This week, Dr. Phyllis Bonafice stopped by to discuss the ins and outs of Marijuana usage and it’s legalization. We’ve had a lot of blow-back to merely pointing out that Marijuana is slightly harmful, so we felt it necessary to give a doctor the full-length needed to explain the science behind it. We also go through the #LAPDShooting point by point, Hillary Clinton’s recent email scandal and listen to FunDip as he progressively gets more and more loopy on his newest pain-meds. A very fun show!
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California’s medicinal is a crock. There are some ligit medical uses for it. My issue unless your getting your RX from the GP who writes RX for your infection its not medicinal it to get high. I’m a heavy CIG smoker I know people who smoke as much if not more than I on a daily basis.
Just the fact that you are, in your own words, a “heavy CIG smoker”, shows me that you make bad decisions and ignore medical studies and common sense. So i put no stock in your opinion.
Looks like she’s using failed studies.
It’s misinformation like this that continues to give marijuana a bad name even though we now know it CURES CANCER.
Really? it “cures” cancer? cite your source.
Yes it does cure cancer. People will never be 100% for the use but it is far better than anything the pharmaceutical companies give especially since their medicines are manufactured and cause more illness. Studies going back to the Nixon administration proved that marijuana is better for you than things like Chemotherapy or radiation.
No, it does NOT cure cancer. It has been shown to kill certain types of cancer cells, but by no means does it actually cure the disease. You know what else kills cancer cells? bleach, acid, and a number of other poisons.
Don’t misunderstand me, I’m pro-100% legalization. Just lets steer clear of misinformation. It’s like the opposite of the Reefer Madness video. Now Marijuana is the cure for everything… No… it isn’t.
Thank you for speaking up to folks who do this kind of thing. This in and of itself has become one of the main reasons that people look upon those of us who do have legit uses for medical to be able to get it or to get the laws passed or changed to make it better for us. If I could remember all the things people have told me that I can cure with my medical card, we would not have the time to do anything else for the rest of this year!!! In my case it has enabled me to get off of the opiate painkillers that my doctor gave me after the loss of my leg and half the other foot, (drunk driver hit me in a crosswalk). Not only that but not enough has been made of the fact that though various farming methods, that the result of the use does not have to be “getting high. So that should rid us of a lot of the backlash here. Thank you again.
Again, no source
Cures Cancer? Really, this statement proves that Pot makes you stupid.
What an absolute load of crap. I’ve done some pretty extensive research on this topic and the most credible (by credible I mean objective) studies I have found, concluded that it does not combat cancer. There was an extensive study where they gave cannabis to numerous patients with stage four cancer; all of them were dead within a year. Stop peddling these myths from drug addicts. These claims are as flawed and as obnoxious as those comments I see from people proclaiming that they have an IQ of 180 and they have their dependency on marijuana to thank for it.
Fun fact: Radiation also cures cancer. It can also cause cancer. Medicinal marijuana, when injected in liquid form, can reduce the growth of and even kill cancer cells. Medicinal marijuana, when smoked, either does the same or has a psychological effect which causes you to believe your cancer is receding, and that thought may very well cause it to. It’s exactly the same as how if you’re on a plane with someone with a bad rash, you may start feeling itchy, or if you take a placebo, it may cure whatever it is you think is wrong with you. Regardless, I find it hard to believe that having smoke in your lungs can cure things growing in your anal cavity. That’s like giving yourself an enema to cure a cold. Meanwhile, we know that exposure to any type of burned substance, be it tobacco, cannabis, paper, wood, incense, chicory, etc. is bad for the lungs, which are one of the most delicate parts of the body.
Were still waiting for your sources on It cures cancer show us one case study where it cured cancer im afraid we are going to be waiting a long time.
Maybe I didn’t pay attention enough, but it seems to me they skipped the topic of side effects from what they graced prescription drugs with the description of “a substance that targets receptors specifically” opposed to marijuana being something that is “a mess of neurological activity.”
If prescription medications were so well honed to act the way they were intended, then there would be no side effects. That’s why medicine is referred to as a practice and not a profession.
