Progressive Proposals: The Marijuana Edition

[Blaster]

Marijuana was a legal substance until 1938.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Ok then let's outlaw high fructose corn syrup, refined sugar, and processed meats as well. Not to mention hydrogenated oils. We're for freedom but......and I'm not a pot user. It's so rampant and everywhere the genie is out of the bottle.

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For once, I actually agree with you, at least the first sentence of this post.

Let's hope RFK, Jr. will hit this issue HARD.


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[ReinyDays]

Reality is for people who can't handle drugs ...

I'd like to focus on marijuana as prescription medication ... I'm sorry, even as an advocate of legalization, I have to admit the medical benefits of marijuana is a mixed bag ... some I've spoken with some who swear by it, others say it doesn't do anything ... and not many studies have been done on it's efficacy as a pain management drug ... although all the chemo patients I've spoken with say marijuana helps with appetite ...

Opioids are the alternative ... choose wisely ...

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Meh.
Approaching 60 myself and have partaken in my few puffs a day going on 4 decades now. Rarely drink alcohol and never use any other drugs.
No mental illness to speak of, unless you count posting on this site.
Thing is, I have done quite well with a credit score in the top 10%, drive an expensive truck, own my own house, with toys in the garage. Pay my taxes and work residential construction in conditions that a majority of people can't handle, blowing away the notion that pot smokers are lazy and unproductive.

All I see is a bunch of Carrie Nation Nanny Statists that wish to use government to control human behavior. Those exist on both sides of the political spectrum.

I am not touting that pot is any kind of miracle drug, just that I simply enjoy it and it helps me sleep through the aches and pains of working a physically and mentally demanding job.

I know the risks and it is my choice. Period.

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It gave my husband remarkable relief from some very real symptoms in the last months of his life. He was a tee-totaling school teacher and hated it until he saw the relief it gave him. Luckily, we lived in a state which supported a very regulated medical cannabis industry, and could trust the quality of the MJ, at least in the medical dispensaries.

Otherwise, nope. I'm proud to live now in a state which just voted down recreational cannabis.

I tried it a few times in my youth and hated it.


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[P@triot]

It's a result of stress and the american way. Wake up rush off the work, work all day, rush home. Too exhausted for much of anything. Alcohol is an escape. Not a good one, not a healthy one,. A bad choice. But the number of functioning alcohols is rising steadily. Something is amiss. People are pushed too hard. Stretched too thin.

I couldn’t disagree more. It starts off in high school and college before 95% of them even have a job. They find it “fun” to fuck up their brain and feel woozy. It just gets worse from there.

 

[BlackSand]

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And the government has been dumping this shit in drinking water for decades ...

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[P@triot]

Opioids are the alternative ... choose wisely ...

Opioids are wonderful for pain. We just needed to scale them back, which the medical community has done. Now they issue smaller doses of opioids mixed with Tylenol.

 

[P@triot]

It gave my husband remarkable relief from some very real symptoms in the last months of his life. He was a tee-totaling school teacher and hated it until he saw the relief it gave him.

As with any “drug”, of course I 100% support it under the proper care of a physician.

Especially when it comes to end of life. You don’t have to worry about long term consequences with end of life issues.

 

[hjmick]

You are nuts.

"Nuts" isn't the word I would have chosen...

 

[P@triot]

All I see is a bunch of Carrie Nation Nanny Statists that wish to use government to control human behavior. Those exist on both sides of the political spectrum.

This is the problem with pot-head crowd. They immediately get defensive because they looooooooove their pot more than life itself.

I’m a staunch constitutional conservative. I adamantly believe that the federal government should be strictly prohibited to their 18 enumerated powers.

At no point did I say anything about “outlawing”

 

[P@triot]

I know the risks and it is my choice. Period.

But you don’t know the “risks”. At all. You wouldn’t do it if you actually knew the risks.

 

[P@triot]

I followed all the suggested links about how awful marijuana is, but it was a waste of my time. I learned all that by watching Reefer Madness back when I was a teenager.

He said while high as kite from smoking pot

 

[P@triot]

Marijuana was a legal substance until 1938.

Cocaine was a legal substance once too. Then society woke up.

 

[petro]

But you don’t know the “risks”. At all. You wouldn’t do it if you actually knew the risks.

Don't worry yourself about little old me.

My daily drive with distracted commuters is far more dangerous to my life than a few puffs of pot.

 

[P@triot]

It's so rampant and everywhere the genie is out of the bottle.

Cigarettes were once more “rampant” and “everywhere” and “the genie was out of the bottle” on that as well.

But then we educated people. And we cut that by a staggering 73%.

 

[Moonglow]

Pot heads are fanaticals who whip themselves up into a tizzy about marijuana. They desperately want to believe it’s a “miracle drug” () that’s “healthier” than vegetables ().

But facts are facts. And marijuana - like every other drug - is seriously bad shit.

Warning to weed smokers as cases of strange syndrome double

Research warns that a cannabis-linked health condition has nearly doubled in the past ten years. Doctors haven't determined what causes the syndrome.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I have smoked and used it since 1977, and yet no ill effects.

 

[ReinyDays]

Opioids are wonderful for pain. We just needed to scale them back, which the medical community has done. Now they issue smaller doses of opioids mixed with Tylenol.

Opioids are wonderful for everything ... there's a saying among the Persians living in Iran: "Opium cures everything, but there's no cure for opium" ... no, silly, if the doctor reduces the prescription, the patient gets the rest off the streets ... opioids are addictive, that's makes you wrong ...

I didn't say I'm right about marijuana ... just because someone tells me marijuana works for them doesn't mean it works for them ... you know ... "Pot heads are fanaticals who whip themselves up into a tizzy about marijuana." ... like the Surgeon General of the State of Kansas said ... "Marijuana isn't medicine until the FDA says it's medicine" ...

Opium is FAR AND AWAY the BEST drug of all ... bar none ... only thing on my bucket list: opium addiction ... what a GREAT way to go ...

 

[initforme]

Cigarettes were once more “rampant” and “everywhere” and “the genie was out of the bottle” on that as well.

But then we educated people. And we cut that by a staggering 73%.

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Good point. Then it will take educating people as many states have already legalized it and more will do the same.

 

[P@triot]

Don't worry yourself about little old me.

I’m a little worried. Sad that you can’t get through a day without a substance because you’re so soft. Americans used to be tough. We’ve gotten so weak as a nation. That’s a real problem.

 

[Dekster]

I couldn't care less if people smoke weed as long as they don't do it around me. The stench of it instantly triggers the "Projectile Vomit Activated" Alert in my brain. As for the health consequences, so what. We are all going to die from something. If that is their thing, let them have at it.