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If the use of marijuana for medical reasons is “legal,” shouldn’t it be regulated just like any other drug?

I have to admit, I question the validity of “medical marijuana.”

As a terminally ill Liver patient who was given Hep-C by doctors who are now self righteously denying me a transplant for eschewing the horribly addicting opiates for cannabis to help alleviate my pain and nausea and to give me an appetite so I can live a little longer. I say go meet some of the patients yourself before you add to the hopelessness they must face. Compassion compassion Please! They have such a hard time finding anything to laugh about. Would you deny them even that?
The prosecution of the terminally ill and those who are suffering is a pitiful shame!
The prosecution of the people of the world for a innocuous herb that has NO history of overdose death is a crime against humanity!
It can not be justified especially while Tobacco kills millions and alcohol destroys so many lives and is Subsidized by the criminal
politicians! How could we have let this go on for so long? We have been complicit in this crime! ! !
Let’s STOP IT now!
MAX

It seems when they make the laws they are more concerned about the substance than the patient.

We all know cannabis isn’t going to give you “reefer madness” or make you go kill someone.

Pursuing legal cannabis growers does nothing but muddle up our justice system and prohibit people with a real need for help from receiving the help they need.

We’re much better off going after foreign drug cartels that are often also very involved in human trafficking (www.transitionsglobal.org) and other, nastier stuff.

why prosecute local growers and sellers? it really should be the organized criminals who import it and participate in all the nasty hardcore crime, who are prosecuted.
by the way, clean unadulterated mj has some of the most beneficial substances known to man for: among other things, alleviation of inflammation and pain; and guess what, it can actually help stimulate growth of nerve endings/ paths in the brain, when they are lacking. a regenerative property. amazing but true.
there is such huge benefit from the plant for medicinal but all kinds of other uses as well: the plants, seeds and fibers of hemp used to be a major american crop , grown even by people like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
Hemp alone could replace much of the wood used to make paper, and the oil is reportedly good for auto fuel- and can be grown in regions where other plants and trees don’t do well.
something happened in about 1920, when the major drug companies decided they couldn’t patent pot, so they did their dangdest to illegalize this natural and very beneficial medicine by things like scary fake movies and other propaganda. it worked! too bad. so we should wake up and stop putting our people in jails for growing, selling or using it locally. that’s a high price to pay for something that shouldn’t even be illegal.
(no i don’t use it, but i probably need it and would be a qualified user under oregon law. i’m still too scared to risk it because of the federal prosecutions. i wish they would make it legal in the whole usa, then i might use it).