Ok! You have a doc/scientists who’s only experience with cannibas is in the treatment of abusers of many drugs! I’d love to see a interview with say a Willy Nelson or someone who has been smoking for 40yrs! I myself have only been smoking for about 25yrs and for some reason i make logical decisions every single day, i also go to work 5 to 6 days a week pay my bills support my family and ive never robbed raped or murdered anyone! I do enjoy the relief it gives my legs and my knees after 10hr days! It also helps me fall asleep easier at night as i lay awake counting shadows on the wall! Ive also read articles where its been suggested that it helps keep ac1 levels down in my dieteties! And lets not forget the millions of people who die every year from doctors prescriptions! Or how every pharmaceutical leaves you with 10 negative side effects like bloody diarrhea, suicidal thoughts and many many more! Lets review…side effects from pot Hungry, Sleepy, Giggling and a all around better outlook on life! Please Steven Crowder get some info from people with hands on experience! And yes i will completely agree that it does have harmful effects on undeveloped brains but id also like to say if your a douchebag your a douchebag no drug can change that!
True. Helps me sleep when painful . No grogginess in the morning with no hang over . Allows to eat. Improves my mood and takes my anxiety away. IQ is still 132. Stops nausea and stops pain , lowers my blood pressure, helps depression , stops pounding heart and stops shakiness. Rest when I have migraines . I’m 66. Way better than pharmaceuticals. No one ever died from pot .
Just the fact that you are, in your own words, a “heavy CIG smoker”, shows me that you make bad decisions and ignore medical studies and common sense. So i put no stock in your opinion.
1st of all, great idea to have a study done using Willie Nelson. A guy who forget to pay his income tax for many years.
Alos, maybe you would have less trouble with diabetes if you weren’t oversaw eating due to the munchies. And maybe you could fall asleep naturally if you werent paranoid of the shadows on the wall. And you may not know this but there mm are many people taking RX with out any negative side effects. We have to over emphasize side effects on all medications due to lawsuits. Did you know that many peple will have negatve side effect if the eat peanuts?
This one made me snicker a little. I have MS, and I hear a friend of my mom’s who also has MS is taking “cannabis” for it (anything with a scientific name is better, right?). My neurologist told me MS is making me lose IQ points , so why on earth could pot help? I guess the medical name helps.
Some points for those concerned about side effects of medications, and I think this is a funny counterpoint since your argument (I assume) is that there are none, are the WebMD listings for side effects of cannabinoids. The block of side effects from their page, where they list that it is possibly unsafe when smoked or ingested as plant or plant extract (joint or brownies for instance) are as follows:
“Use of marijuana can cause dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, dry or red eyes, heart and blood pressure problems, lung problems, impaired mental functioning, headache, dizziness, numbness, panic reactions, hallucinations, flashbacks, depression, and sexual problems.”
Notice it effects more than just your mind. The argument I got from the video wasn’t as much keep it illegal as much as it was we need to educate the negative as well as the positive when discussing this substance. For instance, due to marijuana typically not being filtered, smoking it can put 4x the tar in your lungs (burning plant material).
http://www.m.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-947/marijuana/source-3
I used to be part of the anti canibus crowd, but when I became ill and couldn’t keep food down because of the pain, things changed. I don’t smoke to get high. I smoke to have a small modicome of an appitite and some pain relief. So, those of you who are not or never have been through an illness….shut the hell up!
I live my live w. daily chronic pain, so bad at times that I can not function at all. I have been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, degenerative arthritis, a blood disorder, and several other conditions that have left me severely disabled. I marijuana could help with this debilitating pain, and were it legal within the state I reside, I certainly would try it. In order to function, I have to take narcotics now; how could this be any worse? Chronic pain rules my life. Some days it is all can manage to dress myself. I would do most anything to relieve the pain and live a somewhat normal life agin.
In your shoes, I would move to a state with legal marijuana. It works and is much safer than narcotics, without the side effects. Many people I work with began with legitimate prescription use, then escalated to heroin, becauseit was cheaper and stronger. When the feds say they are cracking down on doctors who prescribe eexorbitant amounts of prescription pain meds, that is a joke. They are still passing them out like candy.
