I have been following all the info about Medical Marajuana, I personally don't see the problem if it is considered a herb,something natural,something from the earth. My mother passed away in Nov 09, she was an active smoker for well over 20 years and It helped in more ways than one, It helped her sleep when she suffered from tingling,burning and pain in her feet due to her being a diabetic. It also hepled her with the mental aspect of dealing with having such a disease,It's terrible to have,physically,mentally and emotionally.It was hard for my mother to cope with knowing she would eventually die from complications from having this disease. So I personally believe it has a benefit like the drugs your doctor prescribes.

Well, duh?

Didn't smoke pot from Feb. 1979 until trying it again fairly recently. I'd forgotten that it *gives me spasms* in my legs.

Pain/spasms make people grumpy and act like asses. Dont be an ass, get your medical pot recommendation today and stop being a burden to those around you by constantly complaining all the time about the world. Life is short. It is delicious, shocking and flawed. It's your choice: Revel in it or bitch it to death. But if you insist on choosing the latter, please, keep it to yourself.

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This study shows efficacy for this plant. Still, they are arresting and jailing people involved in the cannabis industry over a non lethal substance. It's still fu-king ridiculous we even have to study this plant after over 17,000 trials (and still counting)!

We need to start studies on the mental deficiencies of the people who have demonized this plant in the first place.

Best pain killer there is. A doctor gave me codeine once and when I went back I asked her if they were sugar pills.

It'll take a long time to re-educate the American people about marijuana. The government spent decades demonizing the plant beyond all rationality. And arguments based on facts and rationality will take a long time to overcome that- especially with so many Americans who are disposed to hate anything associated with "liberals". There's no logic or reason behind this refusal to recognize marijuana as just another medical drug- and a very effective and cheap one, at that. But that's another debate.

You mean REEFER MADNESS is factually inaccurate?

THIS is why we need to oppose government mandated health insurance, or even privately mandated health insurance. People have got to be able to UNPLUG their bodies from the GRID and be able to CHILL OUT. Or else you'll have more musicians who are trying to create music who end up being so irritated by government controls that they can't focus.

I know for a fact that it is the only thing that helps my arthritis. Fuck Celebrex or those other big PHARMA poisons that make stomachs bleed.

The phony, endless war on drugs has ruined many people's lives while providing police departments, lawyers, judges, the prison industry, DEA, etc., all sorts of job security, bonuses, overtime pay, ever increasing revenue & powers, their own smuggling/dealing/money-laundering opportunities, etc.!!! (And this is just the tip of the rotten, corrupt iceberg!)

There is a concerted effort by our "authorities" to get everyone thrown into "the system", whether it be the legal system, the prison system, welfare system, etc.!

Traditional pain medicine has many more undesirable side effects. It's more intoxicating, addictive, and causes horrendous constipation. It helps people with MS move much better. When they become to exhausted to eat it helps a lot with that.

Never leave home without it.

No shit, Sherlock. Tell me something I don't know.

Medically, it's a good alternate to many dangerous, man-made drugs.

Recreationally, it's a good alternate to alcohol in terms of health and social effects.

It only remains illegal because of corruption.

Marijuana is illegal in the first place because of corruption, fearmongering, and racism.

http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-mari...

The government sat on such studies in the 1980s, I think.

Actually, the Blue Ribbon Commission, appointed by President Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon in 1972 concluded that pot should be decriminalized. Instead, Nixon formally declared "The War On Drugs." Drugs are easier to get now than they were then.

Vaporizers are damned expensive.

$150 and up for a good one.

Lighters go for about 1.50 right? My vaporizer paid for itself in about 1.5 years. Bad health is expensive. ;D

As a person who has suffered from both peripheral neuropathy and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, I can attest to the fact that marijuana offers a great deal of relief from spasms and nerve pain. There were times when the pain was so constant and sharp that I couldn't sleep for days on end. Marijuana did a lot to help ease the pain and assist in recovery. It is so sad and awful that many people don't have access to this medicine just because of propaganda and ignorance.

