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Sorry, can't find any sources that say Depression is qualified for a prescription to medical marijuana in your state. http://norml.org/legal/item/michigan-medical-marijuana might be wrong though. |
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Chong sure looks like a bastion of good health, I sure as hell want to look like him when I'm in my 70s. Better start smoking weed now. http://www.eurweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tommy-chong.jpg (Unsupported image host) |
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My dad grew up in New Orleans primarily, and moved several times, stimulating his decision to do and deal drugs. After moving to Minnesota, he basically ran an empire in the most active drug region in the state. He's done literally every drug in the book, except for the more recent drugs (past 10 years or so). For the record, if he found out his supply somehow ended up in schools, he would beat the living **** out of the person responsible. Hypocritical, but at the same time suppressive. In like 2005 he was finally convicted of dealing, and sentenced to 5 years after cutting a deal with the judge. It was going to be 15 years. After that, the only drug he's pretty much been on is pot, and some pain medication prescribed for his shoulder surgery and other incidents. He was voted to be the most likely to return to prison within the first year upon release by the state, but proved them wrong. He taught me about the addiction side of things, and especially gateway drugs. I know it may not seem like it, but my dad and countless others started with weed. It is a gateway drug. It stimulates the decision to move to harder drugs, however, it still is a decision. Drugs don't push you through the gate, they create the gate. It's your decision to walk through it. In fact, it's a decision to even smoke in the first place. Some people have a greater tendency to addiction, and it's their responsibility to know/predict how they'll respond. In essence, any drug is a gateway drug. That is, if you make it one. |
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I had a friend who had it all together at one point. He was in college going for his bachelor's in teaching and in his Sophomore year he blew it because of his stupidity with weed and weed only. He even admits to it now that he screwed himself over with weed. He was primarily the one keeping himself in college with his good grades and him living in an off-campus apartment. Guess what happens when you can't make money? You're screwed. He lost his job from his job at Guitar Center from walking into the place high. Jobs were hard to come across in the city so he had no money to pay for his food or his car insurance. He didn't have the motivation to stop being an idiot so he just left. Now he's living back home with his parents. There's a real-life scenario from myself. I got rear-ended at a stop light pretty hard from a guy smoking weed 2 years ago. He's in prison now... Ever driven behind a stoner? I don't think you'd like to. |
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okay I can't believe how many times I've posted in this thread so I'm out I think I've expressed my points pretty horribly good day to everyone |
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http://www.governing.com/gov-data/st...reational.html http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states |
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I take back everything I said and put out there that it's all preference and perhaps there are negative side affects that we choose to ignore/deal with. I also apologize to anyone I attacked personally in this debate, it got too heated.
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(As in for whatever reason the post didn't finish sending till I logged on at 8 tonight). Firstly, I don't argue with anecdotal knowledge, when it can be avoided. But considering your risk only goes up by 0.02 compared to a sober driver, it isn't that bad. Now, admittedly, that study could be flawed in some way, but i haven't found how. Not saying it should be legal though, don't take that the wrong way. Now, while i am for legalization, I definitely don't agree with a lot of the other pro-legalization contributors of this thread. While the study I posted way earlier in the thread showed no long term lung health impacts from using marijuana, however, you do face impacts from the paper itself, surprisingly. If you use a vaporizer you'll fare a lot better. That doesn't even mean I would use marijuana, I wouldn't. I don't feel the need/want to. But, considering those who will use weed will use it whether it is illegal or not, why not at least decriminalize it? What do we stand to gain from imprisoning people for possession? Distribution can still be a crime. But overall I think it is not a "yes/no" question, but more of a "when" question.
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