With all that is going on in california, and nation wide, there has been alot of research on medical marijuana, it is prolonging lives and giving better quality for many with deaseases, eye problems, MS, ALS, ADD, ADHD, aids, cancer, depression, anxiety, aids, chronic pain, fibro etc, with less side effects of FDA approved prescriptions.
How would you feel about allowing medical marijuana in the state of WV as an alternative to oxecotton, morphine etc, especially for long term use for patients.

Pot is the least of WV worries, it's all the Prescrip. Pills that's killing WV people.

According to what I have read, many patients are interested in using the less harmfull medical marijuana because it would reduce and/or eliminate the need for the prescriptions that they are taking, though pharm companies and any Politicians that are shareholders wouldn't like that, the patients and the families would like it better, because medical marijuana is safer.
That alone would reduce the prescriptions out and about, and would reduce to eleminate the deaths of the patients that have bad reactions to them.

Leagalize it, quit arresting people for it and then use the money that was used to incarcerate, to treat people to get them off of it instead of locking them up and making tax payers pay for it. Treatment is cheaper and more effective.

mmm theres a guy up right fork trace creek mingo co, keeps pounds of it in his safe sells smokes everone nos it even police

It is ridiculous to spend one tax dollar anywhere in the USA for enforcement of absurd marijuana laws when the country is soaked in meth and crack and heroin which are destroying communities and killing people.

Those are the "drugs" we should be worried about.

I would rather be in a car with someone who just smoke a joint than with someone who just drank a half-pint. If they ever legalized marijuana the goverment would loose to much money. State agencies use confiscated drugs to make drug bust. They smoke it, snort it, push it as much as anyone. The American infrastructure has gone to hell in hand basket. Damned if you, damned if you don't. Let'a light one up in the privacy of our own homes and hope that WAR, FAMINE, GENECIDE, GLOBAL WARMING, CHILD ABUSE, AND PEOPLE ABUSE IN GENERAL, can be addressed and fixed in our lifetime. I know, that is just asking to much. Especially from such a confused goverment. My wish, a total goverment reform. Legalize marijuana, what have you got to loose, Money? Well the goverment need no help there, they do a fine job in that department already.

way to go, pennydarlene! couldnt say it better myself! first i DO NOT smoke pot. i do think it should be legal, its a bunch of crap about pot being a crossover drug,i was never tempted to try hard drugs. thats what they used to say when i did smoke it, i'm a born again christian and as such do not smoke it now.i think if it was legal then the goverment would lose thier kickback! i have a son that has severe medical problems and the meds for it makes him almost sicker than he was.so he has to sneak around like a crimnal to buy pot because he cant afford to move to where its medically legal.make it legal and use the money for national health plan for all people, God bless all.

$37 Billion dollars.
That's how much of an economic impact it would have if we stopped arresting people for marijuana, taxed it, and regulated it.
How many schools could we build? How many pell grants could we award? How many people could we provide health insurance for?
Not only that, it would give farmers in our region another crop: one that doesn't remove all the nutrients from soil.

that will crash the market & no one will wont it
lets face it if thay wont it thay will get it !!!

