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Originally Posted by blueash
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. |
I mentioned OWS as an example of the
phoniness from groups that decry and protest "GREED" on the part of
Big Corporate,
Big Business,
Big Wall Street,
"Corporate Fat Cats"
Big Pharma......
..but NOT on the part of Big POT, Big Weed, and Big Dispensers or any special-interest groups wanting to
cash in on legalized pot that's a multi-billion-dollar Big Business in California alone, as stated in the article I linked.
They want their hands on the MONEY, as evidenced by the defeat of the
regulatory legislation in the article I linked above.
It's also the phoniness in calling it a "medical" need when it's simply a want, to get high without all the prosecutions, fines, probations and criminal court records. (I do think it should be de-criminalized....which is not the same as total legalization. I think it's absurd and crippling for twenty-somethings trying to start a career to have criminal court records following them for having been arrested for pot possession/use in college.)