MODESTO, CA (News10.net) – Probation officers in Stanislaus County noticed something the last several months when doing probation checks.
First they discovered more medical marijuana cards on people who are seemingly healthy.
“This person had a medical recommendation for marijuana because of a bad back, but he had off-road motorcycles, jet skis, and a wakeboard boat. He seemed to be in perfectly good physical condition,” said Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers.
Did it ever occur to you, Officer Powers, that it’s his use of medical marijuana for his back condition that allows him the movement to be able to motorcycle, jet ski, and wakeboard? Perhaps that the outdoor activities the man is able to enjoy are proof that medical marijuana is a superior pain remedy?
NFL players take massive amounts of NSAIDs and opioid painkillers, and yet many of them are “seemingly healthy” fellows who enjoy activities like motorcycling, jet skiing, and wakeboarding. Does that concern you, Officer?
This is another marijuana prejudice I like to call the “Medicine of Last Resort” scenario. It’s the idea that if you’re desperately visibly sick and approaching death and we’ve tried every other side-effect-laden pharmaceutical on you, then, and only then, should we let you try the demon reefers. It’s particularly vexing when you know, like we do, that marijuana often should be the medicine of first resort, especially considering the toxicity and side effects from most pharmaceuticals.
The prohibitionists often trot out this idea of the patient in “perfectly good physical condition” acquiring medical marijuana as if it’s all a fraud. It makes me wonder what special powers they have that allow them to identify by sight alone someone who doesn’t have epilepsy, irritable bowel, PTSD, leukemia, Alzheimer’s, chronic nausea, etc.
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TherapEUtic… thanks Russ, just too lazy to look that one up.
Have been wracking my brain
for the MOST APPROPO / applicable acronymn…
All TOO true…
- The CHILDREN have grown up…
and are now experiencing the pains
of inevitable physical-deterioration
of life beyond ‘thirty-something’…
- After 40, all pain-relieving
drugs ought to be perfectly-legal,
especially those directly-derived from plants / botanicals.
- May former ‘drug-czar’ Barry McCaffrey,
die a more painful, disease-riddled,
horrible death than
lupus-patient, the late Robin Prosser,
whom he dismissed the medical efficacy
of medicinal-cannabis for.
- No forgiveness for the bastard,
despite my biblically-based screen-name…
UNLESS he REPENTS of his pseudo-christian
Religion Against Marijuana…
And what prestigious medical school did Officer Powers graduate from?
Certainly, all cannabis use after age 40 is therapeutic!
My knees tell me so!
There seems to be some concern that there is little or not “Follow up” on who is “deserving.” I wonder who decides whether or not a diabetic is “deserving” of insulin? My MD reviews my medications about once a year, to evaluate effectiveness, the question of whether or not I “deserve” to get blood pressure pills or an acid blocker never comes up.
All cannibis use is theraputic (go ahead, deny it) and on that basis, should be considered medicinal.
We need Doctors to stand up against these stupid laws and regulations over prescibing meds, even marijuana. What right does a DEA officer have in deciding whom is sick and whom is not or what meds and amounts they need? And then to say they dont need meds, well I wish them a day in my shoes without meds and marijuana and they will be begging for pain meds/Marijuana within an hour!
This has been a on going problem for years now and its just turned to marijuana. This battle about medication and how sick someone is has left this whole country in a mess. Doctors are scared to prescibe what is needed, people are then scared to go to doctors knowing they wont get the meds they truly need. They then medicate via black market, such as marijuana or even presciption drugs that the doctor will not prescibe due to fear of inquiry over amounts and to whom they are for!
WHY you ask? THE WAR ON DRUGS!
This has to stop, we can not call ourselves an advanced society when we let people suffer when we could take that suffering away!
I’ve have daily back pain from being a former athlete. I still play sports. I still work, drive a car, go to events. It’s usually only later when the adrenaline has worn off that the throbbing ache, pain kicks in. I could be on various prescriptions and have been prescribed them. That’s ok. But if I look ok and can walk and work, marijuana can’t help me?
Where did Gerry Powers get his medical doctor’s license from? I would not go to him for advice on my daily back pain.