Dravet syndrome and marijuana

[Jer]

And think, all that money wasted on the "drug war" that could go to treatment and addiction counseling instead.

Not to mention that crime that was created and how many US dollars have funneled to the Colombian and Mexican drug cartels over the years (and still going at record pace). If these items were legal and the cost associated was the cost of components, creation and whatever profit the market bared there would be no money for drug cartels continents away. Save the punishment & subsequent prisons for the criminals.

[Dingo]

This. It will be brutal the first few years and lots of innocent and otherwise good people may die as a result but the long-term benefits of a gene pool cleansing will put us back in a commanding lead as a nation. Too many generations of creating laws to protect idiots from themselves has got us to the point were are now at. Pot is legal and I choose not to smoke it. Drinking bleach is legal and I also choose not to do that. I would guess that not having common sense or average intelligence would make such decisions difficult and I would want some large entity to care for me as an adult when I should be able to care for myself would be desirable. It's just too bad the majority of our nation now fits this mold and liberties and freedoms have to be sacrificed as a result.

We are on the same page, my friend.

[ANADRILL]

Y'all aint smoking that weed in here are ye?

[Jer]

Y'all aint smoking that weed in here are ye?

Nice avatar.

[brokenscout]

Should be legal all the way around

[wctriumph]

As a medicine Pot does work wonders when applied properly. It has literally saved my wife's life and Fuck You if say different, you don't know what you are talking about.

[Ronin13]

As a medicine Pot does work wonders when applied properly. It has literally saved my wife's life and Fuck You if say different, you don't know what you are talking about.

THIS! My good friend that I grew up with has been battling cancer for about 3 years now... she feels like shit pretty much 22-23 hours a day (that other hour or two is when she can actually sleep), she doesn't eat, she gets these fits where she can't stop vomiting, and then along came marijuana. Boom, about 60% of her cancer treatment related problems were gone IMMEDIATELY. The rest gradually went away until it was about as good as it could get with hardcore radiation treatment. No more nausea, no more loss of appetite, and the pain was substantially less. Besides her daughter, she had no other reason to live before she had a completely different doc recommend pot. I would say it saved her life, and it's a medicine that works. Fuck the FDA, DEA, and congress for putting it down as a Schedule I narcotic (meaning "No medical benefits/use"), they also, in doing that, make it seem like it is as bad as cocaine and heroin.

[Dingo]

THIS! My good friend that I grew up with has been battling cancer for about 3 years now... she feels like shit pretty much 22-23 hours a day (that other hour or two is when she can actually sleep), she doesn't eat, she gets these fits where she can't stop vomiting, and then along came marijuana. Boom, about 60% of her cancer treatment related problems were gone IMMEDIATELY. The rest gradually went away until it was about as good as it could get with hardcore radiation treatment. No more nausea, no more loss of appetite, and the pain was substantially less. Besides her daughter, she had no other reason to live before she had a completely different doc recommend pot. I would say it saved her life, and it's a medicine that works. Fuck the FDA, DEA, and congress for putting it down as a Schedule I narcotic (meaning "No medical benefits/use"), they also, in doing that, make it seem like it is as bad as cocaine and heroin.

Yup. It goes back decades to hemp production and textile rivalries. Plus the DEA would lose too many jobs and tax allocation. Not to mention an entire industry that the govt couldn't tax, and Big Pharma would be in immediate competition with for many of their flagship drugs.

[Dingo]

I don't even like weed, but I think it's an amazing resource.

[Roger Ronas]

As a Stage IV renal patent, I can state that Marijuana does save lives. I have held off Dialysis for 7 (yes 7) years because of it. My Drs are amazed at how I'm still hanging on. Ex also has MS and it helps her tremendously too.
Grew up very anti, but when I met Dr Bob Melamede, and he explained that my vision loss could have been prevented had I been using MMJ, and the results I see now, I'll never stop using it.

Roger