Marijuana for everyone!

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  1. Should marijuana be legal?

    • 48
      It should be illegal/criminal
    • 136
      only legal for medicinal use
    • 286
      should be legal (and taxable)

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What is your take on the issue of legalizing marijuana?

Specializes in Intermediate Care.
What you do to your body is none of anybody else's business. Why are some people insistant upon legislating what is and what is not appropriate for others to do to themselves?

"Hey! You there! Eating pork chops and weiners has been shown to lead to increased rates of heart disease. Therefore, it is illegal to do so"

The argument against drugs is equally as silly.

Legalise it and be done with it.

Roy,

Pork chops don't impair ones' driving, and secondhand smoke has been proven time and time again to be just as harmful if not more harmful than inhaling it yourself.

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.
Roy,

Pork chops don't impair ones' driving

Then ban alcohol as well. While you are at it, ensure that sleepy drivers coming off 12 hour shifts don't drive as well - as sleep deprivation also impairs driving.

and secondhand smoke has been proven time and time again to be just as harmful if not more harmful than inhaling it yourself.
1. Then ban tobacco smoking as well

2. If I decide to smoke in the privacy of my own room or my own house, how does that bother you?

3. If I decide to make Bhaang (a concoction of marijuana distillate in sweetened milk and spices) or brownies, are you still going to use the 'second hand smoke' argument?

This arbitrary distinctions drawn to discriminate against Marijuana when comparable drugs like alcohol are legal is silly.

And that's not even the moral aspect.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
"Hey! You there! Eating pork chops and weiners has been shown to lead to increased rates of heart disease. Therefore, it is illegal to do so"

If someone else is eating the pork chop, it's not clogging my arteries.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
Why do you want to tax it?

I never said i did. I said 'medical use only' many pages ago.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
This arbitrary distinctions drawn to discriminate against Marijuana when comparable drugs like alcohol are legal is silly.

It's silly to you because you happen to not agree with it.

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.
If someone else is eating the pork chop, it's not clogging my arteries.
Exactly! If I'm smoking weed in my room, it is not interfering with your system now, is it?

It's silly to you because you happen to not agree with it.

Fair enough.

Ok, why is marijuana any worse than alcohol or tobacco?

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
Exactly! If I'm smoking weed in my room, it is not interfering with your system now, is it?

If your window happens to be open (like an ex neighbor of mine, CONSTANTLY smoking that crap, not for medical reasons, leaving me to ask my doctor if second hand smoke affects a drug screening result), it most certainly will affect me.

Sure i could shut the window, but you know, i have the right to fresh air.

And i'm not going to debate which is worse, because i never thought or said one was worse than the other in the first place.

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.
If your window happens to be open (like an ex neighbor of mine, CONSTANTLY smoking that crap, not for medical reasons, leaving me to ask my doctor if second hand smoke affects a drug screening result), it most certainly will affect me.

Sure i could shut the window, but you know, i have the right to fresh air.

*sigh* These issues are bordering on semantics.

Ok fine. I shut the doors and windows. I install an electric chimney so that the smoke goes nowhere else but a safe place.

And i'm not going to debate which is worse, because i never thought or said one was worse than the other in the first place.
Not saying you did - but it would explain why I think marijuana laws are silly in the first place.
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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

I gave my reasons, you gave yours, let's leave it at that.

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Specializes in Long Term Care.

