Halfway there, his mother told him he would have to give up the marijuana he uses to control seizures and switch to prescribed medicine. Madewell changed his plans and headed for Colorado, where recreational weed has been sold legally since Jan. 1.
"I'm not going to stop using something organic," he said. "I don't like the pills."
Madewell is among the homeless lured to Colorado by legal marijuana who are showing up at shelters and other facilities, stressing a system that has seen an unusually high number of people needing help this summer.
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More drugs than he realizes have organic content.
You mean pot doesn't make you outgoing and goal driven ?
Maybe we should buy oneway bus tickets to Denver for some of the local homeless.
In addition to the homeless people who use marijuana, there are lots of social workers, clerks, car salesmen, hospital workers, ditch diggers, painters, electricians, plumbers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, media workers, housewives, husbands, daughters, sons, cousins, and neighbors.
It is not just homeless people who enjoy the plant.
Alcohol never made anyone homeless? How is it any different?
Both should be legal, you don't want it they don't do it. Just like alcohol, some drink and some don't.
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In addition to the homeless people who use marijuana, there are lots of social workers, clerks, car salesmen, hospital workers, ditch diggers, painters, electricians, plumbers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, media workers, housewives, husbands, daughters, sons, cousins, and neighbors.
It is not just homeless people who enjoy the plant.
July 27, 2014 at 1:46 PM
All employers should do mandatory drug testing. If all those people are smoking pot then they must be working and driving while high. I won't tolerate it, I won't vote to legalize pot. One drug leads to another and pot leads to heroin and heroin leads to death. There is an epidemic out there and it all started with pot. That is a fact.
Colorado is experiencing an influx of illegal pot sellers as well. They can sell it for much less than the licensed establishments.
They have also had to create government task forces because of unintended consequences of the law such as children and others getting sick from eating edible marijuana products.
Of course it has. Out of control alcoholics can't hold a job and therefore many times lose their families and house in the process. I have read many of these stories in my lifetime. Pot will do the same.
It's ashame how something like this controls ones life.
Let's get a bus full of burys best and send them to Denver. I'll pay for a spot. One way.
3:17 you could not be more wrong. Not every pot smoker becomes a junkie.
With that logic cupcakes should be illegal
3:17 What about the person with back pain who takes a couple of Oxycontin during the workday because they can't afford to miss work. Then they drive home. They are probably just as high as the pot smoker.
A lot of people probably don't even remember when Motrin was a prescription drug because it is a muscle relaxant.
I don't like any drugs. I still don't like the fact I have to take some for high blood pressure. However it seems to me that there are a lot of hypocrites when it comes to drugs.
As far as "One drug leads to another and pot leads to heroin and heroin leads to death", you probably believe in global climate change too.
But Gore and Obama say that climate change is real, so it must be true. Right? Remember, everyone handles things differently. Just stay off the road and keep it to yourself and most people don't care.
If you test for marijuana, you're typically testing for metabolites that last up to a week (if not longer) in the bloodstream. So, lighting up on Friday in the comforts of your own home means you might still test positive the following Thursday. And whom, exactly, are we keeping safe on the roads by doing that?
Lets make murder legal !
3:44 must be a pot smoker as they are unable to comprehend. 3:17 never once said nor even hinted that every pot smoker ends up a junkie only that pot is the gateway drug that causes an epidemic. This can not be denied.
It's like not all male spousal abusers kill their wife, but just about every wife that ends up dead at the hands of her husband was abused by him. Not all pot smokers end up junkies but just about every junkie started with pot.
Actually 6:25 you will find they started with alcohol.
6:25 and 8:19, they probably started with sugar
3:17 Urine idiot. Start with tobacco and alcohol... not pot. Ffs, where do you mental midgets come from?
Right. Millions swarm to Kentucky because of the cheap whiskey and more millions swarmed to North Carolina for cheap cigarettes (now THAT'S a drug you should be concerned about, but your "leaders" keep that one legal (the money they collect is too great to do otherwise, even though that drug IS addictive and KILLS 500,000 Americans EACH YEAR!!)
How many people have died from pot? Wait for it.............ZERO.
As for someone losing their house over pot, well the only way that will happen is if they have to choose between paying a lawyer or the mortgage.
3:17 is truly one of the stupidest of them all. Liquor has probably addled his objective reasoning skills and he's down to just muttering what someone else has told him.
9:54 I agree with your statement except while not in the millions quite a few do swarm to NC & VA for cigarettes. That's why so many are stopped for smuggling cigarettes in MD & DE on their way to NJ & NY.
One of my points about this is what happens when some day MD police stop people on the highway and demand to see their Walmart receipt for goods bought in DE. Then they arrest them because they didn't pay MD sales tax.
It is the oils in cannabis that reduces seizure activity not smoking the weed. A naturalist would be a better choice to obtain this oil(his med) than living homeless and self medicating. He will have COPD. Sad
3:17 and 6:25 are both idiots who have no idea what they are talking about, and 6:25 I am a smoker and I would put my intellectual acuity against yours any day of the week.
The number one gateway drug is ALCOHOL. It always has been and always will be. Most kids who try smoking weed will always have tried drinking first, whether they take it from their parents or someone obtains it for them. The current heroin epidemic is, hands down, the result of a massive wave of pharmaceutical drugs that flooded our society in the previous decade. When those pills were taken away, the heroin epidemic took over. I've smoked for years, not like it's something to be proud of, but I always hated prescription pills and I think heroin is disgusting. If you want to eliminate the surge of heroin use, go back ten or fifteen years and prevent the pharmaceutical companies from flooding the country with synthetic versions of it.
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