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Originally Posted by fredweena
Ah... fly's ass. I've missed it.
This has always been a hard one for me. The kids I work with use Marinol frequently to control their nausea and chemo side effects. I know that the unaltered chemicals in marijuana could also assist with coping and the emotional trauma that goes along with cancer, glaucoma, etc. The problem is that there's always going to be some idiot that slips something into the general supply that is going to cause the government to say, "SEE?! We told you we needed to regulate it!" And the fact is, they're probably right in that respect. There's rat poison in dog food... who's to say that some asshole isn't going to decide to expedite the deaths of chronically ill people by slipping in some other nastiness? Yes, I think it should be available to sick people. Yes, I think it should be generally available. But, that's me. And to make it generally available, someone is going to have to monitor the f*cktards that may try to pass off their inferior/unclean product.
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But see people can grow their own. That's the difference. And those that cannot grow their own; can find someone who can grow it and sell it. It would not be hard for a patient or the patient to have someone observe how it is grown.
Plus, if you look at the situation now, people who go to buy it have to get it off the street illegally by people who make their money selling harder drugs. Thus those people are more likely to lace the marijuana or at the very least make it far stronger than it naturally is through crossbreeding and finding ways to condense the THC.
Whereas, you let the patient grow it themselves or have localized farms grow it, the patient knows what he's getting and how it was grown, what additives there maybe (plant foods, fertilizers, insecticides, etc.). Today, they do not have that option.
Plus, there are "fucktards" everywhere and they can and will contaminate anything they want.