Holy Smoke

[Highway Man]

Nope.

Taken you all day to conjur up some lame ass excuse for you lying has it, righto billy.

 

[noseall]

Taken you all day to conjur up some lame ass excuse for you lying has it, righto billy.

I'm not the one lying boyo. It all seems to be coming form you troll boy. I've been out golfing all day. Did I miss something?

 

[Highway Man]

I'm not the one lying boyo. It all seems to be coming form you troll boy.

Righto Billy.

 

[noseall]

Some friends of ours have an elderly mother, that was suffering all kinds of old age ailments. One practitioner that examined her had a quite word with the daughter (friend of ours) and mentioned cannabis derivatives could help. They actually made a massive difference to hers and the people caring for her, quality of lives.

No mention of a GP here. Can anyone else see it?

 

[Highway Man]

No mention of a GP here. Can anyone else see it?

What evs billy

 

[noseall]

What evs billy

I await your apology.

 

[Odds]

No mention of a GP here. Can anyone else see it?

Was it from somewhere like this?

 

[morqthana]

Taken you all day to conjur up some lame ass excuse for you lying has it, righto billy.

For pity's sake - why are you like this?

He didn't say "GP" he said "practitioner".

Even if it had been his GP, do you know when this was? Medical CBD had a faltering start here (it may still have significant restrictions for all I know) and there definitely was a time when you could only get it for specific conditions in the UK, or you needed a special licence to import it. I can easily see how a (G) Practitioner could be sympathetic to the use of a CBD medicine here, be aware of all the evidence for it, and know that because our rules he couldn't refer to a specialist, and so had a "quiet word" about the patient or their family using an irregular way to source a medicine from abroad.

And note - "medicine".

Despite all these:

When Caio França, a center-left state lawmaker met Neide Martins, a mother who struggled to secure CBD to treat her son’s rare form of epilepsy, he realized families needed help, particularly those unable to afford medication. In 2019 França drafted the country’s first bill aiming to allow families to request medication through the public health care system. For three years, he worked to convince his overwhelmingly conservative counterparts, one by one, using testimonials from families who needed marijuana extract as the most effective alternative for their kids’ treatment.

“The political environment was uninformed and prejudiced against cannabis. It was surprising how little my fellow deputies knew about it,” França said.

Recreational marijuana is still prohibited in Brazil, but following years of deliberations, the Supreme Court in June decriminalized it for personal use, up to a maximum-allowed quantity. In response, Brazil’s conservative Congress started pushing for tougher drug legislation. Even if Congress tightens drug laws for recreational use, that shouldn’t affect access for patients, said Rodrigues, the lawyer. A 2023 poll by Datafolha concluded that opinions about medical cannabis transcend the nation’s deep political polarization.

Use of medicinal cannabis in Brazil is on the rise. In 2023 more than 430,000 Brazilians received cannabis treatment, up nearly 130% from the previous year, according to a survey by Kaya Mind, a business intelligence firm.

Some friends of ours have an elderly mother, that was suffering all kinds of old age ailments. One practitioner that examined her had a quite word with the daughter (friend of ours) and mentioned cannabis derivatives could help. They actually made a massive difference to hers and the people caring for her, quality of lives.

Incredible stuff when used as a targeted medicine. My friends say it has changed lives.

you still posted stuff like this:

So the Dr gave them his dealers Tel No did he?

along with their neighbors lives too with all of those unsavory characters arriving at their house at all hours.

I know all right, most wealthy people are not addicts they are the dealers. Is it the same Dr they use that treat Micheal Jackson?

Did he also mention crack is a good one too whilst he was quietly telling her about cannibis

Why?

Do you actually think it makes you look good?

 

[SPLINE]

The idea that cannabis has healing properties is nonsense; it is just a ruse to give the stuff respectability and trick governments into legalising it. If it were ever legalised, the "medicinal properties" would be immediately forgotten.

 

[Highway Man]

The idea that cannabis has healing properties is nonsense; it is just a ruse to give the stuff respectability and trick governments into legalising it. If it were ever legalised, the "medicinal properties" would be immediately forgotten.

Exactly

 

[morqthana]

The idea that cannabis has healing properties is nonsense; it is just a ruse to give the stuff respectability and trick governments into legalising it. If it were ever legalised, the "medicinal properties" would be immediately forgotten.

Exactly

And your medical and pharmacological expertise is what, exactly, and how evidenced?

 

[noseall]

The idea that cannabis has healing properties is nonsense

Healing? I don't recall anyone saying this, do you?

However, cannabis derivatives are widely known amongst the medical profession, to offer symptom relief, and have been for some time. My friends Ma is testament to that.

 

[JohnD]

The idea that cannabis has healing properties is nonsense; it is just a ruse to give the stuff respectability and trick governments into legalising it. If it were ever legalised, the "medicinal properties" would be immediately forgotten.

Heroin is used medically.

Have you found that has led to it being legalised for recreational use?

 

[SPLINE]

Heroin is used medically.

Have you found that has led to it being legalised for recreational use?

Yes.

 

[Odds]

I'd like to think we've come a long way from the days of Hippies on acid and being advised to "turn on, tune in and drop one". There's a monologue in the movie 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas' where Johnny D. speaks of "riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave".…in character as Hunter S. Thompson, the 'Gonzo' journalist who threw words at the page in an amphetamine rush of part inspiration, part desperation, as another deadline flew by unheeded -

- standing at the window of a hotel room he "looked out on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." A moment of clarity, perfect perspective, breaks through the chaos with piercing insight into the brief phenomenon inspired by Timothy Leary at the beginning of the Sixties.

By the time Thompson wrote that book, the Seventies had begun to hit home how the dream had faded into history, only to be revived at the end of the Eighties in the Rave culture with a very different perception of what it all meant to a new generation. The hedonistic craze of Britpop mutated into a manic sense of finding the spirit of the Sixties in a new world order of expressing that creative freedom and rebellion against an established hierarchy. That too was doomed to failure since every generation grows older, becoming subsumed in the everyday necessities of making a living until those far off days of freedom retain a golden age aura.

The Counter-culture these days is not so different, although the message is changed by the language deployed to create the necessary changes within society to make cannabis more acceptable. Treating cannabis with respect and using it safely are key changes in making the narcotic more widely available without forcing people to break an unworkable law. Like Prohibition in the Twenties, it is due for a change that enables people who use it to do so without fear of the drug gangs or law enforcement pushing them into an untenable situation.

Removing the psychoactive ingredient, THC, has kickstarted that change and brought the noble weed into a medically approved sphere of influence which does help people in ways long spoken of amongst a closed society that is only now feeling the ability to promote those changes effectively. Trump's decision can change many lives for the better, but doesn't mean the illegal trade will be stopped, only that a legal option will be opened up for more people to discover the healing properties of taking cannabis safely, in the security of their own homes, while research into the medicinal properties continues...