pShould doctors be allowed to prescribe marijuana for severely ill patients?

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Yes, definitely

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Only in a very few cases

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No, never

@Mar '13 c 177 comments V 578 votes

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May 15

CaryNickel

v Yes, definitely

I'll go one step further and state that it should not even be necessary for a doctor to prescribe marijuana. We are supposedly a nation of adults, who in most cases can take care of ourselves. Marijuana is a plant that grows naturally under the right condition, no different than tomatoes or lettuce. Whether adults want to pick that plant, roll it into paper, light it, and inhale the smoke should be entirely up to that adult. Cigarettes are legal, booze is legal, so should marijuana be.

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TheHandsomeOne

v Yes, definitely

And reading the stupid posts of so many hypocrites here makes me very ill. earl

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Deste66 voted

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NoAmnestyEVER

v Yes, definitely

This question is too funny. In California doctors will prescribe pot for a blister on your finger.

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Len_in_NY2 voted

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CaryNickel

v Yes, definitely

I'll go one step further and state that it should not even be necessary for a doctor to prescribe marijuana. We are supposedly a nation of adults, who in most cases can take care of ourselves. Marijuana is a plant that grows naturally under the right condition, no different than tomatoes or lettuce. Whether adults want to pick that plant, roll it into paper, light it, and inhale the smoke should be entirely up to that adult. Cigarettes are legal, booze is legal, so should marijuana be.

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TheHandsomeOne

v Yes, definitely

And reading the stupid posts of so many hypocrites here makes me very ill. earl

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NoAmnestyEVER

v Yes, definitely

This question is too funny. In California doctors will prescribe pot for a blister on your finger.

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oldman75

v Yes, definitely

Why the hell not ? More people hooked on oxycodeine than pot .

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jond414

v No, never

What about the poor pharmaceutical companies? How are they supposed to compete with mother nature?

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TheHandsomeOne

Hahahaaha! good one!

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Chris8718

v Yes, definitely

Certainly they should! The critically ill should be allowed the pleasures of a delightful send-off, if nothing more can be done for them. Why can't politicians quit interfering in people's private lives, and let the doctors do their jobs as they're properly trained? Suddenly some bureaucrat in Washington knows more about me than my private physician. If a duly licensed physician feels that marijuana should be rightly prescribed to a critically ill patient, then, in my opinion, government has no right getting in the way.

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BroomeUnder

v No, never

I don't want to have to go to a doctor to get a proscription for a six pack or a bottle of wine and I sure as hell do not want doctors deciding whether or not I should be allowed to get a buzz in my own home.

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Apr '13

babysitter02

v Yes, definitely

Various strains of pot have been developed that help certain conditions without the side effects of manufactured drugs. Some types help pain, some help increase hunger, some help with sleep, and the list goes on. Why shouldn't a person with a chronic disease be able to gain relief without the side effects caused by many of the drugs manufactured by drug companies. If regulated and taxed there would be considerable help for the deficit. However, until our lawmakers stop taking the big payouts from the drug companies that will never happen.

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Apr '13

Aftermath

v Yes, definitely

If a Doctor feels it is warranted, the government should keep their hands off. I guarantee you the Doctor knows more about it than any elected person. See Doctors go to school, study hard. learn, and take tests to be Doctors. Elected people take no tests, and in many cases being elected simply means you had more half pints on a given day than the other guy. Being elected in no way offers any information into if the person has any sense at all, or just had a pile of daddy's money and nothing to do that day.

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Mar '13

IBelieve

v Yes, definitely

http://www.petition2congress.com/9641/kentucky-cannabis-hemp-health-initiative-2013-2014/?fb_action_ids=3043061931743&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

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Mar '13

julieford111

v Yes, definitely

med marijuana cures cancer

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Randolph61

v Yes, definitely

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Mar '13

Freewill

v Yes, definitely

Yes ok if your catholic then listen to this catholic monks use cannabis to be relaxed and meditate and be focused and close to God. I don't get how drinking is legal when all it has done is caused people to crash into a tree car house people etc. and die Cigaretes have chemicals in them they get the tobacco from the ground which is fine natural tobacco is fine nothing wrong with that but what they do with cigaretes is they get tobacco throw it in a factory and put harmful chemicals in the tobacco to get addicted and cause lung cancer, unlike weed you can only die from it if you smoke your body weight which is impossible weed comes from the ground you roll it up and s...

