Medical Marijuana

Reb Cpl wrote: jmac3 wrote: I don't think his claims are false. Well I hope not. It would be rather dumb if he walked in and was like "oh I have a headache and can't sleep" and they gave him weed. I would hope they at least diagnosed it, and maybe tried something else first. You're right, maybe I'm being too hard on PB125, for that I apologize. I'm sure that there's a diagnosis and a prescription, but I still firmly believe that this sort of thing is abused more than anyone would like to admit. Come on, Why a thread about it other than to say "haha, look what I got!"

That sums it up actually.

Reb Cpl wrote: I think that that claims like PB's, which I'm about 95% certain are full of horse crap, based strictly on his conversations around here- completely destroy the 'Legalize it' argument. Having people sneak around the back door to get the stuff isn't going to help your case. Devote your time to legitimately arguing for the legalization of it, rather than trying to conjure up some lame ass excuse to defraud the taxpayers and the healthcare system, which had problems enough of its own.

That has done a lot of good.

jmac3 wrote: The eMike wrote: Reb Cpl wrote: jmac3 wrote: I don't think his claims are false. Well I hope not. It would be rather dumb if he walked in and was like "oh I have a headache and can't sleep" and they gave him weed. I would hope they at least diagnosed it, and maybe tried something else first. You're right, maybe I'm being too hard on PB125, for that I apologize. I'm sure that there's a diagnosis and a prescription, but I still firmly believe that this sort of thing is abused more than anyone would like to admit. Come on, Why a thread about it other than to say "haha, look what I got!" That sums it up actually. Well, that's kind of pathetic

It is what it is.

Weed should be legal anyways if alcohol can be.  Both play huge factors in the economy.

The eMike wrote: jmac3 wrote: The eMike wrote: Reb Cpl wrote: jmac3 wrote: I don't think his claims are false. Well I hope not. It would be rather dumb if he walked in and was like "oh I have a headache and can't sleep" and they gave him weed. I would hope they at least diagnosed it, and maybe tried something else first. You're right, maybe I'm being too hard on PB125, for that I apologize. I'm sure that there's a diagnosis and a prescription, but I still firmly believe that this sort of thing is abused more than anyone would like to admit. Come on, Why a thread about it other than to say "haha, look what I got!" That sums it up actually. Well, that's kind of pathetic It is what it is. Weed should be legal anyways if alcohol can be.  Both play huge factors in the economy.

Right. and defrauding the taxpayers is the way to make sure it gets legalized.

The MM organization has done wonders.

If it became legal then the government would tax it to hell.

End result it costs more. Good thing?

Get off the bandwagon and go see your friendly neighbourhood grass dealer. It's not like it's hard to get.

What a completely irrevelevent and unrelated thing to bring up FE, how very like you.

Plenty of other avenues to get drugged up to kill the pain. Any opioid derivative does the job. Yes, there are drawbacks, but that goes for EVERY drug, INCLUDING marijuana.

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, and any argument otherwise is ludicrous.

Any substance or activity that makes you choose it over something more important, is called an addictive drug. Are all people that take marijuana addicted to it? Not at all, just like not everyone that does meth or PCP or LSD or crack are addicted to those drugs.   Yes, there are people addicted to alcohol, but that doesn't help your case either.



Yes, marijuana does have a much lower addiction rate then the aforementioned drugs, but that doesn't make it any 'better'. People still suffer from withdrawals if taken off of it. Still get tremors. Still have the urge and need to have it. Addiction is still addiction.


The pro-legalization group always cites that alcohol is legalized, so why shouldn't marijuana? Few different things that stand alcohol apart from marijuana.

1) Proven benefit to your health. A glass of red wine a day is recommenced to help your heart.

2) The point of drinking is not to get drunk, but to get buzzed. You can't get buzzed on marijuana. You're either high or you're not.

3) The sheer amount of alcohol required to inhibit normal activity, in general, is much higher then to get the same results from marijuana. One marijuana cigerette gets you high. One beer, or one shot of hard liquour, will not get the average person drunk.

4) The delivery methods are different. Alcohol is ingested. The most common form for marijuana delivery is smoking it. Anyone who thinks smoking a substance, ANY SUBSTANCE, is good for you, is an idiot. Smoke is detrimental to your health, no matter how you spin it.



Now yes, you can ingest marijuana, but I don't see anyone arguing for the digestible kind, only the smoking kind.   If people were arguing for digestible marijuana, I wouldn't be such a staunch critic.




As I said, there are many other LEGAL avenues to kill the pain. Yes, addiction occurs in those as well, and no one denies that.   Morphine causes depression of the respiratory system.


I'm not denying the effectiveness of marijuana, but the arguments for it are not as valid as most people believe. A good portion of people that want medicinal marijuana legalized, do so because they also want to see marijuana legalized in whole, and having it as a medicine will make it just that much easier.

Obama said multiple times during the campaign that he didn't support legalization, so that's nothing new, FE.

If we are going to legalize it, it's going to be up the states first anyway.

Linus wrote: 2) The point of drinking is not to get drunk, but to get buzzed. You can't get buzzed on marijuana. You're either high or you're not.

There were many many points you used that discredited you, but I chose to go with this one. You clearly just don't know what you're talking about Linus.

Linus wrote: IMPULS3. wrote: Linus wrote: 2) The point of drinking is not to get drunk, b Wait, what? Outside of college.