Actually, I have no argument against insurance paying for any legally prescribed medications. However, many insurance plans do not cover prescription drugs, my plan certainly does not, nor does my wife's plan.

The response that I gave was to Dave's statement: "Personally, I think compensation should come in a cash lump sum, then the employee can spend it how they wish."

My expedience has been that left to the individual, they will spend the money for whatever they wish, then make another claim to receive more cash.

 

It is also 40% of the baby Boomers now near 60 or above smoked it with no problems....

Some I understand even smoked it daily for 50 year.......

Sometimes they post with weird sentence structure and bad spelling.....

 

Cheetos get stuck in the typing keys...

 

weed oil is said to be a good pain killer but it is rubbed or sprayed on the painful area
not smoked so you still get the pain killer with out getting high

 

when did New Mexico approve Medical Weed? none of the state Laws REALLY matter though as IT'S STILL A FEDERALLY PROHIBITED DRUG.

Sorry Folks, THAT'S where the Push needs to be; not the States. The States are just setting people up to have they're Money and Property Seized by the FED.

 

New Mexico legalized medical marijuana in 2007.

Sorry if you don't like it but marijuana reform has been working fabulously at the state level where as the prohibition industry is still very strong at the federal level. This is what will push the feds to finally throw in the towel and let state rights prevail.

 

23 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC

19. New Mexico 2007 Senate Bill 523 (36-31 H; 32-3 S) 6 oz usable; 16 plants (4 mature, 12 immature)

*not_secure_link*medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881&print=true

 

As someone who has suffered with chronic pain, there is NOTHING I wouldn't have tried to help. Living with pain from the moment you wake up to the second you fall asleep at night... If you haven't experienced it, you have no idea the HELL it is. I have tried every western and eastern treatment out there, even some that I thought were totally crazy. But when you are in pain all the time, you'll try anything.

I hate the "fuzzy" feeling typical opiates gave me, so I am currently taking synthetic opiates. They don't take 100% of the pain away, but they don't give the "fuzzy" feeling either. If I thought marijuana would work better, Hell yes I would be smoking away.

 

I'm not sure he intends his post to be a case of not liking it. I think he's worried about a conspiracy thing going on - or possibly a competely unintentional one - where various states allow you to smoke marijuana, you buy it, and then the Federal government (maybe this one, maybe whoever's running it after the 2016 elections) throws you in jail and seizes all your property because you broke Federal law.

Personally, I very much doubt that would happen, but I'm in no position to say for certainty whether or not it actually could.

 

The feds aren't going to arrest millions upon millions of people for consuming weed. Period. The best they could do is try to shut down the legal dispensaries and growers. The sales and grow ops would then be provided by the black market drug industry with no regulation, no tax benefit and a cost of billions for the government to try to enforce an unenforceable law.

Legalization is the only way forward.

 

There is never just one way to go forward.

 

Right! There are many roads to Dublin... but you don't drive in reverse to get there.

 

They still think that's working for meth, heroin and cocaine ... who's to say they aren' stupid enough to try and pull weed back under the umbrella. :/

 

I guess that is a concern, though I don't think it would work, many of our lawmakers are still doing their best to keep prohibition alive and they are very strong nationally.

Per Washington Post...

"Medical marijuana is now sold in nearly half of all states, and even one red state has legalized it for recreational use. Veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are clamoring for access to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Loosening pot laws polls better in three swing states than any 2016 presidential candidate.

But House Republicans have so far declined to keep pace with shifting public opinion. They did so again late Wednesday, when a rare bipartisan pot proposal died a quiet death in the House that would have reclassified marijuana so that national laboratories could conduct “credible research on its safety and efficacy as a medical treatment.”

The amendment to a bill scheduled for debate Thursday on the House floor would have encouraged the National Institutes of Health and the Drug Enforcement Administration to work together to allow studies of the benefits and risks of marijuana to treat cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma and post-traumatic stress disorder, among other conditions."
*not_secure_link*www.washingtonpost...029cda-262d-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html

What are they afraid of? Are they afraid that if extensive research is conducted, that the truth will come out? Well I only have one thing to say to them...

 

Way back ... what would it be, about 1998? ...in an episode of Spin City, someone threatened to run against the Mayor, and they threatened to use against her a pic of her smoking marijuana. She pointed out it was taken in Amsterdam where it was perfectly legal, and further said that she intended to campaign for its legalisation; to which Michael J. Fox's character said "Damnit, now EVERYONE will vote for her!"

It was obvious back then, and probably much further back ... but it's still not happening. Not at Federal level over there, and not at any level at all over here - although most police forces nowadays turn a blind eye to small-scale grow-for-own-use operations. But they daren't admit that they turn a blind eye, and if someone actually points out such an operation to them they're pretty much duty bound to arrest you...

 

Why do you think that there are only forward and reverse, doesn't your car have a steering wheel?? Those many roads will still get you there, even in forward gear.

Problem is, right or wrong, there is a stigma to pot smokers in the general public and in the workplace, the tactic of passing medical approval is a good one to begin the task of reducing the opposition. There are so many questions about legalizing recreational use, while keeping a semblance of sanity to the distribution method. Today states that have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana still have the problems of illegal street sales, where the product is cheaper than the legal weed.

 

I'm not convinced that is a problem. Tobacco's legal, but still carries a social stigma and rightly so. Cannabis is a damn sight less harmful than tobacco, but I still don't see that we should encourage people to stew their own minds. Merely not criminalising it would go far enough for me.

 

While your argument(?) that tobacco is more harmful may be correct, it does not have a criminal network of distribution. There is an ever expanding educational effort and it's usage is continuing to decline, particularly in the high school age group. So the effort seems to be working well in the US.

Decriminalizing pot has basically been done, with the exception of volume distribution. Possession of small quantities of marijuana is not a criminal offense in virtually all jurisdictions. The problem of vehicle operation under the influence is less than with alcohol intoxication, but it is still a concern.

 

Sadly, over here it does, because the taxes on it are high, French taxes on it are low, and you can drive a car back from France with a bootful of the stuff. But that's fairly small scale, compared to the criminal networks of distribution for the drugs that are wholesale illegal...

...it's obvious to you. It's obvious to me. It has to be equally obvious to politicians. Why do they refuse to see it?

 

I think you misunderstand me. As a Free Market Economist, I BELIEVE there SHOULD be NO illegal form of commerce. Let the Market and Consumers decide. Thus, I'm in Favor of repealing all the BS Prohibition Laws. However, no matter WHAT the states do, Legally if the Fed has these Laws; then the States ARE just setting up they're citizens to be arrested and Robed by the Fed.

and the Fed WON'T give up on the Pointless, In Effective "War on Drugs", It's Way too PROFITABLE for them. They can Legally Seize EVERYTHING you Own for just a Few ounces of Pot!