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[Jazzy]

Originally Posted by Bluezone777

It's a waste of money and time fighting a hopeless battle especially when the fact it's illegal is what funds most of the organized crime that they are fighting. Make it legal, regulate it and you will not only suck the life out of organized crime via their bank accounts but you give those who want it the ability to get it without going to shady criminals and they get the right dose so they don't kill themselves via overdosing on it.

Sorry but I'm having a hard time trying to understand your logic here. Are you saying that only organized crime and shady criminals sell marijuana? What about when you have a prescription for medical reasons? Are the doctors and pharmacists part of this organized crime too? Who's going to regulate it if marijuana were to become legal? What is the right dose? Oh, man, I need a break

[Scout]

Unfortunately, marijuana has pretty much the same effects as alcohol. The only reason alcohol is legal is because the government profits from it, immensely I might add. For whatever reason, the government is not able to tax marijuana, and this is why it will most likely remain illegal.

I'm not even sure I would recommend that marijuana be prescribed by doctors. Many doctors still prescribe it as a treatment for certain illnesses. The irony is that, because marijuana depresses the body's immune system, marijuana use only leads way to more illnesses and is therefore not a treatment at all.

[theezy]

Originally Posted by Scout

I'm not even sure I would recommend that marijuana be prescribed by doctors.

What credentials and qualifications do you have to make any sort of recommendations to a doctor in the 1st place?

[Scout]

Originally Posted by theezy

What credentials and qualifications do you have to make any sort of recommendations to a doctor in the 1st place?

I do not claim, whatsoever, to be telling doctors what they can and cannot do. I am simply stating my opinion, that marijuana does not aid in the treatment of an ill person.

As stated, marijuana weakens the immune system, therefore prescription of the drug is counterproductive. It is a known fact, every doctor I have spoken to about the subject has said the same thing.

This is why I would never advise anyone (doctor or not) to supply people with weed to help a person get over illness. There are far better alternatives.

[theezy]

Originally Posted by Scout

I do not claim, whatsoever, to be telling doctors what they can and cannot do. I am simply stating my opinion, that marijuana does not aid in the treatment of an ill person. As stated, marijuana weakens the immune system, therefore prescription of the drug is counterproductive. It is a known fact, every doctor I have spoken to about the subject has said the same thing. This is why I would never advise anyone (doctor or not) to supply people with weed to help a person get over illness. There are far better alternatives.

And your opinion is based on doing a tiny bit of research. I think I'd trust a doctor who decides to prescribe marijuana and has spent several years in medical school and several years treating patients. Marijuana has several beneficial qualities in it as I posted here: http://wober.net/showpost.php?p=5254&postcount=3 which actually help people with certain illness's.
Every medication out on the market has downsides and side effects, that doesn’t mean they also don’t help the patient as well.
Besides just about everything in the world is bad for you. We should make marijuana illegal because it has things that can harm us in it? Lol.
If I took three perfectly healthy people and subjected one to daily heavy marijuana use and subjected one to daily heavy alcohol consumption and subjected the other to daily heavy fast food consumption.. Who do you think would be the last one alive? The marijuana user. Strange that is the only one that is illegal.

[Bluezone777]

Originally Posted by Jazzy

Sorry but I'm having a hard time trying to understand your logic here. Are you saying that only organized crime and shady criminals sell marijuana? What about when you have a prescription for medical reasons? Are the doctors and pharmacists part of this organized crime too? Who's going to regulate it if marijuana were to become legal? What is the right dose? Oh, man, I need a break

I was speaking more along the lines of illegal drugs in general. Those who sell and use it for medical reasons are fine as it's the people who sell it for recreational use are the problem and making it legal means those who excessively profit off of the selling of illegal drugs will no longer profit from it and with that goes all the drug related crime since it would not be so expensive as it is today.

[xneseyx]

I thought it was all the PCP and stuff that's in street marijuana that causes all of the health problems that people are ranting about? and if pot was legalized, there wouldn't be PCP in it... and smoking pot gives you the munchies. doctors use it to help cure anorexics. if it was really all that bad, I don't think that doctors, who have studied and trained for years would be using it to help make people better...

and by the way, you can overdose on the stuff that is out on the shelves in any drugstore, and it can kill you, while I'm pretty sure that pot can't kill you. many of the suicides in the world are because kids take tons of tylenol and OD on it and then die.