Victorian loophole for legal pot use

[hashwizard]

 When it comes to mj & the Drs, I'm afraid that cats out of the bag. My advantage is that I've shown a sensible attitude to pain relief [read morphine] & reduced down from a large dose of my own volition. It's only hindsight that shows that if I hadn't reduced I would've followed most who go before me, in my position, & be forced onto methadone.

I think the problem lies in the fact that to still have a patient hopelessly hooked on THEIR medicine, years after surgery/treatment shows a failure on their part. It's not a good look. Rather than accept some responsibility [who prescribed the medications?] it's easier to put the patient on methadone. I point blank refuse. The records then show a hopeless junkie, that the pain clinic 'rescued' with methadone, rather than a patient dealing with pain & complications due to prescription drug dependence.

It's fortunate that I can be quite assertive & will stand my ground when I know I'm right. Many patients just accept Dr's orders & do as their told.

 

As mj users, we have a choice. We can lie & pretend that we don't use pot, OR we can stand up & be counted. A psychologist friend hides his use because he fears derision & the judgement of his peers.  The mj community needs to have the broad spectrum of users revealed to show that pot use is just a reflection of society. . Professionals, blue collar, white collar, house wives, anyone & everyone could be an mj consumer at one time or the other. Until those in responsible positions speak up & share their experience with mj, then we will by seen by the general 'straight' society as just a bunch of rat-bag hippie drug abusers.

 

My family Dr recently died to liver cancer [R.I.P. Doc.]. He was a lovely man & a more than competent Dr. I asked him 6 months before his diagnosis, "Who looks after you Doc? You need a check-up, you don't look well." 3 months after this I told him to have his liver checked [he looked slightly jaundiced] I gave him a photo-copy of a Nexus mag article on the evils of margarine & denatured veg oils years before. When I asked what he thought of the article he said it gave "food for thought" [he loved a bad pun] but his entire family, who were all obese, would starve. Apparently deep-frying in denatured vegetable oil was the basis of the family diet. This man was a very good Dr , by todays standards, yet his lack of nutritional understanding is a good example of which you speak mrgoodcat.  He hadn't even turned 60. His diet is what killed him imo. Tragic really.

 

'Let food be thy medicine & medicine be thy food.' Hippocrates.