I live with chronic back pain. Surgery, shots, and therapy have not helped. My pain medicine is close to fifteen hundred dollars a month. It is a shame that me and my wife are held hostage by the drug companies. she is unable to retire because of the financial burden that the doughnut hole would put on us. The side affects of the morphine are hard to live with but the pain is unbearable without it. It is a shame that there is a plant that I could grow on my farm which my wife and I worked very hard to pay for could possibly give me the same relief as the unsafe drugs do but some politician sitting behind a desk thinks that they know what is best for me. I am 64 years old and worked my whole life until I became disabled. It is a shame that because I live in a RED state there is a chance that we could have to sell our farm to afford my pain meds. please consider people like me that are suffering when you make up your minds on this issue.
Mic - 6 years ago
Buttpymples maybe stop taking such a shortcut to thinking. Your coming from a positiion of hate, and ASSumptions.
Vickey - 6 years ago
I would ask, and even beg the politicians to approve Medical Marijuana in TN. My Neurologist in Mayo Clinic, said if TN had medical marijuana he would prescribe it for me because my body fights against the medicines that would help my chronic constant PAIN from my Aggressive Peripheral Neuropathy. It is inside my body now in my throat, and from my toes to the top of my shoulders down to tip of my fingers. PAIN so bad no one can understand unless you to suffer from it. PLEASE Approve it, only hope I have of being pain free. I forgot what that feels like.
Rainbow Sherbet - 6 years ago
Fuck Dr. Naftel of Vanderbilt's childrens hospital as he subjected me to a week of brain tissue contact EEG testing to find a tumor. Fuck Dr. Ess for "recommending" I go off my meds to study the seizures. Fuck the feeling of two brains in my head that made me crave morphine every minute of every waking day. Fuck the nurse that decided to give me hydrocodone instead of more morphine causing me to hallucinate thinking I was going to hell the day coming out of the brain tumor removal. Fuck the United States government that won't let a fucking epileptic smoke a joint or eat some cbd brownies. Fuck the Tennessee state supreme Court, legislative, AND executive branch, yeah that's right I'm calling you out Medical-Bill-Husslin Haslam. I ain't leaving Colorado till I can buy an ounce of grass in Clarksville TN for less than 100$ so suck one with your illusion of prosperity for those who work for war. And fuck the police that says I can't grow a fucking plant.
RT - 6 years ago
CHANNEL 2 NEWS TONIGHT-Marijuana wax 10-20 times more potent than typical marijuana. Investigator Sexton stated that this wax (***much more potent than typical marijuana***) is NOT as dangerous as opioids or fentanyl (don't know if that is spelled correctly since I never "Gatewayed" into pills, needles or anything else after smoking marijuana). If this type of marijuana, of which I've never heard of, is NOT as dangerous as those 2 drugs that are obviously a major problem & I assume are prescribed, why is legalizing the normal less potent than wax types of marijuana such a big debate?????????
Mat - 6 years ago
Linda, if you're against DUI's, I have wonderful news. In states that legalize medical marijuana, traffic deaths *fell*.
Well I think Alcohol is just as bad as the drugs because so many people is killed by drinking and driving every year. Being high by Alcohol or Drugs is all the same. It all kills the user and others that are innocent sooner or later in one way or the other and the government gets money off all of it through taxes. I think if a person gets caught driving drunk or high they should GO TO PRISON (NOT JUST JAIL) for at least year on the first offence that may help stupid people learn to stop doing stupid stuff. If they want to kill themselves go ahead but don't kill others in the process.
I am against both Alcohol and Drugs.
