If I may get your opinion.

sharon1

Active Member
...and this is the first forum I'm going to try to do so.

I am only a housewife. I retired early after 27 years of professional dog training.
I am a Southern California medical mj user, but plan to move to Paris Tenn in the next few years. Hubby and I bought 5 acres there and are going to build a home.

I have a condition called Hidradenitis Suppurativa. I am in stage 2 (out of 3) and I take herbs, such as tumeric and zinc. They have been known to reduce the severity and frequency of the boil-like out outbreaks that debilitate any normal function such as walking, or anything else that requires body movement.

That unfortunately makes me very nausieated, therefore, my 32yo son told me that mj would help me not be sick when I took the pills. My only alternative for this condition is to take steroids, that may help to quell the outbreaks of this incidious, debilitating, and embarrasing disease. (please, look it up if you're courious, this skin disease is NOT well known, and is truely horrible and embarrasing, probably why it's not so well known)

My husband and I plan to move to Tennessee in the next coupla years.
They have, on the ballet for November, a medical mj bill.
This is a bible-belt state, and I want to, as a "born again Christian" (truely I am)
avocate the passing of the medical mj law in that state.

I want your help here at RIU.

I want to gather, all the information possible, in order to argue and flood the Tenn. public that medical mj is good for the state.

I am not rich, but I do think I can make a difference, provided I can gather good, solid, information concerning:

Have drug crimes increased in med.mj states?
If so what type?
What have been the pitfalls, if any?

I want detail analisis, reliable information, internet or otherwise, as long as I can verify the information.
I live in southern California.
My information, and attitude about mj is influenced by this region. I want information about everything.

I post this topic because I am just starting on this journey. I want to get a feel for the reception I might get once I dive into this adventure. I want to know your thoughts, and after that, I will contact, privately, those who may want to help me in the future, but for now it's just a "feel".
I am not talinkg about jobs, please understand. At a later date, after much research and investigation, I may want help for pay, but that is not what I'm looking for now.
What I would love to see now, is anything that shows crime rates, DUI statistics...anything that has to do with the RESULTS, STATISTICS, of medical mj states vs those that don't have such a law.

You can pm me, and any reply is of course, appreciated.
Thank you.
I am also posting this in several forums here.
 

sharon1

Active Member
Edited: cuz I want to disclose that I am doing my own searches as well, but with more people, that see more info. that I'm not privy to, the better.​
 

UncleBuck

Well-Known Member
try to check out 'The Union: The Business Behind Getting High'...good high level overview.

it is always fun to tear apart the 'gateway effect'....nothing about marijuana makes you want to try other, harder drugs. it is the fact that cannabis is illegal that leads to the correlation between hard drugs and cannabis because you usually end up getting them from the same dealer. make it legal and let people grow their own or get from a dispensary and that correlation vanishes.

you might try to quantify just how much money is spent (wasted) on enforcement, incarceration, etc....once you put a number on things, especially dollars, it becomes more real to people. an economic argument was about the only thing that saved what scant few jews made it out of the holocaust....that and allied forces closing in.

emotional appeal is a good way to drive a message home....there is no shortage of horror stories of feds shooting dogs or raiding the house of terminally ill patients...take those stories, personify them, and drive them home.

i'm not sure if in a place like TN it would be wiser to talk about...
1) the racist beginnings of cannabis laws (marihuana was invented to associate the drug with mexicans during the 1930's)
2) make an argument that by keeping marijuana illegal, we are feeding those violent mexican cartels (racially tinged, but might play well in TN)
3) or both

hope those ideas get you started. please let me know if you want me to expound on any of those talking points or point you in the direction of some other literature/documentaries :hump:
 
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