Medical Marijuana is such a stupid topic.

This topic has 16 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 9 months ago by Puget Ute.

Viewing 4 reply threads

Author

Posts
- 01/26/2017 at 2:29 PM #23857
  4
  
  Utah
  Participant
  
  There is no debate when it comes to medical marijuana. How can we be ok with narcotics, including morphine, and not be ok with marijuana?
  
  It’s stupid. It’s old, white guys “who know best” trying to control things.
  
  When it comes to medical marijuana, hell, marijuana, use your brain.
  
  There is no intellignet argument against medical marijuana.
- 01/26/2017 at 2:42 PM #23862
  1 4
  
  CawCawUte
  Participant
  
  Wonderful. Let’s go get high.
  - 01/26/2017 at 2:45 PM #23866
    1
    
    Utah
    Participant
    
    Totally off topic and completely irrelevant to my post, thereby proving my point.
    
    BUT,
    
    even so, who cares? I can get alcohol and smokes from the gas station. I can get pain killers from just about doc. Why do we care so much about marijuana?
    
    Jesus? What other reason is there other than fear?
    - 01/26/2017 at 2:52 PM #23872
      4
      
      CawCawUte
      Participant
      
      Honestly… I could care less if medical marijuan is passed or not. If it helps then I am all for it. If not then I believe there are alternatives. Candidly, it is legal in Utah in some variant. My FIL was prescribed it in his nursing home to help with appetite of all things – all it did was bake him and make him delirious. Regardless, as with narcodics, it would simply become WAY over prescribed. Take Cali… Before it was legal you could walk down any street in San Francisco and see someone leaning against a building and smoking cabbage – medically approved of course. The odor of refer was thick everywhere I went.
      
      Candidly, I don’t want to see weed legalized. We don’t need more drugs disaffecting folks and it has nothing to do with religiosity (protestant myself).
    - 01/26/2017 at 5:23 PM #23909
      
      zeous
      Participant
      
      Jesus? What other reason is there other than fear?
      
      I don’t think he’s registered on UH yet. But maybe you believe he listens to you no matter where you post. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
  - 01/26/2017 at 7:28 PM #23935
    
    IrieUte
    Participant
    
    Even though Im drug free these days. (not even an ibuprofen 5 hours into a headche, or a nyquil or sudafed 6 days into a flu) It should be legalized. Even the male non psycoactive plants have many uses yet are illeagal. How many “supplements” do you take in any given year? I can count with my 5 fingers how many I had the entire last year.
- 01/26/2017 at 2:43 PM #23863
  2
  
  Tony (admin)
  Keymaster
  
  I think its mostly a case of moral or religious beliefs which don’t do much more than make your old white guy “feel good.”
  - 01/26/2017 at 2:47 PM #23868
    1
    
    Utah
    Participant
    
    I agree, which is not a good reason. Religion just got over being scared of smart women and black guys.
    
    Maybe religion isn’t the best place to get your morals about social issues from.
    - 01/26/2017 at 2:56 PM #23874
      2 4
      
      CawCawUte
      Participant
      
      I am looking forward to a good drink tonight – got no compuction with an adult being an adult. I am happy by the fact that legislation will remove the “zion curtain” here in Utah (how embarrassing was that anyway). Regardless, I would prefer to see tightening of drug prescriptions not more liberalization of the same. Again, if you are suffering from cancer (or any other significant malady) and dope makes you feel less nauseated, less anxious, whatever then by all means it should be made available. HOWEVER, let’s not pretend that some docs won’t prescribe it because someone sprained their toe (or some other non necessary reason). JMO.
      - 01/26/2017 at 3:02 PM #23879
        3
        
        Utah
        Participant
        
        I don’t disagree with anything you said.
        
        I also don’t think marijuana should be illegal in any form. How can alcohol and tobacco be ok and not marijuana? Doesn’t make any sense. I’ve lived in Washington and Oregon when it was decriminalized and made legal and there was no change to any part of my life.
        
        How many lives have been ruined over marijuana? How many prisons could we close if we let all the marijuana offenders out? Why can one drink all night long, but if he lights up a joint, he gets sent to prison? Makes no sense.
        
        Back to the legalization of marijuana, there was one change. Every elders quorum meeting turned into a debate over whether or not it was ok to smoke dope. The young guys didn’t see anything wrong with it, the old guys thought they were going to hell. Quite funny.
        
        01/26/2017 at 4:47 PM #23898
        2
        
        KiYi-Ute
        Participant
        
        How many prisons could we close if we let all the marijuana offenders out?
        
        That may be part of the problem right there. Entities (in this case, the private prison system) stand to lose a lot of money if we’re not locking people up over petty drug charges anymore. Police stand to lose money if we throttle back on this ridiculous War on Drugs (that’s working SO well, by the way).
        
        As with most issues, I think it ultimately comes down to one thing: the almighty dollar.
        
        As someone who used to use it recreationally, but not anymore, I’d still like to see it legalized.
        
        01/27/2017 at 9:35 AM #24001
        2
        
        AZswayze
        Participant
        
        Obama was a supreme disappointment in this regard. I was thrilled when he put an end to private prisons, but I have no doubt that they’ll see a resurgence under Trump. The war on drugs is a catastrophe, and Obama largely ignored it. Now, there’s no end in sight.
        
        01/27/2017 at 10:20 AM #24006
        1
        
        Puget Ute
        Participant
        
        No kidding. He should have at least forced the DEA to reclassify it lower than Schedule 1. It would have been even better to give the FDA jurisdiction to regulate it. The DEA regulates it but also directly profits from enforcement (by confiscating cash at crime scenes).
- 01/26/2017 at 2:56 PM #23875
  
  jamarcus24
  Participant
  
  But I was always told weed makes you do crazy things and dulls your inhibitions.
  - 01/26/2017 at 3:12 PM #23883
    
    Utah
    Participant
    
    It makes you want to beat your family, drive your car into humans, have sex with unclean people and you will end up derelict on the streets.
    - 01/26/2017 at 3:58 PM #23891
      4
      
      jamarcus24
      Participant
      
      On any given day any two out of those four side effects don’t seem half bad.
- 01/26/2017 at 4:29 PM #23894
  2
  
  mesovanhorny
  Participant
  
  weed good
Author

Posts