Pot Kills (very rarely)
I've been talking with spiritualmonkey in the comments of another post about medical marijuana and whether to encourage or require medical cannabis dispensaries to treat their "medication" like other medication: to standardize it, dispense it in measured doses, or certify its purity and potency through trusted third parties. He pointed out (I hope I'm
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People suffering mental illness often try to self-medicate with pot (or worse) out of desperation or comfort.
I have no problem with recreational use either. But I have seen up close (my friends) and from a clinical distance (my father's psychiatric patients) what even pot can do to derail therapy.
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Minor Nit here, the analysis of the utility of a drug is not something that the average MD is qualified to argue about one way or the other.
One of the reasons we got the FDA is 'heroin' which was the 'heroine' who would help folks to break their addiction to Morphine, Opium and Lodnium.... WOW DUDE, THE COLOURS!!!
So the real problem is how do folks in a representational federal republic go about working out what is and what is not good national policy.
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Yeah I'm intentionally avoiding implementation details because I don't want to get into the discussion about who's best qualified to determine and write the standards and how they should be certified enforced. For now it's sufficient if we all agree that there is a potential for complications, standards will mitigate those complications, and a trusted party should be in charge of drafting and enforcing them.
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The challenge is to get the compelling argument FOR the standards, which is why politically you do not want to engage in the means or methods. My intention was to point out that mere MD's were not the place to park that...
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Having used Peppermint Extract to sterilize what we were using for stitches, and having.....
The Idea of getting a legitimate medical standard up would be great!!! And would conform to the traditional family values maxim:If you do not know your Dope!
Know Your Dope Dealer!!!
Hence more reason to have the neighborhood dope dealer prescribing the dope that your kids and friends need, and not some out of town nutJob...
The challenge seems to be that we have at least two groups who are running scared. One side is the folks who hate science, and hence are not sure what to do with the medical data about the re-use of non-standard 'drugs' - while at the same time are the folks who hate science, because it would stab the cash cow of the cult of alternative medicines and supplements; with it's steely knife....
May you be lucky in this quest.
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That was largely my point before you pointed out the issues with contamination. I must certainly concede that contaminants in anything are bad and that the gummint has a legitimate interest in making sure that products sold on the market are free of contaminants, and produced in line with basic standards.
The fact that for the most part, cannabis is a weed that doesn't require much in the way of pesticides and responds well to natural soap-and-tobacco-based substances rather than Monsanto's poisons is a bonus ( ... )
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That's really my central point, and I couldn't say it better myself. The only difference of opinion we might have seems to be over what constitutes "contaminants" and what "basic standards" are required.
cannabis is a weed that doesn't require much in the way of pesticides and responds well to natural soap-and-tobacco-based substances rather than Monsanto's poisons is a bonus. The fact that for the most part, cannabis is a weed that doesn't require much in the way of pesticides and responds well to natural soap-and-tobacco-based substances rather than Monsanto's poisons is a bonus ( ... )
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