CONGRESS HAS DECIDED TO VOTE AGAINST SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
INTO MEDICINAL MARIJUANA.
AS YOU KNOW ON A FEDERAL LEVEL, MARIJUANA CONTINUES TO BE
SCHEDULE ONE SUBSTANCE WHICH INDICATES IT HAS NO
MEDICINAL VALUE WHATSOEVER.
SOME MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WANT TO CHANGE THAT BY STUDYING THE
POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF MARIJUANA.
HEROIN ADDICTION IS A HUGE PROBLEM IN THE UNITED
STATES RIGHT NOW BECAUSE INDIVIDUALS GET ADDICTED TO
OPIOIDS OR PAINKILLERS AND MOVE ONTO HEROIN.
EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR AMERICANS TO
HAVE THE OPTION, OR STUDY THIS AND RECLASSIFY MARIJUANA,
CONGRESS HAS DECIDED TO VOTE
AGAINST IT.
>>IT'S
AMAZING THAT YOU CAN PRETTY
MUCH DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.
DURING ELECTIONS, THEY WILL RUN ADS AND POINT OUT VOTES
THAT YOU SUPPOSEDLY MADE THAT OFTEN DON'T EVEN END UP
BEING THE VOTES THEY CLAIM TO BE.
YOU CAN FIT IN AS A CONGRESSMAN HUNDREDS OF VOTES LIKE THIS
THAT PEOPLE WILL NEVER HEAR ABOUT, YOU WILL NEVER BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR, AND YET HAVE INCREDIBLY NEGATIVE EFFECTS.
IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM SOME SORT OF PAIN CONDITION AND
YOU END UP GETTING ADDICTED TO OPIOIDS, AND IT TURNS OUT
YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE DICK BAG
REPUBLICANS THAT MADE YOUR LIFE THE CRAP IT BECOMES.
BUT THEY ARE JUST OUT THERE AND I'VE HAD CONTROL FOR YEARS
AND YEARS NOW.
THEY CAN JUST CRANK OUT BULL SHOULD VOTES LIKE THIS DAY
AFTER DAY.
>>HAVEN'T SEEN VERY MANY SOURCES REPORT ON THIS.
I JUST HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS THE ARTICLE ON IT LAST NIGHT.
I THOUGHT IT WAS SO EGREGIOUS THAT I HAD TO SHARE IT WITH
THE AUDIENCE.
THIS WAS SIMPLY A SUGGESTION TO STUDY MARIJUANA AND THE
POTENTIAL OF HELPING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM PAIN
SO THEY DON'T GET ADDICTED TO OPIOIDS AND DON'T END UP
GETTING ADDICTED TO HEROIN.
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?
AS YOU KNOW WE HAVE A CORRUPT POLITICAL SYSTEM.
YOU HAVE CORPORATIONS BEHIND THE SCENES THAT DICTATE THE WAY
THESE POLITICIANS VOTE.
THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ARE EXTREMELY POWERFUL IN THE
UNITED STATES, AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE PAY SO MUCH
MORE FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.
THAT IS WHY MARIJUANA CONTINUES TO BE A SCHEDULE ONE DRUG
EVEN THOUGH WE NOW HAVE THREE STATES THAT LEGALIZE IT FOR
RECREATIONAL USE.
DID THE COUNTRY EXPLODE AS A RESULT?
NO,
IT LED TO MORE TAX REVENUE AND THEY ARE NOW USING IT TO FUND
EDUCATION OR OTHER PROGRAMS WITHIN THEIR STATE.
>>HELPING OUT THE HOMELESS IN CERTAIN MAJOR CITIES.
>>EXACTLY.
UNDERSTAND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE'S ARE NOT REPRESENTING YOU,
THEY ARE REPRESENTING MAJOR CORPORATIONS.
WHEN YOU HAVE A POLITICIAN LIKE BERNIE SANDERS SPEAKING OUT
AGAINST IT, IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
WE NEED THAT TO BE SPREAD SO PEOPLE ARE INFORMED AND
MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR REPRESENTATIVES.
UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS NOW BEING HINDERED BY THE FACT THAT
WE ARE DISTRACTED WITH ACCUSATIONS OF VIOLENCE.
>>OUR ONLY HOPE AT THIS POINT IS THAT ONE OF THOSE LITTLE
STARTUP DISPENSARIES START SELLING SO MUCH THAT THEY
BECOME A MASSIVE CORPORATION AND START BUYING POLITICIANS.
YET, THAT IS
ENOUGH THAT PEOPLE IN THOSE REPORTS ARE SAYING THIS
QUESTIONS THEIR CONTINUED POLICY OF RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA.
KNOW, MORON YOU DID BECAUSE HE WROTE THE ARTICLE.
>>IT IS BEYOND FRUSTRATING.
THIS IS A TOPIC THAT IS PERSONAL TO ME BECAUSE WHEN MY MOM
NEEDED PAIN MEDICATION FOR A SURGERY, MARIJUANA WASN'T
AN OPTION AND IT IMPACTED HER TREMENDOUSLY.
SHE HAD SOMETHING KNOWN AS A FISTULA DONE.
IT IS BASICALLY PREPARING SOMEONE FOR DIALYSIS
BECAUSE YOUR KIDNEYS ARE NOT FUNCTIONING AND THEY HAVE
TO CONNECT YOU TO A MACHINE THAT FILTERS YOUR BLOOD LIKE
YOUR KIDNEYS.
AFTER YOU HAVE THE PROCEDURE DONE YOU ARE IN PAIN.
THE PAIN MEDICATION THEY GAVE HER HURTS YOUR KIDNEYS.
>>IT SEEMS IRONIC.
>> YES.
THEY GAVE HER NORCO.
THEY SAID IT WOULD LOWER HER KIDNEY FUNCTION SO SHE
SHOULD ONLY TAKE IT IF SHE NEEDS IT.
MY MOM WAS IN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF PAIN SO OF COURSE
SHE HAD TO TAKE IT.
I SAID WELL IS MARIJUANA AN OPTION?
AND THEY WOULD HAVE TAKEN HER OFF THE KIDNEY WAITING LIST
IF SHE HAD TAKEN AN ILLICIT DRUG.
JUST THINK ABOUT HOW BACKWARDS THAT IS.
THINK ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE SUFFER AS A RESULT OF THIS
BACKWARDS THINKING.
>> TO GO BACK TO THAT MARIJUANA OR THE MAGIC MUSHROOMS, THE
IDEAS THAT IF WE ARE ABLE TO RESEARCH IT THEY CAN HAVE
SOME KIND OF NEGATIVE REACTION.
WHEN YOU START STUDYING WHAT MEDICINE DOES TO THE BODY,
IT BASICALLY ñ MOST POWERFUL MEDICINE IT IS JUST A QUESTION
OF WHETHER IT CURES THE THING IT IS TRYING TO DEAL WITH BEFORE
IT KILLS YOU BY DESTROYING SOME OTHER PART OF YOUR BODY.
EVERY MEDICINE IS TERRIBLE FOR YOUR BODY.
YET YOU CAN PRESCRIBE THAT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT AND MAKE
TONS OF MONEY.
BUT WE CAN'T EVEN STUDY STUFF LIKE MEDICAL MARIJUANA.
>>IT IS SO FRUSTRATING.