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[MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking
#13967965 - 02/15/11 02:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Md. lawmakers shape medical marijuana bil February 15, 2011 - delmarvanow.com
ANNAPOLIS -- Delegate Mike McDermott said he will vote for a bill to allow medicinal marijuana use if an amendment he has filed is incorporated into it.
The bill, which has a counterpart in the Senate, would make marijuana a Schedule II controlled dangerous substance and allow it to be prescribed by doctors in certain cases. Marijuana is now classified as a Schedule I substance, meaning it "has a high potential for abuse" and has no accepted medical value.
McDermott's amendment, if added, would require anyone with a prescription for marijuana to consume it through a vaporizer, ingestion or injection -- not by smoking it.
"I would have to see if any other amendments come flying on," said McDermott, R-38B-Worcester.
If his amendment is not included in the final bill, he is unlikely to vote for it, he said.
"With the amendment, it becomes a medical issue entirely, but I can't vote for it in the present form," McDermott said.
Currently, 15 states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana to be used by some medical patients. Last year, a medicinal marijuana bill was introduced and passed in the Maryland Senate but got nowhere in the House.
The bill introduced this year has 61 delegates and 22 senators sponsoring it, including Sen. Jim Mathias, D-38-Worcester.
"I support marijuana with a doctor's prescription in a controlled circumstance to help someone with a chronic disease," said Mathias, whose wife, Kathy, has been battling breast cancer for 14 years. "We have been fortunate to do it through her strength, but some people aren't that fortunate."
Mathias said he will have to look at the final bill when it comes to the floor before deciding whether to vote for it.
Delegate Norman H. Conway, D-38B-Wicomico, said he does not plan to vote for the bill.
Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said NORML is always in favor of reforming laws so patients can get access, but said the law up for debate in Maryland is bittersweet.
"What types of diseases it can be used for seems to be overly restrictive," St. Pierre said.
According to the House's bill, to qualify for a prescription, a resident must have a chronic or debilitating disease that produces cachexia or wasting syndrome, severe or chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures or severe and persistent muscle spasms.
"We haven't run those numbers, but in the past we have looked at existing data including HIV/AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy patients," St. Pierre said. "One out of those four could immediately benefit."
In 2003, Maryland's Legislature passed a law requiring criminal courts to consider the context of a defendant's use of marijuana in sentencing. If an individual successfully makes a case that their use was medically necessary, the maximum penalty allowed by law is a $100 fine.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: veggie]
#13968737 - 02/15/11 04:31 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Interesting, but how does a person inject Marijuana?
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: melfdis]
#13968754 - 02/15/11 04:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Idiocy.
That isn't hyperbole.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: veggie]
#13968805 - 02/15/11 04:44 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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 If you can vaporize weed you can smoke it. There's no possible way to enforce such a measure.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: melfdis]
#13968903 - 02/15/11 05:07 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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melfdis said: Interesting, but how does a person inject Marijuana?
I inject mine into my anus, just like I do with gerbils, squirrels, and honey badgers.
It did say that a vaporizer could be used.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: Time Child]
#13968990 - 02/15/11 05:26 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Is it not bloods nature but to flow?
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: I AM SWIM] 1
#13969169 - 02/15/11 05:52 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have to say I support this. It isn't effective, but I think it's an important and necessary message to send that medication shouldn't be smoked. Smoking any herb is very bad for you, and when there are other healthier and more effective methods of administration, it's just dumb.
The fact that people want to smoke it suggests that no one gives a shit about its health effects and is just abusing the medicine title. And that isn't good for public realtion reasons.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: doses] 1
#13969588 - 02/15/11 07:07 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Patients who use cannabis have options besides smoking; vaping, edibles, tinctures, oinments, etc.
Sure, inhaling smoke sounds unhealthy and maybe it is. But there is no scientific evidence that indicates that any cannabis patient has ever received any negative health consequenses from smoking. That may be because of the small quantities involved, compared to smoking cigarettes for example, or the anti cancer qualities of cannabis. Even so, the benefits of smoked cannabis to the ill far exceed the miniscule possibility of any harm. And, depending on the illness, smoking may be the last method reccomended by a physician.
