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Originally posted by Poly

Have you been medically diagnosed with all these problems or are they conclusions that you have come to on your own?

Medically diagnosed.


And how is it that you know for sure that marijuana is not addictive? I ask this because we had some friends a few years back who smoked it. When we found out, we confronted them they were quick to tell us how non-addictive it was and how other things are much worse. She said they used it for stress issues. After a while, she confided in me that it really was getting out of control. She stopped for a while (or so she says) but said that he would always say that he was going to buy just one more "bag" and that's it. But that was never it. She called several times crying, wanting help because his use of it and refusal to stop was ruining their family. When we told her what she should do, we'd end up not hearing from her for a long time. If we called to check on them, she was quick to say that everything was ok. She didn't really want to talk but seemed to want to get off the phone as quickly as possilbe. And then lo and behold she'd call again out of the blue complaining about it. I told her that it bothered me that she did this. Come to find out, she hadn't exactly quit either and I'm sure it was her guilt that kept her from keeping in contact. If it's not addictive then why would her husband promise to stop yet doesn't and why would she deliberately go back to the very thing that she said is destroying her family?

How can you know that it IS addictive? studies tend to lean toward the fact that it is not addictive. You can't base you belief on a couple of people you knew. Most people that have a "problem" with marijuana do not actually have a problem with the marijuana itself, it's more like a kind of dependency/ inability to cope type issue and if it weren't marijuana, it would be something else they had an addiction to.

Why is he opposed to the many drugs that are offered for this disease? Surely if he suffers this much, the doctor can give him something for symptom relief. I'm also curious as to why his symptoms seem to be so bad at the end of the day? Symptoms of this can flare up at different times. I wonder because with you saying so that you can have "your time" together and that he hates doing it alone, I sense that there's more than going on than just smoking it for "medicinal purposes".

Well, firstly, he is allergic to many of them, secondly if you have had any experience with these type drugs the side and long term effects are horrible and management of pain through medication that is chemical is noramlly addictive in a big way, and long term use of such can have many many ill effects both physically and psychologically that far outweigh any ill effects that can come from smoking marijuana. AND all of my husband Dr's are well aware of the fact that he uses marijuana and even agree. Studies have been done that show that just like chemotherapy patients benefit from marijuana so do MS patients. And his symptoms are worse at the end of the day because that's just how a full day of working effects him, no two MS patients are alike in symptoms or reaaction to management of.
And i never said that our sole reason for using it was medicinal, just like some people have a few drinks after dinner to wind down, that is our choice of how to "wind-down" at the end of the day. And since he can't drink, this is what we do.

Do you plan on telling them when they're older? And if so, what if when they get older and aren't feeling well, they opt for drugs and feel they can justify it because this is what they witnessed from their parents as children?
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Yes most certainly i will tell them. And if they choose to do the same for management of physical symptoms then i would much rather that than them fill their bodies with a bunch of chemicals. You say "drugs" but i am only talking about marijuana. And like i said , they have witnessed no such thing, i will tell them about it when they are considerably older and i feel that they have the mental capacity to evaluate the situation for themselves and then make a decision based on what they feel is right.
 
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sorry i haven't quite figured out the multiple quote within a single reply thing yet :eek: I'm doing good to even be able to find the time to get my comments in between all the construction on my house from the furricane and my teething baby!!:(
 
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Originally posted by LivingDeadDoll

sorry i haven't quite figured out the multiple quote within a single reply thing yet :eek:
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I either put [ quote ] [ /quote ] (no spaces in the brackets, of course) around the different parts of the post that I want to address or I have 2 windows open, one where I hit the "quote", erase everything in the quote that I'm not addressing at the time and then copy it to the other window.
 
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You just gotta know the code.

[quotation]Words...blah, blah[/quotation] (Except the proper word to use is "quote" not "quotation"). The chunk of text you want to separate has to have this code around each chunk. Likewise to make something bold you have to use [bold]Word[/bold], except replace "bold" with just "b". The slash indicates that you want to end that code.
 
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Re: Marijuana

Originally posted by LivingDeadDoll

So what are everyones views on marijuana, politics, and the bible?
Do you think it should be legal?
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The Bible and politics should remain legal.
Do you support medicinal use?
Recreational use?
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Both politics and the Bible are great for medicinal uses.


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Re: Re: Marijuana

Re: Re: Marijuana

Originally posted by Knight


Both politics and the Bible are great for medicinal uses.


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I find a good truthsmack upside the head to be very relaxing. :cloud9:

That's some great medicine right there! :thumb:
 
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Originally posted by LivingDeadDoll

http://www.ccjrc.org/pdf/peopleofcolor.pdf

http://www.harrisschool.uchicago.ed...cerated_mothers/lalonde_incarceratedwomen.pdf

http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/respect/african_american_fs.htm

http://www.prometheism.net/articles/dukerace.html

http://www.innocentinprison.org/information/usa.html

I had a minute to get a few of those links, if you want links on anything specific that i referred to please let me know, i would be glad to oblige. More to come shortly.
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I think you meant to post these links in the "racism" thread.
 
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