I saw a commercial tonight for Celebrex to relieve arthritis. A long commercial that listed many many bad side effects, like possible death, I can’t see why anyone would take it, though they tried to finish teh commercial with a nice picture of the drug. Like, dude, why take celebrex with all those bad side effects when marijuana doesn’t have those side effects and is more effective? I mean, the worst side effect is the unlawful jail time. Is there any compassion left in this world to eliminate that side effect?
Me and my friends decided that weed has gotten an anti-authority reputation (however unjustly. everybody smokes).
I can’t see weed being legalized any time soon… even legal medical marijuana will land you in jail because cops will jump on you as soon as they smell pot.
Not in California, and it will spread.
Seen Woody Harrelson’s documentary “Grass”?
Marijuana May Fight Lung Tumors
Cannabis Compound Slows Cancer Spread in Mice, Researchers Say
The federal government still thinks they trump CA laws. As if it’s “interstate commerce”.
But the Feds also realize they cannot get a jury in California to convict marijuana.
Which is why they just raid the places, steal all the product, and then never charge them with any crime.
there’s prisons beds to fill!!!
Steal the PRODUCT!!!
Why! Why! This is outrageous!!!
Those officers are wasting their time (and taxpayer $$$) on this when there’s prisons beds to fill!!!
Weed should be legalized…
So should unpasteurized (raw) milk. I hate when the government tells me what I can and cannot put inside my own body. But in the case of raw milk, there’s a lot of big business and politics behind making the sale of raw milk illegal (you can drink it from your own cow, you can give it away, but you can’t sell it in most states). It puts the small, family-owned dairy at a disadvantage (read: out of business). Another win for big business.
So, what are the politics behind the criminalization of marijuana? Who wins or profits from the “war on drugs”? Politicians? The law enforcement industry? The construction industry (build more prisons)? I don’t know the answers. It doesn’t make sense for alcohol to be legal and marijuana to be illegal. Usually things do make sense – from the right perspective. Such as the perspective of whomever is profiting. So, what’s really going on? Does anybody know?
As the thread title suggests, the pharmaceutical industrial complex also profits.
Politicians and the state profit too, in that they have an excuse to expand government for the war on drugs.
Legalize it:listen to Peter Tosh
If marijuana was in the best interests of the government, it would be legal. Draw your own conclusions.
Don’t beat your heads against the wall. Pot opens minds; conservatism is all about the status quo. Ask yourself: who writes the laws? Now that Garcia, Leary, Ginsburg,Burroughs, Lennon, Cobain and Mailer are dead, who will speak up?
America is retrograde. “We are Devo.” Going backwards at an amazing rate.
Bob Marley sang “Stand up,Stand up for your rights!”
Best from the North Country where there is a chicken in every pot, and pot for every chicken, and the owners thereof.
Be well, and wobble on:
william
The status quo right now is a corporatism/socialism mix. You call that conservative? I’m a paleo conservative and a classical liberal? The term conservative and liberal should be thrown out and people should call themselves what they really are, which would mean in the US that most republicans in office today would call themselves fascists and democrats would call themselves communists.
So if by backwards you mean towards tyranny and what most of history has had, then you are correct. If you mean back to a free society and the original intent of the USA after the American Revolution, then it hasn’t shifted yet in that direction… but that could be a quick change.
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like many people were listening.
You’re not being fair to Celebrex. Has marijuana been approved by the FDA? It might have to undergo similar clinical trials which would determine what side effects “may” occur (as it says in most drug ads). Or would this only apply if it were a branded form of weed? I don’t know.
We can buy raw milk in the store here in CA. And medical marijuana, but not as easily! The milk is at Whole Foods (yes, it’s unpasturized, raw milk).
Oh why do I not live in the great state of CA? PS Woody Harrelson Rocks
You didn’t see the long commercial.
In Minnesota you can only buy raw milk directly on a farm.
I was doing a paper on the medicinal uses of MDMA, and a research scientist said something along the lines of “The DEA wants it simple. All drugs are bad and there’s nothing good about them.”
I apologize for not knowing the name of the person who spoke those words, but I feel they could not be more right.
Of course, your favorite scotch or beer has not been FDA approved either, and lots of people use that for sleep and other medicinal uses.
I probably have, I’ve seen enough commercials for meds recently to know the pattern well. Pick up a copy of Readers Digest and you’ll see a one-page ad for Lunesta, or similar, followed by a two-page spread, in very tiny type, of all the disclaimers and legalese. It seems like it should be enough to turn anyone off to any of those products, but for the same reason we all continue to get spam emails, apparently it isn’t.
…And my restless leg syndrome (RTL) has been driving me nuts lately. Or was that Ride The Lobster? Anyway, one of them is messing with my legs…
Or more full of crap, when it comes to people who really need help. Obviously you’ve never been in really severe pain before, and you don’t know anyone with mental illness problems that can live “normal” lives due to the existence of lithium or other meds. Believe me, they work, and sometimes the side effects are worth it to be able to go out and live your life.