Above are both sides of a business card I found today on my car’s windshield. (Notice the misspelling of “compassionate” on one side, and “prescription” on the other. Proof, yet again, that stoners don’t use spell check.)
I’ve lived in California all of my life—in Cupertino, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, San Diego. I know from stoners. But this is new. This is stoners and doctors joining forces. Before this, the only thing doctors and stoners had in common was that they both used these things:
Now finding a licensed physician in California who will write you a prescription for “medical” marijuana is like finding a homeless person who’ll take a dollar you give them. Not exactly a challenge. You write Dr. Roachclip a check ($99!); he writes you your prescription for pot.
Badda-bing, bodda-bong.
And look! Once you’ve got your pot prescription, you never have to leave your house!
The good news is that if you’ve got financial worries, they’re over. All you have to do is invest every last penny you have in Cheetoes and frozen pizzas. Now.
Related posts o’ mine: Proof People Get Stoned at Work, and My Visit to a Marijuana Anonymous Meeting.
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I smoked a little weed, but I did NOT inhale!
True
Until you also add the in the costs of the drug war…
A quote from the U.S. Drug Czar, October 2009
To test the idea of legalizing and taxing marijuana, we only need to look at already legal drugs – alcohol and tobacco. We know that the taxes collected on these substances pale in comparison to the social and health care costs related to their widespread use.
R. Gil Kerlikowske
Director
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Julia: Totally agree. Word of God says:
"No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities."
I have no problem with medical mj. As for use other than medical I treat users the same as people who drink to get drunk : I just stay away from them. *shrugs*
And I would love to smoke a hyperbowl
I try to be a kind bud.
I would love to smoke a joint with that guy I quoted.
LOL
Love Tim’s post…
And yes John I skimmed through much of the articel (13 pages!) and lingered on some parts. In my skimming I missed any sections that describe the persil of diving in an area of lots of pot growing.
But I did see sections alluding to the profits therein…
It’s a great article and I may god back and read it more deeply…
Mary
Brian: I don’t know who that was you quoted, but I’d love to meet him. Sounds like a freakin’ genius. But besides that, yes, you’re right: I should have noted the difference between “cure” and “treat.” I was actually on the phone when I posted that, so (and especially since I didn’t really take it seriously either way), I didn’t give it much thought beyond “cut” and “paste.” But NO EXCUSE, for sure. Sorry.
Ric: Funny! I hate you now. But funny!
Tim: “Gnarly sensimilla.” “Blazing a fatty.” “Buds.” Who are you, Peter Tosh?
I think I myself smoked once or twice in the past. I don’t recall.
Yeah, John.
Earth made pot for us to use as an anti anxiety med. God made Earth. How many of you drink alcohol? Just realized the other day its real gateway drug. Not MJ. I don't use either anymore. If I was forced at gunpoint ~weed from the universe would naturally be the best choice!
No, the premises I disagree with are that because you suspected pot was making you depressed that it couldn’t be an effective medication to treat depression.
I disagree that because potency is greater now than when we were in high school that that is a bad thing. The fact is that you have to smoke a lot less of today’s pot than the big fat doobs that were common when there was a lower THC content.
As for the violence, I think you need only look at the example of the last time America tried prohibition and the violence (Murder Inc.) that created gangsterism to see that prohibition is the problem, not the specific substance involved. Personally I think alcohol is a much more dangerous drug… one I don’t use and don’t really approve of than marijuana. However banning it was clearly counter-productive.
But again I think you recognize this and that’s why you came to a conclusion I agree with…. full legalization will solve most of the problems now associated with it.
Here’s a wonderful New Yorker article about the marijuana-growing business:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/28/080728fa_fact_samuels
“caregivers” and “medicine”?
Give me a break people.
I live in one of the biggest pot growing areas of California – and only a few of the people with prescriptions actually need it for “medicine” – they just want to get high (or rich). There is big money in growing marijuana – some people get about $10,000 per plant – if they are good gardeners. People in our area go to town and plunk down cash for SUVs and very LARGE Oriental carpets – for their yurts – I suppose.
I stopped smoking pot about 35 years ago (while still in HIGH school) because I realized it was making me depressed. (So much for medical!) – If people do need medical marijuana – fine – they should have it. This business card – above – is the first time I’ve seen anything like that.
