[HumbeOpinion]

Why can't the politics just be empathetic and allow Medical Marijuana to be a legal issue. Why can't people that are suffering with any terminal disease or any affliction that can't seem to be relieved by anything else but Marijauna seems to work better be allowed to grow and light up?

[Infidel_Kastro]

Originally Posted by HumbeOpinion

Why can't the politics just be empathetic and allow Medical Marijuana to be a legal issue. Why can't people that are suffering with any terminal disease or any affliction that can't seem to be relieved by anything else but Marijauna seems to work better be allowed to grow and light up?

I don't know, but I guess it would probably have to do with the fact that there are a lot of people who would abuse the right and erode the needs of the people who truly need some relief.

[mzpro5]

Originally Posted by HumbeOpinion

Why can't the politics just be empathetic and allow Medical Marijuana to be a legal issue. Why can't people that are suffering with any terminal disease or any affliction that can't seem to be relieved by anything else but Marijauna seems to work better be allowed to grow and light up?

To go a step furhter why can't the politicos legalize it, put production and distribution under government control (like alcohol), tax it and raise public revenues and take the label of "criminal" off thousands of people whose only crime was wanting to occasionally light up and relax.

[cj2448]

Originally Posted by mzpro5

To go a step furhter why can't the politicos legalize it, put production and distribution under government control (like alcohol), tax it and raise public revenues and take the label of "criminal" off thousands of people whose only crime was wanting to occasionally light up and relax.

RIGHT ON!

[brindle]

"I don't know, but I guess it would probably have to do with the fact that there are a lot of people who would abuse the right and erode the needs of the people who truly need some relief".

That's true of every over the counter controlled substance as it is.

"Why can't people that are suffering with any terminal disease or any affliction that can't seem to be relieved by anything else but Marijuana seems to work better be allowed to grow and light up"?

If I needed marijuana to relieve the pain I suffer from constantly day and night, was allowed to grow my own, how would that prevent another from growing what they need for pain? How would this "erode the needs of the people who truly need some relief"?

[HumbeOpinion]

The thing is...its already being abused. I think if it was legalized it wouldn't be so abused really. There would be no need for your child to meet the "druggy connection" on the corner.

So many people suffer today with illnesses. I think I read somewhere that 50 percent of the people in hospitals today dying are suffering because they just don't prescribe the right amount or the right drug at the end. This is just horrible.

If you have ever watched anyone suffer with cancer or suffer right up until the end, you realise that it doesn't matter if the drug is not politically correct! If it works why can't these people be allowed to have it?

Sorry angelize56: Humbe: May I suggest you use TSG search before you post a thread?

If I could change the thread title I would....but since its there, we can use the topic to even go one step further...perhaps we can also add into here what you guys think about the pain management. I just think we need to see more education and more doctors that support keeping people out of pain.

Living, dying with pain

Communication remains key to relief

By SHARON RAUCH

Tallahassee Democrat


To die in pain --- for many of us, it's our worst fear. And not unfounded.

A 1995 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that half the critically ill people studied were in pain. The National Cancer Policy Board reported similar findings in its own study in June: Half the cancer patients who die each year suffer pain, nausea, depression, fatigue and other symptoms. It's not that we don't know how to treat pain. We have the drugs --- and multiple ways to give them to people, from pumps and patches to lollipops and epidurals. We also know that other techniques such as acupuncture, massage, music therapy and hypnosis can bring relief.

Yet a 1999 American Medical Association handbook about end-of-life care states "pain management remains inadequate."

Why?
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/2845088.htm

[angelize56]

Humbe: I deleted my other post to you ^ there..it didn't sound right to me! Here's where everyone was discussing this issue:

http://forums.techguy.org/t242251

As a nice suggestion, try using TSG search first to see if threads are already started on the issues you wish to post! I hope that sounds better! Take care! angel

[deh]

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[angelize56]

^ Now why did I know that was coming deh!

[HumbeOpinion]

Dude, Where's My Integrity?
Medical marijuana tests the Supreme Court's true love of federalism.

Posted Monday, Nov. 29, 2004, at 3:49 PM PT

If medical science conspired to construct, at the submolecular level, the world's most sympathetic plaintiff, it could do no better than Angel McClary Raich. Raich suffers from a host of painful wasting diseases, including fibromyalgia, endometriosis, scoliosis, uterine fibroid tumors, paralysis, asthma, and rotator cuff syndrome. She has an inoperable brain tumor, seizures, and struggles to consume enough calories to live. In her brief before the Supreme Court, an affidavit from her doctor enumerates not only Raich's staggering list of illnesses, but also the 35 alternative medicines she has tried without success. He adds that she "may suffer rapid death" if forced to stop using the marijuana she consumes (via pipe, massage oils, and quantities of pot-spiked zucchini bread) every two waking hours of the day.

More here http://slate.msn.com/id/2110204/

[Wino]

Originally Posted by mzpro5

To go a step furhter why can't the politicos legalize it, put production and distribution under government control (like alcohol), tax it and raise public revenues and take the label of "criminal" off thousands of people whose only crime was wanting to occasionally light up and relax.

Legal or not, makes no difference to me.

[Rep]

Originally Posted by HumbeOpinion

Why can't the politics just be empathetic and allow Medical Marijuana to be a legal issue. Why can't people that are suffering with any terminal disease or any affliction that can't seem to be relieved by anything else but Marijauna seems to work better be allowed to grow and light up?

Because too many politicians have made a career out of being tough on crime. Then, to support this type of legislation, the message during the last five days of a reelection campaign is, "Did you know that Rep, Rep wants to give your child drugs".

[Fidelista]

Opium Poppy is grown and used in constructive way---it is also abused---heroin --- ect. A highly addictive drug that can kill, and is approved.
Cannibus {marijuana} is a plant also , that is used illegally , with no where near the human cost---loss of life ---addiction --ect.
I don't understand why it cannot used for medical purpose , if it helps in any way.
I have smoked it ---more than once and am confused by all this problem.
The only thing I see wrong with the use ---is young people smoking, and not paying attention to study. This among many other things!
I think our President and the Federal should find someone else to make miserable---leave the sick and dying alone.
>f

[iltos]

Originally Posted by Wino

Legal or not, makes no difference to me.

i just noticed your signature, too

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by Rep

Because too many politicians have made a career out of being tough on crime. Then, to support this type of legislation, the message during the last five days of a reelection campaign is, "Did you know that Rep, Rep wants to give your child drugs".

That's awful Rep.

While I am 100% against the legalization of marijuana for general public consumption, I fully support the right for doctors to prescribe smokeable marijuana for medical reasons. Especially those with terminal illnesses. For your opponent to play that card is especially dirty.

Were you in support of general legalization? or just in favor of it's use as prescribed by a doctor?