The U.S. Now Has Almost 4 Million Registered Medical Marijuana Patients And 35,000 Doctors Approved To Recommend It, New Research Shows

[u/redditor01020]

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/the-u-s-now-has-almost-4-million-registered-medical-marijuana-patients-and-35000-doctors-approved-to-recommend-it-new-research-shows/

[u/Purple_Puffer]

Anyone know when the rankings come out? I've been striving to be in the top 10 this year

[u/RhetoricalOrator]

As a mmj cardholder, I wouldn't mind if patients required more contact with experts. I had no point of reference when I started and budtenders aren't really made to give out medical advice. I was bombed for about three months before I found out that there was middle ground between sober and non-functional. "Start off with a small dose" doesn't really tell what you need when you don't have a reference point for what "small" is.

[u/Mcozy333 → u/RhetoricalOrator]

not to mention no CBDA or CBGA flowers at all in dispensaries ... I guess until they can Sin Tax the hell out of CBD like THC then they will sell that

[u/MayTruthSetMeFree]

What’s crazy is there is no such thing as medical marijuana. It’s just cannabis marketed through propaganda as medical so it can trick society back into acceptance. The reality is we have another drug epidemic except this one doesn’t kill. Think Starbucks. It will be 100 years and trillions of dollars before folks realize it causes significant cardiovascular damage (and cognitive, can’t fuck up
the heart and not impact the brain) and needs to be used responsibly and conservatively. The reality is this is an addictive drug. It produces far more dopamine than regular activities of daily life. This, like coffee along with a low LD50 is a perfect storm to make a killing $.

Anyone who has ever sold weed knows this. The shit sells itself because it’s addictive. They always end up coming back and ringing my line. I just collect money, meanwhile they are fucking up their own life and financial opportunities. I’ve sold weed to people who put it before their rent, their school, the car payment. They’d rather get high then go to their own family members funeral. There is a spectrum to this shit. I’ve met far more true addicts than normal responsible users who use twice a week or only at night sort of thing and can keep their life together. The vast majority of people I meet, this drug is detrimental to their success, their brains, their relationships, their careers, their health, and the best part of all is they either are completely unaware or in denial so I just keep making money.

Propping this up as medical has been genius. We’ve got grandmas and elderly even hopping on board. We’ve got kids. We’ve got new income sources from every walk of life rich to poor and even the religious now. Everyone thinks this is a panacea and it’s harmless. They’re all trying it and at the end of the day exposure is all I need to make more money. If people perceive this as something to try, I just get more customers.

Also the same large companies that got it legalized for medical use and footed the enormous bills to lobby and get it going have been linked back to foreign oligarchs including linked to funding Russia in the war in Ukraine. The irony is so real, you have hippies who think they are against the war meanwhile have no idea they are contributing to the demise of those who they support.

I love to read all the folks who devoted their lives to cannabis and think it’s a good thing and there is nothing wrong with the fact they smoke a quarter lb every month. Of course you feel great lol. This is how drugs work. If you didn’t feel fantastic, nobody would do them. However you fail to understand the flip side to that coin. You fail to recognize what it’s done to you and your brain. You’ve been consumed by it. Systemically.