Thread: The Latest: Justice may crack down on legalized marijuana

Marijuana should be legal and if it helps sick people, then that's fine by me, all the better. I do believe it helps sick people feel better and that's great. It's better than morphine or oxycodone or whatever meds non-quack docs prescribe. There are a lot of natural remedies that we've been cheated out of by non-quack medical authorities.

Originally Posted by Judy

Marijuana should be legal and if it helps sick people, then that's fine by me, all the better. I do believe it helps sick people feel better and that's great.

It doesn't.

Originally Posted by Judy

It's better than morphine or oxycodone or whatever meds non-quack docs prescribe. ...

It isn't. Morphine and Oxycontin are powerful pain killers and if you need to deal with pain, marijuana does not nothing to numb pain.

Quack medicine is by definition either ineffective or effective in some other way than advertised.

Coca Cola was originally a "Patent Medicine" applied as a tonic to improve ones health back when it included the original recipe of cola nut and coca leaf extracts. It was, of course, an idle stimulant that didn't do anything more for your health than a can of beer or cup of coffee. It was one of the original quack medicines.

Well I know from personal experience Coca-Cola cures my car sickness and generations gave it to babies with colic and it cured that and my grandma who lived to be in her late 90's kept a bottle in her frig to cure her indigestion.

I believe marijuana helps cancer patients on chemo-therapy to gain weight and weight loss is one of the key causes of why cancer patients fail, they don't eat enough to stay alive while the chemo kills their cancer. I've never smoked pot but I know for a fact that marijuana smokers get the munchies, so it does something for their appetite.

The issue is that if it works, it works. There may not be a scientific or medical explanation. But if it helps them, it helps them. If they're happier, if they're more relaxed, if they have more appetite to eat, then I'm all for it.

Originally Posted by Judy

Well I know from personal experience Coca-Cola cures my car sickness and generations gave it to babies with colic and it cured that and my grandma who lived to be in her late 90's kept a bottle in her frig to cure her indigestion.

I believe marijuana helps cancer patients on chemo-therapy to gain weight and weight loss is one of the key causes of why cancer patients fail, they don't eat enough to stay alive while the chemo kills their cancer. I've never smoked pot but I know for a fact that marijuana smokers get the munchies, so it does something for their appetite.

The issue is that if it works, it works. There may not be a scientific or medical explanation. But if it helps them, it helps them. If they're happier, if they're more relaxed, if they have more appetite to eat, then I'm all for it.

All very well. But the problem is the role of the medical community in the distribution of marijuana. Medicine and medical applications are rather precise terms that exclude Coca Cola, lemon herb tea, foot rubs and other personal applications for discomfort.

And as medicine, marijuana does not apply. The medical prescriptions for medical marijuana are not even quack medicine, really. Just a license to get stoned.

I agree. Any adult should be able to use marijuana. And with the availability of commercially distributed marijuana, so dies "medical" marijuana.

Originally Posted by pkskyali

Originally Posted by Judy Marijuana should be legal and if it helps sick people, then that's fine by me, all the better. I do believe it helps sick people feel better and that's great.

It doesn't.

Your unsubstantiated opinion is noted. Aside from that, as previously demonstrated, Congress is not vested with a power to enter the states to prohibit the growth, sale, or use of agricultural products.

JWK

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