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Originally Posted by AK Infinity
Even with this and many more negative stories like it, still do smokers refuse to wake up to the impact of their actions, still do they refuse to see what any fool can plainly see with their own eyes. Maybe the day will come when we will closely examine ourselves as a community and have the courage to address our conclusions. Make no mistake about it, simply because someone blazes doesn't mean that they are interested in the greater good.
Anyway...
Stay green.
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I think I was the only blade who posted in your thread about this AK.
http://forum.grasscity.com/legalizat...pot-shops.html
What I said before really applies still so I think it's appropriate to quote what I said in the previous thread. This is a serious issue that the medical community and the general MJ community need to take action on.
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Originally Posted by CaliCoast
Like you said, 60 Mins. spent minimal time on the benefits of medical MJ and highlighted its abuses. Of course they highlight the dispensary owner who is also a hip hop artist. That moron made a flamboyant video that depicted his legit dispensary and then in the same video shows a street side to things. He made himself a target in my opinion. But I still don't think that you should spend 20 years to life in federal prison for being stupid.
That guy brings the Medical MJ movement down as well as those people joking in the lobby of the docs office about what "excuse" they had for the doctor. When I went to a clinic in Santa Cruz there was none of that. The doctor I saw was very legit and straight up. I got the feeling that if I didn't have a severe condition, she wouldn't have recommended Medical MJ.
You are right when you state that the actions of the users of this wonderful plant have implications that we might not think about all the time. As a Medical MJ patient I believe that we as a whole (unfortunately) are being portrayed as casual stoners who want to get high legally. It seems that 60 Mins. thinks that only AIDS and cancer patients benefit from MJ as if they are the "real" users and the "real" pioneers of Prop. 215. But like that minister who helped pioneer Prop. 215, who was he to say what illnesses benefit from Medical MJ. They were not doctors or scientists, they were patients in need. Currently there are doctors and scientists who are continuing to find the MJ has benefits for a host of conditions. What is wrong with a patients right to relief?
What was really unfortunate was how 60 Mins. showed hidden camera footage of CBS employees acting like potential patients, like there is an underground ring of doctors that prescribe illegal drugs and 60 Mins. has penetrated this underground ring with the help of their trusty hidden cam. Like the doctor said, he can only take a potential patients statement as true. As beneficiaries of this wonderful plant, we need to always remind ourselves that we are being watched by our communities and our government so we need to act smart. Nice find.
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