Yes, propaganda, ignorance and LAW. I unfortunately moved to a state and served 99 days in jail for possessing a teaspoon of cannabis and a pipe they termed an "instrument of crime".
So here I am, suffering, taking Morphine, Cymbalta and Diazapam (for the PTSD due to being arrested and incarcerated) when all I need is to go home to California, where I can legally treat my pain with a substance that is non-addictive, non-lethal that works.

Here we go with the liberal hippy proaganda! This is a drug! A harmful drug! A drug that has harmed countless American lives and continues to destroy the very fabric of God's America. As a Christian woman, I will not stand idly by as another MENACE is bestowed upon my America in the guise of medicine. ALCOHOL IS BAD ENOUGH! This is an instrument of the devil, and the ragged degenerate god hating Americans who support this crap are going to be a) incarcerated in the coming years, b) shunned from his HOLY word. Have no doubt that this crap was put on our earth to weed out the truthsayers from the sinners. THIS IS AN INSTRUMENT OPF THE DEVIL....AND THOSE USING IT WILL REEP WHAT HE HAS SOWN!!!!!!!!!!!! THE COMING GOD REVOLUTION IS NOT GOING TO ALLOW THE USE OF THIS INSTRUMENT OF SATAN. Allhe who washes their hands in the blood of the LAMB before the SABBATH of HIS WORD will BE SENT INTO THE FIRE! YOU SICK BASTARDS MAKE ME glad knowing that the revolution is UPON US. AND THAT HIS HOLY WORD WILL SHINE AGAIN ON THIS, OUR GREAT NATION.

So explain...are you saying God did NOT make all the plants and animals? Sheesh, I must have read Genesis wrong-or YOU did. But I guess that makes you smarter than God...

You sound like you're just one sermon from blowing somebody away. If anybody could benefit from the healing abilities of pot, it's you. If you really want to feel God's love, chill out, toke up and quit w/the filthy language. I guarantee you won't regret it.

so you would tell another how to live their life. OK, you need to do unto others as you expect them to do to you, so in return for your telling me what to inhale, I tell you to stop following wingnut religions. fair enough?

Christianity is an instrument of the devil, as is every other religion people practice.

You should ask the Director of the FBI how many people have died from using weed if you think its so dangerous and crazy! He was asked that by a congressional panel. Guess what his answer was? No one!!! Why would you be trying to decieve people??? Are you the Devil???

WITH A NAME LIKE SATANICAL, YOU ASK ME IF IM THE DEVIL!!!!!? YOU CAN HAVE EVERY CRAP STUDY ON THE PLANET SAY WHATEVER THEY ARE BID TO SAY. IT IS NOT HIS WORD! THE FACT THAT THIS DRUG DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE IS WORSE THAN IF IT DID!!!! AT LEAST IF IT KILLED PEOPLE, THEY WOULD NOT BE GOING AROUND SPREADING THE WORDS OF FALSE PROFITS!!!! THE FACT IS, THIS DRUG PREVERTS HIS LIGHT AND ALLOWS A GROUP OF DERANGED DEMONS TO SPREAD A MESSAGE OF HATE AND DISREGARD FOR THE TEACHINGS OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!

wow... you should ask the nurse to increase your meds - that's pure unadulterated crazy ranting there.

Im with the Church of Harry Potter and you are way off base. There is no sky dad, O.K.
Just because some book says a bunch of crazy shit and billions of stupid people believe in a sky dad doesnt prove that there is a sky dad. Just because it says in your stupid book that people will ridicule you for believing in a sky dad doesnt prove there is a sky dad.

Its called logic, check it out.

christlove, you talk crazier than anyone on drugs.

Well, at least I know what happened to pervert pete. Reincarnated with the name HYPOCRITE.

You MUST be kidding. GOD created the plants and animals, I don't recall reading ANYTHING that said that Satan created anything. Certainly nothing with positive effects. And for the record, would you please point out ANYWHERE in the Bible where it says ANYTHING about smoking or consuming cannabis in any way, shape or form. If it's not in there, then it's NOT prohibited, is it?

