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In reply to the discussion: President Obama's puzzling silence on marijuana policy [View all]I did not state that doctors are operating on someone while high. cannabis effects last for a few hours. it does not cause a hangover, like alcohol. if I were you, I would be much more worried about a doctor operating on me if that doctor were hungover.
the point is that you don't know someone is high because they don't exhibit actions that would lead you to notice - unlike someone who is drunk, for instance. you want to take these things and generalize them to every situation and that's just not reality. the stigma comes from the legal threat, not that someone gives a fuck about what you think.
why is this an important issue to me?
Because, as I've noted before, it is racist to the core. Why don't you care about a racist law - a law whose initial intent was racist and whose current application is racist?
The war on drugs has led to huge abuses of constitutional rights - it has basically obliterated the 4th amendment. Why don't you care about that?
Cannabis as a harm reduction strategy is good medicine - why don't you care about that?
You make an assumption that I would not be a candidate for medical marijuana. On what basis? Actually, cannabis is known as an effective treatment for migraines and was considered the best treatment when it was legal (because it was legal until 1937 - it has only been illegal for 70 years - for the rest of human history is was used as medicine.)
Your attempt to stop this conversation by implying that I want to while away my time is, frankly, just nastiness on your part. I don't while away my time. I am trained as a special collections librarian and I do research and learn about various subjects. I can also tell you a lot about Victorian prostitutes - that doesn't mean I want to be a Victorian prostitute, however. It means I wanted to understand the culture of that time and the way that women were treated as second-class citizens and how that impacted society. In the 1800s, if a woman walked alone on a street, she was assumed to be a prostitute - even girls who had to work in shops to earn a living. They were accosted because of the way in which society had such repulsive and sexist attitudes. Your remarks are the same sort of attempt to marginalize someone. To which I say - well, I won't say what I want to say, other than to say that I find your pettiness repulsive.
You're really and truly misinformed. Or maybe it's just small mindedness that doesn't allow you to see this issue for what it is.
Maybe you're just comfortable with racism. Maybe you enjoy the idea of people in jail for no crime because, I dunno, maybe you're a sadist. Why would you support such laws unless you were a sadist, right? That's the argument you are trying to make with me - that no one should care about any issue if you don't. Maybe that's just narcissism. I don't know. Maybe it's some desire to force your way of life on others because of narrow mindedness. I don't know.
And with that, I have to go. Please don't bother to reply because I won't.
here's a very short part of a documentary that features a doctor who has done a lot of research into cannabis - a pulmonary specialist.