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[tpsbmam]

41. It's hard to take medical cannabis seriously when Democrats are making ill-informed

comments like "put down the bong" and "smoking crack along with their cannabis."

This individual who would seriously benefit medically from medical cannabis resents your cavalier and wrong-headed attitude toward medical cannabis advocates.

Look, I'm an advocate and to some degree an activist, but no, this won't be my deciding factor when I vote. But yeah, I'm pissed as hell at Obama and his Bush-like attitude toward medical cannabis and his backward crackdowns on medical marijuana dispensaries AND patients! Bush-like? Yup....he's ignoring the STRONG science and scientific support for medical uses of cannabis. He has his head as dug into the sand as Bush did when HE ignored science in favor of silly stances on policies (e.g., climate change). Obama seems to be influenced here by all of the advocates who have $$$ to lose if medical cannabis in its current state is approved. Big Pharma, the private prison industry, the vast "drug war" industries, etc. -- as he has too often done, he has sided with them to the detriment of patients who truly do benefit from medical cannabis.

Ridicule if you want, but know that it has a VERY sound basis in research on benefits for a wide host of diseases. I don't even like smoking the shit -- never have. I smoked it maybe 5 times in HS, decided I didn't really like it or like the effects of it, and never smoked it again.....until recently (almost 40 years later!). I get terribly painful spasms from MS. I take 3 Big Pharma approved medications to combat them, but they still break through.....usually in the middle of the night when I'm trying to sleep. I'm woken up with them and have to do whatever I can to get rid of them. Since I've had a small amount of medical cannabis, which I've only used about 6 times in the past 4 months, I've found an incredibly effective way to combat the spasms, one that lasts for quite a long time after just a tiny amount! It's also neuroprotective for my disease and many others. Did you know that people who suffer with Alzheimer's benefit from medical marijuana, including it's neuroprotective effects? Laugh at that!

So, even if activists say this is their deciding factor for voting, they don't need to "put down the bong." This is a central and critical issue for many, many people. It affects lives in a very profound way and Obama's backward crackdowns have saddled those who legally use medical cannabis based on state law with criminal records because he's overridden what the voters of the state have agreed is legal use of cannabis. WTF?! So, you're saying that someone who has been so centrally affected by this President's backward stance & actions regarding medical cannabis "should put down the bong" if that's their deciding factor? I couldn't disagree more -- it's totally understandable. I don't agree with it for myself, but I respect it and get it.