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

charebec65 · Sep 6, 2006

. . . That has nothing to do with it being prescribed for medical reasons - it has to do with getting high.
Which I still maintain is the real reason people want mj legalized and they just use the "medical pot" argument as a handy excuse.
steph

I beg to differ. I would have no problem with it being legalized and taxed. I also have no desire to use nor would I allow it in my home. That however, is my personal choice. It's not necessarily the choice of everyone.

allnurses Guide · Sep 6, 2006

Roy and charebec65 - granted YOU guys aren't behind the push to legalize just so you can use.

And I never said YOU were.

But there are others. . . . .:wink2:

As to someone using pot and wanting to fight - I beg to differ there having experienced abuse at the hands of a pothead. And being driven in a car with the same pothead as he sped through town at 80-90 mph trying to scare the blankety blank out of me. And how he used the last $40 we had to buy pot instead of heating oil when I had a new baby in the house and it was March in Reno and snowing . . . .

Again I have to say, why add to the misery of legal drugs by adding another way to legally impair yourself? We can't do anything about alcohol. We can do something about other drugs.

Roy, who am I? A citizen of the USA who does not believe in legalizing marijuana for some pretty good reasons who has a right to make my beliefs known and work to defeat the legalization of pot. Who are you Roy, to try to legalize something that impairs people's judgment, wrecks families, causes car accidents? You are also a citizen and have the right to do just that. I've never said anyone shouldn't be able to attempt to legalize it. I just would vote the other way. :wink2:

steph

HM2VikingRN, RN · Sep 8, 2006

The problem with the prohibition movement is that "some" street marijuana is laced with everything from embalming fluid to pcp to enhance its psychoactive properties. One advantage to selling it by prescription and taxed is that people who choose to use would be buying a product free of harmful adulterants.

HM2VikingRN, RN · Sep 8, 2006

:D Very funny Tom . . . . btw, hello stranger!
Seriously, if those kids suffered from Social Anxiety Disorder, smoking mj would probably not make them more sociable. In my experience, everyone pretty much shuts up and zones in on their own little world.
steph

That was a reference to the Showtime show "Weeds"

MedSurgeMess · Sep 15, 2006

decriminalize it. increase tax income from it's sale, increase farming jobs, decrease court cost w/ prosecution, decrease jail time r/t violation of its use & distribution (and perhaps allow for criminals who have commited serious crimes to fulfill their entire sentence vs. early release d/t overcrowding).
also, i'd rather see a pothead any day than a drunk. jmo though :)

amen, my humble sister, i 100% agree. i've been saying this for years, and at the small town hospital where i work, they all think that i must be smoking it to say something soooo outrageous :jester:

danaheil · Sep 26, 2006

Agree completely with Kelly_the_great and Strong_willed. I have also been questioned about my views on medicinal marijuana in the small town atmosphere i live in. However, I have seen the effects of MJ for use in appetite stimulation when my dh was on chemo earlier this year. He didn't have insurance at the time, and we paid out of pocket cost for zofran (supposedly the best anti-emetic on the market) for a grand total of about $1000. this supply lasted about 2 weeks. We decided to go a different route with the mj. Not only more cost effective, but more effective in reducing symptoms of chemotherapy. According to dh, zofran didn't really help much, as evidenced by continued puking and no appetite. When he would smoke a little, he could take his head out of the toilet, eat some food, and (according to his report) feel like a normal person.

ursulanursula · Oct 7, 2006

can i get a big "HELL YEAH"

classactkellie · Oct 7, 2006

I have a close friend who suffers from a form of muscular dystrophy and suffers from chronic pain this degenerative disease causes. He has been on pain pills all the way up to fentanyl patches. He hates the way he becomes addicted to them and has now weened himself off of all of them. He tell me the only thing that makes his discomfort and loss of appetite due to the pain managable, is to smoke pot. I thik that if that is what works that is what he should do. Now this is coming from someone who is actually in recovery from alcoholo and drug addiction and I still believe patients can benefit a great deal from pot when used with discretion.:monkeydance:

mamasnurse, ASN · Oct 21, 2006

I believe legislators are brown nosed and paid off to keep marjuana as illegal as they can. They can't seem to figure out how to get their share of the money from it And yet taxpayers pay way too much for the petty offenses and release pedifiles because the jails are too overcrowded. Duh...... what to do, what to do. How long will it take this country to wake up? It reduces nausea, anxiety and pain, increases appetite and recently been in the news to help ward off Alzheimer's. Can't remember which channel!!! ABC, CBS or NBC since that's all we get with no cable...

BabyRN2Be · Oct 24, 2006

It really needs to be decriminalized. I know of several people who would really benefit from marijuana, my FIL and my dad for starters. In fact, I have a relative who is considering moving to CO so he can possibly use it.

Vida · Apr 14, 2007

Is there anywhere in the US that it is legal to use medicinally? I am from Ontario...I kind of remember them teaching us in school that we might come across an order for it..

I cant remember, and its probably a good thing to know.

EarthChild1130 · Apr 14, 2007

I say yes medically, no recreationally.