20 Year Old Medical Marijuana Patient Faces Life in Prison for a Half Ounce in Texas

[peejay 327]

Lets just put it like this. If you have a serious pain-related illness and have the option between Vicadin and Oxycotin, or smoking weed, it is a proven fact that the weed is the healthier and less dangerous choice. However, for pain, Oxycotin and Vicadin are probably 100X more effective.

Like I said...only a fraction of the people using the "medicinal marijuana" issue might have a legitimate claim. The rest are just opportunists looking to cop a buzz and precious little else. Like my work buddy that went to the weed doctor in Cali complaining of headaches in order to get a marijuana card. Asprin or some other remedy would be more appropriate.

This is as lame as people that get scripts for Vicodin and Oxycotin that really don't have legitimate illnesses.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Like I said...only a fraction of the people using the "medicinal marijuana" issue might have a legitimate claim. The rest are just opportunists looking to cop a buzz and precious little else. Like my work buddy that went to the weed doctor in Cali complaining of headaches in order to get a marijuana card. Asprin or some other remedy would be more appropriate.

This is as lame as people that get scripts for Vicodin and Oxycotin that really don't have legitimate illnesses.

So what? If they have to do ridiculous things is it because the law is ridiculous and allows a drug, alcohol, which is far more destructive while spending billions to battle a much less harmful drug. Just stupid. I never smoked the stuff...ever, nor have I been drunk, but I do not cosider the average pot smoker a threat to my security and really don;t care. It ought to be in the same class as alcohol. I excused myself from a jury in Texas once because there was no way I was going to put a 60 year old guy in jail because he grew a little weed in the "north 40" and smoked it on his deck while grilling a steak. Give me a break! I simply told the judge it didn;t matter what the prosecution presented, I would not find him guilty if he could go to prison. Period.

In Vermont you could get arrested for smoking pot, IF you smoked it while walking down main street AND you were throwing rocks at windows while smoking pot! You could even carry a concealed handgun while doing it, OR be completely naked except for your gun and doobie. And we have the lowest crime rate (unless you count pot smokers) of any state.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Like I said...only a fraction of the people using the "medicinal marijuana" issue might have a legitimate claim. The rest are just opportunists looking to cop a buzz and precious little else. Like my work buddy that went to the weed doctor in Cali complaining of headaches in order to get a marijuana card. Asprin or some other remedy would be more appropriate.

This is as lame as people that get scripts for Vicodin and Oxycotin that really don't have legitimate illnesses.

What's wrong with that?

[Peggy 1]

There was a show on Medical Mary Do Ya Wanna the other night. You would not believe how many kids with ADHD and Austism are being given MJ by their doctors. I believe there are way less side effects from MJ than talking all those pills doctors prescribe. Like they may cause dizziness, the shits, liver failure, heart prooblems, blood clots, migraines, bloating and so on. When you get a new prescription and read the side effects you dont want to take the dam pills cause it sounds like they will kill you...lol

It should be your choice if you want to smoke MJ. Just like you have the choice to drink booze.

[웃 910]

Like I said...only a fraction of the people using the "medicinal marijuana" issue might have a legitimate claim. The rest are just opportunists looking to cop a buzz and precious little else. Like my work buddy that went to the weed doctor in Cali complaining of headaches in order to get a marijuana card. Asprin or some other remedy would be more appropriate.

This is as lame as people that get scripts for Vicodin and Oxycotin that really don't have legitimate illnesses.

And how many people that drink alcohol have a prescription to do so? If our gubbermint made drinking alcohol without a prescription illegal; you'd see 70 million adults make an appointment with their doctor to get the prescription within 1 week! All it means is that the laws are silly.

It will be legalized very soon, and maybe you might take up the habit (responsibly, of course) within the next decade!!! It's pretty damn fun in moderation. I keep a couple highly potent buds in a jar and vaporize it every once in a while. My lungs are sensitive to smoke and with the vaporizer it's virtually harmless.

Edited August 14, 2010 by Lord Infamous

[luckytxn 2,265]

Not one person I have seen complain that the government is telling us what we can or can't put in our bodies. They own our bodies it seems. Whether you think it is OK or not to do drugs it is still a moral decision that one is forcing on others who see it as their right as it is their bodies to do with as they please. Now I can see maybe to tell people to keep it in the privacy of their own home.

I told a police friend of mine this and he says well he has to pick up the pieces of aftermaths. I just said to him that it is his job to do so and if he does not like his job then get another, He also can envision how it would be OK to have monitors in private citizens own homes that they can turn on at will. As he says if they are doing nothing wrong they shouldn't care.