[ SECRET POST #4685 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4685 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, if prescribed ethically. Note that *I* haven't attempted to extrapolate here the way you're arguing. I'm referring specifically to people like my cousin, i.e. people who have zero background in medicine and are self-medicating with weed. I'd feel the same way if people were self-medicating with prescription pain pills.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[philstar22]

Okay, then. It sounded to me like you were saying it could never be a medicine. That's all I was arguing against.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I understand that. What I don't understand is your need argue against something you assumed I said, but didn't actually say. You don't have any actual basis for assuming that's what I meant. My original post was very specific, about a specific person in a specific situation. I don't mean to disrespect your reading skills, but I'm wondering where your assumptions come from, because it's not me.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[philstar22]

Where you said "calling something medicine doesn't make it medicine" that sounded more generalized to me. That seemed like a more general statement, not just talking about your relative. Especially since you were responding to someone else who was saying they find weed medicinal, and you don't actually know whether or not they've been prescribed by their doctor. The way you phrased it came across as just dismissive of the idea that weed could ever be a medicine at all.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

They said they took weed for chronic pain. That sound legit to you? Not that they were prescribed, mind you. "Took". Much like how my relative takes weed for her anxiety, because she decided it's good for her anxiety. If ayrt has been prescribed weed by an actual doctor as a treatment for chronic pain, then I'll apologize to ayrt.

I'm dismissive of the idea that people can label whatever they like "medicine" because they personally find it helpful. I mean sure, it's "medicine" in the way that "laughter is the best medicine" or a nice bowl of chicken soup when you've got a cold is "medicine", but it's not... medicine in the sense that it's been legitimately developed, regulated, prescribed and taken with professional oversight. Medical marjiana is a thing. Not all marijuana products are medical.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[philstar22]

I agree with you that there is a lack of oversight in a lot of places, and I think it is the lack of legality that creates that lack of oversight. Legalizing it at least for medicinal purposes allows there to be controls on when and how it is prescribed.

And frankly, I personally am in favor of complete legalization because I don't see much difference between marijuana and alcohol or cigarettes. Legalized but controlled is the way to go I think, with laws in place for people being publicly high and such.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Given your many assumptions, this might surprise you but I'm in favor of legalization and regulation, too. I just side eye people who conflate recreational use and medical use when medical guidelines and oversight don't apply.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I’m really weirded out by how much you’re leaning into this “doctor = legitimate” thing, because it just makes you sound like you’re more annoyed that your relative is breaking a rule than actually smoking. I don’t know how to tell you this, but legal/medical states have literally all the same shit that dealers do it’s just more expensive and above board.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[philstar22]

Well, personally I'd say there is a level of oversight you get with legality that you can't get without it. So I think having that legality and a prescription is important for that reason. But yes, I agree the OP seems a little obsessed with it.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I live in a legal state, and honesty not really. There’s “regulation”, but it’s all very fuzzy and easily loopholed. Edibles especially fluctuate big time on doses, and it’s nearly impossible to get a completely accurate breakdown of what each strain contains, because every plant is different, but it’s close enough.

There’s also that the states that legalized recreational weed pretty much completely destroyed the medical sector, so in OP’s weird world, her relative would STILL be in the wrong if they were in a legal state and buying it above board for the (medicinal) purpose of alleviating their anxiety, because A dOcToR dIdN’t PrEsCrIbE iT!!

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

If someone is taking a drug as medication, that requires oversight because dosages need to be calculated to help rather than harm, and because drug interactions are a thing. When people take drugs in the form of self-medication without the oversight of a doctor, etc. they're taking not insignificant risks with their health, just as they would be if they were taking prescription pills without consulting a doctor about the dosage and whether or not it was right for them and didn't have any adverse side effects or interactions with the drugs they're already taking.