Here's one thing I don't understand (and this may be veering off into verboten territory) but one of the arguments I keep hearing for legalization for medicinal use is the tax revenue it would bring to the state. Wait a minute. We don't tax medicine. So if medical pharmaceuticals aren't taxed, then why should medical marijuana be taxed? Where's the fairness in that? If it's medicine, don't tax it. If it's an intoxicant, tax it like alcohol.
That's because there's a subset of the American people that can't (won't) understand any sort of political argument that isn't based on money. Legalizing it because it's the right thing to do, or because it will offer the people more freedom, or because it will help people, aren't arguments that will actually convince anyone anymore. The people that those arguments will convince are already convinced. So you have to bring up the tax revenue thing to convince the people who don't give a damn about the well-being of others that it's a good idea.
I personally could not care less if a person want to smoke pot all day or not (as long as they get a J O B to pay for it) but the danger in calling this stuff “medicine” is real and dangerous. I know several, highly educated, people who are convinced it cures everything from cancer to bad breath. It doesn’t. It is a recreational intoxicant. If it is medicine, then so is Budweiser.
Mmmhmm. Prior to being on medical marijuana my wife had to take off so much time off from work due to chronic pain that she lost two jobs over it. Now that she's on it, she's considered a top performer at her current job.
I wonder if medical marijuana could fix your M A L F U N C T I O N I N G S P A C E B A R...