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Originally Posted by talaiporia

Medicinal cannabis and smoking weed are completely different things.
Just like Morphine given in hospital, and Heroin on the streets.
Medicinal cannabis is purified. It also generally comes in 'healthier' formats too; a large percentage of the risk is from actually smoking weed, and would be hugely reduced if taken in another form (ie. in food, oil). Please don't try to equate medicinal cannabis and weed.
Taking a step in the right direction? Gay marriage, gun control, and universal health care would be a start, in joining the rest of the developed world (one of the only developed countries without universal health care, even quite a few developing nations now have some form of UHC).

I'm sorry.
But comparing marijuana to morphine and heroin invalidates that argument entirely. Again, nothing about cannabis is fatal. Cannabis, like most other things- legal or illegal- can be abused. That is relative. But it won't harm you the way those drugs do.

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Please don't try to equate medicinal cannabis and weed.

You know; Marijuana, cannabis, pot, weed- they're f!cking words.
Please, don't pretend that we're talking about 2 different substances here, when referring to potent marijuana vs. less potent marijuana- because that is all it is.

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Taking a step in the right direction? Gay marriage, gun control, and universal health care would be a start, in joining the rest of the developed world (one of the only developed countries without universal health care, even quite a few developing nations now have some form of UHC)

Let's stay on subject here, this is about a drug war- incarceration of harmless drug users- "if we were to count all the people in U.S. prisons and jails, We would account for almost a quarter of the worlds prisoners.
The actual figure comes to 23% of the world's incarcerated, From a country of a mere 5% of the world's total population."
We are a prison nation. America will incarcerate an ill person before giving them a chance to know that they are ill in the first place. There are people locked in prison cells in their own sick because in this country, we punish instead of rehabilitate.
It's taking a step in the right direction because people at least appear to be generally more tolerant. Check the link. Nixon hid that from the public because Shafer could not find much wrong with cannabis, other than the lung damage associated with inhaling smoke.

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a large percentage of the risk is from actually smoking weed, and would be hugely reduced if taken in another form

yes, you are absolutely right. And I made that same exact point

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Unfortunately, the lung damage is real and unavoidable IF SMOKED, but there are many wonderful innovative products out there that allow you to consume marijuana without smoking it (:

here.