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All these investors in the dope game in Mississippi, I know of no one that has recouped their investment yet. Everyone wanted to be the legal Pablo Escobar and thought they would make barrels of money off others misery. “A wise man is cautious and avoids danger” like investing in scams such as a plant you smoke, gets you high and call it medicine. Think I will continue to listen to my doctor and go to an FDA regulated pharmacy for my medicine. I’m silly like that.

Spot on! and these physicians who make their living off of writing scripts for this so-called "medicine" couldn't make a living as a real doctor. I wonder what their class rating was in medical school?

I've read that 80% of those who are 'writing scripts' (as you call it) are Nurse Practitioners, Podiatrists, Acupuncturists and chiropractors, not medical doctors. But, they're authorized, so it's beside the point, 9:05.

I'm not sure how you would or could know who or whether somebody 'recouped his investment', 8:31. If you peruse the huge OTC drug aisles at Kroger or any pharmacy, you see hundreds of products that derive from natural plants. Probably have some of them in your wife's medicine cabinet, if not your own.

Looking forward to all of the original comments we are about to see.

it was mind boggling how over hyped by the media and wall street the medical marijana industry was . when something like this takes place you can bet you're bong pipe that a jillion morons are going to come running with money.
now that the moneys all gone after blowing it in a high risk business , all the wanna be millionaires have moved back in with their mothers.

Gummies rule - no carcinogenic harm like smoking.

Cannabis was listed as a Schedule 1 drug by Richard Nixon as a way to arrest Viet Nam war protesters not because it represented any health danger. People still hear the old "War on Drugs" tape that was pushed by Nixon as a way to both punish people who were called for an end of the war and to divert the attention of main street Americans.

It is time to take a clear eyed look at cannabis. It was and still is a very useful medicine. Treating the side effects of chemotherapy, loss of appetite, nausea, difficulty sleeping and pain is just one of the many medical uses for cannabis.

@11:56 AM - Thanks for sharing your fake news. It was the Congress that wrote and passed the Controlled Substance Act (CSA) on May 1, 1971 that classified cannabis as a Schedule I drug. Put down your bong, sober up, and try again.

Come on MS, many other states have done this and from their trials and errors there were examples to do this correctly! I do not partake but damn! We “join” other states on suing XY&Z; let’s see how they are handling the Marijuana issue. And another thing….who are the approved growers, let’s see a list. Probably the good ole MS way….those politically connected to the (R) party that has controlled our state for years.

Cannabis was listed as a Schedule 1 drug by Richard Nixon as a way to arrest Viet Nam war protesters not because it represented any health danger.

Link?

Seems like just more examples of Un-United States manufactured chaotic insanity.

A person with chronic pain can’t get a Mississippi medical marijuana prescription without breaking federal law and therefore risking their second amendment rights

(unless your Hunter Biden…until Obama, Pelosi et all decided doe, doe Joe must go, then it was Ok to prosecute Hunter right before daddy Joe gets the “threat to Democracy” Democrat coup d’etat, and will now have to pardon Hunter before January 20, 2025).

Is it true MD’s aren’t really writing weed prescriptions since it’s against federal law, so they instead write something that states the patient has pain?

Seems like many of these “grower” businesses will need weed to be legal for recreational use in order to make a profit (how’s that monstrosity operation in Canton doing?).

Crawford, good issue but you should start with herring your facts correct (rather than repeating what you heard someone else wrote or say)

57% of the voters approved the I&R, not 69%

Continue on now.

But over the long term, no good has ever come from the use of weed despite all the rationalizations of its fanbois.

12:27 - Until you have a link to support the reason Congress voted to apply 'schedule 1', I'll go with the theory posted by 11:56.

Hell, in his angst to garner support for the war and his anti-weed sentiments, Nixon even pinned a badge on Elvis to fight the deadly weed.

Cannabis Act is a misspelling of Cannibals Act, which forbids people eating each other whist driving. Seriously, cannabis is a distracting, unhealthy mix of tobacco like tar and a high like alcohol. When inebriated on that drug, fools frequently add cocaine and other hard drugs . Just say no and you, as I have, will see these old high-school dopers die off early. 50+% of my old school friends are gone and they all used mj and coke.

I am fatigued with so called pain sufferers demanding mj. Just get an ER doc to prescribe hydrocodone w/ acetomenaphine (norco) and actually deal with pain instead of getting stoned. If the ER foc refuses, it's likely for a good reason, like he doesn't trust you.

