Cannabis reform dead

In NC, this past session the state senate passed a medical marijuana bill after a couple of Republican senators told their personal stories of how the (illegal) use of MJ was the only thing that provided relief to their or their spouse’s illness. Was quickly defeated in the highly gerrymandered Republican dominated house. And so it goes.

 

A cannabis bill will never pass as long as Republicans have the power to stop it

 

Figures

 

Would love a peek into the medicine cabinets of these Boomer Republicans. Probably stocked to the gills with Oxy for their arthritic old bodies.

 

What a joke. 13 years as FF/medic. Alcohol is a far worse detriment to health and society. I can attribute thousands of calls to alcohol including deaths for various reasons. Maybe a handful of calls related to weed which were either anxiety issues or if it was laced. An overwhelming majority of police and medical workers have no problem with weed and would support legalization as a controlled substance.

I have Ehlers Danlos and the ortho pains I have are worsening over time. I can't perform my duties on pain meds and don't want to take opiates chronically anyway. A handful of brainwashed dinosaurs and various Lobbies impose their will on the rest of the country. Pathetic

 

It continues to perplex me that marijuana is Schedule I (no currently accepted medical use and high potential for abuse??) while a drug like cocaine is Schedule II. Seems like we have broad national support to revisit marijuana. They say "follow the money," and the cynical side of me assumes people are getting greased to oppose reform.

 

Does it require legislation to change the classification of marijuana? That sounds strange to me.

 

Interesting. So does my daughter.

 

That does sound odd. You would think that the FDA, with the blessing of the POTUS, could simply change that.

But it is strange that some states just legalized it as if the Federal Government had no legal right to classify it as such in the first place.

 

Follow the money indeed.

 

I don't know. I don't think the President can do it unilaterally. Maybe it could be done administratively but I also think legislation includes certain classifications, so that might require Congressional action? I did find this, which may answer some of our questions.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10655

 

It's not well known and even if doctors are familiar with it I don't think they can understand the discomfort a younger and otherwise healthy person can have because they may present physically fit. I have strength trained most of my life which I think masked a lot of the potential problems because my joint capsules were tighter from training. I always struggled with rolling ankles and sprains and the older I get the worse it has gotten. Starting in my 30s, i have suffered 2 torn shoulders and a blown out knee on my job. People can't relate to the laxity In every joint not just the major ones so now I struggle with headaches and neck pain because of laxity in the vertebrae. I've always been pretty strong but struggle with grip strength to the point I can feels carpal bones shift in my hands and wrist simply from lifting dumbells.

I don't feel comfortable asking for pain meds because I don't have a specialist or even a primary right now. I haven't used weed since the occasional smoke when I was in my early 20s but that's because my job doesn't allow it and I'm not a fan of smoking anyway. I would be absolutely open to it for pain management but again, it doesn't look like it will happen any time soon.

 

I'm in favor of legalization, but on the issue of pain, I did see some articles recently suggesting it may largely be a placebo effect. My concern with the medical marijuana movement is that it's delaying full scale legalization while select growers are making money and only those who can afford to pay the fee and get a doctor's prescription are shielded from arrest and prosecution. And I've never heard of anyone applying for a medical marijuana card being turned down; it's all about ability to pay.

 

private, for profit prisons

 

Definitely a less well-known condition. My daughter's tendons and ligaments are so loose she has a mobility dog to walk. When she first started dislocating (every joint), we were stumped and so were the doctors. We had to go to Shands to get a proper diagnosis. She has custom braces for her knees and ankles.

 

Just another way that big pharma is probably screwing us. Wanna guess who benefits the most from weed being off the table?

Big pharma is killing us from a thousand cuts.

 

Colorado just legalized natural psychedelics. The only ads I saw were on YT vids & every one was pro legalization. I thought that was really weird. Turns out there are at least 3 pharma companies with synthetic psilocybin & hence they did not object. I assume they are going to pursue having only their meds approved for treatment.

 

Will go the same way as ending daylight savings time and the 4 day school week -> NO Where.

 

Psilocybin treatment might be the path to curing treatment resistant depression. Therefore, it should be another 50 years or so before it’s fully approved for medical use in the U.S.