The stupid just won’t stop in my state...….DAMN!
looks like NY is getting ready to fund weed to all comers - how easy is it to fake a doctor’s note on need?
Would Hydroponic growing supplies become Medical Devices?
Taxpayer subsidized weed.
Ping.
Economically, this is funny, a circle jerk of sorts.
MJ is inherently a low-cost product, even under careful breeding and cultivation. It’s taxes, with the consequent licensing, high prices, and motivation for black market activity, that make legalized MJ expensive.
So, a bill like this will support the prices for legal medical MJ even more, increasing the regulatory supervision, the circular tax-flow, and the incentives to bypass the whole regime through the black market.
So silly.
It works better and is cheaper than synthetic drugs for many illnesses. Also far less addictive and toxic.
No reason it should not be included in insurance as with any other medication.
If you’re worried about some people getting “high”, the Rx pills are FAR worse in every aspect. More impairing, more toxic, more addictive. Heck, METH can be legally prescribed to kids with “ADHD” but this plant is seen as a bigger problem. The power of propoganda...
Cost? Every homeless junkie can find a way to pay for it.
Like the rest of the “doctors” and “health care providers”, now the marijuana industry is getting in on the act of using the stupid Liberals and their squishy sentiments (oh, we must “help” those “patients” who use marijuana) to INSURE the Marijuana gets its money MANDATED BY LAW to be picked up by the insurers - and passed on in higher premiums to the sheeple that believe the idiot Liberals.
Way to Go, Stoners! You really thought this "legalize marijuana" thing through!
Are there any peer reviewed medical studies even supporting one medical claim about marijuana?
Considering how medical marijuana seems to be “prescribed” for every known ailment to man this would mean free marijuana for all stoner NYers.
I guess NY missed the recent report of auto accidents increasing in states that have legalized marijuana? Or do they really not care about the innocent people?
States can legalize all they like, but that does not change the federal laws.
My wife had cancer and also neuropathy in her legs and hands, a side-effect of the treatments she was on. She was prescribed Gabapentin to relieve the pain from the neuropathy, but she had a bad reaction to it that caused her to be hospitalized and had to get off of it. Her palliative care doctor was one of the first doctors to get certified for the NYS medical marijuana program when it was first legalized and she wanted to give that a try seeing she couldn’t take Gabapentin anymore.
NYS really screwed up the implementation of the program and there was only one place where you could get it in Rochester, bordering on a bad neighborhood and you had to pay cash for it. She was prescribed the MMJ that was heavy in cannabinoids, which is a pain killer and she didn’t get high off of it as it had very little THC in it. It was only available in tincture (liquid) form and she had to out that under her tongue with the dropper and hold it there until it was absorbed. She said is tasted kind of nasty. It did work in relieving her pain, but the amount needed to be effective was costing us $400 a month and not covered by our prescription plan. Her palliative care doctor joked with us that it would be cheaper getting MJ off the street! She went back to using Oxycontin (for short term pain relief) and Methadone (for longer term pain relief) and that was covered 100% under our prescription plan.
The cancer finally took her on 6/6/2017 and she’s not suffering anymore and is with Jesus and her family in Heaven.
SOOOO—Taxpayers who don’t use MJ & don’t believe in drugs of any kind are going to be forced to PAY for MJ for others????
NY is circling the drain——right behind California.
Keep them stoned and you can get all the votes you want.
note New York and California
Reefer Madness. Seriously.
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