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?

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..... :smokin: (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.

No such thing as a contact high :nono: . Contact highs are psychological :chair: . You actually have to :smokin: it. I used to work home health :nurse: . I had 3 pts who self medicated with marijuana and a hospice pt I put on Marinol. When inhaled, the pt can dose themselves per inhalation and thus have control on therapeutic levels. When taken in oral form the pt is sorta stuck :eek: until the peak effects begin to decline. My MS pt told me he knew exactly how many inhalations would be enough :lol2: and how many would have the opposite effect :zzzzz . As far as legalities, I asked my pts to please not smoke when I was in the home and I gave a heads up call before I showed up. Also, I advised the physician, and he was grateful. The physician was then able to consider cross interaction when prescribing other meds, just like all other herbaceuticals I found in the home. I work in a jail. Very seldom are our offenders arrested for marijuana. The largest portion is methamphetamine possesion and or manufacturing. And you would not believe how many law enforcement personnel wish to God marijuana was legal. not just for themselves but so they won't have to arrest people for it.
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I have been around lots of people who have been smoking, and never once felt any effects from it, so I guess it depends on the person. I'm all for legalizing it. First of all, I dont care what anyone says, its not addictive. I have never known one single person in my life who has been addicted to it. Second of all, it is IMPOSSIBLE to OD on it. Third of all, it basically has the same effects as alcohol, but alcohol is legal. There are LOTS of more car crashes caused from alcohol than marijuana, and again no one has a problem with alchohol being legal. Also,cigarette smoke second-hand smoke have effects and health effects on people, and cigarettes are legal. Attention needs to start being directed towards SERIOUS drugs that are addictive like coke, heroin, painkillers, etc, thats where the serious problems are.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

'Health benefits' and 'marijuana' do not belong in the same sentence.

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No such thing as a contact high . Contact highs are psychological . You actually have to it.

Well, until it happened to me, I never knew what a contact high was so it's kinda ridiculous to accuse me of having a psychological reaction to something I'd never heard of before. I was at a concert and I had no idea that all around me people were lighting up joints. It was dark so all I saw was the glow of "cigarettes."

So I'd love it if you could give me a reference for any study that proves that I had some weird "psychological" reaction when I had never been exposed to pot smoke before.

To the best of my knowledge, the only thing "psychological" about smoking pot was the claims that it was "addictive." Happily, that experience was far from addicting.

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The contact high is a myth. Obviously no one got my original point that you must research the topic and see the myths and propaganda unravel.

Of course there would be restrictions on where it could be smoked, just like any other thing you could smoke.

It does not have to be smoked...it can be eaten and cooked with and you can make tea and stuff.

The teens have it now and will continue to have it, but after legalization it would actually become more difficult for them to obtain but never impossible.

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Well, until it happened to me, I never knew what a contact high was so it's kinda ridiculous to accuse me of having a psychological reaction to something I'd never heard of before. I was at a concert and I had no idea that all around me people were lighting up joints. It was dark so all I saw was the glow of "cigarettes."

So I'd love it if you could give me a reference for any study that proves that I had some weird "psychological" reaction when I had never been exposed to pot smoke before.

To the best of my knowledge, the only thing "psychological" about smoking pot was the claims that it was "addictive." Happily, that experience was far from addicting.

Sorry. Didn'tmean to hurt anyones feelings or negate their personal experiences. I should have read the entire thread before posting my opinions.
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Well, until it happened to me, I never knew what a contact high was so it's kinda ridiculous to accuse me of having a psychological reaction to something I'd never heard of before. I was at a concert and I had no idea that all around me people were lighting up joints. It was dark so all I saw was the glow of "cigarettes."

So I'd love it if you could give me a reference for any study that proves that I had some weird "psychological" reaction when I had never been exposed to pot smoke before.

To the best of my knowledge, the only thing "psychological" about smoking pot was the claims that it was "addictive." Happily, that experience was far from addicting.

Scientists have also proven that there is no physical dependence to the drug and very little psychological effects. People do it because it makes them happy :rotfl:

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

IF they're doing it because it makes them "happy", then perhaps they should seek out some psychological help. :rolleyes:

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The contact high is a myth.

Not in my case it wasn't. I didn't even know what pot was, for pete's sake. So I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's false, probably spread by those who are promoting legalization.

As I said, I would love to see which scientific study told you that information.

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IF they're doing it because it makes them "happy", then perhaps they should seek out some psychological help. :rolleyes:
Why, when grass is cheaper and it's not going to turn you into a lip smacking toung chewing fool.:rotfl:
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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

As i've said before to those who think that marijuana is harmless,

people thought that once about tobacco, too.
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IF they're doing it because it makes them "happy", then perhaps they should seek out some psychological help. :rolleyes:

Lots of people drink alcohol to feel "happy", or to get some sort of effect from it. Does that mean the majority of americans need help?

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