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In reply to the discussion: We need a more honest conversation about marijuana [View all]NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'll give you the muscle relaxers, opiates, valium....oh and the methotrexate and plaquenil that make me sick while "treating" my diseases. The method of "treatment" is to effectively weaken my sick autoimmune system so that it stops attacking my liver, kidney, bones, heart, and lungs. Make me so sick, I cannot fight back.
So today early voting started in Florida for access to medical cannabis (I don't call it marijuana because that is the name the anti-cannabis crowd gave it to link it to the Mexicans and Black jazz musicians who also used it, and were to be feared by civilized white people). Please give me access to use it for the remainder of my shortened life from 39 on without going to jail. Win or lose, I'm going to use it because I can't hack the alternatives any longer.
And for the people who think we just want to get high for the buzz, I think I am due the buzz and yes, I'd like to be high now and again to try to forget this hand dealt to me, if only for a bit.