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Originally posted byanonymous877
As a society that allows drinking and glamorizes on it with beautiful women and music and all having a great time, then someone leaves a bar, drunk, kills a mother and her kids. What happens to this person, not much, or not enough!
But when someone with a devastating illness is suffering and Marijuana can help relieve their symptoms, we call it illegal!
I don't understand.
Sure Marijuana is a drug, just as opium is a drug, widely used to treat pain in the form of Morphine, Oxycontin, Percocet, etc.....How many 14 year olds get their hands on these drugs. Whether legal or not, drugs and alcohol, will always be abused. Hey walk into any AA meeting and look around the room. They are not there for the coffee.
I am someone with Hep C, who just recently finished treatment with Interferon. A drug with side-effects so great, I lost 30 lbs, dealt with nausea on a daily basis, and was so depressed, I felt as if sometimes I might take my own life. I never would of been given Marijuana for side-effects if I tried. I am a recovering heroin addict.
I know addiction and at one time I smoked Marijuana on a daily basis for years. And I gave it up in a day with no ill effect. I cannot say I had the same luck with heroin.
Marijuana needs to be legalized. I won't go into all the reasons, anyone who has ever smoked it knows that it can help.
It is not a gateway drug as the schools caution.
In the High School in my area they put a police force on campus, Why? Methamphetamines. Everyone looks the other way or blames it on Pot. My 18 year old son told me," When they come up to you asking you to buy drugs, it is not only pot they are selling. It is Valium, Oxycontin, Percocets, and Methamphetamines!"
But no one is going to make Valium illegal or Percocet!
Hell, I cannot even get anything for pain or sleep and I have been clean for many years.
We need someone with a strong voice and strong heart that can help.
Cheryl Hasenbeck, RN
California
cheryl868@yahoo.com
anonymous877
posted 11/27/04 @ 8:05 PM CST
But when someone with a devastating illness is suffering and Marijuana can help relieve their symptoms, we call it illegal!
I don't understand.
Sure Marijuana is a drug, just as opium is a drug, widely used to treat pain in the form of Morphine, Oxycontin, Percocet, etc.....How many 14 year olds get their hands on these drugs. Whether legal or not, drugs and alcohol, will always be abused. Hey walk into any AA meeting and look around the room. They are not there for the coffee.
I am someone with Hep C, who just recently finished treatment with Interferon. A drug with side-effects so great, I lost 30 lbs, dealt with nausea on a daily basis, and was so depressed, I felt as if sometimes I might take my own life. I never would of been given Marijuana for side-effects if I tried. I am a recovering heroin addict.
I know addiction and at one time I smoked Marijuana on a daily basis for years. And I gave it up in a day with no ill effect. I cannot say I had the same luck with heroin.
Marijuana needs to be legalized. I won't go into all the reasons, anyone who has ever smoked it knows that it can help.
It is not a gateway drug as the schools caution.
In the High School in my area they put a police force on campus, Why? Methamphetamines. Everyone looks the other way or blames it on Pot. My 18 year old son told me," When they come up to you asking you to buy drugs, it is not only pot they are selling. It is Valium, Oxycontin, Percocets, and Methamphetamines!"
But no one is going to make Valium illegal or Percocet!
Hell, I cannot even get anything for pain or sleep and I have been clean for many years.
We need someone with a strong voice and strong heart that can help.
Cheryl Hasenbeck, RN
California
cheryl868@yahoo.com