How can you discuss the show and the facts offered when you haven't watched it?
Real doctors wearing white smocks or a suit and tie have been advocating medical use for decades. The problem is that ANYONE recommending or using MMJ is perceived as a "stoner" regardless of their appearance.
I never said "anyone". I said that those pushing the movement, those who are in the public view, are the stereotypical stoners.
You say you "moved beyond the poor perception and have embraced the concept of medicinal mj" but continued to make Anslinger-ish type comments, broad characterizations, and statements that are completely wrong and illustrate your lack of acceptance/knowledge of the facts. IMHO the discussion is hysterical as it appears to be an argument purely for an argument.
What have I stated that is "completely wrong"? Be careful here, because most of the counterpoints against my comments have been based on selective hearing. I say things like "all non-medicinal use of mj is for getting high" and the retort is "what about medicinal mj use?". It would be aggravating if it wasn't so funny.
Here's a couple of quotes from some other self-righteous knee jerk proponents:
"If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education"
"The greatest service that can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."
"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
~Thomas Jefferson
"slave. Tend to my mj crop. then sleep with me and bear my child." - T. Jefferson
"Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death."
~Testimony of Professor Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., October 1, 1997
I believe this to be true.
"There are no long lasting ill-effects from the acute use of marijuana and no fatalities have ever been recorded ... there seems to be growing agreement within the medical community, at least, that marijuana does not directly cause criminal behaviour, juvenile delinquency, sexual excitement, or addiction."
~Dr J. H. Jaffe, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics. L.Goodman and A Gillman, 3rd edn. 1965
Would you openly use it in front of your kids?
"Simulated driving scores for subjects experiencing a normal social "high" and the same subjects under control conditions are not significantly different. However, there are significantly more errors for alcohol intoxicated than for control subjects"
~Crancer Study, Washington Department of Motor Vehicles
So we shouldn't worry about the driving. We should let kids smoke pot and drive. If you say no, then you're not truly believing what this study says.
"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
~Biblical - Genesis 1:29
You do realize that the earth is full of many poison herbs and berries and such. Don't you?
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