I don't think most sane folks disagree with alleviating pain in the suffering. IF only the suffering are getting the pot.
But let me type up a different perspective here for debate.Imagine if you will working at a good job that requires you to submit to random **** test. I did so i don't have to imagine. Anywa, Your neighbor smoked a bunch of pot last night and here you are going to work with trace amounts in your system. You loose your job, now you are depressed and suffering and go join the neighbor and smoke dope and 6 months later are still unemployed and no car,no nothing.
Did legal pot help the situation? Did **** pot help? No.
I have yet to see how these states are fairing that legalized pot as far as accidents and jobless rate's. I bet they are to ashamed to report it because they are collecting a hell of alot of tax revenue off of it.
And they are collecting alot of money off folks being charged with DWI also. So of course the negative effects are going to be squelched from public knowledge.

The funny thing is, the only reason it's ¡llegal anywhere is because the rest of the world followed in the footsteps of the US... (Ignore the rest of this if you already know or don't care how it became ¡llegal.)

The US government decided to help a struggling paper company that was making paper from trees instead of hemp, like all other paper was at that point. Using trees is over 10x less efficient, not to mention the ridiculous amount of time it takes trees to grow back. Still, they purposely helped spread false propaganda about how terrible and dangerous smoking marijuana is.

The growing of female plants used for smoking is unaffected by the production of hemp, which only uses male plants. Despite that, the demonization of weed led to laws against the growing of both. Other countries were quick to follow our awful example. Just think how much better the world would be by now if weed had been as easy to get as alcohol all this time...

The growing of hemp was eventually made legal again, but it didn't affect the production of paper. Making paper from trees led to the needless cutting down of forests around the world, which would've more than made up for the pollution we've caused in our atmosphere, and the hole in it. As ridiculous as it might sound, global warming wouldn't be a thing if marijuana was never made ¡llegal.

I agree: middle ground.

About g h b, too: Even that is used as a medicine now, only once Big Pharma got a hold of it, they jacked up the price exponentially! It's ridiculously expensive, yet it used to be cheaply purchased as an OTC supplement.

I was prescribed it for a **** disorder under the name Xyrem. Unfortunately, it did nothing for me but cause pain and stiffness. Stuff would not knock me out!

This is my take on it as well.What of that shit I have smelled in my life is gross as hell and if I had to be around that to get some puss,I would just have to continue doing without. Not only that,but the good memory's of the evenings events are probably clouded from memory or forgotten.I want to remember the good time I had with a woman and hope she enjoyed it and remembers it the next day.


I don't use drugs or alcohol. That is putting me in a ever shrinking minority as most folks are high as kites while out in the real world every day.Scary as hell.
Granted,alcohol has killed alot more folks than weed,like members of my family.But Weed is the gate way **** and some can stop and live on with just that.A few need it to deal with pain.Others can't and go to far.

Hemlock is a plant, arsenic comes from plants, nightshade, LSD, etc.

Dear Dan.
With you and my dear old friend Robert biting as well as you have I may just need to buy that rowboat, can I sail it in the windy area where you live.?
Regards watching documentaries and movies I have no need to go back and watch some more "documetaries" as I see plenty of movies each week. Is a documetary a metric version of a documentary.??
I also do not drink so I do not have any booze to pour into my shoes but I do have several thistles and suchlike weeds in the garden if you would like to smoke them.
I do not have a wife or partner so the best I can do is pat my kangaroo for you.
Keep up the good work protecting the world from silly people like me.
With the greatest of respect and admiration.

Go preach someplace else. A little more cannabis used in this sick world would probably mean a little less intolerance of others. I have been around this herb for 40+ years and see nothing wrong with its use. Perhaps you were strapped to a chair and forced to watch hours of "Refer Madness" to come up with a blanket statement like this. I look at the good aspects of this herb that benefits many very ill people in this world. That is my opinion without all of the hysteria coming from ER Rooms and the DEA's stupid costly war on drugs.

d rug*