Thoughts on Vic's Debate Statement

So. This is Vic's opening statement on medical marijuana. And I disagree with it...for the most part anyway.

We believe marijuana should be a medial option for “medical reasons”. We believe con is wrong and can’t beat us because people with medical problems need it to treat the pain. Joycelyn Elders, MD, former US Surgeon General, wrote that medical marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, and the “symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS -- or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.” We believe that if medical people need the drugs to feel better or normal then they are able to recover with it, though it may be just a little addicting. If taken too much.this stuff can relieve many symptoms of stress and pain and can  be beneficial in many lives. Should Terminally ill people suffer if they are about to die, or should they be allowed comfort? you decide.

One thing that I disagree with is that when Vic says ‘though it may just be a little addicting’. It is very addicting and sometimes people get arrested for taking marijuana, die from overdose or die from getting in a cause-and-effect chain reaction from the overdose. The ultimate cause of this is addiction to it. If it weren’t so addicting, then half of the people who died from the cause of it would just stop taking the marijuana and not die. The other half would probably keep taking it for whatever other reason, probably out of being bored or not caring. Or people who are suicidal. Anyway, it is addicting, so people keep taking it, and they die from it.

    Another point I disagree with is the part about letting people get the “sick bed” wish of taking marijuana. Well what if they could live, but they have to take a different medication, and taking marijuana would kill your body? Should the doctor/physician give it to them now? Better safe than sorry, there’s still the chance that taking the painful or disgusting medicine will save you, unlike the untrustworthy marijuana. It could be a decision between life and death. Wouldn’t it be better to die knowing that you tried, but the other medication didn’t work than not knowing whether you could have lived or not by not taking the marijuana?

Vic also says that marijuana is less toxic than most drugs that physicians prescribe. This ties back into the whole addiction thing in the first paragraph. It may be less toxic than something else. Marijuana may be, for example, 30% toxic and some other thing, which isn’t addicting at all, is 40% toxic. If you take it just one time on one day, then yes by the end of the day, you be better off with the marijuana. But what happens if you take the marijuana 7 times in a week, when you’re only supposed to take it once a week? Which medication are you better of with now?

    Food for thought.