Lara Hensley - 6 years ago
I agree whole heartedly with medical marijuana. Not only medical but making it legal entirely. I personally don't smoke but I sure did 6 years ago when I got into a 4 wheeler accident and snapped my arm in half. I had all the prescribed pills. I was popping them like candy and they did absolutely nothing!! I was in tears because of the pain. So? Out of desperation, I got in touch with my friend and smoked. Pain was immediately GONE! I wasn't messed up and useless unlike the stupid prescribed pills. I was pain free and able to move about. Plus!!!!! I wasn't addicted! About a week later I had healed up enough to not feel pain. Kept up eating healthy unlike the stupid pills where you just don't want to eat. Miserable and still in horrible pain. 2 weeks? I felt great!! No need for the marijuana anymore. Haven't touched it since. It saved me. ITS NOT ADDICTIVE PEOPLE!! THOSE POISON PILLS ARE!!! And stop bitching about the drug war and marijuana users. There is FAR worse out there driving around drunk and taking prescribed medications, taking care of our kids, running factories etc. You'll never know who it is. I choose legalization of the lesser so called evil. I'm 49 years old. Been there and done it ALL! I know a lot of pot smokers and these people are cool and calm and like to just sit at home, smoke a little to relax or take away the days pains and then go to bed only to be ready and perky for the next days work. Unlike pill poppers who are hammered all the friggin time. Like I said. I don't do it but I agree wholeheartedly for legalization. Wanna tax the HELL out of the sales? Sure! But the government won't spend those proceeds to help the addicted on pain pills. Be real. Then folks will continue to go underground. The regulations will be ridiculous and the idea will fail. Just friggin legalize it!!
Shelley - 6 years ago
For those of us who surgery and all medication has not helped, and we live in chronic severe pain. This may be something that will give us some relief and quality of life. I am not a drug addict , just someone looking for some relief and may be I can keep my kidneys and liver a while longer. If you don't live in this kind of pain please don't judge not everyone is a drug addict.
Flyeaglesfly - 6 years ago
I live in SE pennsylvania, and Buttpymples and his ilk are out there in force here too just like the south. They're typically drunks 65+ men who think alcohol is wunderbar since their grand old government says so and cannabis is bad because that amazing Jeffrey Beauregard, who are the same age they are, says things like "good people don't smoke marijuana". In fact, its drunken old men like buttpymples who make america a hateful place.
Go smoke another cigarette, grandpa... And oh yeah, GO EAGLES
Jason - 6 years ago
The unfortunate part about opponents discouraging others from using marijuana is their need to control other people. Whether it’s for recreational or medical, there is no authority given you to determine what someone else does with their life. At some point your going to have let go, because if you don’t, your going to find yourself living a very miserable and uncompromising life when the world around you changes.
Mat - 6 years ago
Ever notice that no one has seen Buttpymples and Diane Black in the same room at the same time...
My brother has brain cancer. Medical marijuana + radiation has been shown to shrink brain tumors to 1/9th the size of radiation alone. That is a Very Big Deal. It is *vastly* more effective at killing cancer cells than almost anything else.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25398831
My brother wants medical marijuana *so he can continue killing cancer cells and live*. Not to get high.
And as I actually *am* a scientist, may I suggest the skeptics in the audience to go read some papers. How about for cancer:
That took about 30 seconds. You can literally find hundreds of peer-reviewed papers showing that medical marijuana helps a wide number of ailments.
It's strange that our legislators still think that there's no "accepted medical use" for marijuana, despite an entire deciduous forest worth of papers showing that there *is*. It's almost like our politicians are ignoring science simply because science isn't telling them what they *want* to hear.
Buttpymples - 6 years ago
@Chuck: As always, you are free to leave and join your nuanced and highly-educated friends in Washington, NYC, or wherever maggots assemble.
@the rest of you potheads: I would respect you if you were simply intellectually honest and admit that this is an issue of intoxication, not medical care. You want to get high, period. The collateral damage from legalized pot is overwhelming—already. Get ready for an even more-addicted US, you have earned it.
And, as always, love puddles.
Hubert - 6 years ago
@James Woulfe
I don't know. He made a pretty convincing argument that if marijuana is legalized, our country will have even more drug addicted people than it does now, despite the evidence that marijuana is much less addictive than its opioid alternatives. And he opened my eyes to the fact that Rome fell thanks to its citizens being addicted, and not because all of the other historically noted reasons. We should all be so thankful as to recognize the beacon of light that is Buttpymples.
James Woulfe - 6 years ago
Don't listen to a guy who's not only too scared to put his real name on a comment about actual state legislation, never mind one who chooses Buttpymples. Also don't expect Mr. Buttpymples to recognize or investigate peer-reviewed articles or journalism on current trends, especially when they contradict his pre-determined mindset.
