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Not if we use drugs to "enlighten" people. That is not true compassion at all.

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Are you serious? So nobody should say "herion should be illegal" until they have done herion? Just because you think smoking pot is not a big deal doesn't mean you should suggest that everyone should smoke it.

And then you go on to say people can overdose, which of course is case specific. So are you saying that bad outcomes are linked to overdose? I have not read any literature establishing what an overdose line for marijuana is. This is not a clear concept at all.

Regular dosage of marijuana (which like I mentioned is a weakly defined variable at best) has been linked to adverse outcomes such as psychotic breaks. We should certainly not be going around saying people should try marijuana because it is so safe.

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HA! People abuse this privilege all the time... "I'll take your card, and your plants... make a profit". Perhaps obtaining the card is hard, but once you get the card, you can pretty much do whatever you want. People feel like it is a free pass to use. They share their weed with non-cardholders. I smoked pot for ten years, and quit completely a year ago because it was destroying my life. I'm sick of people making excuses for marijuana. It is a drug. It is addictive. It will destroy your life, like other addictive drugs.

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I think your anecdotal evidence matches my anecdotal evidence, and frankly I have not read a rigorous academic paper that proves any significant medical benefit. This is a conversation about legalizing a  drug, not a medicine.

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Marijuana is a drug. I'm sure that drinking lots of alcohol "lessens pain" etc. for people, but it is widely recognized as having psychotropic effects that are unintended. People want to smoke pot and have it legal and so they are pushing to have it be recognized as a medicine. This is not a new phenomena, remember the "medicinal beer" movement back in the 1920s. I personally think drugs should be legal, but let's not kid ourselves with this medicine nonsense. Marijuana is a drug, and effects your brain negatively like many other psychoactive drugs.

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