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OK, this time I'll allow comments here, as well as at Blue Jersey, because I think some of you may want to comment in relative privacy. Anonymous comments are allowed, but if you're comfortable doing so, an email telling me who you are would be nice.
I see the negative effects of marijuana every day in my classroom when I see otherwise healthy students (one student especially) who have trouble remembering something from one minute to the next. And back in the day, I had negative (as well as positive) effects on my own life from the drug. So I understand those who want to keep it generally illegal, even to competent adults under normal circumstances. I disagree on practical enforcement, social, and fundamental philosophical grounds, but I understand and respect the position.
But as a prescribed drug for those suffering from nausea, certain kinds of pain, and/or wasting related to those symptoms, I see no reasonable reason at all to prohibit it. It is effective, often when nothing else is. The supply chain is controllable, so its market need not be intertwined with the illegal market. And it vastly improves the lives of some people who are suffering from cancer and other horrible diseases.
But the most extreme of those who want to keep marijuana illegal generally have insufficient faith in the power of any arguments than can truthfully make. So they spread the propaganda that marijuana has no legitimate medical purpose.
( read more, with legislative action item, after the jump )
I see the negative effects of marijuana every day in my classroom when I see otherwise healthy students (one student especially) who have trouble remembering something from one minute to the next. And back in the day, I had negative (as well as positive) effects on my own life from the drug. So I understand those who want to keep it generally illegal, even to competent adults under normal circumstances. I disagree on practical enforcement, social, and fundamental philosophical grounds, but I understand and respect the position.
But as a prescribed drug for those suffering from nausea, certain kinds of pain, and/or wasting related to those symptoms, I see no reasonable reason at all to prohibit it. It is effective, often when nothing else is. The supply chain is controllable, so its market need not be intertwined with the illegal market. And it vastly improves the lives of some people who are suffering from cancer and other horrible diseases.
But the most extreme of those who want to keep marijuana illegal generally have insufficient faith in the power of any arguments than can truthfully make. So they spread the propaganda that marijuana has no legitimate medical purpose.
( read more, with legislative action item, after the jump )
