On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:36:42 -0700 (PDT), "The Greatest!"
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>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:58:17 -0700 (PDT), "The Greatest!"
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>> >> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:19:31 -0600, graham > wrote:
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>> >> >On 2017-04-26 12:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> >> >> On 2017-04-26 2:17 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>> >> >>> On 4/26/2017 10:08 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> >> >> them.
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>> >> >>> You really don't want your neighbors to see you grow herb.
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>> >> >> There is a place on the next road over from me that is almost ready tp
>> >> >> get going and everyone around here knows that they are going to be
>> >> >> growing. They are almost finished putting up the 5 acres of greenhouses
>> >> >> for their medical marijuana operation. I wonder if it will still be
>> >> >> medical marijuana after pot is legalized here next year.
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>> >> >It has always struck me that the majority of those asking for medical
>> >> >marijuana are already potheads and their reasons for wanting it
>> >> >spurious. Note that they never want it in alternative forms, always to
>> >> >smoke.
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>> >> I used to grow it for David, he discovered it eased his pain
>> >> considerably. We lived in an old house downtown and the best place
>> >> was on the dining room table. I came home one day and found him at
>> >> the dining table chatting to a cop, apparently this cop had brought
>> >> him home after the car was hit by a couple of teens in a stolen car.
>> >> Gave me a fright, the cop must have recognised the plants but said
>> >> nothing as he could see why we were growing it. We had both given up
>> >> smoking by then but I used to make happy brownies for him
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>> >> I think we will have problems with drivers under the influence - but
>> >> they are working on that - and clearly kids under 20 should not
>> >> indulge too freely. As for kids in homes where too much smoking
>> >> goes on, I can't think that will be good for them. OTOH taking it out
>> >> of criminal hands is a good move, so we shall see.
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>> >I mentioned in my previous reply to Graham about my former friend. He was always arguing that "Pot does NOT affect driving ability!" Sorry, I disagree, someone driving under the influence of pot is just the same as someone driving whilst intoxicated. ISTR reading about breathalyzer - type devices that are being developed for detecting pot, when the highway police get those "the jig will be up" for pot - impaired drivers...
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>> >As I put it to him, "You would not be allowed to operate heavy machinery on a construction site when you've smoked pot...a vehicle is heavy machinery, so you should not be driving a car, either..."
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>> ><shrug/>
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>> I don't know about your friend but I do know it brought relief to
>> David, he said better than the percoset he had been prescribed.
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>I've absolutely no quibbles about someone easing intense and chronic pain, especially during end - stage cancer, etc....
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>> I do also know a man imd-40s who has indulged since his early 20s, a
>> marvellous brain wasted due to the inertia it created in him.
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>The problem with pot is that it can become a "lifestyle" - as can of course other substances

Yes, like alcohol, which isn't illegal.

> - the regular users I know are pretty useless in general - when they could be functioning.

Again, like alcohol.