Marijuana for everyone!

[Dinith88]

What is your take on the issue of legalizing marijuana?

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

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, ADN, BSN, RN]

Oh no, not this again! :uhoh21:

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, ADN, BSN, RN]

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. :)

[ReinventingMyselfAgain, MSN, RN]

Picture me driving with a contact high..... (trust me, this is not a pretty picture) .... and then getting pulled over :uhoh21: ..... 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]

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 :uhoh21: ..... 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.

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

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.

No need to inhale is right! The smoke does linger, and it doesn't take much. A few whiffs at a concert years ago and I was suddenly --and I hear the stuff is way more potent nowadays.

[leslie :-D]

i have given the marinol with fair to poor effect.

then a this terminal pt's friend brought them in a joint and boy, it worked like a charm.

i am all for its' medical benefits.

and since this is a nsg board, i will stick to the nsg aspects of it.

but i will reiterate, i have seen it work like a charm to terminal patients....like a charm.

[z's playa]

No need to inhale is right! The smoke does linger, and it doesn't take much. A few whiffs at a concert years ago and I was suddenly --and I hear the stuff is way more potent nowadays.

I went on a road trip a few years back and my friends were puffing it up in the car. With the windows up. In January. At minus 35 below zero.(so rolling down windows was not an option) When we got to Toronto...4.5 hours away....I was wrecked. Stoned. Beyond comprehension.

I personally hate the effect it has on me but..if it works for some people...hey...knock yourself out...literally. :rotfl:

At our hospital we have a smoke room with mega ventilation so if you're like me and get messed up with just a wiff....it makes it less likely to happen. Just wait a good 5 minutes. And it lets the "buzz" kick in for the pt.

Can't believe I'm writing this.

:imbar

[Altra, BSN, 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 :uhoh21: ..... and then trying to explain why I'm illegally high after caring for a patient who can get legally high.

My thoughts exactly ...

Anyone ever come home from a concert feeling a little ... *out there*? That's why I don't think it should be legal. Its effects can't necessarily be contained to the person who has chosen to burn one ...