[ExI] medical marijuana

[samantha]

Gregory Jones wrote:
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> --- On *Mon, 7/12/10, Stefano Vaj /<stefano.vaj at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>  
> >...As much as I may dislike prohibitionism and the DEA, any kind of smoke
> produced by combustion is hardly the healthiest way to administer any
> substance.
>  
>
> Ja agreed, but smoking a plant may be the cheapest way to administer 
> any drug.  The alternative means of administering drugs are 
> tightly controlled by governments and the medical establishment, 
> putting the refined medications out of the reach of many, if not most, 
> people.
>

Vaporizers are not that expensive and much better for you.  Or in the 
case of pot, cooking with it works fine.
>  
> The USian recent health reform bill did not fix that problem, but 
> rather may have made it worse.  The health insurance companies must 
> raise their prices to compensate for the new requirement that they 
> cover previously-uninsurable patients.
>
Grrrr.  That just ended the entire art of "insurance" and will 
eventually end private insurance leaving only government players.  Which 
was likely the idea.

>   It requires Americans to buy health insurance, which most will not 
> do (the fine for not buying is cheaper than the insurance), which 
> means they will avoid doctors and hospitals to avoid the fine.
>

How did the land of freedom fall so far that we allow government to tell 
us what to do and to tell insurers who to insure and at what rates? 
>  
> So instead of getting the safer refined drugs, many will get none.  
> The option of supplying drugs in a cheap smoked form may be better 
> than the alternative, which is nothing.
>
I am also very concerned what will likely happen to medical R&D and 
advanced treatments in this country.  I think a lot will not be funded 
anymore or will not be listed on the government approved care list.    I 
also have heard more than a few physician friends say they will not 
practice medicine this way.  Either they opt out of all government 
programs (many already have) around medicine and self-fund somehow to 
keep doing it the way they believe it should be done or they leave the 
profession.  This is not at all good news for we boomers. 

- samantha

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