I think that it should be legal up to certain standards. I dont think that we should be carrying around 10 pounds of pot all the time or bringing it into schools and so forth. Marijuana is a MEDICINE, just as tylenol or advil, but if you take 13 of them mothers, I guarantee it'll be your LAST headache. All I'm sayin is we as a state need to realize that if we work together and put strict limitations on the amounts one would be allowed to have in possesion than those who are toting around guns for their protection needs to realize that is YOUR protection not for your POT. You have one chance in life to make it right. You have many chances in life to get more marijuana. Why be taking lives for this? Why put it flooding our schools? We need the education its offering to have a productive life to make the money to make it. Well isnt that why your out there selling it in the fist place? So that you can make the money to put a roof over your and your familys heads. So you can provide the best life possible for yourselves right.? Plus the state could tax it. And yet its you who is mad and asking the questions Well "When is pot gonna be legal?" "How much can I haul in my car with me?" And all the while its you who is hindering the progression and forwardization of the legalization of MEDICAL MARIJUANA. If you would stop the guns the shooting the 50 pounds of weed having a shootout with someone over the turf. The people breaking in your shit and robbing you! This is ALL making it harder for those who TRULY need this medicine. Maybe if we in this state came forward and made laws that were no bull. Like ok pot is legal but those who are caught and dont have a prescription card will face penalties. But not to fill our jail systmes up with such PETY OFFENSES. You want to be the one selling in the illegal manner than you are gonna be hit where it hurts. If your caught with a pound your gonna be paying a hefty fine. Forget jail start taking your money your making. Im talking 5 thousand dollar fines and more. We need to stand up people so that we are able to smoke in peace. To not be penalized for our own medicine. Natures natural medicine.

i would rather take marijuana for most things there has never been a case of overdose on pot but prescription pills are another thing i suffer from severe depression and insomnia and instead of pills i find that pot actually helps me but yet you cant get a good job with pot in your system and i haven't heard anything about prescription cards in w.v. does anyone know anything any info would be greatly appreciate it i started smoking pot just recreationaly before i found that while smoking i am calmer worry less and don't feel suicidal so for me its certainly helped but that wont matter to authorities unless i have a card and supposedly you can still obtain one here.

if anyone has any info please email me cdvamp13@yahoo.com

Marijuana is a yearly renewable resource, it can be used to make: Paper, Clothes, rope, and even building materials. Medically there are even more advantages than I can quote here, or of my knowledge. Hell, it's even proven as a reliable weight loss drug.. and it's non-physically addictive.

I believe, for the most part, marijuana was given a bad name by alcohol and tobacco lobbyist in the early 1900's to squash any competition. It's now such a bad rap, no elected official will even take a close look at the potential good there is in the plant.

I believe, at least a true reevaluation of the plant should be done. I mean, drug companies pump out drugs by the tons that kill us, are addictive and cause serious physical side effects that are traumatic to our bodies that give rise to... you guessed it, more prescription medication to combat said side effects..
At least, the very least for medical benefits...

i thinkz we should smoke it all up

In my opinion I feel that marijuana should be legal because there are medications it could substitute for, like nerve medication. There are so many serious effects from nerve medication not to mention other medications. I was on nerve medication and the medicine just didn't make me feel right. I still fight depression and stress and will not take the medicine because it makes me feel so strange. I'm not saying marijuana heals everything but it would sure help those who could use it for good cause w/ out getting the side effects that the medicine will give you.

pennydarlene wrote:

I would rather be in a car with someone who just [B]smoked[/B] a joint than with someone who just drank a half-pint. If they ever legalized marijuana the goverment would loose [B]too[/B] much money. State agencies use confiscated drugs to make drug [B]busts[/B]. They smoke it, snort it, push it as much as anyone. The American infrastructure has gone to hell in hand basket. Damned if you [B]do[/B], damned if you don't. Let'a light one up in the privacy of our own homes and hope that WAR, FAMINE,[B]GENOCIDE[/B], GLOBAL WARMING, CHILD ABUSE, AND PEOPLE ABUSE IN GENERAL, can be addressed and fixed in our lifetime. I know, that is just asking [B]to[/B] much[B],[/B][B]especially[/B] from such a confused goverment. My wish[B]:[/B] a total goverment reform. Legalize marijuana, what have you got to loose,[B]money[/B]? Well the goverment [B]needs[/B] no help there, they do a fine job in that department already.

I really don't have a legitimate concern about this particular post, so I just went through and corrected about 37 spelling errors. I don't want to even get started on the grammar. You see America? This is what smoking pot will do to you - it makes you slap-assed retarded.

