Would Puna Community support a Medical Cannabis Di

[Bob Orts]

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Originally posted by PaulW

Whether cannabis is good or bad is not the issue here. "Medical Marijuana" is a codeword for "let's create a loophole so people can thumb their nose at the law". If it really was only for people in need of pain-killing medication, I would be in favor. Is Hawaii intending to do it differently than California?

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There are three two groups of people at play in this issue.

You have the "legitimate medical" group. These are medical professionals, patients, law enforcement, politicians, and citizens who have recognized the legitimate medical benefits for legitimate medical purposes of cannabis. There is enough verifiable and authoritative research to support cannabis use in a pure medical setting.

The second group is the "posers". These are the people who are in it to smoke pot but hijack the medical train to reach their goal of smoking pot just to smoke pot. They are the ones who create these loopholes or exploit legitimate medical needs for strictly personal use.

The third is the group that simple wants marijuana legal and will just step into the fray with their agenda even if it means harming the legitimate medical use. The general philosophy is if they don’t acre about people who are suffering and can benefit with medical use, they want to get stoned and that’s all they care about.

In the real world of politics and law enforcement, even those who fully support legitimate medical marijuana, can't help but know the other two groups exist. Since the posers are so cleaver is exploiting medical marijuana laws, nobody wants to move forward or support any medical marijuana provisions unless they know for sure the "posers" will be shut out. Since that's very difficult, legitimate medical marijuana can't move forward.

The last group is simple viewed as legalizers so they can be ignored. But they come out in droves with their agenda, and muck up the works. It’s simpler for politicians and law enforcement to simply halt progress and not have to deal with the subject at all.

It is not the politicians, law enforcement, or the people who harm the legitimate advancement of medical marijuana; it's the posers and legalizers that do the most harm.