Yeah!  Ya know Dude.  Someone should, like, get out there and, like, do
something.  Ya know.  Then they would, like, ya know, have to take pot
smokers seriously.

	I do take pot users seriously. It doesn't seem though that our
government does.

	OK.  It has been decriminalized.  Now the penalties for simple posession
aren't much greater than for lighting up a cigarette in a non-smoking
area.  I don't even approve of smoking tobacco.  If you want to get
high, make brownies or something.  Don't set fire to the stuff and make
my throat dry too.

	For medical services to allow patients to ingest medication through
smoke is irresponsible.  Can you imagine, if you needed antibiotics for
a life-threatening illness, the pharmacist were to give you a packet of
material and advise you to roll and smoke one of these three times
daily?  Oh yes, there will be some side effects from the smoke,
shortness of breath, dizzyness and a long term chance of cancer, but the
antibiotics will help right away.

	We don't do it with most pain killers.  We don't do it with
antibiotics.  We outlaw the use of cigarettes for many people and most
places.  Yet it seems the medical community endorses the uptake of THC
through the practice of inhaling a combusting material directly into the
lungs.  Why do we allow the use of 16th century treatment techniques in
the 21st century.  What the Hell is going on here?

	People who use marijuana for medical purposes have been marginalized.
People in chronic pain, AIDS sufferers, cancer patients. They're not
gonna get back to work, so why spend a lot of money putting the THC in
an easily ingested form.  Let them smoke it.  Hey!  They're already
sick, right?  So what if we give them second tier medical treatment?
There seems to be a wink-wink-nudge-nudge attitude about marijuana.  It's
supposed to be cool to allow people to use it.  Hey, provide it to those
who are terminally ill.  I suppose its because we're in the middle of
change that it seems so f*cked up.  We can't even get our population
weaned from one major killer and we're saying,"Well, OK.  You can use
this stuff, 'cause we cool with it."

In some ways we have our heads so far up our asses, its a wonder we
don't choke on this sh*t.