Majority of Alabama District Attorney's Intervene In Attempt to Stop Medical Marijuana Law From Passing. Say Law may convince people that MaryJ isn't a dangerous, destructive gateway drug. Say pharmaceutical painkillers are good enough.

[aubiefifty 16,790]

On 4/29/2021 at 10:46 AM, CoffeeTiger said:

https://www.al.com/news/2021/04/which-district-attorneys-in-alabama-are-pushing-to-block-medical-marijuana.html

 

Yeah, F*** anyone in chronic pain who doesn't want to destroy their bodies and become dependent and addicted to powerful  pharmaceutical pain killers. Great plan and message. Very on brand for Alabama. 

 

Who thinks this bill will actually pass? I'm hopeful but will be surprised if it does. 

*Just as a note I've never had any kind of marijuana and have no plans to have it, but I fully support people's rights to choose to take it, especially since it's proven to be safer and less harmful than legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol. 

they need to watch that doc on hbo about the companies pushing oxy's. jesus they had one old cat said he took so many it took him fifteen minutes to eat them all. it was very eye opening.

[aubiefifty 16,790]

On 4/29/2021 at 11:28 AM, TitanTiger said:

It's classic tactic at play here:  Exaggerate the other side's position, then argue against the exaggeration.

For one, hardly anyone is saying that marijuana is "harmless."  Like many things it can be abused, overuse can cause health problems, it can impair judgment and reflexes when driving and such.  What people are saying is that its current treatment under law is way out of proportion to its actually dangers or harmful effects.  If we can regulate the sale and distribution of alcohol in ways that permit it to be legal, the same can be said of marijuana based on the evidence.

But this feckless letter takes it a notch further.  The proposed medical marijuana bill they're arguing against doesn't even make MJ legal.  We aren't going to have legal weed shops popping up all over ala Colorado.  The bill that passed the Senate is limited to a handful of medical conditions and has other restrictions on it:

The legislation would set up a system to regulate medical marijuana from the growing of the plants to the sales of medical cannabis products at dispensaries. Doctors could recommend medical marijuana for about 15 symptoms and conditions, including chronic pain; seizures; depression; weight loss and nausea from cancer and HIV; Crohn’s disease; Parkinson’s; sickle cell anemia; PTSD; muscle spasticity from certain diseases; and other conditions.

Patients would receive a medical cannabis card and be placed in a registry.

The bill would not allow the use of raw plant material or products that could be smoked.

So they're conflating making marijuana legal with a very narrowly tailored bill allowing MJ to be used in limited circumstances for medical reasons and under tight control and regulation to scare people.

 

those oxy's that were pushed on people and then basically taken away have helped cause the heroin epidemic and also the much stronger fentanyl. the fentanyl is actually killing cops and drug dogs as well because it is so powerful. but to me most pols in alabama have their heads up their azz.