dedbr

Was it a mistake to make or try to make marijuana into a legal medicine?

Do we want anyone telling us when and how much we need to smoke everyday?

Should it stay a recreational drug, or do you wholeheartedly agree with it as a medicine?

I think we've made a mistake involving drug regulations to our beloved herb.....my opinion......


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Darque Pervert

Since marijuana has legitimate medical use, I don't htink it's a mistake to attempt to classify it as such. It is the path of least resistance that leads to legalization.

newgrowerNY

I dont think its a mistake as Marijuana has so many uses. Its a medicine, its fiber can be used for clothes, can be used for bio-fuel, food, as well as many more. To say that MJ is only good for medicine is a mistake. Marijuana should be legal, plain and simple.

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WNB

Yes, I think it is a mistake because, to most people, there's no overlap between medicinal and recreational substances. Should marijuana ever be seen as primarily a medicine, I think the path to recreational legalization would be even longer than it is currently. Recreational use would just be seen as prescription drug abuse, and if that association is formed I think it would be a very large roadblock to legalized recreational smoking.

A second problem I have with the medicial mj issue is that it is seen by many people as a sneaky way to advocate legalization, and also a cynical use of sick people to further the legalization agenda. Again, this is not the way legalization advocates want to be percieved.

Of course, even with the above points, there's still the fact that mj does have significant medical uses. So I don't necessarily think it's wrong for medicinal users to advocate medicinal legalization, I just think that's a bandwagon that recreational users should avoid at all costs.

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DankDealer

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on it. People need to decide HOW we go about getting it legalized and i think there are only 2 paths we can take. Medical or Recreational. Hell i say scrap the whole medical marijuana and just push for all out legalization. Now im not saying that people shouldnt use it for medicinal purposes, but like WNB said anyone without a prescription would be seen as a prescription drug abuser.

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Buzzby

Yes to both.

Medical marijuana and recreational marijuana are two separate but related issues. 80% of the American populace favors medical marijuana while only a third favor legalizing recreational marijuana. Just like alcohol, marijuana can serve both purposes. During the era of alcohol prohibition, the only legitimate sources were medicinal alcohol and liturgical alcohol (communion wine).

As I see it, the general acceptance of medical marijuana will de-demonize marijuana in general. When people who think that cannabis is The Devil's Weed© see that medical users don't become hippies, junkies, or passive doormats they will rethink their position on recreational marijuana.

Every year we see drugs that were once available only by prescription being converted to OTC sales. I can see that happening with marijuana.

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Buzzby

That's like saying that only Black people should have campaigned for civil rights! If we can't have compassion for sick people in need of medicine, what kind of people does that make us?

On top of that, if recreational users won't support medical users it tells the non-using public that marijuana isn't medicine. Who would know better than those familiar with it?

Why not Medical followed by Recreational? In the political world, changes tends to happen step-wise, not in giant leaps. People approach the unknown carefully, testing the dangers with each step.

WNB

But my points are still valid. Regardless of the fact that mj is medicine, legalized medicinal use could very well be a setback for legalized recreational use. And if you think about it, if it's legalized for recreational use people who want to use it medicinally could do so, too. So really, campaigning for recreational legalization helps medicinal users, while campaigning for medicinal legalization hurts recreational users.

For the reasons I gave in my previous post. Once it's seen widely as a medicine, it'll be less likely to be legalized recreationally because recreational use will just be seen as a type of prescription drug abuse. Changes may happen step-wise, but setting marijuana on the path to be considered a prescription drug that can only be used with medical supervision is a step in the wrong direction for recreational users.

Buzzby

In reality, we have a very good chance of getting medical marijuana legalized sometime in the near future - 80% of the people want it. We have almost no chance of seeing recreational marijuana legalized in the foreseeable future - only 33% want it. Campaigning for recreational marijuana's legalization to the exclusion of medical marijuana, far from helping sick people, pushes their legal access to their medicine further into the future.

Once medical marijuana becomes a normal part of American life it will be far easier to get it legalized for recreational use because no one will believe the government's Reefer Madness™ propaganda.

Frojoe

Even if the push for medicinal marijuana will push back any success in the struggle for recreational use, I think it is more important to make it legal for the people who need it, as opposed to the rest of us who just enjoy it. People who need it for medicine are also more likely to have issues obtaining it while still illegal, and the rest of us do pretty well in that regard. Let's help them out first, then we can work on the larger task. Also if it can be used safely as medicine, it might help with the overall view of marijuana.