[kesneysmom]

Medical Only. I work at a highschool. Yes, they do it now, but I can't imagine what it would be like to make it any easier for them to get a hold of it. Just ask a few teens they will tell you it starts with this then something else and so on. This generation of teens and youth is totally diffrent. I see it everday believe me it would ruin the world even faster then it already is.

[chicoborja]

Legalize It, Don't Criticize It

[CrunchRN]

Medical use - I have seen to many women with ovarian cancer who were only able to get appetite and quality of life through smoking marijuana. They had not used it prior to illness and nothing else worked as well. They deserve any break they can get and shouldn't have to commit a crime to get it.

[Spidey's mom]

Oh no, not this again!

steph

[kristylee]

Legalize it

On a positive note...hey, it would put drug dealers out of business and oh, what a shame that would be that they would have to get a real job like the rest of America!

[Spidey's mom]

Originally Posted by kristylee

Legalize it

On a positive note...hey, it would put drug dealers out of business and oh, what a shame that would be that they would have to get a real job like the rest of America!

Hey, we could also legalize murder and graft and the Mafia . . then all those people wouldn't be criminals and our prisons would be empty and . ..

(of course people would still be dead and people would still be ripped off and . . . . .)

Changing the definition of something does not change the outcome. Maybe in a fairy tale but not in real life.

We'd still have drug addicts and children being raised by drug addicts and people driving cars under the influence of drugs causing crashes and deaths and . . . oh dear, I wasn't going to get into this was I?

steph

[URO-RN]

Medical use only. I have giving it to a paraplegic w/severe leg spasms @ a vet hospital when I was in nursing school. I had no problem giving him his medication to ease his suffering.

[z's playa]

It's legal here for medicinal purposes AND we can grow our own for medicinal purposes.(only 5 plants or so at a time) PLUS...the cops need not be bothered wasting tax payers money arresting people who have marijuana for personal use on them. They go on a list of "those to watch out for" and that's it. It is after all only an herb.

[nurse educate]

Originally Posted by Angie O'Plasty, RN

Picture me driving with a contact high..... (trust me, this is not a pretty picture) .... and then getting pulled over ..... and then trying to explain why I'm illegally high after caring for a patient who can get legally high.

Would you be illegally high though, or high by association? What about it's use in the hospitals. Lots of high nurses on the floors . No smoking means no smoking anything, right? What about our oxygen??

[z's playa]

Originally Posted by Angie O'Plasty, RN

No, no, no. But not because I don't have compassion for those who feel that smoking a joint relieves their pain, it's because of secondhand smoke.

Bad enough to be subject to cigarette smoke and its effects, let alone marijuana's.

I wouldn't want to be the HH Nurse who has to care for someone using it for medicinal purposes.

Picture me driving with a contact high..... (trust me, this is not a pretty picture) .... and then getting pulled over ..... and then trying to explain why I'm illegally high after caring for a patient who can get legally high.

Maybe you should leave the area while the smoking is taking place?

The nurses here just hook the pt up with their joint..the lighter..then they leave or hang out outside the room. No need to inhale it.