Marijuana will now be studied for more medical use

Jacob Petersheim said:
Only tried it once. Left me feeling dull and not entirely well, and incompetent at poker. Maybe a headache after. I doubt that it was "laced" with anything, just different biochemistry. Never had any interest in trying it a second time.
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I also tried it once, many years ago (like the 70's). I mean a single "puff" that made me cough. I never saw what the big deal is, but I do like an occasional beer.
 
I smoked one once. I only took 3 puffs, and it made me cough like crazy. One has to take it deep into the lungs and even when I smoked regular cigarettes, I never did that.

When I did take those 3 deep inhales, within a very short time, I relaxed totally. I wasn't loopy or high as they call it, but I simply felt that all was going to be okay with the world. It was a lovely feeling, so I guess I smoked some good stuff and didn't require much to feel just fine with this crazy world of ours.

Would I do it again? No, for I do realize that it's a false reaction. This is a troubled society, and doubtful that all will be well with it soon.

As for medical purposes, I would not choose cannabis over other meds to treat patients. I still see it as a gateway drug and I think Steve North's solution is the only one for making it legal for medical use.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
No, there isn't and there should be. But if I had thought if that anyone in the US Government was going to take the first step to legalize pot nationally, the last person I would ever expect it to be would be Trump. Nearly everything he's done as President was either about what's in it for him or his rich donors, for him to do something that a majority of Americans want, even partially, is a shocker to say the least.


Because he knew something from personal experience that you don't, because you don't have that experience. It's as simple as that. Look at it logically, Willie Nelson is 92 years old, and has been a "pothead" as you put it since 1954. He quit in 2019 due to breathing issues. (And cigarettes played a major part in that.) Other that that, and a lot of people making a lot of unnecessary noise about it for years, as far as I know, it never caused him any other problems. Don't you think it would if even a tenth of the BS you hear about pot was true. 65 years is a long time. This nonsense was part of why I believe they the "News" is fake


Did you ever see this 1972 Life cereal on TV?


Just making a humorous comparison here, because this makes me wonder... Have you ever tried it, so you could see for yourself whether you like or not, and if you don't, it would be from your own opinions, not two ER Doctors that you most likely only saw once, whose opinions have been debunked years ago? I learned a long time ago that you shouldn't make decisions based on other people's opinions. Specially those that are not based on facts? So it became a habit of mine to look things up. Sometimes that's easy, other time the formation is hard to find or is just somebody's BS.


Could you be more specific? I can only find information for a "Georgia Tech bll player" that OD'd, and that was in 2008. Who was it? What year was it? I would like to know specifically they would say it was from pot or some other actually dangerous drug that actually should be Schedule One.


I imagine that would scare the stuffin' out of most people, myself included. Specially at 15 years old. But I would want to know the facts about this, not opinions. Yes, it is possible that those doctors may have saved you from addiction or worse. But based on how I think, it had more to do with you being scared than anything else. You made the decision to not like pot in spite of not knowing all the facts, which when I started in 1970, almost nobody did.

On the other hand, why would a majority of states and Washington DC legalize it for medical use if it had no medicinal properties? As I said, I started smoking pot in 1970 and quit in 2000, and I mean I just stopped doing it, because I decided it was better for my kids if I didn't do it anymore. Someone told me back in the 1970s that "Quitting pot is harder than quitting heroin." If that was true, how could I just stop smoking it? No withdrawal, no clawing at the walls or any of that other nonsense you see in movies. I just stopped because one of my kid's teachers at school said he smelled like pot smoke.

People that are against something based on their own opinion, not known facts, are at times quite funny. Also in the 1970s, someone told me that smoking pot makes you grow breasts. IF that was true, after 30 years I would have been able to give Dolly a run for her money.

This website now has some outdated material, after Trump's EO, but it still has a lot of interesting information on it.

State Medical Cannabis Laws​

One of the things I found interesting was this:


As I said, I smoked pot for 30 years, at first to be like everyone I spent any time with, but after 10 years of playing on the road, it was more about pain relief than anything else.
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Axel I wasn't talking about pot, that kid died from overdose of opioids of some form. Or LSd which was popular back then, not sure what LSD was. I just never liked the way pot made me feel. I liked booze and cigarettes. Although the booze wasn't too often since I was left with 3 kids and had to work.
 
I was never into LSD or anything like that. When I was 14 (1970) I went to the city park for a tank painting party. (Vietnam protesters kept painting the tank pink.) I sat down with some friends to smoke a little weed, and someone got some sandwiches and I ate one. I found out later that the sandwiches had Jimsonweed seeds in them. That stuff makes the strongest LSD seem weak. I had a very bad trip and I never wanted to go there again. Aside from having a bad trip I had no idea what was happening.
 
Ken Anderson said:
The only recreational drug that I used more than once or a few times was LSD. I did quite a lot of that in the 1960s.
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Ken some people had some bad trips on LSD. I went to concerts and the nurses station was always full of overdoses.
Good you didn't have that kind of experience, guess you were " experienced, lol.

 
I knew one woman whose life was destroyed by LSD, or at least she so claimed. She kept having flashbacks and hallucinations at the most inconvenient times, like when she was driving. I have also noticed that those with a long history of cannabis use (remember it has been essentially legal here since the 1970s) have decision-making problems. They make bad decisions with no basis but are somehow absolutely sure that they made the right (wrong) decision. I have only seen this in long term, heavy users though.
 
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