So ole' Bill is lobbying against the federally legal hemp industry on behalf of the federally illegal medical MJ industry?

Out of 300 or so patients I have seen with a card, I thought 2 really had a qualifying condition. The rest just like pot and went to a hack and got a card. Here we are now in a brave new world.

More than likely, Toolshed, it's because he doesn't want to lose his license.

Are you not aware of the national and state crackdown on prescribing Oxy and Hydro? Now, a patient either has to be in recovery from surgery or on a fatal disease death-watch do get a prescription of ten tabs for either.

11:56 & 3:32, moving on to almost a quarter century more recent history than Nixon:

Was Democrat Bill Clinton not president when the 1994 Crime law was passed?

Did Democrat Joe Biden take credit for the 1994 crime law?

Legit question (pervious 2 rhetorical), did some receive very long prison sentences for dealing small amounts of marijuana due to the 1994 crime bill passed when Democrat Bill Clinton was president and Democrat Joe Biden was a US Senator since 1972?

Asking for a friend.

The whole system for certification is bogus. Clinics that certify almost always give out cards for something. Have migraines? you get a card for "chronic pain", get anxious? well you did watch a scary movie so now you have PTSD, why? because I said so. It's a totally fraudulent system that is recreational under the guise of medical. And who has certified a ton of patients? none other that Dr. Kinard, who just so happens to sit on the medical licensure board, assuring that no ill will ever befall him. Kinard was quoted saying to the spring MAFP conference that anxiety, depression, and insomnia should all be added to the qualifying conditions. That would pretty much make the whole state eligible. There is so much money tied up in the whole system that recreational is just around the corner. Hard to believe that a member of regulatory agency has multiple clinics and is one of the biggest certifiers in the state, seems like a conflict of interest.

@12:27
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

Well, Willie Nelson is 91!!

8:45, that"quote" is a lie. Its author, a self serving type out to sell books, later excluded it after Ehrlichman's family declared it false and defamatory. Ehlichman was a bitter, bitter man who railed about not being pardoned by Nixon after his resignation. A Machiavellian manipulator, convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice himself. But, cool story bruh.
In reality, Nixon not only spent MORE on treatment than on enforcement, but the Controlled Substances Act — the basis for so much of modern drug policy — actually reduced penalties on marijuana possession in 1970, when Nixon was in office.

Upon close, probing questioning, one finds the arguments of any advocate for medical marujuana or legalized drugs to be in the end nothing more than a reason to just get fucked up but stay legal.

@8:33am Dr. Konrad is obviously a quack and skipped the part in med school that marijuana is a psychotic drug and should never be used for anxiety and depression

Medical marijuana? It was always only the feint.

So the point of the article was talking about how the federally legal hemp industry is overlapping with the state-run medical marijuana industry. I wish the posters here were educated enough to make sensible comments on the subject matter at hand

6:35am:
You are wrong. I requested and received hydrocodone from an ER doc and later, from a Neuro doc for real pain: I experienced continuous 24-7 migraines for three months after a TIA, small stroke, and they were both happy to help me. My condition stopped and I no longer use pain meds.

Leave the hemp alone. hemp products are higher in CBD and lower in THC, the exact opposite of marijuana. People who do hemp are not the same crowds as marijuana folks. Marijuana industry wants it under one umbrella so they can make more money. Period

i have short term memory lose but what time is Refer Madness playing at the Capri Theater?

I'm not sure why anyone thinks Crack Cannabis is safe. It's absolutely terrifying. "Delta-8-THC association with psychosis: A case report with literature reviewhttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1103123/full - " Lower in THC? The last test the state did randomly on this "LOW THC CRACK CANNABIS" it hit a whopping 87% THC level - TRIPLE the legal state approved limits. Marijuana Folks want it BANNED! It's a health hazard: untested, unregulated, unsafe. You don't have to show an ID to purchase this Crack Cannabis either hence why nearly 15% of high school seniors in the South are reporting use! https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/delta-8-thc-use-reported-11-12th-graders-2023 - anyone opining that this Crack Cannabis is a good thing is in the "hemp" shop business or naive. This stuff needs to be outright banned. They are calling these things "Cannabis Dispensaries"! This is not Cannabis. and where does this "hemp" come from? CHINA! Over half of the hemp on earth is produced and distributed in China. Last time I checked they really care about your health. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

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