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Marijuana Orgasms and the Oregonian Newspaper
When I chose this title I thought I was being a smart aleck. I checked Google I found over 50 articles on the same subject.
5/31/08|Salem-News| by Dr. Phil Leveque : Salem-News.com


Dr. Phil Leveque, photo courtesy of Salem-News.com

Response to February 4th 2008 editorial.

This is not what you may think but it could be because marijuana acts like a comforting tranquilizer. Bit that is not exactly what I am writing about.

the Oregonian seems to be getting some perverse superpleasure writing about how bad it is with the pejorative words "abuse", "workplace hazard" and "out of control medical marijuana program" and that the Oregon Marijuana law is a "bad law".

They decry that Oregon has the highest rate of marijuana use and the highest rate of marijuana abuse. Both of these allegations are perversely false and they should know it. It reminds me of the "Reefer Madness" movie. Perhaps they saw it and believed it.

Oregon has possibly the toughest marijuana law. They do not mention that about 2,700 doctors have signed the applications for patients they certify are eligible for the about 20,000 patients who have permits. If the Oregonian thinks these patients are bamboozling the doctors they are totally mistaken.

The U.S. government estimated that there are 300 thousand Oregon marijuana users. It is a cheap, safe, quick-acting tranquilizer. These patients are getting to doctors as soon and fast as possibly and the number of permit card holders is increasing by about 100 per week.

The Oregonian's allegation that medical users use it to "get high" is ridiculous. It costs too much to be used so frivolously. I must admit some high schoolers do get high. How would they like to be in high school these days?

For the Oregonian to infer and publish that it was for "terminal cancer patients" shows their ignorance. However if it is good for a dying patient in pain why should it not be good for a chronic pain patient with many years ahead? There is some strange perverse sophistry going on here.

The Oregonian fails to address the "on the job hazards" of Oxycontin use, alcoholic hangovers, heavy anti-depressant or tranquilizer use, all of which are far more dangerous than marijuana use which even with heavy use ceases its brain effects in about four hours.

The DEA's administrative judge, Francis J. Young, after hearing two weeks of testimony, wrote: "nearly all medicines have toxins, potentially lethal affects, but marijuana is not such a substance...Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care" (DEA Docket No. 86-22, 57)

By the way, marinol, the pure substance in marijuana, is an FDA approved prescription drug. If one is bad and dangerous, both are! In fact, marinol is worse than marijuana.

I hope the Oregonian writers can get over this obsessive-compulsive activity and get themselves educated. At one time cannabis medications were the most prescribed in the U.S. Furthermore, cannabis has been used as medicine for about 4,000 years and NEVER caused a death. Even aspirin is far more dangerous.


[News admin note : Not what you were expecting, eh ]

 

SpiralArchitect

Good read. The guy makes a lot of good point, like marijuana in the workplace and how prescription drugs and alcohol (even aspirin) are more dangerous. I especially liked this part

Heh...

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SirSmokaALot

Thats how i got through my high school last 2 yrs by going to school stoned off my ass almost daily... just to make it more enjoyable during the day... ah i miss those days.

however... i liked the title... its what got me to read, and i am glad i did because this guy made some good points.

Buzzby

Tsk, tsk, Doctor. Don't you know that when people catch you in a lie, they tend not to believe anything else you might have to say? If it costs too much to be use frivolously, why is medical-grade marijuana so sought after by recreational smokers? Since Oregon doesn't have dispensaries, medical users are either buying from dealers at the same street prices as recreational users or getting it at cost by growing it themselves or getting someone to grow it for them. In the latter case, it certainly would be cheap enough to be used frivolously. All of the medical marijuana users I personally know also use it recreationally

Since I tend to agree with Dr. Leveque about most things, I'll just assume that a guy in his 80s isn't in touch with the social and economic realities of those 50 or 60 years younger.

Defending the recreational use of medical marijuana by high school students isn't going to win any support for medical marijuana.

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It is so highly sought after because, it is a stronger strain that is grown with support of local government, so there for better funded and generally better cared for than those grown in seclusion. For example, would you rather have a tomato that was grown in a basement, or in a tomato field that was properly watered, sunned, and cultivated. I think I would go with the latter. It is unfair to blame the doctor's for prescribing a substance that grows naturally on 60% of the land mass of Earth. Especially when looking at the mortality rates of drugs like; Morpheine, Codiene, and other "Prescription Opiates" that not only are addictive, but just as readily available. I know from my experience, that i can spend 20 dollars on 2 grams of high quality marijuana in Portland, or I can spend the same 20 dollars on 2 doses of ecstasy, or 5 doses of LSD, or 3 Oxycodones, and have 2 dollars left over to chase my pills down with a beer, granted I would rather buy Marijuana and not have a hang over, or be wasted on the next day when i go to work. and have some buds left over when i get home from work.

 

Pompo

Funny how you can throw the word "orgasms" into a title and the views for a particular story shoots through the roof

I now return you to our normal programming schedule

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SpiralArchitect

Haha yeah, very true Pompo. If only half of those 400 views had something to say