March 6, 2009 9:10 AM
Has medical marijuana gotten a bad rap? Dr. Jon LaPook talks with Dr. Herbert Kleber and Dr. Mitch Earleywine on the pros and cons of using medical marijuana for your health.
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See all 25 CommentsPeople Would Be Coming In And Outta That Store Or Hospital Like Crazy. Think Of How Much Money You Would Be Makeing Buy Growing And Selling Weed To People That Love It Or Need It For Their Body.?
I Vote Yes To Legalizing It(:
Man is not
Man made whiskey
God made pot
Pot is natural
it grows on the ground
If God didn't want it
it would not be around
So for all you red necks who dont
get high fire one up give
Weed a try." unknown
Who decided that alcohol should be legal and not marijuana? I think that the person or people had to have been drunk. I think that if they would have been high they would have thought about it a little longer lol since it slows down the thought process. Drinkers tend to do things so quick that bad things happen. I thought this is a free country. It is our life. What are they afraid of? World Peace and a lot of happy people, or are they afraid that they will lose money. I think I would rather live a happy life and die knowing that i enjoyed my time here was,rather than worring about having money to buy things that you can't take to the grave.
It is a statistical falsehood, a propaganda LIE.
The VAST majority of Marijuana users NEVER try anything harder, so how can it be called a gateway? How can they go around scaring people, telling them that if they try pot, they'll start using crack or meth? That doesn't make sense at all. It's a made-up magical concept, impossible.
Sure, most hard drug users probably tried Marijuana at one point, they also probably tried alcohol or tobacco too. But that does NOT mean those drugs are responsible for their hard drug use. That depends on the person, not what substances they consume.
Correlation does not equal causation! And correlation is the only "evidence" which the gateway is based on. It is nothing more than a backwards correlation fallacy. -_-
PLEASE STOP PROMOTING THIS PROPAGANDA LIE! THERE IS NOTHING TRUTHFUL ABOUT IT!
You could seriously end up in the hospital from alcohol poisoning and DIE. OR, Lets say you smoke a POUND of pot.... You fall asleep on the couch with a bag of doritoes on your chest....which one would you choose? We need to get real and quit putting people in the court systems and in prisons for simply possessing & smoking weed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/03/health/main5209380.shtml
When I was in the Navy I was stationed on a Destroyer and I was constantly seasick. I was given pills like Dramamine but received no benefit from them. Finally I, and others like me chose to smoke marijuana and we never suffered from seasickness again. (At the time I served, drug testing was not a policy).
My mother dies from cancer. During her last few months she was very sick and had no appetite. I offered to get her some marijuana, and after much thought she declined, only because it was illegal. She suffered needlessly because of the social stigma at the time and because of the prejudice against marijuana.
4/20/09
Is it addictive? Haven't seen any addicts yet.
I have never used it and don't intend to ever use it. I just hate taking drugs?drives my doctor crazy. I have stopped even take aspirin or paracetamol and almost all of my antibiotic prescriptions were never filled.
The plant has very useful medicinal properties. It reduces intra-occular (within the eye) pressure, so it is used as part of the treatment for glaucoma. It is used by some women to relieve the discomfort of dysmenohrrhea. Other uses are relief from nausea and increase of appetite, reduction of muscle spasms, relief from chronic pain, reduce the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS itself and by various AIDS medications. There are too many uses to list here.
I don't think though, that it should be made freely available. But then that might just me because of my very great aversion to drugs, and the fact that I happen to know that in its raw form, the concentrations of the many drugs varies very wildly from plant to plant.
A very powerful argument is cost: The stuff is so cheap!!! Some of us can even get much more of it than we can use, FOR FREE!!!
Another point is that it might be just as carcinogenic as tobacco but does not appear habit forming, so it can be argued that if you allow tobacco, why restrict marijuana?
Another observation: I have seen many persons driving while smoking some of the most potent stuff grown around me, yet none have been involved in any accident!!! (I think a Jamaican singer has a song about that.)
Alcohol and tobacco kill a million people every year just in the U.S.A., while not one death in the entire history of mankind can be attributed to cannabis consumption.
THC is proven to destroy tumors, promote the growth of brain cells, is a superior inhibitor of the plaque that causes Alzheimers, and treats many other common diseases with no negative side effects whatsoever.
Its seed is the single most nutritionally complete food source on earth, itself alleviating many common ailments and helping to end world hunger.
Anything made from oil, coal, timber, or cotton can be made with ecologically friendly with cannabis hemp, over 25,000 known products.
In Exodus 30:23 God instructs Moses to use 250 shekels of it (kaneh bosm, mistranslated as calamus) in the Holy oil to anoint all his Priests, Kings, and Prophets, for all geneartions to come, including that of Jesus and even today, as the title Christ/Messiah means literally; covered in oil, Anointed! Kaneh is also listed as an incense tree in Song of Soings 4:14. The mistake was repeated in Isaiah 43:24, Jeremiah 6:20, and Ezekiel 27:19.
The Tree of Life, Kaneh bosm, cannabis, hemp!
The leaves of the Tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse!
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