The ABCs of Pot

[tmark]

I heard on the news that all the ABC stores (pharmacies) in Virginia want to get legislation to sell medicinal marijuana. That is most interesting. What do you Virginians think of that???

[Weasel]

What the hell have they been smoking.

[Hecklerusp45]

This Virginian has not been smoking ANYTHING and thinks that in MOST cases medical marijuana users are not patients but just pot heads.

[da gimp]

There's a series on pot sellers in Caif on cable, one store just had to pay over $1million in fed taxes, the profits are huge, that is why they want it legalized.

[Marine A5 Sniper]

I have an elderly lady who lives down the street that has cancer. The old darling has been smoking pot (her grandson's idea) to help her eat. The stuff has been a godsend for her. I guess there are valid uses for the stuff other than a buzz. I did ask her what she thought of the stuff, and she told me it put her to sleep. I offered to lend her some of my old Allman Brothers albums, but she declined.

We need to change our drug laws, as we are just spinning our wheels. We have lost the war on drugs - simple and true. I don't have all the answers, but I recognize failure when I see it. Time to change course, but in this country, we have no leader capable of changing our course, so we continue to make the same old sad mistakes.

jt

[dave]

I agree, here in MI we have a medical pot law. Its been widly abused by sellers and users and the Docs who write the scrips. They have been trying to stenghten the law but I think its a lost cause.

[UUURah]

Oh GOOD Grief!!! Let's just give up, throw up our hands, all get potted, then hit the freeways. Not enough drunk drivers on the roads, they need some friends.

[Ken The Kanuck]

Time to legalize pot. It is a less harmful drug than booze. It can be grown at home. It would take profits away from the criminal element and reduce their power. Develop testing methods (if they do not already exist) so those under the influence would be caught if driving.

The war on drugs is really a war on crime. The spaced out drug addicts are a bigger threat to themselves than society (if they had access to free dope they would never go through all the trouble to rob anyone, too much work for a druggie), it is the sellers and the organizations which supply the sellers where the problem lies.

Pot like any other substance if abused will cause problems.

I would rather see my kids smoke pot than cigarettes.

KTK

[Guamsst]

I'm all for medical marijauna when used as medicine.

If you watch about 2 minutes of WEED WARS you see that the lines are full of stoner hippy morons and the owners of the pot "boutiques" are making money hand over fist. Although, they do occasionally show a person with a real medical problem.

They have isolated the two chemicals that are effective as mediicine so why do they still have little cookie jars full of weed? shouldn't they have it in pill form? Why don't they? Potheads like to smoke it, that's why.

Pot can cause serious long term problems. But, it is similar to Alcohol and Tobacco in that you generally need to use allot over a long time before it is harmful.

[coppertales]

I am for it. I have glaucoma that the drops have not arrested it. You can always tell the guys that badmouth pot as a traffic killer that have no first hand experience with what they are talking about. When guys get drunk, they blast down the road. When someone gets high, they drive about half the speed limit. I grew up in the 60s so I have seen this first hand.....chris3