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PrintMediaGoon

v Only in a very few cases

At first relatively few patients should be allowed this treatment, and as the profession becomes accustomed to dealing with such a loaded topic we can change as necessary

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Mar '13

Decent-Dissent

v Yes, definitely

Only in severe cases of patriatism. If more republicans played hacky sack, we probably would send way less teenagers to war.

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Mar '13

DavidC85

v Yes, definitely

I don't think there are too many who would choose otherwise: If someone is terminally ill and in pain what the heck is wrong with them taking a few tokes and enjoying what could be their last days on Earth? Heck worse yet they will live a very long life of EXCRUCIATING AGONY then what the heck? Should they be tortured because of some misplaced and very hypocritical "morality" that was really funded by big cotton anyway?

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reddragon696

v Yes, definitely

Marijuana is probably one of the best Alternative Medications around today. The Governments own NIH just released a study showing that it inhibited both Estrogen - and Estrogen + Cancers and that it even inhibited certain types of Lung Cancer. It even helps in treating Nausea, Labour Pains, Wasting Disease, Chronic Pain and Insomnia to name a few. Marijuana has been utilized by Mankind for so long that there are even two receptor sites [the things that allow chemicals to enter the cells] that ONLY react to the active [THC] ingredient in Marijuana which means it has been used for several tens of thousands of years in order to alter the brain. This does not even cover ho...

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pboucher

v Yes, definitely

Weed should and needs to be decriminalized. Tobacco and alcohol are nuch more damaging both physically and socially.

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Decent-Dissent

I like very much the addition of "and socially"

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Mishma

v Yes, definitely

I have a number of terminal illnesses and continue to suffer debilitating headaches and neuropathic pain. Marijuana helps with my nausea and appetite and often helps with my peripheral polyneuropathy, not always but enough of the time. I does make me stupid though and most times I hate its psychotrophic effects. What unsets me is that we held up research with its class 4 scheduling and therefore compounds sans dopey are not available to me.

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PNWest

v Yes, definitely

If a doctor feels that it will help a patient he should be able to prescribe marijuana regardless of how severely ill the patient is.

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BelinKS

v Yes, definitely

It is fact that marijuana can reduce the amount of narcotic pain medication a severely ill person has to take. That allows the person to interact with friends and family they couldn't before because the narcotics drugged them up so badly. I've seen this personally with my 17 year old step-daughter who had cancer. She came home from the hospital because there was nothing else that could be done. The narcotics in her pain pump kept her so drugged she couldn't interact with friends and family like she wanted to before she died. We allowed her to use marijuana and her hospice nurse was able to drop the narcotics drastically! She had two weeks she was able to completely be ...

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mimi57

v Yes, definitely

Yes and Heroin and Morphine, if they are in pain and dying, whatever nakes them comfortable. There is no need to worry about addiction.

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Mr_GO_HERD

v Yes, definitely

Marijuana shouldn't be illegal in the first place.

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Mar '13

jessejaymes

v Yes, definitely

Well this is a no brainer isn't it? They can prescribe Morphine but not pot? On what planet does this make sense?

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JamesR

v No, never

It has zero medicinal value. It only alters your state of mind, nothing else.

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Meanie

v Yes, definitely

How does it differ from any other prescribed drug/medication? There are far more damaging drugs than marijuana if not taken properly. If a doctor believes it'll help, go for it.

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tomincali

v Only in a very few cases

only after proving nothing else works and there is a proven need. here in ca this has gotten out of hand,anyone wanting a medical marijuana card only has to pay for it,no real reason needed cash talks.

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UKviewpoint

v Yes, definitely

If the doctor believes it will help the patient they should be able to prescribe any drug but it needs to be carefully controlled to prevent abuse.

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Chromalord

v Yes, definitely

What wrong with prescribing an herb? Granted, even if pot were 100% legal for all uses, the American doctors still wouldn't prescribe it, no man-made chemicals in it. Western med is anti holistic.

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