Also – the pot is so much stronger these days that I was adamantly against my own kids smoking pot, and did everything in my power to make my point clear.
http://www.theantidrug.com/
I’ve seen teen boys just exist in a fog for most of their teen years. Not pretty – and not good for a formative time of life.
My now-grown son served on the local volunteer fire department and has been called to the scene of a murder from a shoot-out over the MONEY involved in pot. And another young man had a gun pulled on him for showing up unannounced – to the remote driveway to the home of someone he already knew – again because of pot. He was there also in the capacity of the volunteer fire department. (I don’t recall the details.. – Just that these guys are NOT mellow about their pot.) And the volunteer fire department has a strict policy of NOT reporting any pot or drug activities to higher authorities…WHY? Because we don’t want these people burning the forest down because they were afraid to call the fire department.
And – a few years aback a very larger operation was discovered way back on public land for growing marijuana – complete with irrigation from a nearby river and Mexican workers to tend the plants…It has also been well known for years in certain areas of California the you shouldn’t just hike through the forest – because you could get shot – by the pot growers…And now I believe it.
Medical marijuana is legal – but the money is so good – many people grow extra – so that makes it illegal. You can “only” grow 6 plants per prescription. However – sometimes those plants grow very large – with fertilization, etc.
So – I am now for full legalization of marijuana because it will cut into the profits and therefore some of the violence.
By the way – there was a movement in our county to legalize the growing of hemp – and the people who showed up at city hall to protest that most vociferously were the growers of medical marijuana! They’ve got a good thing going right now. And they are also afraid that the hemp would weaken their strains of high THC marijuana. So it has come full circle that some (at least) of the people who enjoy pot the most – don’t want it fully legalized.
So – to stop all of this craziness over a weed – i say legalize marijuana and hemp now. Especially legalize hemp – the USA has to import hemp from Canada. A weed!
So – yes John – the business card is new to me – and yet in our area (no surprise) there was a doctor from Day 1 who would write you a marijuana prescription for any reason at all…Come in – make some claim pay the doctor bill and get your prescription. In fact most of the people would say they were “depressed.” – which I found ironic since that is why I had to stop smoking pot so long ago!
Well – I meant to just make an amused comment but the other comm enters got me going a bit…
LOL
Mary K
Skinhorse: Good comment.
Too much sativa, not enough indica for you my friend
Hah! Good one. Whew. I thought somebody who HAD ever gotten high with me had written you, or something. Cuz it's mainly impossible for anyone who's ever smoked weed with me not, if talking or writing or about that experiene, to use the word "hyper."
I am inclined to hyperbole… I mean hyperbowl
Hyperbowl?
No, no, you would not. Sweet sentiment, though! Very kind! But …. no. You wouldn't. Promise. Not fun. When it comes to weed, I'm most definitely not like the other boys.
Why can't the majority of users just be honest about their desire for medicinal marijuana? I was a pot-head for 16 years. In fact, I smoked pot for a month one night. But by today's standards, I could certainly rate a bag of gnarly sensimilla with the symptoms of stress, chronic depression, hypertension and what-not that I've been medically diagnosed with over the years. But what would it really do for me that I can't do for myself? Most pot-heads (and I include myself) smoked pot because it makes us "mellow", and "laid-back". Besides, re-runs of "Star Trek" , "Leave It To Beaver", and "The Three Stooges" aren't NEARLY as funny or bizarre as those watched after blazing a fatty. What was that old stoner adage?…"pot will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no pot". Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy if you ask me. If a person prefers pot to money, they will more than likely be a slacker just doing the bear minimum required to keep themselves in munchies, brewskis and buds. If people want to label me as one of "those people" go right ahead. No skin off my keester. : D
Oh and John… I'm sure you've never done this before either… taking the claim of someone with whom you disagreed and exaggerated it to the point that they look ridiculous.
You say, "Check out this list of things they claim can be cured via weed." and then when you copy and paste their actual statement it comes out, "Discover The Chronic Diseases That Can Be Treated With Medical Cannabis."
Cured and treated are not the same thing. They don't claim to "cure" aging or AIDS or anything else. They say it's a "treatment".
As SOMEONE recently told me, "I’m sure you’re concerned about the veracity of what you yourself communicate, lest anyone have reason to believe you’re inclined toward hyperbole."
Lack of Appetite! hahaha Where ARE those Cheetos?? And is it just me, or does that tiger mascot look stoned?
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