When you smoke pot, you get loaded. You fry your brain. That's why the patients I see in my practice, call it "getting baked." Pot is all about getting really high. Marijuana supporters like to argue that marijuana is similar to alcohol. While alcohol is legal, it also accounts for tens of thousands of deaths every year . But we can't turn the clock back on that problem, that unhappily is too embedded in our society. Nevertheless my concern today is that my children are exposed to one more hazard just because of legalization
Supporters of marijuana say it should be legalized because patients who have ailments like cancer need it. It is painful to watch people suffer. I am not against helping people. In a perfect world, a woman suffering from cancer should be able to get a prescription from her doctor, acquire her medical marijuana, and inhibit the pain of chemotherapy. But we don't live in a perfect world, and you don't need a Ph.D. to see that the spirit of that argument is being exploited by people who aren't using the marijuana for medical reasons at all; they are using it to get