leprechaun wrote:


Peg - maybe you know two out the dozen or so people in the United States who believe, in good faith, that marijuana is the only thing for an actual debilitating condition or disease. But I've met hundreds of perfectly healthy folks who are skillfully scamming the recently enacted medical marijuana laws to get marijuana for nothing more than recreational or commercial use. And you and I both know the laws were designed for just that purpose, to make marijuana laws virtually unenforceable. But they were not presented to the voters that way.

--I think there are way more than a dozen; that's just insulting for you to trivialize this matter and if my friend with AIDS I referred to earlier weren't dead, I'd send your comments to him and see what he had to say. Most unsympathetic of you. Fortunately AIDS sufferers these days have a better chance of longer survival, into the decades, but there are still problems with nausea from medication, and marijuana is still helpful. I have another friend in this situation now. Would you deny him the option of feeling better because the system makes it hard for medical marijuana laws to be implemented?

Perhaps there are people scamming medicinal marijuana laws to obtain pot for purposes unrelated to medical problems. That's unfortunate, and dishonest, but then again, I believe pot should be legal for recreational use as well. The point is, marijuana is one of the best treatments known for the nausea incurred during chemotherapy and the drug cocktails taken by AIDS sufferers. And I do NOT "know" that these laws were designed to make marijuana easier for people to exacpe prosecution. As far as I am concerned, medical marijuana laws are just what they soud like: laws designed to allow easier and legal access to this substance because it will relieve their symptoms.

I agree that the hydroponically-grown pot available now is much stronger than it used to be; but I disagree that people would not waste their money on it unless it provided an instant and very potent high; in my experience, people are often looking for something milder and are nostalgic for the days when the available types of pot varied greatly in strength, quality, freshness etc. depending on their region of origin. This is why I rarely smoke it anymore.