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What percentage of dope smokers are using it for medicinal purposes? 1%? Btw I’m not talking about stoners that go to Dr Feelgood because “their back hurts”.
Iatrogenic Death accounts for over 225,000 deaths across America every year making it the third leading cause of death. Looks like the doctors are the ones with the bad dope.
People who’ve smoked enough dope don’t need to be convinced of its medical benefits when they choose to use it for those purposes. Pretty much the same thing as the tired drinker who comes home from work and says “I need a drink.”
Joints. It took me a while to figure it out. I kept looking at the jar and trying to figure what kind of joint replacement surgery was possible on an over-the-counter basis.
There are those whose suffering is alleviated by using a little pot. Let’s concentrate on helping them rather than throwing out bogus figures about those who improperly get a mj script.
Quick to the wayback machine. What percentage of alcohol drinkers and cigarette smokers use it for “medical” purposes? A whole lot more than 1%. And how many of these end up in chemotherapy using a little pot to quell the afteraffects of their “medical” procedures. You point to 1% try 50+% and most of those people were inflicted with their medical problems from the “approved” adultrants. In reality the use of pot for both purposes has not affected the health of humans health.
The case is that 100,000 to 225,000 people die from prescription drugs. If you add in doctors and surgery they kill several million a year. Doctors bury their mistakes.
Although it is true that marijuana has medicinal values, it is also true that there are millions who have a prescription who don’t require one. On the other hand, couldn’t we say this about valium, xanax, and other “mother’s little helpers”?
I have never met a violent stoner. As a matter of fact, I have relatives who were at anti-war rallies in the late 1960s, and suddenly trucks would arrive with bags of pot. People would throw them to the crowd. I think it might have been “crowd control”. Violent demonstrations were replaced with “sit-ins”, as you may recall.
I submit that marijuana used under any circumstance creates far fewer problems than legal drugs, like alcohol, nicotine, caffiene and its associated “energy drinks”…
A friend of mine happened to be seated on a plane next to a DEA agent. The agent told him that DEA estimates that there is marijuana in one house out of three in the US.
You want to dent the deficit? Legalize marijuana and tax its sale.
And legalization would do much to stop the uneven enforcement that places so many young black men in prison. When a person comes out of prison, it’s that much harder to get a job. And then there’s the need for welfare, medicaid, etc. So, if people were less stigmatized, we’d have less demand for government services.
“The more laws a society has, the more lawless a society appears.”
I am opposed to drugs, legal or not. Especially pills against moods etc. are dealt out like candy by psychologists and other doctors. Feeling depressed? Pop a pill! Don’t worry about the reasons for your depression, and for heavens sake don’t think about the current state of the world – or your nation, state, city, suburb, job, car, wife, life, health, money… You get the point, right?
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dtroutma
said, 6 months ago
Bottom shelf holds the safest med.
ConserveGov said, 6 months ago
What percentage of dope smokers are using it for medicinal purposes? 1%? Btw I’m not talking about stoners that go to Dr Feelgood because “their back hurts”.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
Washington state and Colorado legalized it.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
Iatrogenic Death accounts for over 225,000 deaths across America every year making it the third leading cause of death.
Looks like the doctors are the ones with the bad dope.
Movingsound
said, 6 months ago
Where’s the bourbon?
3hourtour
said, 6 months ago
..Colorado or bust…
Chillbilly
said, 6 months ago
@ConserveGov
People who’ve smoked enough dope don’t need to be convinced of its medical benefits when they choose to use it for those purposes. Pretty much the same thing as the tired drinker who comes home from work and says “I need a drink.”
SwimsWithSharks
said, 6 months ago
Joints. It took me a while to figure it out. I kept looking at the jar and trying to figure what kind of joint replacement surgery was possible on an over-the-counter basis.
ODon said, 6 months ago
@ConserveGov
There are those whose suffering is alleviated by using a little pot. Let’s concentrate on helping them rather than throwing out bogus figures about those who improperly get a mj script.
Justice22 said, 6 months ago
Now, What is the shelf life of a joint?
Dycel
said, 6 months ago
@ConserveGov
Quick to the wayback machine.
What percentage of alcohol drinkers and cigarette smokers use it for “medical” purposes? A whole lot more than 1%.
And how many of these end up in chemotherapy using a little pot to quell the afteraffects of their “medical” procedures.
You point to 1% try 50+% and most of those people were inflicted with their medical problems from the “approved” adultrants.
In reality the use of pot for both purposes has not affected the health of humans health.
Krazy Ig Katz said, 6 months ago
The recreational ones would more likely be on the bedside table or in the kitchen, near the
twinkiesgranola.Radish
said, 6 months ago
@et2008
The case is that 100,000 to 225,000 people die from prescription drugs. If you add in doctors and surgery they kill several million a year. Doctors bury their mistakes.
I Play One On TV said, 6 months ago
Although it is true that marijuana has medicinal values, it is also true that there are millions who have a prescription who don’t require one. On the other hand, couldn’t we say this about valium, xanax, and other “mother’s little helpers”?
I have never met a violent stoner. As a matter of fact, I have relatives who were at anti-war rallies in the late 1960s, and suddenly trucks would arrive with bags of pot. People would throw them to the crowd. I think it might have been “crowd control”. Violent demonstrations were replaced with “sit-ins”, as you may recall.
I submit that marijuana used under any circumstance creates far fewer problems than legal drugs, like alcohol, nicotine, caffiene and its associated “energy drinks”…
A friend of mine happened to be seated on a plane next to a DEA agent. The agent told him that DEA estimates that there is marijuana in one house out of three in the US.
You want to dent the deficit? Legalize marijuana and tax its sale.
And legalization would do much to stop the uneven enforcement that places so many young black men in prison. When a person comes out of prison, it’s that much harder to get a job. And then there’s the need for welfare, medicaid, etc. So, if people were less stigmatized, we’d have less demand for government services.
“The more laws a society has, the more lawless a society appears.”
MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago
I am opposed to drugs, legal or not. Especially pills against moods etc. are dealt out like candy by psychologists and other doctors. Feeling depressed? Pop a pill! Don’t worry about the reasons for your depression, and for heavens sake don’t think about the current state of the world – or your nation, state, city, suburb, job, car, wife, life, health, money… You get the point, right?