Legalizing medical marijuana is not the same as legalizing recreational marijuana.
By Daniel
@RhoShambo (79)
January 1, 2017 4:41pm CST
Legalizing medical marijuana does not help doctors in prescribing it. In order for a doctor to prescribe MJ, there has to be a readily available source nearby. The only legitimate way to allow doctors to prescribe MJ, is by making it recreationally legal. Marijuana is the least addictive and less dangerous drug in our society compared to all legal and illegal drugs. Alcohol is the real gateway drug....the #1 cause of drug overdose is prescription drugs. The most addictive substance is man-made opiates. Cannabis is not even close to any of these facts and is used as a medicine for neurological diseases/conditions while also killing cancer cells.
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
1 Jan 17
They are quite capable of taking certain ingredients out of cannabis and turning them into a pill.
Then all they'd need are companies licensed to grow the cannabis and a company to do the refining...which they have here.
@RhoShambo (79)
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1 Jan 17
@JolietJake Are you able to follow a train of thought? For a doctor to prescribe it, it has to be plentiful in the local area. And how is that going to happen if it is not recreationally legal?
@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
1 Jan 17
@RhoShambo sorry mate but you're wrong.
A doctor can prescribe antibiotics...are they grown locally?
All it needs is licensed growers in one area of the country...or even the world if the farm is big enough (australia could do it naturally no problem) to produce the raw product.
Then it'd be sent off to be refined and turned into pills just the same as any other pill is produced.
The medical usage has no, and needs no, relationship to the recreational side of cannabis.
