RCMinor, it’s the “same crap”, but there’s quality control. And it’s “medicinal” in exactly the same way that “medicinal alcohol” was exempt from Prohibition in the 30’s (when there were ALSO issues of quality control with the stuff you’d get on the streets).
For the record, I don’t use marijuana, and I drink alcohol. But I’m fully aware that alcohol is by far the more dangerous of the two…
Cigarettes are legal death wishes with each puff (including passive smoke); Alcohol is way more addictive and dangerous; marijuana was once legal, then a controlled substance, then a Felony for just possession; only alcohol producers, tobacco manufacturers, the law enforcement and bureaucratic government cottage industry, and the sanctimonious benefit from its present legal status. I smoked both brands of hazard for years, quit cigarettes 30 years ago (man that was hard!!) and still suffer from heart problems caused by cigarettes, but could quit my occasional smoking of brand MJ anytime I wanted, sometimes for years, and haven’t smoked MJ for decades now. God forgive those who financially benefit from locking up kids and ruining their lives, spending loads of money we don’t have to pay the salary of enforcement and costs of incarceration, not to mention the loss of millions in sales tax revenues and local growing income; and finally, bending science to their financial and moral benefit at the cost of kids. History repeats: prohibition only benefited crooks! Wake up! We have other bigger problems to fix.
“Drinking is more dangerous of the two.?Try drinking in moderation, that may help you out, son.”
It’s not my drinking that’s the greatest danger to me, flower. Look up the drunk-driving fatalities. Bar fights. Domestic violence. I’d rather deal with someone who’s stoned than drunk.
Moderation in all things, sure. That goes for pot AND alcohol. And I’m against prohibition of either. But if you ask me which is likely to be alive in 20 years, a “serious” drinker or a “serious” pot smoker, I’ll put my money on the stoner.
Burgundy, that USED to be the case down here, too, and it was its effectiveness in staving off the dramatic weight loss in AIDS patients that started the big push for legalization of “cannabis clubs.” But once that door was opened, for better or worse the list of diseases and symptoms for which it was prescribed got longer and longer. Nowadays simply suffering from “anxiety disorder” can get you a scrip from a sympathetic doctor.
Still, I remember an old “Barney Miller” episode from well before the AIDS era where Wojo (I think) hauled in a seriously stoned guy who had a doctor’s note explaining that his marijuana was being used to treat his glaucoma.
I disagree, I was taking 6-8 10 mg Methadone hcl each day for pain. Eating a cannibis browney in the morning allows me to cut back to 2 methadone tablets a day.
Knightman Premium Member over 13 years ago
Like if he needs to get the Munchies more.
ksensitive over 13 years ago
Colorado doctor.
conean over 13 years ago
Would have been funnier if the patient wasn’t a Rasta, just a stuck-in-the-sixties ol’ hippy.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
RCMinor, it’s the “same crap”, but there’s quality control. And it’s “medicinal” in exactly the same way that “medicinal alcohol” was exempt from Prohibition in the 30’s (when there were ALSO issues of quality control with the stuff you’d get on the streets).
For the record, I don’t use marijuana, and I drink alcohol. But I’m fully aware that alcohol is by far the more dangerous of the two…
Roadrunner Premium Member over 13 years ago
Cigarettes are legal death wishes with each puff (including passive smoke); Alcohol is way more addictive and dangerous; marijuana was once legal, then a controlled substance, then a Felony for just possession; only alcohol producers, tobacco manufacturers, the law enforcement and bureaucratic government cottage industry, and the sanctimonious benefit from its present legal status. I smoked both brands of hazard for years, quit cigarettes 30 years ago (man that was hard!!) and still suffer from heart problems caused by cigarettes, but could quit my occasional smoking of brand MJ anytime I wanted, sometimes for years, and haven’t smoked MJ for decades now. God forgive those who financially benefit from locking up kids and ruining their lives, spending loads of money we don’t have to pay the salary of enforcement and costs of incarceration, not to mention the loss of millions in sales tax revenues and local growing income; and finally, bending science to their financial and moral benefit at the cost of kids. History repeats: prohibition only benefited crooks! Wake up! We have other bigger problems to fix.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
“Drinking is more dangerous of the two.?Try drinking in moderation, that may help you out, son.”
It’s not my drinking that’s the greatest danger to me, flower. Look up the drunk-driving fatalities. Bar fights. Domestic violence. I’d rather deal with someone who’s stoned than drunk.
Moderation in all things, sure. That goes for pot AND alcohol. And I’m against prohibition of either. But if you ask me which is likely to be alive in 20 years, a “serious” drinker or a “serious” pot smoker, I’ll put my money on the stoner.
fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago
Burgundy, that USED to be the case down here, too, and it was its effectiveness in staving off the dramatic weight loss in AIDS patients that started the big push for legalization of “cannabis clubs.” But once that door was opened, for better or worse the list of diseases and symptoms for which it was prescribed got longer and longer. Nowadays simply suffering from “anxiety disorder” can get you a scrip from a sympathetic doctor.
Still, I remember an old “Barney Miller” episode from well before the AIDS era where Wojo (I think) hauled in a seriously stoned guy who had a doctor’s note explaining that his marijuana was being used to treat his glaucoma.
jmo328 over 13 years ago
I wouldn’t want to be sick enough to require “medical marijuana.”
davehockman over 13 years ago
I disagree, I was taking 6-8 10 mg Methadone hcl each day for pain. Eating a cannibis browney in the morning allows me to cut back to 2 methadone tablets a day.
burleigh2 over 13 years ago
Gee… go figure…