Daddybang wrote:I wonder if they will also stop people on pharmaceutical prescription drugs such as codeine from having them?
Personally I'd rather have someone taking med cannabis holding a rifle than someone on oxy as the medical cannabis oil is not the same as sitting down and smoking a doobie!
RoginaJack wrote:I heard a news report today on the local radio that persons on Medicinal Cannabis won't be able to "own a gun" (in the U.S).
Fair enough but...
RoginaJack wrote:I heard a news report today on the local radio that persons on Medicinal Cannabis won't be able to "own a gun" (in the U.S).
The crashes over the last few months show that it's long overdue for politicians, police ministers, both state and Federal started calling for the cancellation of driver's licences of people with dismal driving records, after all, we're told that a licence is a privilege and not a right.
Washington, DC police chief on marijuana: "All those arrests do is make people hate us"
Washington, DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier seems fairly enthusiastic about marijuana legalizationin the District, even decrying the past system of prohibition and how it tarnished community relations with police.
Lanier told the American News Women's Club last Wednesday, according to the Daily Beast, "All those [marijuana] arrests do is make people hate us." She added, "Marijuana smokers are not going to attack and kill a cop. They just want to get a bag of chips and relax. Alcohol is a much bigger problem."
The police chief clarified her comments to emphasize that she believes marijuana isn't healthy. "But I'm not policing the city as a mom," she said. "I'm policing it as the police chief — and 70 percent of the public supported this."
"Marijuana smokers are not going to attack and kill a cop"
Lanier is making a nuanced but firmly supportive legalization argument. She said that marijuana isn't always healthy for users. But she also acknowledged that it's a relatively benign drug in terms of public safety, and its use is so widespread and accepted that arresting people for pot can actually do more harm than good by hurting police relations with the community.
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8143371/cathy-lanier-marijuana
Lanier, others urge civilians to sometimes confront active shooters
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier is urging that civilians confronted by an active shooter in some cases try to stop the gunman before law enforcement authorities arrive, saying quick action could save lives.
The chief, appearing on the Sunday “60 Minutes” CBS news show, noted that in many multiple shootings, most victims are killed within the first 10 minutes — at the Navy Yard shootings in 2013, 10 of the 12 victims were dead in fewer than six minutes. Lanier told correspondent Anderson Cooper that police simply can’t get to the scene in time to stop the initial and deadliest onslaught.
“Your options are run, hide or fight,” Lanier said on the nationally broadcast show. “I always say if you can get out, getting out’s your first option, your best option. If you’re in a position to try and take the gunman down, to take the gunman out, it’s the best option for saving lives before police can get there.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/lanier-others-urge-civilians-to-sometimes-confront-active-shooters/2015/11/23/8757001e-91e4-11e5-a2d6-f57908580b1f_story.html
bentaz wrote:Blackened wrote:RoginaJack wrote:I heard a news report today on the local radio that persons on Medicinal Cannabis won't be able to "own a gun" (in the U.S).
Fair enough but...
Is it? Not sure if you were being sarcastic or not.
I would say fair enough no one should operate a firearm under the influence of anything, and if that's law that makes perfect sense,.
Why should anyone with a medical prescription be prohibited from ever owning or using a firearm, even when not on their medication?
some of the prescription drugs the doctors give me are much worse than than even non medical weed.
I was given anti epileptic drugs, one of the side effects was"psychotic episodes". Wtf?
Lawyer Daggett wrote:It is quite understandable. Cannabis sedates, and gives one a 'no worries' attitude. A person effected heavily with Cannabis, if asked for the key to their gun safe may well oblige! additionally some people can hallucinate on cannabis and become psychotic. So, guns and cannabis don't mix.
Gamerancher wrote:I have a sister-in-law that has become quite psychotic and paranoid due to smoking dope. She's violent and in reality needs locking up. She is a total mess. Her own daughter is sh!t scared of her. I've had a couple of good mates also fry their brains and become useless basket cases due to excessive dope smoking. Tell me again how "harmless" it is. Like all drugs, it is people with addictive susceptibility that suffer the most.
Rikta wrote:I only see the push for "medicinal" weed as a push to further normalize it for recreational use. There really isn't any other reason its pushed that hard. Soooo in short what is toted as some amazing cure for xyz (cough bulls**t cough cough) will be nothing more than thousands more emphysema cases and lung/tongue/mouth/throat cancer and the likes.