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Originally Posted by Villages PL
If medical marijuana becomes legal, doctors will be in charge of deciding who gets it and who doesn't. That could pose a problem because certain doctors will give it to almost anyone who asks for it. No doubt there will be some doctors who won't do that. But many will think twice about refusing to prescrible it. They might think: "If I refuse, will this patient leave my care and find another doctor?"
The other problem I see coming: 2/3, of the U.S. population, are either overweight or obese. 1/3 of adults are obese. As marijuana use becomes more and more common, will it help or hurt this situation. I believe it will make things worse. Everyone knows about getting the "munchies". And I doubt that marijuana users will get hungry for anything healthy. It will likely be for salty or sugery snacks. In other words, it will be a junk-food binge.
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VPL, bad as the junk-food binge wave would be,
the constant stupor that lowers the students' and employees' IQ by 20 points and halts productivity will be the far larger problem to society. If anybody thinks they're not in stupor, just ask the sober people around them, or ask a person who has quit completely for at least a year, and they can tell you how much more they can get done and accomplish without that intoxicant. (Gee. I wonder why the root word "toxic" is in intoxicant.)
Already, chronic pot heads are on unemployment compensation, public disability payments, disability medicare in their 40s, 50s and 60s, and they're modeling the loser pot head lifestyle to their kids for whom it's normal to see mom and dad in a constant stupor and unable to get a job with an employer who will set objectives, deadlines and quotas for productivity to which compensation is tied.
And then there's the matter of this nation already having a shortage of primary care doctors to take care of people once they get some kind of public or private insurance. The last thing we need is for doctors to spend 30% of their office consult time on plain ole ordinary recreational pot smokers seeking a "medical" permit for it......which then Medicare and Medicaid (taxpayers) will surely be expected to pay for.