I respectfully disagree with the article’s focus on the dangers of medicinal marijuana. While I share your concern for community well-being, singling out marijuana ignores the greater harms caused by legal substances like alcohol and prescription opioids, which have fueled local tragedies.
For instance, the Murdaugh case, widely, involved prescription opioid abuse, not marijuana. Similarly, former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright’s recent federal guilty plea for fraud and obtaining opioids like oxycodone and hydrocodone for personal use—through embezzling public funds and diverting drug take-back programs—points to the real risks of harder drugs, not cannabis. These examples show that alternatives to medicinal marijuana often pose bigger risks.
Compare this to alcohol, which the CDC links to over 140,000 U.S. deaths yearly from drunk driving, liver disease, and violence. Marijuana, by contrast, has no recorded overdose deaths and helps patients manage pain, seizures, and anxiety with fewer side effects than many prescription drugs. A 2016 Health Affairs study found marijuana use reduced opioid dependency by up to 64% in chronic pain patients.
If the goal is to protect family values, as the article suggests, we should address all harmful substances consistently, not just marijuana. Focusing only on cannabis overlooks its medical benefits and diverts attention from more pressing issues like alcohol and opioid abuse.
I encourage a balanced discussion based on evidence and our community’s experiences. Let’s promote education and sensible regulation instead of targeting medicinal marijuana alone.
Nelson Hardwick’s Sponsor Top fanOctober 1, 2025 at 9:22 pm
Other things Randy (seriously) believes:
The earth is @ 5,000 years old
The bible is a literal document
Women are subservient
Gay equals hell
Dinosaurs and the fossil record are a myth
Jews, catholics, and methodists are going to hell
Evolution is an evil myth
It doesnt matter how incompentent a home school or charter school is, it beats the gubmint school.
Randy you ignorant slut, shut the fuck up. Nobody cares what you think about weed. You can’t disregard science and data at every turn and then point to it you proselytizing, self loathing, closeted freak show.
You sound like a miserable person who would hopefully benefit from a high dosage of medical marijuana. Perhaps even a gentle boop on the nose. Cheer up, it’s not that serious.
I would appreciate FITSNews would run an op-ed with an author in support of the legislation that would grant access to suffering South Carolinians access to lab tested medical cannabis. Currently, you can go into Total Wine and purchase hemp derived THC products. The medical cannabis bill(s) Sen. Tom Davis (R) has submitted over the past decade are the most conservative restrictive medical bill in the nation. Sen. Davis has made compromise after compromise to take all protections possible for the citizens of our state.
Currently, 40 states in the nation have passed comprehensive medical cannabis programs. These states include Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Virginia, Kentucky, Utah, Texas, South and North Dakota. None of those states have become legalization states. We know by persistent polling that if South Carolina had the ballot initiative process, we would have granted our citizens this liberty of making their own decision (working with their doctor) years ago.
The author states that he sympathized with patients that are not getting results with current medicines. He states he wants more research into solving these illnesses. He failed to provide any details of legislation that his organization has supported to provide the funds needed for such research (a very expensive process). In the end, if one’s faith would lead a person to not take extracts from a plant the creator brought unto this world, no one is forcing them to do so. We have had many spirited debates in the time since COVID first appeared as to the role of government in making healthcare decisions for individuals. After a decade of debate on medical cannabis access for seriously ill people, we have passed the time to pass this sensible conservative piece of legislation.
It is called “class”, Nelson Hardwick. Look it up in the dictionary. Obviously, you know nothing about it. As I have said before in this forum, “medical” marijuana is for losers looking to get high. The entire concept is laughable. The states selling growing permits are the only ones “profiting”. Of course, the long term effects on society greatly outweigh the short-term fiscal “gain”. But, again, losers fail to see any of these horrible secondary consequences and are only concerned about: “dude, let’s get high”. Hey Kevin, what is next? Peyote? It is a “plant the creator brought unto this world”. Heroin? From a “plant that the creator brought unto this world”. Psilocybin? From a “plant the creator brought unto this world”. Wake up!
Nelson Hardwick’s Sponsor Top fanOctober 2, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Terminator, you dumb ass, no one will ever change their behavior one iota because of your stupid opinions. Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places. Randy, when other people mentally masturbate all over the internet like you have done here they are usually trying to impress their preacher or wife. But you are almost certainly in the closet so here, I will guess gay lover?
What Randy also omits from his ‘opinion’ is that there are forms absent of ant THC that are NOT smoked or edibles, but are injected into very sick children via mickey buttons (abdominal ports) that have been proven to reduce deadly seizures.
Perhaps if someone in his FAMILY suffered from the aforementioned ailment, he may broaden the scope of his research and develop compassion for those in our state that suffer needlessly due to bureaucratic black and white BS!
Sounds to me like Ole Randy has political aspirations…let’s certainly hope NOT!
Randy Page is another closeted homo. The guy just looks like a bottom. These closet cases make the biggest show of being all Christiany, but all they really want to do is suck cock like Lady Lindsey.
