of keeping marijuana illegal.
So, to summarize, for me medical and scientific evidence matters and twice shifted my views on marijuana legalization. So also does experience matter. A friend I knew well who was on heavy prescription pain medication for a back injury sometimes smoked illegal marijuana at times when his prescription medications did not fully work for his pain.
Similarly, a woman I once knew well smoked marijuana regularly (and illegally) to cope with physical pain due to injuries and anxiety from a traumatic childhood. Yet she also hated marijuana and wanted it illegal because it led her daughter to opioid addiction and death from an overdose.
For me, the marijuana issue therefore has complications that make an absolutist position implausible and unwise. My two friends surely merited medical exemptions, so I voted for that when it was on the ballot -- even though I oppose full legalization.
Again, I urge you to research and engage with the evidence and to take account of not just your life experience but of the experience of others as well.
If you’re looking for an issue or trying to save humanity, go after the alcohol. It’s 100x more deadly and destructive.
I was wondering when that would pop up, the old “alcohol is worse” misdirection beloved by marijuana advocates. After rejecting any effort to look at potentially unsettling evidence, it seems that the temptation to reject logic as well becomes irresistible.
I said that in my first post at #6, because it’s true. Pay attention.
On what evidence? And, to adopt your reasoning, why believe any evidence against alcohol after how unreliable the doctors were as to COVID?
Your fear mongering is not moving the needle at all.
I started using cannabis in 2015 for medicinal reasons. I went from being completely consumed with severe depression with psychotic features, anxiety & insomnia, severe obesity, being unemployable for over a decade to losing 94 lbs over 3 years & for the last 3+ years have been working THREE JOBS, experiencing effortless daily happiness & and wonderful quality of life 100% Pharma med free.
Without cannabis use, none of those good things would have occurred for me!
That guy in the video looks like a strung out addict. Can’t get much more stereotypical.
lololololol
That’s hilarious!!!
Also it’s amusing that at best potheads I’ve known irl work dead end jobs or are pizza drivers, or on welfare strung out on their couches.
Online they’re all doctors. If you’re having to work 3 jobs, that’s not really something to brag about btw.
Thanks for sharing you ignorance & your cognitive dissonance.
When you have 15 year gap in employment due to documented mental illness you don’t have a lot of career choices available to you at age 55. I’ve had the same three. jobs: full time working musician, Carnivore coach & a manual laborer in a print shop for almost 4 years now.
Stay ignorant & continue to share that ignorance—it’s cute lol!!!
Yeah, those sure sound like the kind of jobs a pothead would get. Made my point for me, thanks.
Enjoy your delusion. Sorry your brain is inflamed. Keeps you ignorant, brain inflammation does.
I’ll just keep thriving. Life is wonderful here in our part of Florida.
Careful at this link if you dare it cuz it’s all about happiness, joy & the Carnivore lifestyle: https://www.instagram.com/thankful.carnivore/
Soros-bought District Attorneys who refuse to prosecute criminals, the “defund police” movement, and the violent crime surge.
Attempting to reconcile these contradiction, a credible case can be made that marijuana should remain generally illegal, but with a clear and accessible exemption for bona fide medical uses. That is now where American public policy is settling, with a messy compromise in service of conflicting facts.
As for the video that you posted about the "carnivore diet." it is consistent with my experience. Eventually, I figured out that the primary reason why an all protein diet benefitted me was because I have celiac disease. Doctors doubted it, but medical tests proved it definitively.
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