Posted on 03/20/2019 8:54:13 PM PDT by george76
The short answer is that smoked or ingested POT is NOT a "medicine". Like alcohol whatever good it might do is far offset by the harm it does. The ONLY medicine that is derived from pot IS Marinol (and to be frank I'm not sure that they don't use synthetic THC for that). So there is no NEED for pot to make ANY medicine. So your question is moot and based on nothing but desire to pretend that pot is medicine.
So only the most effective drug for any given condition should be legal?
The short answer is that smoked or ingested POT is NOT a "medicine".
Still no answer to my question (in boldface above).
The Lancet Psychiatry journal
Does it seem odd to anyone else that the
journal of Psychiatry is called the Lancet?
Considering just the last century, and all that faith, drowning in rivers of blood, we're going to have to stumble along without trying to second guess Him.
By all means, you keep on keeping on, but...
I don’t have a choice. Except that I ‘love my brother’ as instructed, I - we! - wind up in the position of dealing with individuals based upon a chaos of many very subjective opinions of their worth . (Your worthless drug addict is somebody else’s beloved daughter, son, father, etc. - and who knows what they may mean to God?)
Better to assume that it’s our duty to help troubled people when we can and continue to try and order a society where they receive help, improve, and find meaning.
I wonder if it’s really all the drug, or if there’s also a powerful psychological habituation to a *perceived* comfort, and especially to the rituals surrounding it.
Things can be displaced. A lot of people have had success with nicotine gum, and then weaning themselves off of the gum with regular chewing gum.
The people I’ve known who have used patches or oral varenicline have had bad nightmares; and some became very forgetful and lost concentration. I haven’t heard stories like that with regard to the gum.
(Disclaimer: this is all anecdotal - I’m not a doc, and to the best of my memory I’ve never stayed in a Holiday Inn :-)
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