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I respectfully disagree with the article’s focus on the dangers of medicinal marijuana. While I share your concern for community well-being, singling out marijuana ignores the greater harms caused by legal substances like alcohol and prescription opioids, which have fueled local tragedies.
For instance, the Murdaugh case, widely, involved prescription opioid abuse, not marijuana. Similarly, former Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright’s recent federal guilty plea for fraud and obtaining opioids like oxycodone and hydrocodone for personal use—through embezzling public funds and diverting drug take-back programs—points to the real risks of harder drugs, not cannabis. These examples show that alternatives to medicinal marijuana often pose bigger risks.
Compare this to alcohol, which the CDC links to over 140,000 U.S. deaths yearly from drunk driving, liver disease, and violence. Marijuana, by contrast, has no recorded overdose deaths and helps patients manage pain, seizures, and anxiety with fewer side effects than many prescription drugs. A 2016 Health Affairs study found marijuana use reduced opioid dependency by up to 64% in chronic pain patients.
If the goal is to protect family values, as the article suggests, we should address all harmful substances consistently, not just marijuana. Focusing only on cannabis overlooks its medical benefits and diverts attention from more pressing issues like alcohol and opioid abuse.
I encourage a balanced discussion based on evidence and our community’s experiences. Let’s promote education and sensible regulation instead of targeting medicinal marijuana alone.
Well said !!
Other things Randy (seriously) believes:
The earth is @ 5,000 years old
The bible is a literal document
Women are subservient
Gay equals hell
Dinosaurs and the fossil record are a myth
Jews, catholics, and methodists are going to hell
Evolution is an evil myth
It doesnt matter how incompentent a home school or charter school is, it beats the gubmint school.
Randy you ignorant slut, shut the fuck up. Nobody cares what you think about weed. You can’t disregard science and data at every turn and then point to it you proselytizing, self loathing, closeted freak show.
How long till your CSAM conviction?
You sound like a miserable person who would hopefully benefit from a high dosage of medical marijuana. Perhaps even a gentle boop on the nose. Cheer up, it’s not that serious.
rEeFeR mAdNeSs! This is 2025, not 1935.
“Family” Alliance, Bob Jones U…for some reason some people with that kind of holier than thou background end up sketchy af.
I would appreciate FITSNews would run an op-ed with an author in support of the legislation that would grant access to suffering South Carolinians access to lab tested medical cannabis. Currently, you can go into Total Wine and purchase hemp derived THC products. The medical cannabis bill(s) Sen. Tom Davis (R) has submitted over the past decade are the most conservative restrictive medical bill in the nation. Sen. Davis has made compromise after compromise to take all protections possible for the citizens of our state.
Currently, 40 states in the nation have passed comprehensive medical cannabis programs. These states include Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Virginia, Kentucky, Utah, Texas, South and North Dakota. None of those states have become legalization states. We know by persistent polling that if South Carolina had the ballot initiative process, we would have granted our citizens this liberty of making their own decision (working with their doctor) years ago.
The author states that he sympathized with patients that are not getting results with current medicines. He states he wants more research into solving these illnesses. He failed to provide any details of legislation that his organization has supported to provide the funds needed for such research (a very expensive process). In the end, if one’s faith would lead a person to not take extracts from a plant the creator brought unto this world, no one is forcing them to do so. We have had many spirited debates in the time since COVID first appeared as to the role of government in making healthcare decisions for individuals. After a decade of debate on medical cannabis access for seriously ill people, we have passed the time to pass this sensible conservative piece of legislation.
It is called “class”, Nelson Hardwick. Look it up in the dictionary. Obviously, you know nothing about it. As I have said before in this forum, “medical” marijuana is for losers looking to get high. The entire concept is laughable. The states selling growing permits are the only ones “profiting”. Of course, the long term effects on society greatly outweigh the short-term fiscal “gain”. But, again, losers fail to see any of these horrible secondary consequences and are only concerned about: “dude, let’s get high”. Hey Kevin, what is next? Peyote? It is a “plant the creator brought unto this world”. Heroin? From a “plant that the creator brought unto this world”. Psilocybin? From a “plant the creator brought unto this world”. Wake up!
Terminator, you dumb ass, no one will ever change their behavior one iota because of your stupid opinions. Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places. Randy, when other people mentally masturbate all over the internet like you have done here they are usually trying to impress their preacher or wife. But you are almost certainly in the closet so here, I will guess gay lover?
What Randy also omits from his ‘opinion’ is that there are forms absent of ant THC that are NOT smoked or edibles, but are injected into very sick children via mickey buttons (abdominal ports) that have been proven to reduce deadly seizures.
Perhaps if someone in his FAMILY suffered from the aforementioned ailment, he may broaden the scope of his research and develop compassion for those in our state that suffer needlessly due to bureaucratic black and white BS!
Sounds to me like Ole Randy has political aspirations…let’s certainly hope NOT!
Nelson. . . tough talk behind the keyboard. Everyone is scared.
Randy Page is another closeted homo. The guy just looks like a bottom. These closet cases make the biggest show of being all Christiany, but all they really want to do is suck cock like Lady Lindsey.