I know I shouldn't waste time arguing with someone who considers a cannabis user a "junkie" and spells Asperger's "asbergers", but let me just say that I've yet to hear you state one single fact regarding cannabis as medicine, which was the original title of the thread. I took the time to recall and type up actual FACTS--you know, the conclusions people come to after conducting scientific tests, recording their data, and having it published for the world to see--while you merely repeated the same tired propaganda you likely heard your D.A.R.E. teacher or youth counselor tell you.

FACT: Cannabis is non-toxic and has never killed anyone as a result of overdose, as have legal drugs like alcohol, caffeine, and OTC pain killers.

OPINION: "Drugs stink."

FACT: Cannabis is an effective anti-emetic, anti-spasmodic, and sleep aid prescribed to patients suffering from AIDS, cancer, arthritis, insomnia, and other diseases and disorders.

OPINION: "You sound like a junkie".

FACT: The cannabis seed contains all 9 essential amino acids needed by the body for proper nutrition, something wholly unique to the plant and found nowhere else in nature.

OPINION: "Say no to drugs".

See where this is going? For someone who has yet to dispute the things I listed about marijuana by using intelligent, unemotional language and facts, you sure are rude. I didn't come on this forum to flaunt some perceived knowledge of psychiatric conditions, drugs, and philosophy in everyone's face, but you flaunted your ignorance in mine first. I think everyone can see that my original post was just about as unemotional and straightforward as possible and that you attacked me for posting facts that are pretty much well-known and widely accepted (maybe not by anti-drug propagandists like yourself, but by the majority of the medical and psychiatric community). I usually AM friendly and moderate, but not when it comes to being publicly insulted by someone who doesn't know me at a forum I just signed up on, I tend to get a little irritated. I'm not angry at you and don't see why this should go any further, as it's not getting us anywhere as far as this thread is concerned. From here on out, I'll just listen to whatever you want to say to me with the quiet understanding that I know who I am and that my concept of self can't be shaken by another poster on an internet forum, nor can the facts about marijuana and the history of drugs in this country--both legal and illegal--be changed by sensational, biased, and politically-motivated propaganda.