Like many cancer patients, Mykayla Comstock takes medical marijuana to ease the often intense side effects of chemotherapy. But unlike other patients, Mykayla is a 7-year-old with leukemia.
Her mom Erin Purchase says the pills pushed Mykayla into remission, seemed to boost her appetite and decreased the nausea from her chemotherapy treatments. “It helps me eat and sleep,” Mykayla told the Oregonian.
But her father doesn’t agree, and some doctors and researchers say they’re worried about the effect medical marijuana could have on a developing child.
What do you think? Should seriously ill young children be given medical marijuana?
Chemotherapy kills your cells, and eventually you. They just stop before it does. Pot doesn’t do that. For that, I feel like the father is an asshole who is putting what he thinks about pot before what is best for his child. Chemo (aside from killing your cells, which guess how good that probably feels?) often severely reduces (or even erases) people’s appetite, which will make them weak.
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be getting gradually weaker as they pump poison chemicals into my body.
I preface almost everything I say about marijuana with this: I do not use it at all. I have no interest whatsoever in using it and I can’t see that ever changing. But if I were a cancer patient getting chemotherapy, you bet your ass I would be on pot pills for the nausea and lack of appetite. The dangerous substance you are putting in yourself is the one that is killing your tumor cells, not the one making you eat.
If they are so worried whether it will hinder her development, they should consider the alternative: if she gets too weak from the chemo, they have to stop it. Then the cancer recovers. Let your kid eat, asshole.
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I don’t do drugs, but not for the cost, not the legal ramifications, and certainly not the fact I don’t enjoy the lack of control associated with a buzz of any sort. These things are all real, but not why I don’t do drugs. I don’t do drugs because according to this sign, I really can’t be the very best (like no one ever was) on drugs. My point being this is the kind of BS that doesn’t stop people from doing drugs. People think. Eventually, they figure out they are being manipulated. You want to keep your kids on the straight and narrow? Educate them. Don’t scare them, don’t tell them it’s cool to not like drugs, and don’t use their favorite stuff to manipulate them out of it. I don’t do drugs because I find them to be a waste. Some are dangerous, some aren’t, but everything has a cost. The culture surrounding them also heavily turns me off. Doesn’t mean it should be illegal, because then they’d have to outlaw Goths (because I don’t like their culture either). But then there would be not Gothic Industrial dance and that would be a far worse crime.
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Pikachu on Acid by high5toons
Just watch it.
That made me laugh, but the animation was crazy good.
I just want to know where the psychadelic light Lego blocks came from. Then I can just get some of them instead of taking mushrooms.
Welfare Drug Testing Bill Withdrawn After Amended To Include Testing Lawmakers
A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday after one of his Democratic colleagues amended the measure to require drug testing for lawmakers.
Lawmaker #1: WE SHOULD DRUG TEST WELFARE APPLICANTS.
Lawmaker #2: Good idea! We should be drug tested too.
Lawmaker #1: I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS ANYMORE!