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[blindsight]

http://news.yahoo.co...-020305152.html


OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafeehave filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration asking the agency to reclassify marijuana so doctors can prescribe it and pharmacists can fill the prescription.
The governors said Wednesday they want the federal government to list marijuana as a Schedule 2 drug, allowing it to be used for medical treatment. Marijuana is currently classified a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it's not accepted for medical treatment and can't be prescribed, administered or dispensed.

[pegasaurus]

Ehhh...

I can support that.

[Jatts]

Well it actually is helpful for medical treatments. And despite what most kiddies think on here, marijuana isn't some horrible drug for bad people. I know many friends and family members that use it from time to time, it helps to relax.

Perfectly normal people use it, for normal reasons and in safe quantities.

[pegasaurus]

Jatts, on 01 December 2011 - 06:36 PM, said:

Well it actually is helpful for medical treatments. And despite what most kiddies think on here, marijuana isn't some horrible drug for bad people. I know many friends and family members that use it from time to time, it helps to relax.

Perfectly normal people use it, for normal reasons and in safe quantities.

Ok let's get serious guys. The medical benefits of marijuana are NEARLY MINIMAL. I only support medical marijuana in a controlled environment or as an extract. Smoking it? No. Bullshit.

And one shouldn't rely on marijuana to "relax." I won't try making a metaphor to describe it, but it's a fucking stupid argument.
Marijuana has very little medical uses, but does help chemo patients deal with nausea in very small doses. Therefore, I only support this if they use a delivery system other than smoking it. Just because you want to "relax" and turn into a vegetable doesn't mean that everybody within a 20 foot radius of you wants to.

[Jatts]

Um, I'm pretty sure people act like vegetables only after smoking loads of it. Those people are called potheads. Which never happens to my cousin, or some of my friends. Keep in mind that when I say they smoke from time to time, I mean that they have one smoke every month or so. In which case, its fine.

[Shallots]

Jatts, on 01 December 2011 - 09:05 PM, said:

Um, I'm pretty sure people act like vegetables only after smoking loads of it. Those people are called potheads. Which never happens to my cousin, or some of my friends. Keep in mind that when I say they smoke from time to time, I mean that they have one smoke every month or so. In which case, its fine.

So how do you propose making sure nobody smokes it more than once a month? Sure, most people are smart enough not to smoke it every minute of the day, but it still causes problems. I wonder what the high school graduation rate of pot smokers is compared to "clean" students is. I imagine it'd be hard to get numbers on that, but I can name a few who flunked or dropped out, even though I tend not to associate with users.

Anyway, I don't so much care what's used for medical purposes. There are a lot of prescription drugs that can cause more damage than marijuana when abused. But that's the thing, (most) people don't abuse those, whereas proponents of medical marijuana see it as recreational. Hell, that's another thing that worries me right there: The number of proponents who admit to being users.Of course you want it legalized, you already smoke it illegally. Seems like you might be a little bit biased there.
On top of that, I know for a fact that its distribution is not being monitored as well as any other prescription drugs. How, you ask? Rumors of those in charge of the stock just walking out with it? People claiming that they just walked in, claimed to have joint pain and walked away with a joint? Well, yes. That and my cousin moved to California, got a job as a "budtender" and openly brags about doing exactly that.

[pegasaurus]

The main issue I have isn't how much of it individuals smoke. That's their own choice. What I do have a problem with is the fact that smoke is a gas. Therefore, when somebody decides to smoke pot, they essentially force everybody within a 20 foot radius to smoke with them.

[Shallots]

That's another good point. Not a big problem now because people are forced to do it in private. Legalize it, and now you've got second-hand smoke that fucks with your head as well as your lungs.

Yeah, the thread isn't about full legalization, but we all know the whole prescription pot thing is just a first step toward that in the minds of a lot of its proponents.