Should the use of canabis be permitted for medical reasons?

Answer 1

Of course not. This has been tried and proven that any medical use of pot quickly gets converted over to use by addicts. The whole issue is one hundred percent fraudulent.

Answer 2

Yes, and for any other reason adults have for using it. The person who said no because it get used by "addicts" has two misconceptions (at least). The first is that it is possible to be addicted to marijuana. It is not. People get the habit of smoking it, true; but it's not an addiction. When they stop using it, whether from lack of money or lack of supply or whatever, they do not go through withdrawal. I mean not even as much as a tobacco smoker does. It is not addicting.

The second is that legitimate uses should be curtailed due to "illegitimate" uses. That's like saying there should be no pain killing drugs or sleep-inducing drugs or any other drugs that have health benefits because some people are fool enough to become addicted to them. Certainly, when a drug is legal, some people use it wrongly. But when it is illegal, they also use it wrongly; they just pay more for it. Why deprive those with legitimate needs because of illegitimate users? That is irrational in the extreme.

The other direction makes more sense to me. Make all drugs completely legal, and let grown-ups decide for themselves and, by extension, for their children, which ones they will use under what circumstances. They could consult doctors all they wanted, of course, but the choices would be theirs to make.

What we really need is a Constitutional amendment to the effect that all medical procedures, including medication, are wholly voluntary, and entirely up to the individual adult. To have surgery or not, to take a drug or not, to eat healthy or not, to do anything that is about your own body and nobody else's, is your right and your decision. And, as with all other things in America, parents make those decisions for children.

Answer 3

Something interesting I found out by some research... listen up courius people!

Weed (another name for it) was once used before the 1950's and was greatly used in the 1800's in the USA. Everything from the liquid it produced to the smoke it could make was used by doctors and herbalists alike. Some time in the early 1900's (I think or really late 1800's) was when Asprin was descovered/invented. After a few decades there was a odd train of thought going around by the people in politics they began trying to convence the public to stop using weed for all sorts of remidies. By the 1950's it was clearly seen as riff raff and a sex crazed drug that made people have sex (that's what got the goody two shoes folks to kick the habit, they were told it was an imoral drug becuase it made sex crazed teenagers, look it up in public OLD OLD records I am NOT kidding! I was LMAO when I read that. But that's how they voted for it to become illigal.)
Anyways, some how they couldn't get the public to kick the drinking habit/remidies but they did silence the weed heads of the old times.

Interesting uh?

So my thought is, did they not want people to be able to grow their own remidies? Asprin, that was around the time the early drug companies came about ... it's just interesting.

The other interesting thing is weed can be used in many ways,
it can be made into a tea
it can be made into a liquid to put on the skin
it can be made into a concentrated oil (like Tea Tree Oil)
it can be smoked (duh)
it can be eaten (you should at least know this)
it can be held against your skin (near pain areas)

These are what they were once used for and how...

So yes, if people used them in the past to remedy medical stuff then I would say it should be reinstated to be legal for at least medical purposes.

::: Peace :::

Answer 4

Absolutely. It makes no sense to me that people are so concerned about cancer patients and other people who are basically slated to die because they are afraid the patients will get addicted to it. If they're dying, what does that matter?
They should have a right to anything that gives them relief.
And not just people who are dying of course. Marijauna isn't exactly what I would consider the healthiest thing, but it's no worse than most of the medication doctors prescribe.

Also I have seen the effects it has on certain mental disabilities my self. It can help paranoid schizophrenics, but of course only to a certain degree. They should still take medication. But cannibis does help a little in relieving certain symptoms.

And no, it is NOT fraudulent. I have seen the effects. Of course anyone who would say that hasn't had any real life experience with it.

Answer 5

Absolutely yes, like any drug it should be controlled and prescribed to give the patient relief. If we were discussing morphine you wouldn't get the same replies, the fact that cannabis has been abused by addicts shouldn't take away from the fact that it is a medication and can help relieve certain symptoms

Answer 6

Definitely YES! I fully concur with the second answer you received.

As regards cannabis, yes, I found that invaluable as a rapid muscle relaxant and pain reliever, when I had been in intractible pain and paralysis with my complete digestive system shut down, and urinary and bowel failure, (Vagus nerve block) in Tangier. Readily available there, it brought instant relief after 5 days of suffering. As soon as the smoke reached by lungs and crossed the blood-brain barrier (less than 3 seconds!), the pain was switched off, paralysed muscles relaxed, and vagus nerve function restored.

Also I fully concur with the second answer you received. Many "illegal" drugs are in common medical use. I am a retired cardiologist and as a life saving measure, during my second major heart attack, when I was drifting in and out of consciousness, I was given 10mg diamorphine a.k.a heroin, as a primary life saving measure. Pain kills before cardiac muscle damage or arrhythmia.

I see cannabis as a miracle drug and certainly concur with its use as a licenced medication which would also bring assured quality, when it becomes "Cannabis Sativa B.P"

Answer 7

Absolutely. Even heroin has medical uses.

I don't believe in blurring the lines on what drugs should and should not be used however I don't consider truly medical use to be a compromise for this.

The proviso to my answer though would be that it would have to be prescribed not just simply used and then the 'medical use' used as a defence.

Answer 8

Of course! And must I add that this must only be done after Stress, minor depression and boredom are classified as medical reasons. muhahahaha

Answer 9

Militantfairy is absolutely correct and very well put.

Answer 10

Aye, wouldn't it become worse if both patients and doctors become addicts?