Marijuana edibles or suggestion for pain

[DJTJ]

Yup. Hopeful that the medical prices drop a bit here right away. No way they drop down to Michigan prices for a while but any drop will be nice.

@Lee correct me if wrong, our med prices are marginally lower? Like between 10-25%?

 

[KI4MVP]

My dad did, sited DUI issues, and i said there is no evidence in states that legalized it that car accidents went up.

Would your dad vote to make alcohol illegal? Voting against issue 2 is the equivalent of doing that.

Way too many people use opioids, which is addictive, for pain relief because of the stigma against marijuana. Many have died because of that.

My wife used opioids for years for chronic pain, now almost never uses them because we finally convinced her marijuana would take away the pain without the issues opioids bring. The pain is still a struggle for her, but not as bad as it was before.

 

[Lee]

Have seen the argument.

There is so much less data on weed and people don’t talk about it outside of their circles, so whatever we’re working with is anecdotal here.

We’re probably going to have to wait and see.

In my case (and anyone’s), my reactions would OBVIOUSLY be impaired by ripping an indica and trying to drive But I think anyone who has smoked and knows what they’re using would laugh in your face if you asked them to go somewhere on a night they were smoking a bubba kush. If it was a couple hits on a hybrid vape, I could drive somewhere. I just probably wouldn’t. Misses the whole point!

I think the driving argument is fear induced and based on association with alcohol.

I have found grown up pot users are like chemists at this point.

Exactly. MY dad doesnt know i smoke so i didnt argue to much, but its legal here in AZ so i really dont care much, but harder drug use does go down slightly after legalization, but most hard drug users dont switch to only weed after legalized so that is more of an anomaly to me.

My point was there are no bars for weed, people dont go out and smoke unless its at a friends house and dont leave until they are sober because you sober quicker on weed and its more of an at home activity than drinking.

 

[Lee]

@Lee correct me if wrong, our med prices are marginally lower? Like between 10-25%?

The prices are the same, some products like high THC level edibles are only available to medical users and there is a sin tax of 15% on weed that only recreational users pay. Normal 9% tax everyone pays including medical.

Basically medical enjoys 15% less because of the tax.

 

[Lee]

Would your dad vote to make alcohol illegal? Voting against issue 2 is the equivalent of doing that.

Way too many people use opioids, which is addictive, for pain relief because of the stigma against marijuana. Many have died because of that.

My wife used opioids for years for chronic pain, now almost never uses them because we finally convinced her marijuana would take away the pain without the issues opioids bring. The pain is still a struggle for her, but not as bad as it was before.

He doesnt drink, never seen him take more than a glass or two of wine at Passover, he is a good guy, very left politically, but does not use substances, so that is the wrong argument for him.

He is an engineer in every sense of the word, I just agreed to disagree and moved on.

 

[Otsego Mar]

My pops would smoke WHILE driving. Didn’t matter if it was a 4 hour drive or a 5 minute drive. Not that I condone it, however.

 

[KI4MVP]

He doesnt drink, never seen him take more than a glass or two of wine at Passover, he is a good guy, very left politically, but does not use substances, so that is the wrong argument for him.

He is an engineer in every sense of the word, I just agreed to disagree and moved on.

Different conversation from if he drinks. I don't drink. Both of my grandfathers were alcoholics, so I'm not taking the chance that happens to me. I wouldn't vote to outlaw alcohol, we've seen what a disaster it was when that was tried.

And it's always been nonsensical to me that alcohol and tobacco are legal while marijuana isn't.

I also watch my wife try to live with chronic pain. And see what's helped her.

But even before that I thought it was nonsensical. I don't use marijuana myself either. But I encourage my wife to use it to alleviate her pain instead of using prescribed opioids, that weren't really working.

Even with all of the laws that have been changed, it's pretty ridiculous that insurance pays for opioids, but won't pay for marjiunana, which doesn't have the dangers of the opioids.