Come April, it will be legal to plant marijuana in our backyards... but only if you have a chronic medical condition (http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/
health/chi-medical-marijuanamar20,0,1359482.story). This is probably old news if you voted for (or against) it sometime back, but it is worth revisiting.
As we age, some form of anatomical wear and tear would happen. With an aging population, the normal process of our body breaking down becomes a public health and policy concern. So here we have several issues to look at: Gerontology, medical ethics, law and order, medical economics,....
Whether there's a system in place to ensure that 100% of those home-grown marijuana is used for the legitimate medical purpose interests me. I chanced upon this BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7942432.stm) and thought there might be common ground for us to do a comparative study.
2 comments:
Hi Ivan -
I think this is an interesting topic. Medical use of marijuana has been legal here in Colorado since 2000. Here is an interesting update page that shows information on our state and some gaps in the laws that lawmakers are still working out.
http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/Medicalmarijuana/marijuanaupdate.html
Hi Heidi,
Thanks for sharing the link. The link somehow mysteriously disappears from your comment so for the benefit of those who would want to check it out, I am going to attempt to post the whole URL here (http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hs/
Medicalmarijuana/marijuanaupdate.html).
I read that CDPHE collects a fee to administer the program. I wonder if it would be more economical to have the state plant marijuana instead.
Have you heard or know of stories regarding medical mairjuana?
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