Citizens of the state of TN should make the legalization of medicinal and recreational marijuana a dealbreaker-type issue for politicians in upcoming elections. Our state is behind the curve in progressive movements and economic innovations. It is the citizens whom rule this state, not private interests, so make sure you all vote accordingly.
Chuck - 6 years ago
The fact that Tennessee hasn't already made medicinal and recreational weed legal like 19 other states and the District of Columbia already have shows once again just how backwards and ignorant this state is, along with most other Southern states. This is partly why l have to apologize for being from here almost anywhere l go.
Buttpymples - 6 years ago
@Hubert: forgive me for thinking that a society not riddled with drug addiction functions a little better. You are right—Rome did quite well when it caved to addiction and depravity.
I am now enlightened.
Hubert - 6 years ago
Yes, some will exaggerate a need or just fake it altogether to get marijuana prescribed. But... so what? People should just be able to smoke it legally anyway. The only scam is the fact that it's still illegal.
Then consider that some people are legitimately helped by pot to treat a medical condition. It's the best - or only, in some cases - thing that works for some to adequately manage their pain or anxiety.
Sounds like Buttpymples has been scarred for life from a Reefer Madness film.
Buttpymples - 6 years ago
@Mat: Glad you joined the Big Pharma conspiracy theory. Meeting at Area 51 tonight—bring your bong.
There are so few who benefit from pot, yet hundreds of thousands of medical cards issued in California....for any condition whatsoever. It IS about getting high.
Mat - 6 years ago
Buttpymples is an idiot. People take medical marijuana *to treat a medical condition*. My brother has brain cancer. Medical marijuana + radiation shrink tumors to 1/9th the size of radiation alone. It kill cancer cells. That is a Big Deal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25398831
The results of using marijuana for brain cancer patients is so substantial that a commercial company is working on a synthetic version:
Which begs the question: Why is it illegal for Tennesseans with brain cancer to plant a $10 seed to try to save their own life, but it's perfectly legal for them to spend thousands of dollars on synthetic marijuana pills? Hint: Because Big Pharma (and the politicians they support) get a cut off the latter.
Buttpymples - 6 years ago
If potheads were honest, this has nothing to do with medical treatment, and everything to do with getting high. Just look at all the folks in California who had "medical marijuana" cards. Giant scam to get high.
I live with chronic back pain. Surgery, shots, and therapy have not helped. My pain medicine is close to fifteen hundred dollars a month. It is a shame that me and my wife are held hostage by the drug companies. she is unable to retire because of the financial burden that the doughnut hole would put on us. The side affects of the morphine are hard to live with but the pain is unbearable without it. It is a shame that there is a plant that I could grow on my farm which my wife and I worked very hard to pay for could possibly give me the same relief as the unsafe drugs do but some politician sitting behind a desk thinks that they know what is best for me. I am 64 years old and worked my whole life until I became disabled. It is a shame that because I live in a RED state there is a chance that we could have to sell our farm to afford my pain meds. please consider people like me that are suffering when you make up your minds on this issue.
Buttpymples maybe stop taking such a shortcut to thinking. Your coming from a positiion of hate, and ASSumptions.
I would ask, and even beg the politicians to approve Medical Marijuana in TN. My Neurologist in Mayo Clinic, said if TN had medical marijuana he would prescribe it for me because my body fights against the medicines that would help my chronic constant PAIN from my Aggressive Peripheral Neuropathy. It is inside my body now in my throat, and from my toes to the top of my shoulders down to tip of my fingers. PAIN so bad no one can understand unless you to suffer from it. PLEASE Approve it, only hope I have of being pain free. I forgot what that feels like.
Fuck Dr. Naftel of Vanderbilt's childrens hospital as he subjected me to a week of brain tissue contact EEG testing to find a tumor. Fuck Dr. Ess for "recommending" I go off my meds to study the seizures. Fuck the feeling of two brains in my head that made me crave morphine every minute of every waking day. Fuck the nurse that decided to give me hydrocodone instead of more morphine causing me to hallucinate thinking I was going to hell the day coming out of the brain tumor removal. Fuck the United States government that won't let a fucking epileptic smoke a joint or eat some cbd brownies. Fuck the Tennessee state supreme Court, legislative, AND executive branch, yeah that's right I'm calling you out Medical-Bill-Husslin Haslam. I ain't leaving Colorado till I can buy an ounce of grass in Clarksville TN for less than 100$ so suck one with your illusion of prosperity for those who work for war. And fuck the police that says I can't grow a fucking plant.
