I agree on your 2 statements

Post #347,230 by crazy 9/2/11 9:17:54 PM Reply	I agree on your 2 statements . I'm suspicious of categorical statements like "pot is a gateway drug!" and "pot is harmless!". I know they are both bullshit. I've pointed out the various known downsides in the past. The point is simply it is a highly capable painkiller and anti-inflammatory and the benefits kick in at lower doses than the mind effects. And the side effects are far less. And this is something WORTH fighting for. Don't forget, in the beginning of this exchange you compared it to LETHAL substances. Which means you have far more holes in your knowledge than usual, and were in the process of spreading misinformation about it.
Post #347,234 by Another Scott 9/2/11 9:37:39 PM Reply	I guess I was less clear than usual. I wasn't comparing pot to opiates - at least I wasn't intending to. I was bringing up opiates (later on) because they are regulated in the same category as pot (not that I think they should be). Opiates are similar to natural pain suppressors and that's why they work so well for pain control - http://thebrain.mcgi..._par_heroine.html I brought up "other controlled substances" earlier because, it seems to me, if MM Dispensaries are shown to have value in distributing MM, and their reason for being was for pain control and so forth, then a natural extension would be for distributing other less conventional pain control medications. Stuff that would need to be carefully titrated. I don't think I'd want a cross-eyed stoner mixing such things for me. YMMV. ;-) I know that pot and opiates aren't similar even though they're both Schedule I. Your posts in this thread have elaborated on the differences, and I appreciate that. I'm sorry if I was giving the impression that I thought they were similar. HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #347,241 by crazy 9/2/11 11:36:12 PM Reply	Holy sh*t. Not the gateway drug argument again?! if MM Dispensaries are shown to have value in distributing MM, and their reason for being was for pain control and so forth, then a natural extension would be for distributing other less conventional pain control medications. Stuff that would need to be carefully titrated. I don't think I'd want a cross-eyed stoner mixing such things for me. YMMV. ;-) And a slippery slope as well. If some day this came to pass you may have an issue to worry about. But right now I think you need to stock up on flying unicorn poop cleaner, since it has the same level of effect on the issue.
Post #347,246 by Another Scott 9/3/11 12:04:59 AM Reply	<sigh> I give up. :-(
Post #347,385 by Ashton 9/5/11 4:27:08 PM Reply	Don't see a reason to go all wonky on AS's position here.. As usual, he is pellucid about the "nature of" his reservations on most pop-koans du jour. Maybe as in, 'all generalizations are False--like this one'. I subscribe to that wariness, too. Much of what we 'Know' often proves false. Takes Work to delve. On any topic. (Initially I setled for the [NOVA] NASA engr's thesis re the Hindenburg / fire triggered via thermite(!) -initiated dope in the paint: turns out those numbers Don't Crunch--established later by traditional, meticulous scientific assessment with the necessary numbers --about temp/energy and chemical 'reaction rates'.. ) Bad moi. IMO, the Genuine-reason for the hostility against MM is equally transparent(ly) bogus --as so Many things in our backward, illiterate, innumerate psychotic culture: Big Pharma Cannot Make its traditional obscene/endless PROFITS without that BIG fucking Â ..and all the rest is just disingenuous spin of the "both sides do bad things" "Repos-are just-the-same-as-Demos": Jesuit reductio, so beloved of the gullible or other mindless intransigents.. When truthiness conflicts with Greed: we know who the god Is, in vulture capitalist domains. Don't we?

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