Cannabis has a huge range of fantastic medical purposes. Doctors are finding out more and more why the plant is so useful while dissecting its chemical composition and learning more about different varieties. Drugs are being made from cannabis that have specific purposes such as sativa based arthritis-soothing topical creams, to indica-based anti-anxiety tinctures. Anti-inflammatory, analgesic, anti-nausea, the list is staggering. We are at the infancy of cracking a code that can potentially un-lock new cancer treatments--even a cure. Cannabis is, perhaps, one of the most powerful natural medical substances on the planet. As humans with embedded receptor sites for cannabinoids there's no doubt why we are finally hearing the "message" of cannabis.
So... What's the problem? What's the problem with medical cannabis? The problem is that current (draconian) federal drug laws when mixed with (state) medical cannabis laws are creating an epic battlefield featuring all the nasty ingredients that come with a war. Medical cannabis has become a convoluted nightmare that is merely a stepping stone towards complete legalization, which when reached will actually allow medical cannabis to properly exist! The entire medical community at large will finally be able to grow, study, and play around with this plant. Then, only then, will the true potential of medical cannabis be tapped.
Right now, we've got a brutal mess on our hands. Kids with a bruised elbow are gaining legal weed while veterans with PTSD in some states still have no access. People with a medical excuse are waving the legal weed under the noses of those unfortunate people who are still thought of as criminals for using cannabis. These are intelligent adults who have chosen cannabis over more harmful substances, with jobs, families, careers, and they are being made to hide. Or make up an excuse about a medical condition, still hiding, keeping it all under the radar because maybe they are a judge, or a lawyer, or a doctor.
Now our prisons are filling up with "gardeners" and our police are being paid to "pull weeds". When people? When is this madness going to end? Innocent people are rotting in a tax-payer funded jail cell, while kids are out in the sun legally buying weed for a "boo-boo". Let them out! Now!
The pressure is mounting. Black markets are flourishing in every direction--just read the news! Patients are selling weed, from their clubs, to people without a medical condition. Black market growers are getting rid of their products to legal dispensaries. All this money is being transferred under the table when it could be a revenue stream for our country. All of this over the female flower portion of a plant that can create more than just drugs. Cannabis produces food, fuel, and fiber as well. We're talking about a plant that is used by the entire world for just about everything. An agricultural cash cow! All this potential flushed down the toilet in the name of paying cops to pull weeds and imprison the innocent. Unjust. Unjust I say!
So where does this entire situation leave actual patients? In the dark. The products are limited. The selection is limited. The quality-control is limited. The consistency is limited. The knowledge is limited. The cost is so astronomical that the dried flowers by weight are currently the same price as gold!
We are infants stirring around for a morsel of hope, lost in a war over a miraculous plant that has brought the human race to its very knees. Legalize the plant in its entirety so we can stand up again. Medical cannabis, the stepping stone towards legalization, is salting the bloody wound of prohibition.
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