Yawn.
I don’t use the stuff, but could care less who does - please wake me when it causes more annual deaths than the aforementioned aspirin.
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Not in Oregon. Pretty much anybody can get an MMJ card. Observers have noted that a large percentage of people getting the stuff walk out of the “dispensary” and hand it off to someone else. The “medical” qualifier on pot is total bullshit, as it implies some sort of rigor on testing, control, dosage, etc.
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I also live in Oregon. Pot will eventually be sold in regulated stores, I’m thinking 2 or so years. I think that the original idea regarding medical marijuana was that some terminally ill patients, who were undergoing radiation therapy and had lost their hunger and were in pain, could benefit from smoking a bit of pot.
But that qualification went right out the window. If you have a medical pot card you can buy it from a pot provider and if you are stopped by the police, and you have your card, and if you don’t seem impaired, you will be on your merry way. Anyone who gets cited for possession of marijuana in a medical marijuana state is just being too lazy to get a card.
My back hurts a little, maybe it was from swinging the weed eater all morning. Off to the garage for my treatment. 
A medical marijuana amendment is going to be on Florida ’ s ballot in November. Support is polling in the 80% range, and it is expected to pass. Doctors will be able to prescribe it if they determine that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. I, for one, look forward to treating my “symptoms” without going through a friend of a friend.
Since prohibition of marijuana is also a giant scam, I don’t feel bad supporting another scam to undermine the first.
But what if the latter scam helps prop up the former scam? That’s what I’m trying to say (apparently doing an extremely poor job of making this point).
Has anybody said that it does?
In a time where we lack primary care physicians, the prescribing of ‘medical’ marijuana diverts far too many docs away from doing useful work.
Pot can have some medical benefits; Wasting syndromes in AIDs and chemotherapy, adjuncts for treating malignant pain, etc. But evidence does not support its use for 99+% of the stuff it’s being prescribed for.
Legalizing it is a good thing. It’s sure safer than alcohol. I’ve never had to put a patient in the ICU due to acute pot poisoning, or have them die of pot-induced liver failure, or pot withdrawal seizures. But the way we are ‘medicalizing’ pot is not a good thing.
24 ounces?! A pound and a half of weed?? That’s quite the stash. 
24 ounces plus six plants. Every other state sets a limit of 3 or 4 ounces, if that. It’s a situation ripe for distribution, which is what the MMJ folks say they’re trying to prevent.
Oh, never mind then! Although that does show that having the CBD-only law doesn’t seem to have successfully taken the wind out of the sails of the normal MM movement.
I was a MMJ care giver for my mom. I made a salve. It seemed to help her. She had tried all different prescription drugs with either no, or to much effect. She can’t handle opiates.
My Mom has four crushed vertebrae. Eighty four years old. Your damn right at this point I/we would try anything.
Was it a placebo for her? Maybe. I don’t care as long as it made her feel better.
It is a help for those going through chemo for cancer.
I know, right? I have lack of motivation and intense desire to snack, and medical marijuana *still *hasn’t cured it!
Was that a response to me? About my mother trying MMJ?
No.