“I Have A Prescription For That”
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Written by admin on September 27, 2009 – 2:12 am
Dear Yeti,
I bring upon you a new Dilemma. I have recently been prescribed medical marijuana to take care of my back pain. Only the pain has ceased, just a couple months ago. I have not told my doctor, and I continue to recieve the dope. I never was a heavy smoker, so I have been selling it to friends around town. Is this an immoral thing to do? I mean it’s free for me, and if I don’t supply it, my friends will just spend more money else where. A guilty conscience has been following me around, and this monkey on my back is killing me. Plus what is the penalty for getting caught? Thanks for your time.
Your Friend,
Cam
Dear Cam,
I will suspend my disbelief in the validity of your letter because medical marijuana is an interesting and rapidly changing topic.
A Quick History of medical marijuana:
Marijuana has been legal in California since prop 215 passed by an overwhelming margin in 1996. The federal government does not recognize the legal right to distribute medical marajuana and continues to use the controlled substance act to prosecute distribution centers. Today medical marijuana is legally being prescribed in 13 states in the US and in Europe and Canada. The laws vary in flexibility from state to state in the US, and new states are legalizing medical marIjuana every year. For instance, in Oregon it is legal to have 24ozs in possession and up to 24 plants in the ground as compared to Montana which allows 1oz and 6 plants.
So you are telling me you are having reservations (morally) about your new plan of reselling your legally prescribed marijuana to your friends, and you are further asking about the legal ramifications should you be caught. I am not a lawyer and as such I have no interest in advising you of your legal rights regarding the redistribution of medical marajuana. In some states the penalty is as small as a traffic ticket. In other more stricter states you might be processed at the police station and have to go to court on a misdemeanor charge. The best reference for regional marijuana laws can be found www.norml.org. This being said you should know the cultural climate in the United States is changing. Just look at the evendence; things like medical marijuana vending machines are now availible in California. The laws are becoming less stringent, but it is still an illegal substance.
…Now it’s time to address the question that you did not mean to ask but did.
“I NEVER WAS A HEAVY SMOKER, SO I HAVE BEEN SELLING IT TO FRIENDS AROUND TOWN. IS THIS AN IMMORAL THING TO DO?”
Are you really asking me if smoking and selling illegal drugs is immoral; by that I mean, are you really conflicted if these acts are contrary to divine law set forth by God? I don’t think you do. I think by immoral you really meant unethical or wrong. There is nothing in the ten comandments that suggests that smoking or selling contraband substances are immoral. I think it’s time to dig deeper on this moral dileuma, Cameron. Let me share with you a story. Steph Green was a successful corporate events planner in San Diego. Because of a severe neck injury she was forced to use liberal amounts of ibuprofin and pain killers to relieve her daily anguish. After two years of this regimen of prescription pills, her kidneys began to fail. She was six months away from dialysis before doctors then prescribed her medical marijuana. Steph found temporary relief from her pain as she began to use marijuana – so much so that she moved from San Diego to San Francisco where she could be closer to the legal dispensaries. All seemed well until federal agents began to raid and shut down the legal dispensaries. People like Steph find difficulty getting the help they need because the line between legal medical marijuana users and the recreational users is being blurred by people such as yourself. Further extrapolated, you are morally wrong by helping to condition the government into believing that medical marijuana is an excuse by recreational users to beat the system and directly preventing people who are living with chronic pain from getting the help they need. Yes, what you are doing is both immoral and illegal. Quit being a selfish asshole and knock it off.
The federal government needs to reclassify or decriminalize medical marijuana; people that need it should be able to get it safely and easily.
A Yeti
Way to bring this important issue to the people yeti.
guess what buddy medical or not medical, the law finds out you made one transaction where you sell, there are minumum mandatory sentences regardless of the amount. You get caught your looking at an automatic 2-4 years in state prison
Hola, yety, .
my name is Tania Green and im mexican and i live in baja sur mexico, i think is very objective your answer. Here in mexico is a very delicate subjet to touch, some politics try to make marihuana legal too many, many people smoke for diferents reasons end are the same thinks that you have in your country.
but the reason that make me write was, the nerv this guy had to write such a hypocrit letter. he shuld give the dop for free to his friends , or dont say nothing about it. i think he just want atention!!!.
How ever is bery interristeen the information that you wrote about medicinal marihuana, is important . the people have to know.
dude why the hell not give it to ure friends if youre buddy has a headache do you give him one of youre asprins of course. And to the doochebag who is whineing about pple who need it medically and those who dont so much maby if it wernt for weed we’d all kick douche buckets like you in the balls for being so dumb. Marijuana is a relitively harmless substance causes way less problems the alchohal so everyone should just chill the fuck out make it legal pointblank the taxes alone would help the economy more than any of the dumb crap our govt. does now.
We must remember marijuana is not a drug its a plant. smoked in an unaltered form
At the age of 10 i didnt want to sell drugs and applied for a job.The buiseness owner laughed in my face.Look im not proud of what i do but its economics, suppliy and demand.
i second that 100%
dude go for it sell tht medical and let the bomb weed go thru out the world
none of us are proud but there will always be a demand and if there is no one to supply then the human race will simply start to consider another substance to be socially acceptable in our environment
if we all blazed there would probably be less war due to less motivation lol
the biggest argument would probably be over the last pizza pocket …