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I am a legitimate medicinal Marijuana Patient. I have a "card", or a recommendation as it is known in better educated circles.

Education is a big deal, I think, especially when it comes to things like our health. When you're sick, there isn't much that you want to do. What you really do not want to do is listen to someone who is being paid to tell you that the meds that you want are not the meds that they feel will help you, and that is because the meds that will help you are not meds that are regulated by any governing entity.

The idea that Marijuana is somehow going to kill you or harm you is redundant at best, because there are a whole lot of legal pharmaceuticals which can and will kill you. Heck, some of it is still being tested, but this does not stop the pharmaceutical companies from testing it, and then advertising it on television during football games and newscasts. Some of the medications that are being created these days can kill you, and the side effects are not benign enough to make someone want to try them just in case they work. Chemotherapy works, but it can kill you. Coumadin works, but if you are taking other meds besides just coumadin, which, if you are taking coumadin, you are taking other meds, you can end up very sick or dead. The side effects of one marijuana cigarette are that you will feel euphoria, get very hungry and then nine times out of ten, you will fall asleep. (Nope, no anal leakage with pot, guys).

Another thing that I do not understand about the fight against making pot legal is that it is a plant, and how can a plant be illegal? I mean, there are a million and one species of plants that are lethal, but they are not illegal. I am sure if someone could find a way to smoke Blue Nightshade berries without dying, they would do it. Marijuana can be smoked, eaten, made into tea, butter, jelly, candy. But it cannot kill you. There are many lethal drugs which are legal and unsafe and come with instructions on what to do if you should ingest too much of them because in large doses, they are poisonous, more so than in the small doses that you can be prescribed to take.

Marijuana is not technically addictive, at least not physically. Unlike Opiates, which are highly addictive, do damage to your liver and kidneys, and make you dependent on the little suckers, pot only makes a person crabby if they do not have any. People do not rob other people when they don't have pot, and people do not kill other people because they need their fix of pot.

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