You are living in fear of a plant. Doesn't that sound even just SLIGHTLY unbalanced to you? It does to me. Anyone who lives in fear of inanimate objects is NUTS. And that apparently includes you.

Cannabis has been used as medicine for over 4700 years. In that time it's killed NO ONE. Aspiring kills 150 people a year in this country. Prescription drugs kill 200,000 Americans every year. And yet you seem to think that these things are just fine. But apparently the fact that it's the single most studied plant on the face of the planet and damn near all of them say the same thing, valid medicine, all kinds of uses, non toxic, is of no concern to you. Did the Czechs have some kind of vested interest in the 1937 studies that show it's GREAT for strep throat? Did they AMA have evil in it's heart when it OPPOSED the prohibition of cannabis in that same year?

And let's talk for a minute about your stupid comment about how if it killed people it would be better. 200,000 Americans die every year from prescription drugs, yet those things are advertised on TV EVERY DAY. Talk about spreading the words of false PROPHETS! And yet cannabis, which GOD created, has never killed anyone, and yet we can't even mention it on TV.

You might want to learn how to spell, BTW, and for someone who supposedly reads the Bible to mistake PROFITS for PROPHETS shows me that you are a lying sack of crap. NO ONE who has read the Bible would make that mistake.

You insist that any study that doesn't show cannabis to be the tool of the devil is crap. You say that "THE FACT IS, THIS DRUG PREVERTS HIS LIGHT AND ALLOWS A GROUP OF DERANGED DEMONS TO SPREAD A MESSAGE OF HATE AND DISREGARD FOR THE TEACHINGS OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!", to which I say BULLSHIT. The word, first off, is PERVERTS. Learn to spell. And just who is it that is preaching hate, here? It's not me, it's YOU. And hate for a plant, something that has been her FAR longer than you OR your religion (which still doesn't make mention of it at all), and will be here FAR longer than you or your religion will be.

People like you, who clearly DON'T KNOW the facts and don't CARE about them, either, give the rest of your religion a really bad name. You talk about facts like you know some. You DON'T. You live by superstition and demand that everyone else do as well. Not going to happen. And yet you insist on it, just like those of other religions who use them to beat others over the head. What is the difference between you and any member of the Islamic faith who demand that others join them? I don't see one.

You are a truly sad, sorry individual. You have a closed mind, and it was closed by lies and bullshit from those who had an interest in controlling you. Meanwhile, those same people are running blood diamond businesses, sleeping with gay hookers and doing meth, or just enriching themselves at the expense of your very faith. I really feel sorry for you. How anyone can be so uneducated, foolish and hateful and blame a PLANT for it, is just plain pathetic.

Grow up. And stop shouting. It just makes you sound like the nut case you are. Blaming a plant for your own belief in lies is not the sign of an educated, mature thinker. You are a child. Grow up, learn some things, and then come back and let's talk. Until then, you are nothing but an empty cymbal or a clanging gong. You signify nothing, you bring nothing to the discussion, and superstition is NOT a reason to jail and destroy the lives of nearly a million Americans EVER YEAR.

You might want to learn some history, too, since damn near everything you say I can refute with facts and historical truth. You, on the other hand, talk about superstition and demons. Welcome to the 21st century. I know it's a major jump from the 12th, but try to make it. I hate arguing with those of a medieval mindset. And especially when they talk about a book they clearly know nothing about. I'm waiting for that biblical injunction against cannabis, in ANY form.

sorry, but your lord an savior is a myth... a retelling of the prehistoric solar myth... a direct offshoot of the egyptian mythology of osiris, isis, set and horus... jesus is the sun and the 12 apostles are are the constellations that yearly the sun travels through... john the baptist is aquarius... the three wise men (the Magi-cians) are the stars on the belt of orion that point to sirius as a harbinger in the east of the newborn sun at the winter solstice...

Here is what the Bible says about marijuana [in the first chapter of Genesis, verse 29]:

29 "And God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food."

Marijuana is the ONLY "herb yielding seed" that is on the planet. So, what do you think about that Little Miss ChristLove?

a lot of herbs come from seed...celantro comes to mind, there are others.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG are you a comedian?? if not, you should try!

