re: Georgia arrests parents, takes 15 year old son away after MJ stops his seizures

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It's reasonable concern for someone who doesn't know much about marijuana, frankly. That's not exactly your fault. The general public's ignorance of marijuana lies at the feet of the DEA

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I’m a pharmacist. I actually I know more about drugs than almost everyone who is not a pharmacist, fricktard.

I’m for total legalization with laws addressing DUI, use by minors, etc. I said that a few times so far. The public’s view on marijuana is being heard and laws are changing in response fairly quickly.

The lay public cannot be entrusted to essentially prescribe marijuana to their children for serious conditions, especially smoking and off the street. Here’s the best part- they don’t have to.

Medical marijuana for epilepsy is available in Georgia for over a year. They have not organized in state cultivation but there have been zero arrest for shipping the CBD oil to Georgia. There is no need for this kid to smoke his father’s weed as medicine.

If the Gp didn’t protest per the article, why didnt the parents persist in obtaining referrals and more reliable marijuana. There is likely more to this story, these parents are not good martyrs for the marijuana movement.

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know you’ve got a little potty mouth.

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I mainly disliked somebody assuming I must not have enough facts if I question or disagree with them.

Also, I havent had any pot in my mouth for a long time. When I retire

My best friend has been having bad seizures since she was 13. Her parents have money and have tried everything and have gone all over the country to different specialist on epilepsy and seizures and even the experimental drugs had little effect.

So they tried weed. It worked so well that their parents sold everything they owned in Louisiana and picked up and moved to Washington where it's legal.

Once you have first-hand experience of a situation like this it's very interesting to watch people push back against it. Whether it's so called reports, doctors, the media, the government or individuals you quickly realize a few things.

One, how propagandized the information we receive is. Two, how pervasive that propaganda is. Three, how gullible most people are.

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Every other week there’s a new report of someone dying from fentanyl laced drugs

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What are you laughing at frick stick?

My dad died in November of last year from this exact thing.

What's your street cred? Sheltered Country Bumpkin or Catholic School suburbanite?

Big government is big government


It’s what our forefathers envisioned when they formed this country.






Well, not really, but GO MURCA... What do we care what we were founded upon anymore? Hell, most don’t know nor care.

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Nah. Nature has deadly chemicals such as that found in mushrooms, belladonna and foxglove. "Natural" is a marketing term for rubes that suggests nothing can go wrong.

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I think you're missing the point.

Yes there are all kinds of things in nature that can absolutely kill you dead. The difference between humans ingesting the Flora and Fauna found in nature and that created within the last hundred years in a lab, is that we've evolved for many many many generations in and around the things we consume in nature. Our bodies, our biology are designed for it. Not everything that's created in a lab is unsafe but we haven't evolved to consume things in concentrated form or things isolated from their constituent parts.

For example, when you take straight vitamins you often piss most of them right into the toilet because your body doesn't recognize them in this form and doesn't know what to do with them. Your body does a much better job of vitamin absorption and utilization when it's packaged in a way that our body has recognized for thousands upon thousands of years. That is, in an apple or a stalk of broccoli or a leg of lamb.

That doesn't even take into account all the side effects that require at least a generation to study and recognize and most companies aren't structured or incentivized to mitigate long-term risks of the effects of their products nor is there much incentive to even study and learn about the long-term effects.

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So basically, GA having medical cannabis is just a farce.

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This has been a big problem with some medical MJ states. The states pass medical MJ laws with so much red tape and restrictions that they’re almost useless. Politicians can take a photo op and say “look, we’re reasonable people who don’t want kids to have seizures” but practically speaking very few patients can obtain relief.

And even then, the laws put restrictions on the percentage of THC allowed. Some patients respond better to different levels of THC and it’s a trial and error process, but these states refuse. It’s either low-THC oil or nothing.

Did they stop the daddy's seizures (OP)?

Because he tested positive. Using son as his excuse.

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state decides to take away a kid from his parents for acting in his best interests

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whether you agree with this or not, ask yourself where is the ACLU