medical cannibas

[JonPalawan]

7 hours ago, earthdome said:

It is disgusting that special interests in the US are preventing real medical research. Those special interests who oppose cannabis consist of the alcohol, pharma, police and prison industries.

The police/prison angle never occured to me, obviously they'd both lose a lot of "business".

[earthdome]

45 minutes ago, JonPalawan said:

The police/prison angle never occured to me, obviously they'd both lose a lot of "business".

In California a few years ago there was an initiative on the ballot to legalize recreational cannabis. At that time California had 18 years of medical cannabis. The medical cannabis industry also opposed legalizing recreational cannabis. Sigh... There are too many greedy bastards out there who use or manipulate the government for profit.

[JonPalawan]

7 minutes ago, earthdome said:

There are too many greedy bastards out there who use or manipulate the government for profit.

Aside from being kidnapped, are there private prisons here?

[mogo51]

10 hours ago, Kuya John said:

I recall Sir Paul McCartney having said " Cannabis is not adictive" ?

He based that conclusion on the evidence that it clogged up the needle???

[mogo51]

1 hour ago, JonPalawan said:

The police/prison angle never occured to me, obviously they'd both lose a lot of "business".

In my time as a cop in Oz, that was the held belief.  So MJ was held in such disdain as heroin, speed etc.

Even today, there is still conflicting reports about benefits/dangers of MJ.  But here we are talking about medical MJ  and I think there is much evidence to support this.

[earthdome]

18 minutes ago, mogo51 said:

In my time as a cop in Oz, that was the held belief.  So MJ was held in such disdain as heroin, speed etc.

Even today, there is still conflicting reports about benefits/dangers of MJ.  But here we are talking about medical MJ  and I think there is much evidence to support this.

In your time as a police officer how often did you have to go into a potentially violent situation for a domestic dispute where the couple had been drinking alcohol? Now, how many times where the couple was consuming cannabis without any other drug or alcohol involved? How many times did you see young people with alcohol poisoning?

 

There shouldn't be much doubt anymore that alcohol is a much more dangerous drug than cannabis.

[mogo51]

I cannot specifically remember ever going to a domestic situation where there was evidence of cannabis intake, but mostly when police are called, these things disappear. Alcohol, often a factor, no doubt. But that was not the position projected in my time (many years ago now). Alcohol abuse and domestic violence is well documented these days.

[JonPalawan]

Another noteworthy story at

http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/07/10/1601333/medical-marijuana-use-being-studied

[mogo51]

Hope for us chronic pain sufferers yet.

[Jollygoodfellow]

On 7/5/2016 at 11:35 PM, earthdome said:

cannabinoid's

You made that word up didn't you