As a person with friends that have chronic illnesses, and keeper of a chronic illness myself *type 2 diabetes and arthritis*, I watch a lot of medical shows. *I'm also about to start nursing school in a few weeks!* Tonight I decided to watch Dr. Oz, who was having a debate on the relavance of Marijuana as a pain treatment.
I had absolutely NO idea how this was going to go, but Montel Williams was on on the stage in tears. I had to see.
For those of you who may not be acquainted with Dr. Mehmet Oz a well published and accomplished heart surgeon and champion of Alternative medicine and the improvement of the Essential and Sacred Doctor-Patient relationship. He was granted his own daytime talk show by the power of Oprah in 2009.
I was unsure what Dr. Oz's stance on the whole Cannabis as a Cure debate; just because he loves accupuncture and yoga does'nt necessarily mean he's ok with weed, right?
Well kids, i'm proud of the good doctor. He's in favor of medical marijuana with the added measure of making it harder to get approved for treatment. Not harder for people with chronic pain disorders or wasting diseases or terminal illness, but the retards that get it for "dry skin" or "dandruff" in states with way too lax laws. The big thing that the public health woman *who was from Dubya's ILLUSTRIOUS administration* kept repeating is that MARIJUANA IS ADDICTIVE AND IF WE WERE TO LEGALIZE IT THE POOR INNOCENT CHILDREN MIGHT GET IT!!1
First of all, Nobody on the panel *Oz, Montel or the Oncologist in favor of legalization* was asking for a blanket legalization so that anyone could buy it for any reason. The aim here is to get it legalized for people which have problems that no combination of meds that the Feds will allow you to have will work for. People who have pain levels so high that only high powered opiates in ridiculous levels will take the edge off... And then render them unproductive because of the side effects caused by them. Tobacco, a drug that is shown in studies to be AS EQUALLY AS ADDICTIVE AS HEROIN, YES I SAID HEROIN, is freely and readily available to anyone over the age of 19 that wishes to use it. It is PROVEN to cause cancer wether smoked or chewed and causes premature aging and horrible withdrawals if you decide to stop using it. Marijuana does none of these things and studies have shown that its smoke does not damage lung tissue and that THC actually can reverse progress in certain cancer types. When Our Lady Of The Innocent Children was asked why tobacco was legal when it's only purpose is a temporary high and iminent death her response was: It just is.
REALLY? It just is? What are you, four years old? I know a six year old that can come up with a better response than that. Her defense for her obvious lack of information and common sense is that people just never listened to the public health campaigns on how dangerous tobacco was *i'm assuming it's those irritating TRUTH ads* so they would never be able to remove tobacco from the public.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like with everything else in the world, somebody who does not need medical marijuana is ALWAYS going to get ahold of it. That is no reason whatsoever to withold it from people who could actually benefit from it. People in this country are far more likely to be addicted to perscription drugs now. Especially those Innocent Children I mentioned earlier. Perscription drugs are in almost every household in every neighborhood these days and they have much more dangerous and exciting side effects than plain old weed. What i'm saying is that those innocent kids have moved on to bigger things than the afternoon toke. If you don't believe me google bath salts and see what you find there.
Medical marijuana could be a valid and valuable resource for many people who are running out of options for their pain management or seizure conditions or the severe loss of appetite that comes with some diseases and wasting syndromes. This isn't about addicts getting a fix, it's about people getting relief.
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