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Colorado Newspaper Looking for Marijuana Reviewer
Westword, an "alternative" newspaper in Denver, has placed an ad for a medicinal marijuana reviewer. The paper has been running reviews by a staff writer, but the writer "wanted to return to the day job," opening up the position. Applicants must write a short essay on "What Marijuana Means To Me," and a MacGyver-like ability to make a bong out of common household objects is a plus.
I am a HUGE advocate for medical marijuana. It find it absurd that I have a bottle of hydrocodone (which is an opioid [like heroin or morphine]) in my cabinet and can take it whenever I need to, but if a doctor wanted to prescribe me marijuana, she couldn't.
Guys, even if it's a placebo, even if it is really doing *NOTHING* to help people physically and it is all mental (although recent research suggests that placebos can produce physical results), it's still helping; it is still making somebody who might be in pain be able to feel just a little bit better.
A major frown to those who oppose the idea of giving medicine to sick people
Another major frown to this idiotic newspaper. Do you realize what you're doing? You're playing exactly into the fears that the people who oppose this drug have; that it's just a bunch of potheads that want it. Do you review xanax? Vicodin? Perkaset? No? Well then fuck off.
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No, it should be handled like alcohol and cigarettes, both much more harmful recreational drugs. Here's a news flash, medical marijuana was ALWAYS a back door to legalization because complete legalization, along with subsequent regulation and taxation, is the only legitimate action the government should take regarding such a harmless drug. No one has ever died from pot. No one gets high and starts fights. No one steals to pay for pot. About the worst you can say about it is that it makes dealing with boredom a little too easy.
I challenge you to find one legitimate reason, backed up by published science, that pot should be illegal.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
They should also make this person the restaurant critic!
Co-opted or not, it should be legalized. It should have never been prohibited in the first place, just like alcohol should have never been prohibited in the 20s. It was a very large, costly, and deadly mistake. Everybody loses, except the architects of prohibition at the top of the power pyramid who cash in big time.
The US now has the highest incarceration rate in the entire world -- even higher than totalitarian regimes such as china -- and this is largely the result of drug prohibition. A very large percentage of those inmates were convicted on non-violent marijuana-related offenses. To lock these people in a cage like animals isn't just inhumane, it's orwellian and reeks of self-interest, rather than community interest (which government claims to serve).
And let's not turn a blind eye to the violent crime, widespread corruption of law enforcement, and giant misuse of public funding that is a direct result of prohibition.
If medical marijuana provides the stepping stone to legalization, all the better. To think that you deserve a say in who has the right to use marijuana and who doesn't is just immature and self-centered beyond belief.
Isn't that challenge akin to proving a negative? Regardless... if a study came out that absolutely gave a reason, would you really believe it? I would bet dollars to doughnuts you wouldn't. It would be waved off as "bogus man".
The real reason is IMO, they (gov) wouldn't get their cut as any pothead with a grow-light can produce. And since them not getting their cut is PLENTY reason, it is illegal. Note, that would be filed under "Economic Science". You know, the class you skipped so you could go toke in the car. :)
Ta-da! I'll take my 3 Krispy Kremes now.
When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well – you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort.
-Bill Hicks