CHANNEL 2 NEWS TONIGHT-Marijuana wax 10-20 times more potent than typical marijuana. Investigator Sexton stated that this wax (***much more potent than typical marijuana***) is NOT as dangerous as opioids or fentanyl (don't know if that is spelled correctly since I never "Gatewayed" into pills, needles or anything else after smoking marijuana). If this type of marijuana, of which I've never heard of, is NOT as dangerous as those 2 drugs that are obviously a major problem & I assume are prescribed, why is legalizing the normal less potent than wax types of marijuana such a big debate?????????
Linda, if you're against DUI's, I have wonderful news. In states that legalize medical marijuana, traffic deaths *fell*.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/12/29/after-states-legalized-medical-marijuana-traffic-deaths-fell.html
Well I think Alcohol is just as bad as the drugs because so many people is killed by drinking and driving every year. Being high by Alcohol or Drugs is all the same. It all kills the user and others that are innocent sooner or later in one way or the other and the government gets money off all of it through taxes. I think if a person gets caught driving drunk or high they should GO TO PRISON (NOT JUST JAIL) for at least year on the first offence that may help stupid people learn to stop doing stupid stuff. If they want to kill themselves go ahead but don't kill others in the process.
I am against both Alcohol and Drugs.
I agree whole heartedly with medical marijuana. Not only medical but making it legal entirely. I personally don't smoke but I sure did 6 years ago when I got into a 4 wheeler accident and snapped my arm in half. I had all the prescribed pills. I was popping them like candy and they did absolutely nothing!! I was in tears because of the pain. So? Out of desperation, I got in touch with my friend and smoked. Pain was immediately GONE! I wasn't messed up and useless unlike the stupid prescribed pills. I was pain free and able to move about. Plus!!!!! I wasn't addicted! About a week later I had healed up enough to not feel pain. Kept up eating healthy unlike the stupid pills where you just don't want to eat. Miserable and still in horrible pain. 2 weeks? I felt great!! No need for the marijuana anymore. Haven't touched it since. It saved me. ITS NOT ADDICTIVE PEOPLE!! THOSE POISON PILLS ARE!!! And stop bitching about the drug war and marijuana users. There is FAR worse out there driving around drunk and taking prescribed medications, taking care of our kids, running factories etc. You'll never know who it is. I choose legalization of the lesser so called evil. I'm 49 years old. Been there and done it ALL! I know a lot of pot smokers and these people are cool and calm and like to just sit at home, smoke a little to relax or take away the days pains and then go to bed only to be ready and perky for the next days work. Unlike pill poppers who are hammered all the friggin time. Like I said. I don't do it but I agree wholeheartedly for legalization. Wanna tax the HELL out of the sales? Sure! But the government won't spend those proceeds to help the addicted on pain pills. Be real. Then folks will continue to go underground. The regulations will be ridiculous and the idea will fail. Just friggin legalize it!!
For those of us who surgery and all medication has not helped, and we live in chronic severe pain. This may be something that will give us some relief and quality of life. I am not a drug addict , just someone looking for some relief and may be I can keep my kidneys and liver a while longer. If you don't live in this kind of pain please don't judge not everyone is a drug addict.
I live in SE pennsylvania, and Buttpymples and his ilk are out there in force here too just like the south. They're typically drunks 65+ men who think alcohol is wunderbar since their grand old government says so and cannabis is bad because that amazing Jeffrey Beauregard, who are the same age they are, says things like "good people don't smoke marijuana". In fact, its drunken old men like buttpymples who make america a hateful place.
Go smoke another cigarette, grandpa... And oh yeah, GO EAGLES
The unfortunate part about opponents discouraging others from using marijuana is their need to control other people. Whether it’s for recreational or medical, there is no authority given you to determine what someone else does with their life. At some point your going to have let go, because if you don’t, your going to find yourself living a very miserable and uncompromising life when the world around you changes.
Ever notice that no one has seen Buttpymples and Diane Black in the same room at the same time...
