Montana recoils in horror: You mean ‘medical marijuana’ was a scam? Uh, yep!
Dear Dan & Friends:
Fuck you all who don't understand that the benefits clearly outweigh any harm that you could (and did) imagine.
btw, Mark, "Believe it or not, a whole lot of people really could care less and don’t want to participate in the holy war that government howler monkeys such as you like to champion" seems to sum it up nicely.
I've barked enough for one day, and this book can tell you far more than I can.
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Champy-Wamp
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Dan Calabrese
Montana voters in 2008 got suckered just like those in a lot of other states, and passed a referendum legalizing “medical marijuana.” They bought the storyline that this was for seriously ill people who had no other way to relieve their pain.
Oops! They’re now discovering, like most other states who made this mistake, that the whole thing was a scam.
Meet your 'patients'.
Consider: There are two cities in Montana where the percentage of the population carrying around “medical marijuana” cards is four times that of the rest of the state. Those two cities are Missoula and Bozeman. Anyone care to guess what’s different about Missoula and Bozeman? Yep, that’s an easy one. They’re home to the state’s two biggest universities.
My 10-year-old got it right away. College students. Not exactly your cancer-stricken grandma.
Speaking of that, also consider: Fully 25 percent of the patients who are, um, toking advantage of the law are between the ages of 21 and 30. That’s a total of about 5,000 people. Montana lawmakers are having a hard time believing there are that many 20-somethings with the kinds of conditions that would require them to smoke the weed.
Then again, those “conditions” are getting to be a little hard to define. Of the 20,000 Montana residents who have medical marijuana cards, 13,000 cited “chronic pain” as their reason for needing the card. Now, this is not to say no one suffers from legitimate chronic pain. But come on. There’s no so-called condition that’s easier to fake, or harder to pin down, because no matter how much the doctor insists he can’t find anything wrong with you, you can still claim you’re in pain, and he can’t prove otherwise.
This measure was sold as a way of relieving pain for people with serious problems, like cancer or glaucoma. These are conditions that are easy to detect, with specific symptoms. No one was talking about people who claim “chronic pain” related to nothing in particular.
You do see what’s going on here, don’t you? Most of the people claiming “chronic pain” are faking so they can smoke weed and get stoned.
And when you do get a legitimate sufferer of a real disease, what happens? As Jennifer McKee of the Billings Gazette reports, they’re subject to mockery from the potheads who control this whole system:
This is what Sen. Trudi Schmidt, D-Great Falls, doesn’t like about medical marijuana: Would-be “caregivers” laughed at a gravely ill woman Schmidt knows because the woman had never been stoned before.
When the woman finally found what she thought was a reputable caregiver, she was distressed to discover the person seemed “half-baked all the time,” Schmidt said.
This is no surprise to me. Pot-smokers believe that the experience of getting stoned is some sort of higher plain of being. People (like me) who criticize drug use without ever having engaged in it are derided as some sort of vestal virgin whose biggest problem in life is needing to get high as quickly as possible.
More and more states who passed these stupid laws are starting to understand what they have wrought.
Oh, by the way, yesterday in Battle Creek, Michigan, a guy coming out of his “medical marijuana dispensary” was shot by thugs who wanted to steal his weed.
Marijuana. Drug of the mellow!
Nice job, voters. Idiots.
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