On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:42:42 -0700 (PDT), Tommy Joe
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>Gary wrote:
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>> People that claim that it's for pain medication? I don't see that.
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>> But this medical reason for legalizing it sounds like a phoney excuse to me.
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>I smoke weed every day. I am 67. I have never believed the medicinal claims for the weed. It's just a way of opening the door to legal recreational use.

So you're another one. Do some research... even in your previous post
to me you were talking about 'cannabis poisoning', FFS...


>It may be good for staving off or helping those with glaucoma. My belief is that all ingested foods or medicines have side effects, some so minor they are not noticed - others, such as antihistamines for allergy sufferers, strong enough to be noticed and marketed under labels like SleepEeze or Sominex.
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>So I won't argue the medicinal benefits of weed. I doubt that it does anything for pain.

Despite all the evidence. Amazing.
Tell me it doesnt help with my pain... LOL.

> I don't care.

You don't care and yet at the same time you won't bother to check your
facts. But you have a firm opinion all the same.

> But it is sickening when people on either side of an argument feel they need to list benefits to the product that may not exist, just to get the product legalized.

How can you possibly say that. There is ample, legitimate peer
reviewed research from mainstream sources that plainly state that it
does work. It's all available for you to read. But you won't, will
you? because your mind is made up and you don't care (as you say).


>I guess maybe they had to do that. If some person comes out and says I'm full of it, that they use weed to stave off brutal headaches or nausea and get good result with it, that ultimately means nothing even if it's true for just that one person.
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>See Gary, even when I'm on a particular side of the fence on an issue, no matter which side I'm on, I still hope to maintain some distance from the dispute so I can get a better view of teh bullshit coming from both sides. People who get into the "issues" are often people who love to argue, because it's a safe hobby. Safe for people with some education but no imagination who feel secure in arguments where they already know the responses they're going to get from the other side. If you step way from the fence and look down from above, you will side that both sides are full of crap and will resort to all manner of deceit in futile efforts to prove themselves correct.

Your the one who is full of crap. What you're actually doing is
exactly what you claim you're *not* doing in the above paragraph. Can
you not see that?