Sorry. Typos: Live my life…..If marijuana
http://m.mic.com/articles/115766/8-scientific-reasons-you-should-never-smoke-weed
Has anyone bothered to study CBD, the component in Cannibis that’s NOT psychotropic (doesn’t get you high) but has been proven to kill cancer cells and help little children that were having hundreds of seizures a day have a better quality of life? My friend’s family has had to rent in Colorado to get their daughter a special strain of CBD from marijuana that has helped their daughter a lot. This little girl was having hundreds of seizures a day, and prescription medications were killing her! Her seizures have drastically reduced and this little girl can now thrive and grow without having to writhe on the floor most of the day. Did anyone writing this bother to check how many people were able to be CURED of cancer because of Cannibis? There are so many cases, and it’s been proven time and time again. Looks like this article is all one-sided because of the brainwashing the government has given you over and over. Why do you think they are keeping it from us, classifying it as MORE lethal and destructive than meth? Sure, there will be abusers, but how many in the US are using prescription drugs daily: pain pills, muscle relaxers, sleeping pills and the list goes on and on. These folks wind up with damaged livers, hearts and kidneys because of the chemical in prescription drugs. These people are driving under the influence and we do NOTHING, but a substance that can actually help people is classified as EVIL. Something is terribly wrong!
The food you eat is poison! It about $$$.the gooks in no smoked not pot but other stuff like pop e hash booze to fight us. Not pot!!if they smoked pot ,there would lasted 1 day not 1957 to 1975. So if it was taxed like smokes booze gas etc . And if that happens the system will loose billions. That’s the problem.
Quit smoking pot, you make no sense, Stoner.
I find it amusing that all the pro-pot commenters here have awful grammar and spelling, and I have to read their posts 2-3 times to try to figure out what they’re saying.
I’m pro cannabis, and my grammar is just fine. I’m an RN and I fully support the use of the drug. There will always be people who abuse it and it’s intended uses but I have had numerous doctors tell me it far better for the human body than narcotics. I personally tried it and didn’t notice any effects but my husband who is a wounded warrior noticed a huge difference. Every medicine out there has side effects and for some it may not help, but for those who use it only for medicinal purposes they are able to live better lives. They make it to where you don’t get the same high as the recreational users do. In fact you can get it in pill form so that you get more medical treatment out of it without feeling high.
First off let me point out that you do have grammar mistakes. Secondly, if you are actually a RN you would know that no matter what form you take marijuana in it effects your body in the same way. Whether you smoke it or injest it the same toxins are released into your body and have the same effect. We can’t get “more medical treatment” out of it by changing the way you use marijuna.
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There: I fixed it for you, you hypocritical a’hole.
All I can say is SCREW MARIJUANA. My beloved was addicted to it (yes, you can be addicted to it) and he really didn’t smoke that much. Yet it royally screwed him over. Disrupted his digestive system quite a lot (which isn’t surprising, when you research THC’s actions and what normal cannabinoids are supposed to do in your system). They fogged his mind, changing him from a brilliant, ambitious, always-on-the-go young man to a lazy idiot. He finally kicked it and is recovering…he’s becoming clever and active again, but he’s not 100% yet, and it’s been some months. We’re hoping eventually he WILL reach 100%. He really hates the “fogginess” that still pervades his mental processes. (And he smoked the good stuff–not necessarily uberstrong, but quality.) He had friends and acquaintances that were also stoners. They used to be smarter, too, capable of many things. But they just kept going down and down, just as he had been doing. Now that he’s off of it, he’s back up to doing the things he actually enjoys–fixing things, doing things, trading things, making money! Not just sitting and watching Robot Chicken. He even fell out of love with me during it, to his and my pain. Off of it? He remembered why he loved me.
I really hope he’s able to be his self again some day. He’s getting closer, which brings me much joy–unspeakably so. Incomprehensibly so. I hope his friends get wise to it, too, because they’re more than the plant lets them be. Oh well.
(I’m not saying it can’t be used medicinally, but smoking ANYTHING will screw you–look at the bowls and pipes of users. All that junk? Helloooo? Opium can be used well medicinally–morphine revolutionized surgery. But you don’t need to smoke opium. Many naturally occurring substances CAN be used for medicine…but in a modified and monitored form, and never as a permanent answer.)
Screw marijuana.
All drugs have side effects and negative effects, including marijuana. It is hilarious to me that pot supporters make fantastic claims about their drug of choice, but then yell about the harm in prescription drugs. Yep, all RX drugs have negative effects. All of them. Yep, pot has medical uses. It does. The positive benefits may or may not out weigh the negative of both RX drugs or pot, but, either way, it doesn’t change the facts; neither pot nor RX drugs are all good or all bad. However, I don’t know any RX drug who has such a fanatically devoted following which claims the drug is omnipotent the way pot does. It is, according to its proponents, both all-powerful and yet completely harmless. And they see no contradiction in that. Maybe it is the pot talking.
