Community | July 05, 2009 | 10 comments

Medical marijuana: Legal to smoke, illegal to obtain

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Steve used to take prescription painkillers such as Vicodin after he tore the tendons in his right hand about six years ago.

Now he's using fewer pills. Instead, he smokes marijuana to ease the pain.

"No, it's not a cure-all," said Steve, 37, of Kalamazoo. "It helps so I don't have to take a handful of pills every day."
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10 comments // Medical marijuana: Legal to smoke, illegal to obtain

  • hunzedog
  • rabbitx3mike
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      rabbitx3mike  
    • marijuana is just another type of tobacco grown in the ground on every single continent,I am not sorry to say this but the tobacco company could label marijuana as a ground grown tobacco plant.Any time they want.Any plant that can be heated to a certain temperature and be smoked, would be classified ground grown tobacco.Two smoke-able plants where found growing right next to each other.each had a name called tobacco each with a different potentse and color.

    • 2 years ago
  • alivein85
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      alivein85  
    • Michelle, you are full of shit. If you don't want to hear it, don't click the link. Weed as a gateway drug is a bunk theory. Amotivational syndrome is a bunk theory.

      In addition, pain killers come in a variety of doses, not just 7.5 mg to 10 mg. That is absolutely ridiculous! For example, prescription strength ibuprofen is usually 600 mg.

      Weed is not addictive, however Vicoden is a well known addictive substance.

      Why don't you take your bull shit propaganda and shove it. Please go sign up at some other website that might support your bunk theories, like fox.

    • 2 years ago
  • The1VoiceOfReason
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      The1VoiceOfReason  
    • Amazing. Your prescription of Pain killers are the most 7.5 to 10 MG depending on your weight and taken no more than 3 times A day or AS NEEDED. If your not wanting to take them, then don't, because 3 ib prophin is just as good and will ease the pain. Torn tendons will heal leff than A month, actually A week or two depending if you are trying to walk or not and hurt yourself again.
      The government is not doing this at ALL, you did by tearing them yourself and you only are going to be prescribes one bottle of Vicodin from the description of your injury, why start smoking the drug WEED (that makes you very lazy and non-motivated) to replace the real pain killers that were prescribed in the first place? This is rediculious, you are 37 years old and advertising your weed addiction as normal because of pain and trying to blame the Government? No, the pain WILL stay the same, THC does not reduce pain in any way shape or form... It is smoked and the THC is released into your lung and goes through your blood to the BRAIN. It only effects your brain from being more alert, your motor skills, and non-motivated thoughts, thats it. So DON'T be writing anything so dumb again Mr. 37 year old... My Generation doesn't want to hear your bad and boring habbits. Smoking Weed is A gateway drug and can only lead to worse things.....

      Thanks,
      Michelle

    • 2 years ago
  • alivein85
  • davesarush
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • Too bad Portugal and the International Red Cross couldn't get together and find a way to have an armistice with the Big Pharma controled FDA & DEA, and simply let some care packages cross customs unconfiscated. So that the medical marijuana needy could find some relief from their suffering without being extorted by Big Pharma with snake oil phony remedies. But then, it would send a message to Amnesty International that the U.S.A. is one of the nations which has a perfect record not violating any country's citizens human rights. Amnesty International advocates against the imprisonment of the innocent for their political beliefs. Since the USA has 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prison population due to Prohibition, we all know why. We also know that Big Pharma's payola greases so many palms that those institutional parasites would go out of business without Prohibition continuing its corrupt stranglehold on the USA, so I guess the med mja needy will have to keep a stiff upper lip and accept their role as hostages of the Big Pharma led drug war.
      I bet if Martin Luther King were alive today, he would secretly agree with me too.

    • 2 years ago
  • Robroy1
  • SUMTH1NGcrazy
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      SUMTH1NGcrazy  
    • I'm from Michigan and I know that this bill has not gotten going yet, but they need to get on it. I'm hoping that not only will this help a lot of people in pain but maybe be the first step towards full on legalization. Our struggeling economy could use the boost that legalization could give it.

    • 2 years ago
  • Hou_Kairs
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      Hou_Kairs  
    • Michigan just passed the bill last November. The ball hasn't really got fully running yet. Too few doctors, dispensaries. It'll get better. Pot is almost legal.

      Prohibition never works!

    • 2 years ago
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