I'm Glad the Internet News is Free-
because some of the stuff I read isn't worth five cents.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8118123/
It makes so much sense to allow something in a state law and to have it illegal in federal law. California has ruled medicinal MJ for a few years and this is only just now being handed down. I personally am not in favor of recreational drug use- perscription or otherwise. Its bad enough we get chemicals in our over processed food, I don't see the need to flood our bodies with more drugs to satisfy an itch.
But medicinally, there isn't any difference between marijuana vicodin adderal or any of the hundreds of other pain treating medicines there are. At least the medicinal marijuana is purer, and the intent is to treat pain- not to get high.
I have sympathy for people undergoing chemo-therapy, degenerative diseases, and various forms of paralysis. I lost my father to cancer in less than half a year after diagnosis. Its very difficult and painful.
I worked in a pharmacy for a time as a technician, and I got to see everything from people with legitimate problems and were treating them to the best of their ability so they could live their lives. But then I did see some fewer people that dependancy had dropped in on their conditions, and they were satisfying the addiction rather than the cause- and they knew it. The worst were the fewer, angrier ones that had no real legitimate need for the drug and had a doctor givng them paper rather than rehab.
The ones I felt the most sorry for, were the ones who were going to the 'doper doctors'. The patients honestly trying to find a diagnosis/cure for their condition, and the doctors would have them on 6+ drugs. I felt like crying when we'd have drugs in plastic bags-because they wouldn't fit in the larger paper perscription sacks. And they'd be such nice people too.
I wish them well, and all the strength angels can give them.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8118123/
WASHINGTON - Federal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state laws don’t protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
It makes so much sense to allow something in a state law and to have it illegal in federal law. California has ruled medicinal MJ for a few years and this is only just now being handed down. I personally am not in favor of recreational drug use- perscription or otherwise. Its bad enough we get chemicals in our over processed food, I don't see the need to flood our bodies with more drugs to satisfy an itch.
But medicinally, there isn't any difference between marijuana vicodin adderal or any of the hundreds of other pain treating medicines there are. At least the medicinal marijuana is purer, and the intent is to treat pain- not to get high.
I have sympathy for people undergoing chemo-therapy, degenerative diseases, and various forms of paralysis. I lost my father to cancer in less than half a year after diagnosis. Its very difficult and painful.
I worked in a pharmacy for a time as a technician, and I got to see everything from people with legitimate problems and were treating them to the best of their ability so they could live their lives. But then I did see some fewer people that dependancy had dropped in on their conditions, and they were satisfying the addiction rather than the cause- and they knew it. The worst were the fewer, angrier ones that had no real legitimate need for the drug and had a doctor givng them paper rather than rehab.
The ones I felt the most sorry for, were the ones who were going to the 'doper doctors'. The patients honestly trying to find a diagnosis/cure for their condition, and the doctors would have them on 6+ drugs. I felt like crying when we'd have drugs in plastic bags-because they wouldn't fit in the larger paper perscription sacks. And they'd be such nice people too.
I wish them well, and all the strength angels can give them.
posted by Razorhoney at 6/06/2005 03:24:00 PM
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