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Originally Posted by ilovetv
Stop CALLING me "a pawn"!!
Do some homework!! This is no simple matter. I and many people who have lived with people destroying their minds with chronic pot abuse for the last 40 years would not deprive a suffering patient of this drug if it helps them.
However.....The big problem I see in "medical marijuana" legislation and current states' laws is that if it is truly for "medical" use, then it would be made a prescription drug subject to all the regulations and quality controls that all other prescription drugs are....Like Viagra which is dangerous if not properly prescribed according to contraindications, problems with interacting with other drugs being taken, etc. (it was first a cardiac drug).
But "medical marijuana" so far has NOT been made a prescription drug in states that have it, because most of its proponents want "medical" dispensing of this stuff as a back door hanging open to recreational use. They just want to get high without all the bother of legalities, doctors, pharmacies, DEA licensed prescribers, etc.
It's that "Greed" sin the Occupy Wall Street crowd decries in their phoniness:
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Every state which has "legalized" medical pot requires a physician to certify that the patient has a qualifying medical condition. The details are readily available if you care to be fully informed at
20 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC - Medical Marijuana - ProCon.org
The use of the term "prescription" in your argument is possibly something you heard from others or from favored media sources. You have been misled. Most states don't require a "prescription" as that term has certain legal meanings and Federal law prohibits the prescribing of Schedule 1 drugs. So they cannot be prescribed. However every state requires the patient to have a qualified medical condition and be under the care of a physician to get medical marijuana. The medical marijuana movement came years before occupy wall street and has nothing to do with legalization. I am sorry to hear that you have had to live with people who have spent the last 40 years destroying their minds with pot. Just because a product can be abused does not mean it can not be responsibly used.