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 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.

Totally not true! If you're in a room with people smoking pot...you WILL get high. Period.

Do you really think that by smoking pot the THC suddenly magically disappears upon inhaling it? Do you think your lungs filter THC?

As a side note.....contact high here means being around people smoking up.....thus...getting high from it. :coollook:

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I guess it really depends on what kind of person you are. I am the type of person that drinks only occasionally, just don't like feeling out of control. My boyfriend, on the other hand, is my total opposite. He likes to drink more than me and loves smoking weed occasionally because he likes how it makes him feel. I have no desire to have it legalized because I don't even smoke it when it's illegal. I could live without tobacco, alcohol, weed, or whatever completely and never miss it. So, my take on it is that just because alcohol and tobacco are legal doesn't justify making something else legal. It would be the same situation as with everything else, a lot of people would be irresponsible about it. So, I don't know. I definitely see no problem making it legal for medicinal purposes. I try to see it from both sides, and if I had to vote I would probably vote no to legalize it in general...just one more thing to worry about, in my opinion, but I can also try to see where people are coming from if they enjoy it...so, I guess I really don't know....????

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Specializes in Pediatrics.
My thoughts exactly ...

Anyone ever come home from a concert feeling a little ... *out there*?

I remember asking myself, what is that smell, before I knew what it was (went to concerts at a very young age, and was kind of naive :uhoh21:

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 ...
Just like nicotene, hmmmm... :rolleyes:
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Specializes in Critical Care, ER.

I'm prejudiced - I'll admit that - coming from a family of addicts. Plus working in OB and seeing the results of illegal drug use (and alcohol use) on babies. I really think the whole legalize pot lobby is not really for sick patients but so that potheads can smoke pot without getting in trouble.

steph

I don't know. I think people with addictive personalities are going to find something to abuse, whether it's legal or not. Why ban the substance from all the other people who are able to use it responsibly?

I know plenty of responsible, attentive, loving parents who may take a weekend or two every year, send their kids to grand-ma's, go on a vacation with friends and smoke a joint or two.

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So, are you guys saying that pot is STILL illegal?

What a shame. After all these years, a progressive country like the good ole USA can't see the light. Legalize it, put a sin tax on it and put those farmers in Iowa back to work!

-Russell

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:chuckle Let's face it. If you work at a LTC you need marijuana and lots of it too!

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
So, are you guys saying that pot is STILL illegal?

What a shame. After all these years, a progressive country like the good ole USA can't see the light. Legalize it, put a sin tax on it and put those farmers in Iowa back to work!

-Russell

:rotfl: Good one, Rusty!

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Spend one Friday or Saturday night with me in the ER and explain why alcohol is legal and marijuana is illegal.

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I'm prejudiced - I'll admit that - coming from a family of addicts. Plus working in OB and seeing the results of illegal drug use (and alcohol use) on babies. I really think the whole legalize pot lobby is not really for sick patients but so that potheads can smoke pot without getting in trouble.

Well, I come from a family of addicts too. My father is an alcoholic and has been addicted to painkillers, and also had an addiction to cocaine at one point, and my mother also had a cocaine habit. I'm sure him and my mother have smoked a few joints in their lifetime, and weed was the least of their problems. I have seen what serious drugs and alcohol addiction can do to someone. Never once were my parents trying to scrape up money to go by themselves a joint.

I have been around alot of people smoking weed, but honestly I have only smoked it once in my life, when I was 15 years old. So I think you are stereotyping those who think it should be legalized. I am far from being a pothead and worried about getting in trouble. The only reason I think it should be legalized is because I cant find a logical explanation about why it is illegal.

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So, are you guys saying that pot is STILL illegal?

What a shame. After all these years, a progressive country like the good ole USA can't see the light. Legalize it, put a sin tax on it and put those farmers in Iowa back to work!

-Russell

I was waiting for you Russell

I think, if memory serves, you and I went round and round on this one before.

Farmers here need help too by the way!!!

steph :)

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Well, I come from a family of addicts too. My father is an alcoholic and has been addicted to painkillers, and also had an addiction to cocaine at one point, and my mother also had a cocaine habit. I'm sure him and my mother have smoked a few joints in their lifetime, and weed was the least of their problems. I have seen what serious drugs and alcohol addiction can do to someone. Never once were my parents trying to scrape up money to go by themselves a joint.

I have been around alot of people smoking weed, but honestly I have only smoked it once in my life, when I was 15 years old. So I think you are stereotyping those who think it should be legalized. I am far from being a pothead and worried about getting in trouble. The only reason I think it should be legalized is because I cant find a logical explanation about why it is illegal.

Well, I've been around alot of people smoking weed too and have also smoked it myself. I have seen people spend money that was needed for their family on weed. My former husband spent the money we had set aside for heating oil on pot when we lived in a frigid area and had a one month old baby. We heated the house with an electric stove for a week. His biggest drug of choice was pot although he did just about everything known to mankind. The crowd he hung with basically did the same thing. One guy was physically abusive to his wife when he got stoned.

The truth is all you and I have are anecdotal experiences to draw upon and that colors our thoughts. I lived with a man who deserted his family for pot. I am angry at myself for choosing a man like that - I knew he did this before we married which should have been a huge red flag. His kids waited in vain for him to become some sort of father but now that they are adults, they have very little to do with him and he is still a pothead. They love their step-dad, my dear husband and I'm very grateful that they have had a good role model.

I'm not saying that every person who wants to legalize pot for medical use is a pothead.

But alot of the leaders are.

As I said, we each have our own experiences and mine are not good. I'd rather not destroy the last line that keeps folks from going over the line. As I mentioned where other countries have tried this the usage rate skyrockets. I see enough of it already in the ER, thank you.

So, we aren't going to change each other's minds. I respect your experience and I ask that you respect mine. I've just known too many people who give up their families so they can smoke pot.

steph

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Specializes in Fertility.

with people who have sold the stuff...last time I was at a party, all the stuff did was put them asleep! :rotfl:

I say, lock up all the drunk drivers with more than one offense....liquor does more harm than Marijuana will ever do....

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