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Relief is here for DC patients
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I would MUCH rather my teenage son (he'll be a teenager in about 8.5 years) be dipping into my medical marijuana stash than a stash of an opiate. Are you kidding?!
I come from a family of doctors and medical professionals/mainstream healers... I think the beauty of marijuana as a medicine is that its safe for anybody to self-prescribe... this takes power out of the hands of the medical establishment... and establishments don't like to give up their power.
If I were to find out my teenagers were smoking pot, it would be a lot less of a problem for me than if they were drinking alcohol or popping pills.
That's not to say I WANT my kids smoking herb before their time (a time that they will decide, not me) but teenagers DO experiment with altered perception. I recall my junior year kegger... all the nerds and "good" kids were right there alongside the burnouts puking in the bushes after 3 beer funnels right alongside the burnouts and degenerates... THAT image causes me some apprehension for the future. I'm not so worried about them smoking some pot.
I also don't think that your opinion that MJ will eventually be treated by the law like other medicines. I think a beer/wine paradigm is way more likely.
I come from a family of doctors and medical professionals/mainstream healers... I think the beauty of marijuana as a medicine is that its safe for anybody to self-prescribe... this takes power out of the hands of the medical establishment... and establishments don't like to give up their power.
If I were to find out my teenagers were smoking pot, it would be a lot less of a problem for me than if they were drinking alcohol or popping pills.
That's not to say I WANT my kids smoking herb before their time (a time that they will decide, not me) but teenagers DO experiment with altered perception. I recall my junior year kegger... all the nerds and "good" kids were right there alongside the burnouts puking in the bushes after 3 beer funnels right alongside the burnouts and degenerates... THAT image causes me some apprehension for the future. I'm not so worried about them smoking some pot.
I also don't think that your opinion that MJ will eventually be treated by the law like other medicines. I think a beer/wine paradigm is way more likely.
I can't smoke weed anymore because of job drug testing so right now I'm on 10mg of oxycodone (legal, no worries fellas). I mean the high is really nice right now, but I'd much rather be taking a safer treatment for my headaches/allergies than this.
I just wonder how quickly weed would be legalized if everyone watched The Union or something.
I just wonder how quickly weed would be legalized if everyone watched The Union or something.
Chron: I am pickin up what you are layin down. I misunderstood your original post.
fargo: Seems like oxy would be overkill for your symptoms (if herb were allowed for you, i'd consider tylenol overkill.
) but I make no judgments if it provides you relief. But the fact that you have to use a drug with a potential hardcore addiction and guarantied softcore addiction is just wrong.
I gotta say.. with all the talk focusing on 'legalization' in these parts, I have not considered the potential ramifications of Cali legalizing recreational use on the fight for medical rights outside of the current med states. I wonder if this is just fodder for the anti-medical movement which keeps saying that allowing medical is just defacto legalization snuck in by the hippies and jazz musicians. Something to think about, thanks.
fargo: Seems like oxy would be overkill for your symptoms (if herb were allowed for you, i'd consider tylenol overkill.
) but I make no judgments if it provides you relief. But the fact that you have to use a drug with a potential hardcore addiction and guarantied softcore addiction is just wrong. I gotta say.. with all the talk focusing on 'legalization' in these parts, I have not considered the potential ramifications of Cali legalizing recreational use on the fight for medical rights outside of the current med states. I wonder if this is just fodder for the anti-medical movement which keeps saying that allowing medical is just defacto legalization snuck in by the hippies and jazz musicians. Something to think about, thanks.