D F F wrote:

$37 Billion dollars.
That's how much of an economic impact it would have if we stopped arresting people for marijuana, taxed it, and regulated it.
How many schools could we build? How many pell grants could we award? How many people could we provide health insurance for?
Not only that, it would give farmers in our region another crop: one that doesn't remove all the nutrients from soil.

It would also provide a world record sized bag of Cheetos for every registered user of medicinial marijuana. Look, it does alter your abilities to function, it does have effects on your appetite, it IS a drug, it DOES effect you. That being said, so long as it was regulated,...HARSHLY, then I agree, leagalize it for that purpose. But to the moron upstairs their who said she would rather be in a car with someone who was high instead of drunk? I wouldn't not be in that car period...Not to mention the fact that once marijuana gains more ground on the legal aspect, the more you will hear people expose their ignorance with gems like: "Well shoot, son...Doctor's give it to people, why the hell can't I smoke it?" and the reply to that will be: "Because, Sir. Your driving 15 mph down the middle of Rt. 10 with a child in the passenger seat, unbuckled."

As for me? Keep it illegal to the point of absolute need. And start working to put a damper on alcohol as well. Not ban it, but at least double the current penalties for DUI's, DWI's, etc...and actually enforce them.
1st DUI - License lost for 5 years.
2nd DUI - License lost for life.
3rd DUI - Felony offense with mandatory charges of attempted manslaughter and 1st degree stupidity.

Remember people, before you start singing your praises about anything that alters things like, reflexes, vision or mental accutness -(See Pennydarlene's witty insight above), their are kids in car-seats, and people trying to get to or from work, and just people in general, out on the roads everyday, and you're risking their lives too, not just yours.

I'm just afraid legalizing medical marijuana will just increase it's "popularity".

I also think that marijuana should be legalized and I agree with Reality Check-to an extent. Marijuana does alter your state of mind, but so does a lot of other prescription and OTC medications. The same rules should apply to marijuana that applies to being under the influence of alcohol, certain prescription meds. and OTC meds-if you use them then DO NOT DRIVE while you are under their influence. However, we all know that there would be those that do it and drive anyway, but we haven't made alcohol illegal because of the idiots that do drink and drive. All I am trying to say is that no matter what it is, if you can get high on it, then there will be opportunists that abuse it. That is why we have so many prescription drug addicts. I know of many people that have ruined their lives and the lives of others because of prescription pill abuse. Yet, I have never met anyone that has suffered the same from using marijuana. I agree with many of the posters on here that pills are the problem, not pot! We also need to focus on the dealer's and suppliers because without them there isn't anywhere for them to illegally buy the pills.

Pot is probably one of WV's biggest cash crops and it grows naturally all over the state. If legalized and regulated a bit ganja could increase our state economy and i'm sure more people would move here to avoid the discrimination that exists all over the U.S. (sans Alaska). I know i'd be a lot happier to stay in WV if it was legalized and a lot happier to see those 'hard drug' users and violent offenders in jail rather than some unlucky stoners...

Zeak wrote:

Pot is probably one of WV's biggest cash crops and it grows naturally all over the state. If legalized and regulated a bit ganja could increase our state economy and i'm sure more people would move here to avoid the discrimination that exists all over the U.S.(sans Alaska). I know i'd be a lot happier to stay in WV if it was legalized and a lot happier to see those 'hard drug' users and violent offenders in jail rather than some unlucky

stoners...

Problem is those "Happy Stoners" as you put don't stay stoners they become pillhead thiefs also and they don't just do it in the privacy of thier homes they deal on the street and smoke it any where they can they dont' care if nieghbor hood kids can smell it or if they see them dealing it. I know several piece of crap druggies who use an deal even though they have kids in the house. They are far from just happy stoners, sure the pills are worse but pot is just a stepping stone to the pills. Should put all druggies and dealers in jail and through away the key THEN we would have a HAPPY place for decent people to raise thier children.