Until your post I would have thought that McDermott would have been the only person on the planet that would see 'injecting marijuana' as a viable alternative.
With his ammendment added the bill would have no chance of passing, which, I'd wager, is more of his goal than sending a message or concern for the health of patients.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: veggie]
#13969610 - 02/15/11 07:11 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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It would have a chance of passing, if he didn't add injection in. That just makes it seem "dirty" to any normal citizen. Of course, no one in their right mind is going to extract thc and inject it, so it's pointless to even put it in the bill.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: veggie]
#13969654 - 02/15/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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You can't tell me that repeatedly inhaling concentrated hot tarry combustion fumes into your lungs is good for you. It's very bad for you. Even if it contains an antioxidant that prevents cancer. The lung damage is still very real.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: doses]
#13969869 - 02/15/11 07:51 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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You're absolutely right. I would never tell you that "repeatedly inhaling concentrated hot tarry combustion fumes into your lungs is good for you." As I said inhaling smoke sounds unhealthy and maybe it is. I am generaly the first person to say that cannabis is not harmeless, in any form. My point is it doesn't matter, especially in the context of this story.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: veggie]
#13970048 - 02/15/11 08:20 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Anybody who injects marijuana should be arrested. It just isn't cool. What kind of a law is this anyway? So we throw dying people who make themselves cough a little extra in jail or fine them because they aren't being as healthy as we would like? Amazing that many of the people who need medical weed got to that point by smoking cigarettes and/or overeating. Where were the amendments to prevent those activities? And anyway how are they going to keep track of who smokes it and who vaporizes it in the first place? Random home visits?
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: 5-HT2A]
#13972001 - 02/16/11 02:33 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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if your that desperate to inject it your probably on fentanyl or some other heroin derivitive...
i used to smoke blunts, never had a difference in breathing due to bud smoke:shrugs: this guy i know did the same excessivly and he jogs after dinner for mile and miles my friend
its all ciggerette paranoia theres no fucking tar in plant flower
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: Konyap]
#13972220 - 02/16/11 05:31 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm an endurance athlete, and I can notice the difference if I even vape too much. I can't smoke at all because of how bad it is for your lungs.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: doses]
#13975363 - 02/16/11 07:16 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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i used to run long distance and it really did not hurt my ability to run very much at all.....after i picked up cigs tho i completely quit running and havent run much since...damn cigs..
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: usefulidiot13]
#13975377 - 02/16/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think I asked you about that before and didn't get an answer. Its cool that you used to run, what are your PR's?
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: doses]
#13976008 - 02/16/11 09:16 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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nevermind on the whole blunt thing
tobbacco by itself is pretty effed
but you know that would explain the anxiety attacks due to low blood pressure and lack of oxygen to brain (...)
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: veggie]
#13976552 - 02/16/11 10:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wonder what would happen in states with MM if they made it C-2.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: doses]
#13976631 - 02/16/11 10:55 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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doses said: I think I asked you about that before and didn't get an answer. Its cool that you used to run, what are your PR's?
in high school i ran the 800 and the 1600....in the 800 i ran a 2:00 flat and helped our 4 x 800 team set our school record...in the 1600 i never got to run it at my best but i was somewhere around 4:38.
the 5k was my favorite and my goal was to break 16:00 my senior year, but i ended up getting a stress fracture in my lower back and it fucked my whole senior season...my best was 16:40 which was not very good in my eyes...we had a fuckin sophomore that was running a 15:00 5k and kicking EVERYONEs asses all over the state...he almost won state as a 10th grader, won as an 11th grader, and then injured himself in the state meet his senior year...we were in the hardest semi-state BY FAR tho and he won that as a senior, so he had basically beaten all of the best already, but did not take the state trophy...his name was brock hagerman.
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Re: [MD] Amendment would allow marijuana injection, prohibit smoking [Re: usefulidiot13]
#13977595 - 02/17/11 05:26 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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