ChristLove? Obviously not. If Jesus every existed, based on writings, he was filled with compassion for the sick. You? Not so much. Talk about "deranged demons."

Have you ever taken aspirin, derived from willow? Or any of the other many opiate derived painkillers? So let me get this straight: willow and poppy good, cannibas bad?

You need to reread the beatitudes!

What would Jebus Smoke?

Tell me you don't have a pilot's license.

Strange, I did not know the bible says "Thou shalt not smoke marijuana." If you, christlove, can point that passage out to me, I would greatly appreciate it. Otherwise, your comment carries absolutely no weight. If you think that the passage that claims your body is a tabernacle of the lord supports your point, WRONG. Indeed, if your body is a tabernacle of the lord, you should be allowed to do what it takes to maintain that tabernacle.

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing herb on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."

Marijuana is the ONLY seed-bearing herb on the planet.

It's LESS harmful drug than either alcohol or tobacco in terms of health and societal effects.

A drug that has killed nobody (unlike Christianity in case you have forgotten your religion's darks and disgraceful history).

A drug that provides pain relief, has anti-psychotic properties (judging on your ALL CAPS ranting you could do with some anti-psychotic medicine), can help people recovering from kaemopherapy to reduce vomiting and regain appetite, is demonstrably capable at shrinking cancerous growth, helps with anxiety and insomnia and many, many more ailments.

Why would the devil make a substance that can help relieve pain and suffering in so many ways? What is your God's alternate, man-made pills from Pfizer, Glaxo, etc.?

Marijuana was around long before your sky-fairy was invented and has provided far more good to the world. Marijuana doesn't have people believing in the illogical, with strong convictions that are unsupported nor give people any other signs of delusion to the degree Christianity has and still does.

Thank you. I found your term "sky fairy" most creative and appropriate. The more research that is done, the more it seems that millions upon millions of people have been "brain-washed" for centuries, not that anything could possible convince them of that: they'd just say that whoever dares utter such blasphemy was possessed by the devil.
So they've got themselves covered...time will tell.

Jesus loves you, but I think you're an asshole.

You DUMB-ASS!!!

"FALSE PROFITS" LOL a Freudian Slip...do you have share in an Alcohol Manufacturer ?
Its the only thing that would make any sense of your comment.

Ur a very disturbed individual who is going to hell.

Christlove, dear, your views are a wee bit on the stupid side, now, aren't they?

Definitely just a troll.

Are you one of those evangelical nuts that has sent this country into the crapper?

I hope you're just a troll. If you seriously go around spouting such unwarranted hate in the name of the Lord, then you should seriously reevaluate your moral, ethical, and religious beliefs. Christ the Lord wouldn't support the hateful way of life you seem to embody.

Either that was a joke or this crazy woman needs some medicine... What will she say when she finds out Christ used medical marijuana... :-)

Jesus was the original hippie! One love!

Don't you people understand? Marijuana is illegal, so it MUST be bad!!

Besides, the thieves and murderers in "law enforcement" need their jobs.

Marijuana will forever suffer the legacy of one William Randolph Hearst's crusade to destroy the hemp industry by his dissemination of an associate's fabricated horror stories of the "killer weed" to protect Hearst's investments in pulp manufacturing from its greatest competition.

also, they have to figure out how to tax it before they would ever let us have it.

Smoke it! Get healthy! Stay healthy! But watch out! Big Pharma is trying, as I type, to figure out how how to take it over and charge more than the national debt of a small country for a toke after a stroke. No joke! Sorry....It's the "medicine".

Good point. If I ever find a warning label including the phrase"may cause bowel irritation, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, boody nose, liver or heart complications, or death..." or the like on a bong, I will be devistated.

no shit...i could have told them that...it's only been used as a medicine, since humans started using medications...i wonder how many billions it cost them to come to that brilliant conclusion...

Hey, if you can get a government grant to study it, you're doin' good.

Your making me laugh so hard my face hurts. Better go get my vaporizer.