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jay's avatar

I bristle at "medical marijuana". Everyone involved knows that this is a sham. There may be some tiny minority actually using marijuana to treat a medical condition, but the vast majority are just doing it to get high. When we had medical marijuana in my home state, marijuana shops would have a doctor on staff so sign "prescriptions". I never tried to get one but I'm guessing that anyone who walked in got one. So why do we pretend otherwise? Make it legal or don't, but please, skip the sham and the lies of "medical marijuana".

Oh and just by the way, another thing that really riles me: During covid, the government here ordered restaurants, plant nurseries, clothing stores, a whole swath of stores to close. But exempt from these rules were "essential businesses", which included liquor stores, marijuana shops, abortion clinics, and the state lottery. Yes, buying seeds to plant a vegetable garden in your back yard during an epidemic was not "essential", but getting marijuana and a lottery ticket were.

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So, legalize marijuana because some people do not become addicted, use it prudently or only for medical reasons? I wonder what the percentage is of this cohort compared to those who will abuse and become addicted to any substance because of addictive personality traits, are too young to make rational decisions relating to long term consequences, or adults who are too irresponsible to manage their use so that it doesn't damage their health and livelihood.

Advertising is meant to sell a product, not necessarily tell the truth about it. Legalizing marijuana gives it the imprimatur of being harmless. It isn't. If marijuana does provide medical benefits, it should be treated as any other controlled drug, requiring medical documentation of the purpose for its use, and severe consequences for the user and prescriber if it is used or prescribed under false pretenses.

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