There is this Lady who claims to be a neuroscientist named Cannamama on Facebook. She is a very unintelligent person because she does not get other sources from anywhere else and has been attacking a very good friend of mine who supports Marijuana.
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Cannabis is non psychoactive and very healthy when juiced in its raw form. I’m sure there is a downside to smoking kale, and you can make vodka from potatoes, but people shouldn’t be denied the health benefits of a natural plant because because other people use it the wrong way.
Well, “psychoactive” is defined as “affecting the mind or behavior” by Merriam-Webster (I picked the most well-known dictionary, but every other definition you will find of the word is equivalent.
And cannabis contains cannabinoids, and they cross the blood-brain barrier and have effects upon various parts of the brain.
Definitionally, cannabis is, actually, psychoactive.
I’d ask what you were smoking when you wrote your comment, but (a) I suspect that’s not a difficult one to suss out, and (b) it doesn’t matter, and (c) I’m not actually the sort to snark like that when a simple “words have meanings, also science” will suffice.
Peace out and stuff, I’m heading back to my bunker to huff more paint and gape, slack-jawed and drooling, at all the sparkly lights.
I strongly believe my daughters severe mental illness was brought on by marijuana. It is an extremely power full drug and she smoked like it was going out of style. Now she suffers from schizoaffecive disorder that is torturing her. I would do any thing to have known that pot, some old “natural” pot could cause my daughter to slip away like this. I never got too excited when she started, had I known I could of schooled her a bit. So don’t be trying to tell people that it’s harmless. It’s not for some people.
Most the changes seem to be for the better, violent acts and tendacy are reduced,the love for all mankind and a feeling as if we are all one are increased. The love for nature and taking care of our planet and a acknowledgement of the real important issues we should all be worried about not which bathroom to use is also a change I have seen in Marijuana users. So change yes, for the better or worse? I lean towards for the better. A peaceful planet of loving caring pot smoking Hippies loving thy brother and neighbors is closer to God’s promised paradise than any other substance I have seen or am aware of.
There is a difference between use and abuse. In everything.
One of many: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6599403_Hoffman_AF_Oz_M_Yang_R_Lichtman_AH_Lupica_CR_Opposing_actions_of_chronic_Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol_and_cannabinoid_antagonists_on_hippocampal_long-term_potentiation_Learn_Mem_14_63-74
When I got out of the Army, I had the chose to ether take the brain candy for PTSD or smoke a little pot before I go to sleep when I was feeling antsy. Point being I had already seen some of my buds eat bullets on the crap the VA was giving out. I have never seen anyone off themselves smoking dope. Screw up yes, suicide no. So this is my single act of civil disobedience. If Johnny Law wants to bust me for the four or five grams I sometimes have, do it.
I found you Mr Crowder, to be very condescending with some of your comments on the subject. I wonder why there were no comparesens to the use of ciggarettes??? And the one fact I always find with ALL anti pot people is the belief that there is not one good use for marijuana, not one ….. Let’s use the good docs own words”one marijuana cig has an effect on the brain for up to a week” but take this anti deprecent every 6 hours”. Or how about when she said marijuana is not a drug, with a discriprition as to why it isn’t, only to later in the video say” do we really want to introduce a drug by legalisation of marijuana that decreaceases the IQ up to 8 points”. Oh Steven come now , I might be giving you far to much credit among people of my generation by asking them to check out your page. Marijuana is illegal because of the Pharmasudical , insurance , liquor , forestry ,tobacco and a host of other industries Sales would plummet,with the FEDERAL TAXATION ON SAID INDUSTRIES. You see you can plant a seed in the earth , and with nothing more than Sun and rain and a little luck, produce your own , and as we all know , if you get in the way of someone (gov)making a dollar, there will usually be a way they will try to stop you (scientific studies).
Facts don’t matter?? The facts are that alcohol kills, drunk drivers kill, cigarettes kill, a lot of man made medications kill and all of these are LEGAL. Show me ONE case where pot has killed someone from overdose?…. I don’t need to site any sources for this. Google them yourself or watch the news. How high were the IQ’s of the people that legalized alcohol, cigarettes and prescription pills that kill?… I think it might have been better if their IQ’s were 8 points lower… because… idiots…
MJ does NOT cure cancer, no proof one what so ever. It does have it’s medical uses but curing cancer is not one of them.