Marijuana Is Not Medicine: For Debate / Discussion
My Thoughts Only (Willing to Change)
I want to argue with someone.
By argue, I mean I want to show someone why they’re wrong and why people who think like me are right.
Here’s my claim: Marijuana is not medicine (but it has medicinal properties).
If you believe everyone should get free healthcare orchestrated by the federal government, then you should agree that marijuana is not medicine. Because healthcare is a service, not a good. People provide healthcare. Marijuana, like pharmaceutical drugs, is a good. You can either purchase marijuana freely, or it can be provided to you in a “healthcare” package as “medicine” (i.e., you need a prescription for it). (And in that last sentence, “package” refers to regular doctor visits, antibiotics, ER visits, perhaps women’s hygiene products, etc. – all of which include human labor, or are created by human labor.)
If marijuana is medicine, it is not like fruit or flowers (or else they, too, are medicine); it is like Vicodin or the Flu Shot. It must be provided to you because you cannot do it / get it yourself. Free healthcare means that the entire nation pools its money and pays for the human labor associated with providing “healthcare.” This, of course, includes “medicine.”
We need not pool our money to provide marijuana
– it grows straight out of the ground and the industry is plenty profitable to pay the costs associated with whatever compliance checks the public demands. Oversight need be no more stringent than, for example, the beer brewing and distribution process.
Because marijuana is not medicine. Marijuana – like turmeric, tea leaves, or even apples – has medicinal properties. Maybe it’s good for you. Maybe not. The point is: Marijuana is not medicine. Prove me wrong.
"Medicine" does not mean man made pills. Until these messed up times, "Medicine" was made from plants (usually by your parents or a neighbor), which includes cannabis.
"Until these messed up times." You can either change the times, or change the definition. Seeing as how you can't change time, I say we change the definition. We might say "cannabis is good for you" like we say "apples are good for you." We can call both cannabis and apples "medicine," but that (necessarily) places them in the category of "medicine" as that term is defined in these "messed up times." My mom would always tell me, "birds of a feather flock together." If you think it best for the cannabis industry to flock with the pharmaceutical industry, I think you're not only in favor of withholding cannabis from people who need it, I think you're also in favor of jacking up the price of some cannabis strains (and I mean jacking the prices way, way up) by crowding smaller participants out of the marketplace. You tell me, though.
You have some messed up programming there kiddo. Might want to have that looked at.