Progressive Proposals: The Marijuana Edition

[P@triot]

no, silly, if the doctor reduces the prescription, the patient gets the rest off the streets ...

No silly, if the doctor only prescribes lower levels to begin with, a person never gets addicted

So no, they don’t go “get the rest off the streets”. If I give you a micro-gram of an opioid, you’re not getting addicted. Period.

 

[ReinyDays]

... and for the love of God ... DON'T TOKE AND DRIVE ...

 

[P@triot]

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.

For the most part, I agree with you.

However, the “doesn’t affect you” is extremely naive. Crime affects everyone. More law enforcement to deal with crime raises my taxes. Having a nation of brain-fried idiots effects me. We have a responsibility to educate our citizens on the dangers of this shit. Let other nations because retarded and schizophrenic from drugs.

 

[ReinyDays]

No silly, if the doctor only prescribes lower levels to begin with, a person never gets addicted

So no, they don’t go “get the rest off the streets”. If I give you a micro-gram of an opioid, you’re not getting addicted. Period.

That's not how opioid addiction works ... "never gets addicted" ... yeah, that's what Purdue University said ... obviously, they were wrong ... and so are you ...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/purdue-pharma-supreme-court-opioid-settlement/index.html

 

[P@triot]

That's not how opioid addiction works ... "never gets addicted" ... yeah, that's what Purdue University said ... obviously ... they were wrong ... and so are you ...

If I give you a micro-gram of an opioid, you’re not getting addicted. Period.

You’re wrong. End of story.

 

[ReinyDays]

For the most part, I agree with you.

However, the “doesn’t affect you” is extremely naive. Crime affects everyone. More law enforcement to deal with crime raises my taxes. Having a nation of brain-fried idiots effects me. We have a responsibility to educate our citizens on the dangers of this shit. Let other nations because retarded and schizophrenic from drugs.

Our local police have made inroads into the meth problem here ... mainly because they don't have to fool with marijuana laws ... property crime is down now that marijuana is lawful ...

 

[ReinyDays]

If I give you a micro-gram of an opioid, you’re not getting addicted. Period.

You’re wrong. End of story.

SCOTUS disagrees with you ...

 

[Dekster]

For the most part, I agree with you.

However, the “doesn’t affect you” is extremely naive. Crime affects everyone. More law enforcement to deal with crime raises my taxes. Having a nation of brain-fried idiots effects me. We have a responsibility to educate our citizens on the dangers of this shit. Let other nations because retarded and schizophrenic from drugs.

Don't make it a crime and you won't need more law enforcement officers to deal with it. Besides, most of the people I know who are potheads are either knocking in retirement or in a promising career path to nowhere already. Spend all you want educating people so they can make an informed choice, but I still support it being their choice.

 

[initforme]

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.

Phoenix are overworked, to a decent degree underpaid, and they're tired. Stressed out 90 percent of the time. They turn to bad escapes. Been going on a long long time.

 

[petro]

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.

I would give someone like you probably ten minutes in the job I do.
Tough?
I build houses for millionaires that require working in inclement weather, at dangerous heights, carrying heavy shit, that requires a knowledge of multiple and conflicting city codes. An abilty to read engineering prints and make that work in real life.
Can you work in -30F? I do.
Take your stupid generalizations and misplaced moral superiority and shove it up your ass.

 

[P@triot]

SCOTUS disagrees with you ...

Have we been issuing only a microgram of opioids to every patient the past 40 years? No? Oh, then you are 100% wrong then.

If a single drop of alcohol touches your tongue every single day, you’re not becoming an alcoholic. The amount is what causes the addiction

 

[P@triot]

I would give someone like you probably ten minutes in the job I do.
Tough?
I build houses for millionaires that require working in inclement weather, at dangerous heights, carrying heavy shit, that requires a knowledge of multiple and conflicting city codes. An abilty to read engineering prints and make that work in real life.
Can you work in -30F? I do.
Take your stupid generalizations and misplaced moral superiority and shove it up your ass.

Americans have done that exact job in those exact conditions for 200 years or more. Plenty did it without pot or alcohol or other nonsense.

Also, you sound like an idiot. If the job is so hard it causes you to do stupid shit, find another job

Proof that the job is just an excuse. At the end of the day, you love feeling “funny”. You’re willing to risk your health and even sanity, for it. All to feel “funny”

 

[P@triot]

Don't make it a crime and you won't need more law enforcement officers to deal with it.

Really? So somebody high won’t get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and kill someone?

Someone addicted to pot will never steal to get the money to feed their addiction?

The naivety of your statement is truly astounding. Like a child wrote it.

 

[ReinyDays]

Have we been issuing only a microgram of opioids to every patient the past 40 years? No? Oh, then you are 100% wrong then.

If a single drop of alcohol touches your tongue every single day, you’re not becoming an alcoholic. The amount is what causes the addiction

Do you speak from experience? ... and which manufacturer is providing dosages in micrograms ... smallest I can find on the internet is 5 milligrams ... if that's safe, why is it prescription-only? ...

Your examples are fantasy ... that's not what killed a million Americans ...

 

[petro]

Americans have done that exact job in those exact conditions for 200 years or more. Plenty did it without pot or alcohol or other nonsense.

Also, you sound like an idiot. If the job is so hard it causes you to do stupid shit, find another job

Proof that the job is just an excuse. At the end of the day, you love feeling “funny”. You’re willing to risk your health and even sanity, for it. All to feel “funny”

The only idiot I see is a self appointed know it all blowhard attacking people for expressing an opinion.

It appears your addiction is stroking your own ego online to feel superior to strangers.

 

[ReinyDays]

Really? So somebody high won’t get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and kill someone?

Someone addicted to pot will never steal to get the money to feed their addiction?

The naivety of your statement is truly astounding. Like a child wrote it.

It's a felony here to drink and drive, and it's a felony to toke and drive ...

Top quality flower buds will run $250 an oz. ... leaf runs $25 a pound, if not free ... growers throw it away along with their poor quality buds ... marijuana is a PLANT ... and it grows everyplace in the upper Midwest ... indeed it's a troublesome weed in Iowa's corn fields ...

Why would someone steal for something a farmer will hire them to do ... I've walked bean fields for pay ... corn and marijuana was what I was killing ... a good month's labor every year from them organic hippy freaks ...

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." -- Genesis 1:29 ...

Maybe you should argue this with God ... it's His creation, not mine ...

 

[Dekster]

Really? So somebody high won’t get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and kill someone?

Someone addicted to pot will never steal to get the money to feed their addiction?

The naivety of your statement is truly astounding. Like a child wrote it.

Ditch the paranoia and Have a blessed life.

 

[JoeB131]

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

So are most of what Big Phrama sells if they are taken the wrong way. The reason why we have an opioid crisis is because Big Pharma was passing out Oxycotin like it was Halloween Candy.

Sure it's bad for you.

So is Tobacco
So is alcohol
So are most junk foods, fatty food, soda, etc.

There are some cases where it can provide a benefit, though. For instance, reducing the pain felt by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

 

[ReinyDays]

So are most of what Big Phrama sells if they are taken the wrong way. The reason why we have an opioid crisis is because Big Pharma was passing out Oxycotin like it was Halloween Candy.

Insurance saved money by not providing treatments ... "here's some pills, have fun" ...

 

[JoeB131]

Insurance saved money by not providing treatments ... "here's some pills, have fun" ...

Okay.

But the Doctors should have known better. The patients should have known better. The Pharma companies should have known better.

Lot's of people to blame for the Opioid crisis.