Ok everybody is addicted to something, if your addiction is drugs, food, sex, or whatever. IT is an addiction most addictions are not healthy mentally or physically but how am I a cigarette smoker and a junk food junkie able to sit back and tell anyone that what they are doing is wrong. I don't smoke in public places. (I do smoke outside) I don't smoke pot, I don't think any one should. Friend of mine eats from fast food resturants 3-4 times a day she is as big as a house doesn't smoke cigarettes she doesn't think any one should. Another friend of mine doesn't smoke cigarettes or eat meat or anything fattening and doesn't think any one should but smokes pot. MY parents, mom never smoked pot but she is big will eat anything in front of her. Dad ate healthy but smoked pot. A girl I know beautiful, she works out, eats right, doesn't do drugs, or drink or smoke cigarettes but has had more than 400 partners in her short 15 year sex life. There is something in all of it that is rewarding that is why we do it. If overeating, smoking, doing drugs, have sex or (insert addiction of choice) had a negative impact on us we wouldn't do it. In saying that the same goes though. I think my sister smokes pot to go back to see where it started. NO I don't think she knows that is what she is doing but I can't figure out another reason since she herself was the hardest on my dad for all that he done wrong and here she is on the same path he walked. For the life of me from knowing her there can't be another reason than to think she could heal her inner child by going back. We all live in glass houses. There is no one perfect enough to throw stones. MJ may be legalized some day and it may not but hey prostitution is almost there too. :stone We as a society are tearing ourselves up we are destroying ourselves with self indulgence. No self discipline no boundaries. Any thing goes. legalize pot and all drugs for that matter legalize anything any one wants to do. What do we need laws and rules for anyway. That is what it is going to come down to if things are not changed. And the changes are so astronomical that I can't even sit here and think of one example off the top of my head. Change ourselves first. I want to go into the bible here on this one but hold back for the simple reason that self restraint and self discipline doesn't have to be bible based. Just in general, for example if one has an affair and gets caught it is his or her fault. He/she had a choice. They got caught and had to pay for it either by divorce, loss of family, friends, possessions and in some cases life. That person that chose to cheat could have chose not to and his/her life would not have changed. Overeater, chose to put the food in mouth. They got fat. Now who is to blame? The over eater. Now over eater is eating right, exercising and loosing those pounds. Who is to blame? Drug addict chooses to do the drug. Looses everything is living on street who is to blame? And when they decide to stop they get clean maybe check themselves in somewhere and they stop drugs and get a house what have you. who is to blame?

My point is that it always seems to be the ones that haven't gone over the edge that can't understand what the big fuss is about.

Sorry this turned into a rant. I think I have made a few substantial statements here so I am going to go ahead a post. Sorry it is so long.

One more thought on this though. I believe someone said in this forum how does what I do affect you. well no not directly it doesn't affect me. but sooner or later I will be affected at least indirectly. How many people a year go into the ER with a drug overdose or a victim of DUI. I am going to be a nurse and as an aide I have already been affected. I had to take care of a lady that overdosed with lithium. (still not sure how she did it, because the doses were supposed to be given to her in Dr.s office) but that was pitiful, we had a drug addict that had contracted some kind of hideous disease that was causing green stuff to come out of every orifice that we had to clean up and dispose of. SO yes in a sense we are affected by it.

Sue

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Specializes in Intermediate Care.
Then ban alcohol as well. While you are at it, ensure that sleepy drivers coming off 12 hour shifts don't drive as well - as sleep deprivation also impairs driving.

Why the heck would we want to do that when there are DUI/OUI and DWI/OWI laws already in place? The enforcement of those laws are not limited to alcohol, ya know.

This arbitrary distinctions drawn to discriminate against Marijuana when comparable drugs like alcohol are legal is silly.

It's not arbitrary. Yes, they're both drugs, but they have totally different psychoactive & physical effects, and you know this. There's no camparison whatsoever.

Roy, you know as well as I do that most people smoke it instead of make bhaang/butter/brownies for several reasons:

1) It doesn't take a long time to prepare

2) The high is more intense

3) The high doesn't last as long

4) It hits you quicker

5) Easier to control the dose

IMO, if it were legalized, the method of ingestion should be up to the user but smokers should follow the same laws imposed on cigarette smokers.

In any case, I think you skipped over my previous posts, I'm for legalization.

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I think it should be legalized,and I would love to see more nursing research regarding its use for medicinal purposes. And about that "gateway drug" argument? The reason it's a gateway drug is because it's illegal, and unless one has the luxury of having a place to grow it themselves in their own home, one has to go through a drug dealer to get it.

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