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It looks like the Rhode Island legislature may have the common sense and decency to approve medical marijuana use, overriding the governor's veto.
Let's hope so. Let the Feds have to contend with a growing number of states thumbing their noses at them--and embracing common sense and decency.
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Read this in today's S.F.Chronicle:
"Pointing up just how controversial the issue has become, a San Francisco resident who says she's a medical marijuana backer Tuesday obtained a temporary restraining order from a San Francisco Superior Court judge forcing the closure of a pot club on Howard Street that neighbors considered to be a nuisance. Last week, federal authorities raided three clubs accused of participating in a money laundering scheme."
"Currently, there are more than 40 pot clubs that have cropped up in San Francisco since passage of a 1996 state measure permitting marijuana use for medical purposes -- with 7,000 registered medical marijuana patients in the city. But police say the system is widely abused, with drug dealers and gang members buying at the clubs and putting more pot on the streets than ever before."
If the city wants to crack down on non-medical use they're free to do so. They can start cracking down hard on cannabis clubs or physicians who abuse the system any time they want. Those who claim that just having the medical pot available creates criminal activity make absolutely no more sense than those who claim that just having medical morphine available, or medical codeine available, creates the criminal market for narcotics.
The Wife is on an ER rotation. Last night on the Graveyard shift she had 4 men come in last night complaining of Sickle Cell Anemia pain. She ordered blood work and did a H&P, and based on the results told the Attending that they were "Seekers" - patients looking for drugs.
Her Attending said that she had to "question her assumptions" and make an extra effort not to let biases not cloud her judgement. So he prescribed all 4 of them dilauden.
Minutes later one was standing on his head, another was jumping up and down on a bed, and another had his finger so far up his nose that it looked like he was biopsying his brain.
I guess this just goes to show that we don't ban drugs like the opioids for patients, so why can't we do the same for THC?
"What is the arguement against med marijuana, for it seems fairly reasonable to me to allow it?"
The argument seems to be that since long-haired, un-kempt, un-patriotic hippies, who played their music too loud, smoked marijuana in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then therefore it is intrinsically evil and nobody should ever use it ever again for any purpose.
Then, everytime another legalization process occurs, the state governments have to implement a bazillion pesos, euros, dollares etc from the wallets of the taxi drivers and the taxpayers.
The last time I saw a guy on weed at an office party, he w-a-s v-e-r-y s-o-c-i-a-l-a-b-le. He s-p-o-k-e v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-ly. But he w-a-s- a-b-l-e t-o d-r-i-ve h-o-m-e.
I'm not against medical marijuana, but it seems there is a difficulty with the medical part as weeds aren't m_e_d_i_c_i_n_e.
The pot clubs aren't pharmacies, nor clinics nor medical providers. They aren't under the supervision of anyone except the plant growers and sellers and a piece of paper showing pot club membership.
There seems to be a disconnect in the medical provider area.