Do you really think the Party that wants to give women the death penalty for having an abortion from a medical provider is going to let you have medical weed?
My recommendation on analyzing this: mentally turn the clock back 20 years, before the opioid crisis exploded. Now, look at the proposed bills, and everywhere you see the word “cannabis,” replace it with the word “oxycodone.” And then ask yourself, honestly, with the benefit of hindsight on opioids: would this “safe, conservative” bill have prevented the opioid crisis while still allowing them to be used under closely guarded conditions? Are there loopholes so large for prescribing this that the gatekeeper function for public safety is just an illusion – like it supposedly was with “oxy?” I don’t know the answer to this question, but I’d submit that this would be a good way to examine these proposed laws.
There is no comparison between opioids, which have killed thousands upon thousands by overdose, and cannabis, which has zero overdose deaths in all of recorded history.
Not really. Oxy definitly has a higher body count, but my issue is how the law is drafted and exercising proper control. How many people have died because of alcohol, (i.e. car wrecks, boating accidents, handling weapons while drunk), but not because of an overdose of alcohol? That’s the bigger picture. As to marijuana, look at Colorado – drastic increase in vehicular deaths after legalization. I’m not against legalization for medical uses per se, or across the board, I’m just against the floodgates being opened because prescriptions can be had for practically any complaint without any recourse.
There hasn’t been a huge uptick in traffic deaths from legalized cannabis. SC still has far more traffic deaths than Colorado. You rank at number 3 for most traffic deaths. Colorado isn’t even in the top 10.
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Mark Powell has been indispensable lately on this site. Keep it up.
Your reply was dope!
Do you really think the Party that wants to give women the death penalty for having an abortion from a medical provider is going to let you have medical weed?
lol
Bless your heart
Truth!
My recommendation on analyzing this: mentally turn the clock back 20 years, before the opioid crisis exploded. Now, look at the proposed bills, and everywhere you see the word “cannabis,” replace it with the word “oxycodone.” And then ask yourself, honestly, with the benefit of hindsight on opioids: would this “safe, conservative” bill have prevented the opioid crisis while still allowing them to be used under closely guarded conditions? Are there loopholes so large for prescribing this that the gatekeeper function for public safety is just an illusion – like it supposedly was with “oxy?” I don’t know the answer to this question, but I’d submit that this would be a good way to examine these proposed laws.
There is no comparison between opioids, which have killed thousands upon thousands by overdose, and cannabis, which has zero overdose deaths in all of recorded history.
Bad analogy.
Catfish, u done been smoking dat crack
Not really. Oxy definitly has a higher body count, but my issue is how the law is drafted and exercising proper control. How many people have died because of alcohol, (i.e. car wrecks, boating accidents, handling weapons while drunk), but not because of an overdose of alcohol? That’s the bigger picture. As to marijuana, look at Colorado – drastic increase in vehicular deaths after legalization. I’m not against legalization for medical uses per se, or across the board, I’m just against the floodgates being opened because prescriptions can be had for practically any complaint without any recourse.
Yeah, I live in Colorado.
There hasn’t been a huge uptick in traffic deaths from legalized cannabis. SC still has far more traffic deaths than Colorado. You rank at number 3 for most traffic deaths. Colorado isn’t even in the top 10.
Any other things you want to make up?
Great argument for gun control!
Good job, man!
“I don’t know the answer to this question”
…but you sure will open your mouth anyways, huh.