Arkanjel
New Member
Back to the Medical Marijuana subject as BG suggested, let me pose you this question. I will say beforehand that there are many sides to the issue, but sticking to JUST medical marijuana let me present this scenario.
Your dear grand-mother (yes I'm going there because it brings it home) has just been fighting cancer and undergoing radiation treatments to try and slow the process. These some might say barbaric radiation treatments have weakened grandma's strength and she is constantly feeling nauseated. The doctors who much like you don't want to see poor grandma suffer any more than you do give her a prescription for medical marijuana. Now then, what do you do? She can smoke it and ease her pain in these twilight years of her life and help with the nausea, or not and endure pain that you and I can only imagine since we haven't been in that position.
Taking all of the above into account, i.e. its considered a regulated narcotic, its all natural, and since its prescribed its government grown. How would you feel about grandma getting high so that she isn't vomiting and feeling sick all day? Would you still stand with a firm foot and tell her, NO, its not right? Would you help poor grandma out and help her light it and then sit close enough by to get some of the second hand? (sorry had to lighten it up a bit!) There in lies your moral dilemma in its strictest regards to the topic at hand. Yes there are many ways to abuse the system, but in regards to what it is designed for and its intended purpose, where do you stand?
Your dear grand-mother (yes I'm going there because it brings it home) has just been fighting cancer and undergoing radiation treatments to try and slow the process. These some might say barbaric radiation treatments have weakened grandma's strength and she is constantly feeling nauseated. The doctors who much like you don't want to see poor grandma suffer any more than you do give her a prescription for medical marijuana. Now then, what do you do? She can smoke it and ease her pain in these twilight years of her life and help with the nausea, or not and endure pain that you and I can only imagine since we haven't been in that position.
Taking all of the above into account, i.e. its considered a regulated narcotic, its all natural, and since its prescribed its government grown. How would you feel about grandma getting high so that she isn't vomiting and feeling sick all day? Would you still stand with a firm foot and tell her, NO, its not right? Would you help poor grandma out and help her light it and then sit close enough by to get some of the second hand? (sorry had to lighten it up a bit!) There in lies your moral dilemma in its strictest regards to the topic at hand. Yes there are many ways to abuse the system, but in regards to what it is designed for and its intended purpose, where do you stand?