Addictions really suck. I've known a couple of people who lost themselves to alcohol, any mind altering substance always seems to carry that nasty con of addiction with it.
I won't lie. I smoked weed on the occasion when I was in college. It was never anything I got addicted to, but I had plenty of friends who were.
When I look at it as a drug, I see it as being no different than boooze. It hurts people, and that, in turn, hurts the people around them. I can understand why people wouldn't want it legalized.
Having said that, I think if it is legalized for it's non-drug purposes, I really don't think they should go as far as selling it as a recreational item like they do with alcohol. I know people would still use it for the drug purpose, but they do that now as it is.
As far as medical use is concerned, I've never really researched it. I think if a doctor is going to prescribe it to a patient, then it needs to be done so in strict moderation. So many doctors nowadays like to over medicate. The psychiatrists are the worse known for it with the Xanex and Klonopin, etc.
It seems any drug -legal or illegal- that relieves something easily becomes an addiction. It's hard for any human being to not yearn for relief after feeling it once. I almost got that way with klonopin when my doctor prescribed to me for my anxiety disorder. I'd always take more than I was supposed to. I ended up getting to the point where I no longer needed it thank goodness. Thankfully I no longer wanted it either.
I love the idea of legalization for the other purposes though- the fuel in particular. We could stop burning up all of the earth's irreplaceable oil, releasing dangerous gasses in the air and the best part-- we wouldn't have to rely on other countries for thier oil.
I know it would seem differently (I just read over my original entry and my comment), but please don't assume I'm one of those extreme enviromentalists. I love my planet... but I'm not as bad as the public enviromentalists out there. I won't mention any names. LOL.
Dont worry I didn't assume that. I kind of wish though that their were ways we could help our planet without coming up with lame excuses. Like people who use those cloth bags for like fifty percent of their groceries and then give up.
Well no, it also had to deal with his other brothers who did it occasionally too, but only occasionally with him, and their constant "hey bro lets smoke this" yeaaah. The week he visited my family in Kansas, without his brothers involved besides my stepdad, he did improve in so many ways. I kinda regret not suggesting he stay there because I think he would've been better for it.
I will admit I have a pretty heavy addiction to caffeine that its pretty messed up, so I can't blame people for theirs but I've been trying to get over it and I can. I just would like people to try before they die earlier than they have to, which is pretty selfish of me.
And as far as medical use is concerned, I do think they are partially to blame as well, because they gave him so much medicine when they knew the urges to resist addiction to that much of an amount is ridiculous; and let me say, he should have had his leg amputated, a tree fell on it, and thats why he took the medicine. I get the feeling he got so lost in the drugs he didn't want to get rid of it so he kept the leg.
Sorry this is a scatterbrained attempt to say that I'm ok with it a little bit, but I'll agree with what you said doctors shouldn't prescribe such heavy amounts. And now that I've stepped on my little soap box with my violin I will step off, lol.
Addictions really suck. I've known a couple of people who lost themselves to alcohol, any mind altering substance always seems to carry that nasty con of addiction with it.
I won't lie. I smoked weed on the occasion when I was in college. It was never anything I got addicted to, but I had plenty of friends who were.
When I look at it as a drug, I see it as being no different than boooze. It hurts people, and that, in turn, hurts the people around them. I can understand why people wouldn't want it legalized.
Having said that, I think if it is legalized for it's non-drug purposes, I really don't think they should go as far as selling it as a recreational item like they do with alcohol. I know people would still use it for the drug purpose, but they do that now as it is.
As far as medical use is concerned, I've never really researched it. I think if a doctor is going to prescribe it to a patient, then it needs to be done so in strict moderation. So many doctors nowadays like to over medicate. The psychiatrists are the worse known for it with the Xanex and Klonopin, etc.
It seems any drug -legal or illegal- that relieves something easily becomes an addiction. It's hard for any human being to not yearn for relief after feeling it once. I almost got that way with klonopin when my doctor prescribed to me for my anxiety disorder. I'd always take more than I was supposed to. I ended up getting to the point where I no longer needed it thank goodness. Thankfully I no longer wanted it either.
I love the idea of legalization for the other purposes though- the fuel in particular. We could stop burning up all of the earth's irreplaceable oil, releasing dangerous gasses in the air and the best part-- we wouldn't have to rely on other countries for thier oil.
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I will admit I have a pretty heavy addiction to caffeine that its pretty messed up, so I can't blame people for theirs but I've been trying to get over it and I can. I just would like people to try before they die earlier than they have to, which is pretty selfish of me.
And as far as medical use is concerned, I do think they are partially to blame as well, because they gave him so much medicine when they knew the urges to resist addiction to that much of an amount is ridiculous; and let me say, he should have had his leg amputated, a tree fell on it, and thats why he took the medicine. I get the feeling he got so lost in the drugs he didn't want to get rid of it so he kept the leg.
Sorry this is a scatterbrained attempt to say that I'm ok with it a little bit, but I'll agree with what you said doctors shouldn't prescribe such heavy amounts. And now that I've stepped on my little soap box with my violin I will step off, lol.
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