My brother has brain cancer. Medical marijuana + radiation has been shown to shrink brain tumors to 1/9th the size of radiation alone. That is a Very Big Deal. It is *vastly* more effective at killing cancer cells than almost anything else.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25398831
My brother wants medical marijuana *so he can continue killing cancer cells and live*. Not to get high.
And as I actually *am* a scientist, may I suggest the skeptics in the audience to go read some papers. How about for cancer:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4791144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4171598/
Or how about Parkinson's Disease:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5165161/
Or how about Multiple Sclerosis:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5481305/
That took about 30 seconds. You can literally find hundreds of peer-reviewed papers showing that medical marijuana helps a wide number of ailments.
It's strange that our legislators still think that there's no "accepted medical use" for marijuana, despite an entire deciduous forest worth of papers showing that there *is*. It's almost like our politicians are ignoring science simply because science isn't telling them what they *want* to hear.
@Chuck: As always, you are free to leave and join your nuanced and highly-educated friends in Washington, NYC, or wherever maggots assemble.
@the rest of you potheads: I would respect you if you were simply intellectually honest and admit that this is an issue of intoxication, not medical care. You want to get high, period. The collateral damage from legalized pot is overwhelming—already. Get ready for an even more-addicted US, you have earned it.
And, as always, love puddles.
@James Woulfe
I don't know. He made a pretty convincing argument that if marijuana is legalized, our country will have even more drug addicted people than it does now, despite the evidence that marijuana is much less addictive than its opioid alternatives. And he opened my eyes to the fact that Rome fell thanks to its citizens being addicted, and not because all of the other historically noted reasons. We should all be so thankful as to recognize the beacon of light that is Buttpymples.
Don't listen to a guy who's not only too scared to put his real name on a comment about actual state legislation, never mind one who chooses Buttpymples. Also don't expect Mr. Buttpymples to recognize or investigate peer-reviewed articles or journalism on current trends, especially when they contradict his pre-determined mindset.
Citizens of the state of TN should make the legalization of medicinal and recreational marijuana a dealbreaker-type issue for politicians in upcoming elections. Our state is behind the curve in progressive movements and economic innovations. It is the citizens whom rule this state, not private interests, so make sure you all vote accordingly.
The fact that Tennessee hasn't already made medicinal and recreational weed legal like 19 other states and the District of Columbia already have shows once again just how backwards and ignorant this state is, along with most other Southern states. This is partly why l have to apologize for being from here almost anywhere l go.
@Hubert: forgive me for thinking that a society not riddled with drug addiction functions a little better. You are right—Rome did quite well when it caved to addiction and depravity.
I am now enlightened.
Yes, some will exaggerate a need or just fake it altogether to get marijuana prescribed. But... so what? People should just be able to smoke it legally anyway. The only scam is the fact that it's still illegal.
Then consider that some people are legitimately helped by pot to treat a medical condition. It's the best - or only, in some cases - thing that works for some to adequately manage their pain or anxiety.
Sounds like Buttpymples has been scarred for life from a Reefer Madness film.
@Mat: Glad you joined the Big Pharma conspiracy theory. Meeting at Area 51 tonight—bring your bong.
There are so few who benefit from pot, yet hundreds of thousands of medical cards issued in California....for any condition whatsoever. It IS about getting high.
Buttpymples is an idiot. People take medical marijuana *to treat a medical condition*. My brother has brain cancer. Medical marijuana + radiation shrink tumors to 1/9th the size of radiation alone. It kill cancer cells. That is a Big Deal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25398831
The results of using marijuana for brain cancer patients is so substantial that a commercial company is working on a synthetic version:
https://www.gwpharm.com/about-us/news/gw-pharmaceuticals-achieves-positive-results-phase-2-proof-concept-study-glioma
Which begs the question: Why is it illegal for Tennesseans with brain cancer to plant a $10 seed to try to save their own life, but it's perfectly legal for them to spend thousands of dollars on synthetic marijuana pills? Hint: Because Big Pharma (and the politicians they support) get a cut off the latter.
If potheads were honest, this has nothing to do with medical treatment, and everything to do with getting high. Just look at all the folks in California who had "medical marijuana" cards. Giant scam to get high.