Do you think patients should have the right to use medical marijuana?

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

Drugs should be de-criminalized.

Period.

libertarianly yours,

Roy :)

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Specializes in Open Heart/ Trauma/ Sx Stepdown/ Tele.

yes

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Specializes in Critical Care.

no.

We have 'marinol' for medical THC.

I see nothing wrong w/ MJ. Used it in H.S. (but not since).

However, it is a 'gateway' drug and dangerous in that right. In addition, unlike ETOH, MJ doesn't clear your system easily and thus, it is impossible to tell if you are CURRENTLY impaired by testing for it. That makes it dangerous in work environments.

I have libertarian tendencies. If it doesn't bother anybody else, leave me alone. But, the REASON we have made drugs illegal is because people that use and abuse them can't help but 'bother' society as a whole.

Don't even go there as far as alcohol; it proves my point. Once legal, it's impossible to put the genie back into the bottle. We tried it. It bolsters the argument that MJ should be illegal under any circumstance.

I'd go for legalization and gov't distribution of all illegal drugs on one condition: employers be allowed to test at will and fire users. But, without a stigma, I'll continue to support the stigma of the law.

The concept that MJ is needed for 'medical' purposes is a lie perpetrated for general legalization of MJ.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Specializes in Day Surgery/Infusion/ED.

Marinol isn't tolerated well by everyone. You can't control the dose of Marinol the same way you can with a joint. Would you prefer people die in agony, be denied the one thing that controls their pain/nausea and vomiting? Is it better to just let someone go blind rather than have his glaucoma controlled with MJ?

If someone is dying or has a devastating chronic illness, I think the last thing we need to worry about is their using MJ as a "gateway" drug. Crimeny...having worked for years with hospice pts., my feeling is "whatever gets you through the night, it's all right."

If I had a pt. using MJ to control sx. of a terminal or severe chronic illness, while I wouldn't get the drug for him, sure as gun's iron I wouldn't rat him out either.

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I think it's really funny how television advertisements for beer or wine or wine coolers or what have you simply tell you that you should "drink responsibly"

as if...

and yet big brother is telling us we cannot be competent enough to know how to properly use marijuana. (we will become instant addicts!)

so... people are responsible enough to consume alcohol; but will never be competent enough to smoke pot?

Should we legalize marijuana? Why not? We realized that prohibition was a bad idea ... it turned massive amounts of people into criminals (remember speakeasies, rum-runners?)

hmmm.... what country has the greatest percentage of inmates from its population?

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A very definite YES! I watched my mother go through chemo and deal witht all of the sickness and loss of appetite. She would not use marjuania because she was afraid that she would get in trouble. I also am a firm believer that it should be legalized and taxed just like alcohol and tobacco. How long have we been fighting this war on drugs? Are we winning it? For every person on drugs or dealer that you put in jail ten more pop up. This should tell the public that we are going about this all wrong. It's time for a change. Make room in the prisons for the hardcore criminals. If the government could control what everyone puts in their bodies, then we wouldn't pay out billions each year in medical care for heart disease due to obesity. People are going to find a way to get it whether it's legal or not. If you can relieve the suffering of someone, then let them light up. It's no different than taking oxycontin. We are advocates for our patient's, so let's shout this from the roof tops until they here us. No one should have to suffer if there is something out there that can relieve it.

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I think that it should be used for medical purposes. Why deprive these people who are suffering if they don't have to. I do not agree that it should be legalized for recreational purposes, I don't know how well it would work to legalize one and not the other and keep it out of other peoples posession.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
I think that it should be used for medical purposes. Why deprive these people who are suffering if they don't have to. I do not agree that it should be legalized for recreational purposes, I don't know how well it would work to legalize one and not the other and keep it out of other peoples posession.

There is no need to smoke pot for medical purposes. There is a prescription drug already on the market w/ medical THC in it.

Pushing pot for medical purposes is merely an avenue to lower resistance to its use for recreational purposes.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
Only if they share with the staff

good for morale

No thanks, i like thinking clearly. :stone

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Absolutely. There is no reason in this day and age that someone should suffer because weed is illegal. We refine it and put it in a pill and give it to people to increase their appetite. Hemp was a good cash crop in this country until someone decided it should be illegal. Research hemp and you will find that our country is a little backwards about it. Think about it. Narcotics are illegal if you don't have a script. Alcohol is legal and look how many people that kills, including driving under the influence. Tobacco kills people and it's legal. I am a hospice nurse, and I think my patients have a right to any substance that's going to ease their suffering and let them have a peaceful death. If it means rolling up and smoking a dube then they should be able to. We have more compassion for our animals in this country than we do our citizens.

I agree with you 100% in my English Comp 1 class I got all b's and c's on my research papers, I chose Legalizing Marijuana as my Thesis paper and got an A with virtually no effort on my part. I have such stong feeling toward this topic that it all came natural.

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Specializes in High Risk In Patient OB/GYN.
No thanks, i like thinking clearly. :stone

Oooh....kitty likes to scratch!

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Specializes in High Risk In Patient OB/GYN.
There is no need to smoke pot for medical purposes. There is a prescription drug already on the market w/ medical THC in it.

Pushing pot for medical purposes is merely an avenue to lower resistance to its use for recreational purposes.

~faith,

Timothy.

Oooh! Great idea! Just tell that to the chemo patient or hyperemesis gravidarum who can't even hold down a sip of water.:uhoh21:

ETA: I think it should also be decriminalized for recreational purposes. But that's not really here or there. We'll focus on the sick people for now.

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