Progressive Proposals: The Marijuana Edition

[P@triot]

Wow, are you intentionally obtuse?

Wow, are you intentionally trying to walk back what you said after I pointed out the absurdity of it?

Big Pharma pushed the doctors to write these prescriptions, wining and dining them with dinners and vacations.

The “wining” and “dining” is a sales tactic to get the physicians to use that companies product. It has nothing to do with the amount of pills or the dosage prescribed by the doctors.

Put your tinfoil hat away. We get it….you’re a devout socialist with a seething hatred of capitalism. But that is causing you to make absurd comments.

 

[P@triot]

Well ... it was a stupid example ... micrograms of marijuana ...

It was an example of “micrograms of opioids”. Opioids. You’re seriously struggling to follow this conversation.

that's nothing at all ...

That’s the entire point! It is “nothing at all”. Which is why you cannot get hooked on it. Proving that the product is not the problem - the dosage is the problem.

 

[P@triot]

Do you speak from experience? ... [hand wave] ... have fun ...

No. I’ve never done LSD or been addicted to opioids. Which is probably why I can follow a conversation.

 

[JoeB131]

The “wining” and “dining” is a sales tactic to get the physicians to use that companies product. It has nothing to do with the amount of pills or the dosage prescribed by the doctors.

It most certainly does. It means instead of prescribing non-addictive pain management solutions, these doctors were handing out oxy like it was Halloween Candy.

That's how your hero Rush got addicted.

 

[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

How long did you use it?

 

[Moonglow]

No. I’ve never done LSD or been addicted to opioids. Which is probably why I can follow a conversation.

Then you have no personal experience, which is why you are a whiney bitch all the time.

 

[Moonglow]

It most certainly does. It means instead of prescribing non-addictive pain management solutions, these doctors were handing out oxy like it was Halloween Candy.

That's how your hero Rush got addicted.

While dying from a legal product called tobacco.

 

[debbiedowner]

RFK jr feels different than op.

 

[Blaster]

PEDs are a real problem.

 

[Moonglow]

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.

I was a self-employed mason for forty years.

 

[Picaro]

I never lost any brain cells or became sick from it.

What years were these? The stuff they grow these days isn't like the natural stuff from the 60's and 70's, it downright toxic and heavily genetically modified. Ironically the same people who snivel about Monsanto and the genetically modified commercial ag seeds think doing the same Weird Science with weed is just grand and wonderful.

 

[P@triot]

RFK jr feels different than op.

I respect RFK…but he’s simply wrong on this one. He clearly hasn’t read the studies.