Medical Marijuana

President Obama said I remember when Buzzfeed was something I did at 2 am in my college days.

The president clearly was alluding to his former days of smoking pot.

He is the first US president to have admitted its usage (ie inhaling)—I have no doubt that he will be the first of many.

I have had the experience of watching friends and relatives suffer the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy. And only because it was not my place to do so did I not burst out and say Have you considered using a little weed for that?

Because marijuana has therapeutic and palliative properties.

And the first rule of the Hippocratic oath is do no harm.

I hardly believe that a little reefer could do a cancer patient any more harm than what is already legally prescribed.

More likely than not, becoming a stoner is the very least of their worries.

Relief should not come at the cost of violating the law.

And curiously the biggest backlash from the president’s remark did not come from conservative republicans—perhaps because marijuana is a cash cow that Republican big business would ultimately love to own. No. The backlash came from the extreme left—ultra liberals who resented the fact that the president’s quip did not lead to a stance for the decriminalization or the legalization of marijuana even for medicinal purposes. They resented the fact that there are individuals serving sentences right now in prisons all over this country for that which the president openly admitted to.

And I have to wonder if marijuana is the new “gay marriage”? I have to wonder whether the cracks in the cannibus laws in select states will ultimately lead to changes universally. Because I feel a shift on this one—the same as I felt on gay marriage years ago. And before heredity kicks in on my familial exfolliative glaucoma—I would like some increased options for treatment.