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From what I read in this post I dont think it was over money at all ie being able to rent the apt at a higher rate it was nothing more then sheer predjudice do to the majority of societies opinion on marijuana coming from old government studies which were all conducted in a completely biased standpoint. another example is I a 9-10 year chronic pain due to spinal cord injury patient , was treated with 120-200mg of oxycontin daily the higher amount being the does that i had to be raised to as tolerance took over anyways I got to the point where I couldnt stand the feeling that these doses gave me ie falling asleep ,becoming disoriented and loosing touch with what was happening around me my Dr suggest I begin varying between oxycontin and methadone . basically when i started build stronger and stronger tolerance to the oxy's I would return to methadone maintenance to counter the discomfort of opioid withdrawl as well as going thru a period of continually lowering my does over an extended period so that when i could no longer handle the pain I then returned to oxy's . Where the predjudice comes in is if you tell a DR ,Dentist ,Cop or even a aquaintence you need to take opioid based pain reliever due to chronic back pain they are alll sympathetic but tell them you Take methadone to help lower your tolerance avoid withdrawl discomfort and it works as well as a pain reliever but not very effective one, anyways soon as methadone is mentioned all anyone ever hears is your a junkie on meth not that your a pain patient who doesnt want to live life as a zombie who at times can become totaly out of touch with their reality . The same is true as even with all the studies and DR's who have come to realize the plants effectiveness with so many conditions all people will believe is what the government literature says like that one old movie that was around that said smoking marijuana makes people more efeminent, lowers our ability to cope with a situation rationally and that it leads to the use of heavier drugs like ****** and meth. But in the same breath they leave out that marijuana was one of mans first cultivated plants, it has 50000 non medicinal uses as well as its medicinal uses for numerous different medical conditions . But all people believe is what the government tells them no matter how many doctors say otherwise. Imho all the current government information distributed about marijuana is nothing more then the propagation of the original bans on marijuana that I read once were initially lobbied for by members of the pulp and paper industry as hemp can produce more paper per acre than you can make from an acre of trees do to the fact you can replant the area every year and harvest the same amount of raw material for production into paper this of course would have made the logging industry for paper a very obsolete method. Personally with todays fears about rain forest destruction and the consideration of hemps ability to not only be used to make paper but its oxygen production I seriously think it would never have been criminalized for comercial uses such as paper,textiles,sealents and fuels alone not to mention its other uses such as lubricants etc.