Seraphim
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I have noticed a very ugly thing going on in our cannabis community. Patients and patient advocates denouncing recreational users as a nuisance of some sort.
This saddens me very much. You know, before there was any medical marijuana laws, both patients and recreational users were on the same side of the issue. It was the recreational users who made it possible for the medically in need to access their medicine before MMJ laws came about. And we were friends in the same side of the fence. Now, the new medical marijuana laws and the promise of 'legal' access to cannabis have created a divide in the cannabis community between those who use it recreationally and those who use it for its medicinal properties. That is an unfortunate development.
I have read and heard patients and patient 'advocates' speaking in ways so demeaning towards recreational users that it makes me sad and angry at the same time.
Sure, you are sic and you need medicine; and you should have it, period. I will ever argue against that. But would you mind turning down the anti-recreational user rhetoric? Please? The attitude of some patients is that legal cannabis is their right and theirs alone and screw the recreational smokers.
Well, let me tell you something, if it were not for the market demand posed by the recreational users over the years, cannabis would not be as good and as medicinally effective as it is today. Instead of consuming 18% to 20%+ THC levels (which are here thanks to recreational users) you would be stuck with 3% THC shwagg, if it were not for those who risked their lives to better and better this wonderful plant.
Imagine for a moment if on patriots day, someone were to start saying that our freedoms are our right and we owe nothing to those who gave their lives in battle for us to have these freedoms. Pretty distasteful don't you think?
Well, patients owe the high quality of their medicine to recreational users because without them, cannabis would not have reached the level of quality it now holds. Many of those recreational users and growers have had their lives snuffed out by the oppressive laws and the system behind those laws. It is shameful to witness the demeanor of some medical users now acting like legal cannabis is theirs alone and they are the only ones who should have any access/rights over it.
We are all in this together people.
This saddens me very much. You know, before there was any medical marijuana laws, both patients and recreational users were on the same side of the issue. It was the recreational users who made it possible for the medically in need to access their medicine before MMJ laws came about. And we were friends in the same side of the fence. Now, the new medical marijuana laws and the promise of 'legal' access to cannabis have created a divide in the cannabis community between those who use it recreationally and those who use it for its medicinal properties. That is an unfortunate development.
I have read and heard patients and patient 'advocates' speaking in ways so demeaning towards recreational users that it makes me sad and angry at the same time.
Sure, you are sic and you need medicine; and you should have it, period. I will ever argue against that. But would you mind turning down the anti-recreational user rhetoric? Please? The attitude of some patients is that legal cannabis is their right and theirs alone and screw the recreational smokers.
Well, let me tell you something, if it were not for the market demand posed by the recreational users over the years, cannabis would not be as good and as medicinally effective as it is today. Instead of consuming 18% to 20%+ THC levels (which are here thanks to recreational users) you would be stuck with 3% THC shwagg, if it were not for those who risked their lives to better and better this wonderful plant.
Imagine for a moment if on patriots day, someone were to start saying that our freedoms are our right and we owe nothing to those who gave their lives in battle for us to have these freedoms. Pretty distasteful don't you think?
Well, patients owe the high quality of their medicine to recreational users because without them, cannabis would not have reached the level of quality it now holds. Many of those recreational users and growers have had their lives snuffed out by the oppressive laws and the system behind those laws. It is shameful to witness the demeanor of some medical users now acting like legal cannabis is theirs alone and they are the only ones who should have any access/rights over it.
We are all in this together people.
) anyway.. I think honestly I would make the wost pot dealer in history. I love giving shit away. Not to mention when it comes right down to it, I can't see myself ever even charging anything to a legit patient for meds. 
It was hard not to get offended by what you said. I'm a MM user and while I understand your frustration, I am no less frustrated because I hold a State MM card. I don't feel any more secure growing or possessing because of a State law. Its still a Federal issue. Why the passing of this law means so much to me is that it shows more and more people are listening and learning(cannabis awareness) and realizing that prohibition is wrong. We need to continue spreading cannabis awareness to hopefully get every State to pass the MM law to hopefully put pressure on our Federal government. Just maybe, we will live to see the abolishment of prohibition.
