An ounce a month!?
It makes me feel better about my habits anyway. (Although the idea of a regular, legal, supply is very nice, but I donât have any medical needs other than ennui)
After voters enthusiastically OKâd medical marijuana here in MA, we all expected dispensaries to pop up all over. Sadly, itâs being red-taped to death. The governmentâs intentionally impossible approval process and the regulations around where dispensaries can actually be located (X number of miles from any schools, playgrounds, or places where children congregate), plus the intensely restrictive guidelines on who can actually qualify (mostly life-threatening diseases) mean that, two years later, weâre no closer to any medical marijuana being available in the state.
Itâs a weed, for Christssake. Why isnât it free?
Any plant can be considered a weed. But unlike a weed growing in a ditch or in a corner of a back 40 somewhere, thsre are being tended to, including, evidently, some pretty fancy hybrid/cross breeding stuff going on. All that takes time and man power, and thus money.
Anyway - as someone in chronic pain I really am curious if something like pot cookies could help manage things. But considering the state I live in, it will probably be a long damn time before I find out.
A weed is simply a plant for which a use has not yet been found.
While Iâm completely in favor of people being able to get weed for medical reasons, the utterly non-medical names the dispensaries use for their productâand the ease with which one can get a prescription based on virtually any complaintâmake it entirely too clear whatâs really going on. Guys, youâre not fooling anyone.
You donât think he makes a strong case for responsible and professional regulation? Duuuuuuuuude.
And shouldnât have to.
Hey man, boredom is a totally valid medical condition.
Wait for 2016. Consider the worthless mess that the MA law was as a blessing. Everyone has learned that the government canât be trusted to implement a law on their own time scale. The result is that in 2016 MA will get a no bullshit law passed through referendum like what Colorado got that prohibits bull shit and sets firm dates by which the government must act.
Of course we are not fooling anyone. We are just giving cowards a way to bow out. Seriously, medical marijuana is pushed because it is the only way to get worthless politicians trying to appease worthless busy bodies trying to shove their morals forcefully up our collective ass to have to take a step back and defend themselves. Our society canât seem to accept justice, peace, reducing prison populations, ending of state sanctioned ruining of lives, and the boring old utility as a reason to end the worthless drug war, so it has to be attacked from a different angle.
Great. And so now here we are. A few states have openly flouted the law and look, baby Jesus didnât reign down fire. They instead just got a bump in tourism and a reduction of people drunkenly picking fights outside of bars.
I think that the real interesting news is being buried here, which is that Eichhorn is writing new stuff! AFAIK, all the previous Real Stuff strips were at least 20 years old.
This is exactly why medical Marijuana and Legal marijuana advocates get thrashed.
This type of LSD 60âs style âCOMIXâ OMG I GET HIGH LEGALLYâŚwith old guys going WOWâŚitâs GOD POT. Does not help the cause.
Very little about the needs of medical stuff except âoh a neck problemââŚand then gaming the system. HAHAâŚwe get high legally!
The main take away from this is like a furry freak broâs comix saying they just want to get highâŚthatâs allâŚnothing about âyou know my neck is much better nowââŚjust WOW I can get high.
It belittles rational discussion for an argument for legal marijuana to be presented in a comix format thatâs really isnât about medial stuffâitâs just about getting high; that isnât helping.
Nothing was said about how the pot helped neck problemâŚgetting high was the main point. The neck problem was simply a reason to get pot.
I want legal pot for everyoneâŚbut the OMG THIS IS GOD POT stuffâŚdoesnât help at all.
I never really liked the MMJ dispensary system, simply because every single person I know who used it had bullshit ailments. It looks like it was designed specifically for less-than-honest people to fake a little pain, then get cheap, strong weed. If thereâs two things I really dislike, itâs abusing the medical system, and malingering generally. And thatâs pretty much the description of every MMJ user I know. Iâd rather they just be honest with themselves and others and that the government treat us like adults and not care that weâre getting high. Anyone who says weed is more harmful to the user than tobacco or alcohol is either laughably ignorant and worthy of an education, or lying to your face, and worthy of a punch in the nose.
But thinking about it now, it almost seems like this shady gray market of medical fraud was a sort of necessary step in order to get general legalization done.
When everyone knows at least a few recreational users who arenât burnt-out potheads who never get anything done, when everyone knows someone who works a regular job, and has a family and a condo, and also smokes weed âfor back painâ or âglaucomaâ or âsocial anxietyâ, it un-demonizes the devilâs weed.
And so now we have a society where smoking weed is fairly common, and it turns out nobodyâs shitting blood (except for the legit cancer patients, of course), and the public sentiment can settle on a reasonable conception of what weed is and does, and that itâs not some dangerous boogeyman out to turn peopleâs daughters into whores, and it doesnât âmake negroes lustful and hard to kill (Anslinger to the rescue)â. Itâs just a drug that helps some people have a good time, and has certain medical uses that are actually well substantiated. And now we see that even using it beyond medical indications is not actually problematic.
And your point is?
This is a legal and PR game. One that I happily endorse even though I donât think Iâve smoked a bowl in probably three years (and that at my birthday).
It has helped enough that the laws keep getting changed in state after state. I call that a win.
I have quite a few friends with MJ cards. A few just get high. Most of the rest are using to deal with real life issues, ranging from anxiety and insomnia to chronic back pain. I had a rather senior coworker, knowing that I have a bad disc in my spine and just had surgery for it, flat out tell me that I should get a card and smoke some because it helps his chronic (ahem) pain, probably because of relaxation and helping him sleep.
You need to know a better class of people then. See my previous reply just posted.
Seriously though I do recognize that there are legitimate medical uses for pot. I had a toenail removed and the nailbed chemically cauterized back in January. They sent me out the door with a bottle of percosets, and the instructions to âNot take too many, also donât drink, and donât take any aspirin or acetaminophen if I take the percoset. And also you have to take it with food, but expect to get bound up. Also you might get addicted to it. Or it might just not work at the prescribed dose at all because your have ginger DNA.â
Well, I knew from previous experience that percoset, or any other opioid isnât an option for me, because they make me break out in hives while also not making the pain any better.
Since I was immobilized for a couple of days, and didnât want to drive with a bleeding foot, I had a lot of recovery pain. Not the worst, but something Iâd rather avoid. So, after I was feeling okay enough to drive with my tender foot (pun totally intended), I drove on over to the recreational pot store, bought an ounce of high CBD bud, and had a rather pleasant rest of my recovery, without the liver damage and gastrointestinal distress of high dose NSAIDs or booze, and without the hives and addiction potential of opioids.
Now in this situation, I might have had grounds to get an MMJ card, but I donât need long term bud for something like a toe healing in a few weeks.
The thing is that stoner comixs like this turn the medical use into a joke. A funny thing about gaming the system to get pot and get stoned. The take away wasnât about it helping the medical conditionâŚit was about gaming the system to get stoned.
When people with cancer need MMâŚitâs not âhere put a compress on it and call me backâ itâs seriously serious stuff. Trivialized in this comix. As âdoctor shoppingââŚ
Itâs not about advocating legal MJ for everyoneâŚ(which I support)âŚitâs about tweaking the system to get high. That does not help the cause.
The entire end point and the entire endgame was 'wowâŚI can get high"âŚ
Not Thank Goodness, I can get a medical treatment that helps me with this medical problem.
