"Medical" Marijuana
Now the last few entries haven't been very angry. This one is to make up for that.
How many of us have been merrily working along, to have some fucking douchebag come into your store and ask if you stock "medical" marijuana? How many of you have had said douchebag argue with you when you say that marijuana is illegal to have on the basis of "I have a prescription".
Let me clear the air here. Marijuana is a C-I substance. It is illegal. End of story. Cocaine is a C-II substance, cocaine is legal with an Rx!
I don't care if you have an Rx from some quack in some hippie-dirt-eating-town like San Francisco or Seattle. I don't care if you have a letter from God himself saying "Thou Shalt Smoke The Weed". Its fucking illegal. Let me repeat it again because you were baked the first time I said it; its fucking illegal. Don't care what your city says, what your county says, what your liberal fruity-motherfucker mayor says, its illegal. State law cannot relax a federal law, get used to it.
Where do people get off arguing with me about this shit? I could care less if there is a clinic down the road that sells it for "medical purposes". A quick call to the DEA and that clinic wont be around for much longer, why? ITS FUCKING ILLEGAL TO GROW OR SELL MARIJUANA! Is prostitution legal for people with erectile dysfunction (with an Rx of course)? Think about that one for a while.
Now I know that people are going to blow me shit about how you have "glaucoma","wasting", "blah blah chronic pain", "blah blah you dont know how it feels" that require smoking out three times a day. My response? There are a whole shitpot full of other agents out there that are safer, cheaper, and work a whole lot better than smoking out. Stop using those lame ass cop-out excuses and stop inviting me to your pity party. Go see a "real" doctor and get a "real" Rx for some Soma or Vicodin instead of going to a quack and getting an "Rx" for some pot. I may not know how it feels to need pot, but you obviously don't know how it feels to be annoyed while you're trying to work (you know, work? The thing you don't do. A job? Ring any bells?)
When you're 24 years old, reek of pot walking in the front door, then stumble over your words saying that you have glaucoma and HIV/AIDS wasting (when you're a good 260lbs) and you need some marijuana, it makes me want to kick you in the face and give you a real reason to smoke out everyday. Then you hand me your medicaid card which really makes me mad that you're doing this shit on my tax dime!
And for god sakes, quit arguing with us about the legality of it! You're a stoner hippie (still living with your mother) arguing with someone who's not baked, went to college, has use of most of his brain still, can remember things for longer than 3 mins, and legally deals drugs for a living! In fact, you wont remember this conversation 10 min's from now (but your glaucoma will be excellent!).
God help us if they decide to make pot legal. If you think Americans are fat and lazy now, imagine when a good majority of the population is sitting around eating Big Macs and smoking out all day. Oh wait, thats our welfare system. Sorry about that.
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I'm surprised I'm the first to comment. This post will surely stir up some shit.
It is quite one thing to (correctly) state that yes, marijuana is illegal and no, you will not dispense it. It's quite another to extend this assumption to marijuana being clearly a less suitable drug than myriad synthetics for every purpose. There wouldn't be such a strong medical marijuana movement if its efficacy (superior for some conditions) weren't clearly demonstrated. It's illegal, you can't dispense it, the people asking you for it are goddamn idiots: this much is clear. I'd just ask you to do those who really do need medical pot a favor and not insult them and label them as drug seekers. You are using one brush to paint a whole group of people, and I have seen you exercise discretion when dealing with other groups (such as users of pain pills; there are clearly those who need them and those who do not, and you have taken care to distinguish between the two).
In any case, prepare for an onslaught of comments. This one's a hot potato. Thanks for keeping such an excellent blog.
i agree with you as i do on so many other things. i sometimes wonder what would happen if they just made all illegal drugs legal so you can "take in moderation" but you can only get said drugs at the department of motor vehicles or police stations. we give a bit they give a bit.lol. keep up the great work man.
Hope this comment doesn't make you angrier (is that a word? Who cares, I'm a stoner, people expect that kind of thing from me.)
I'm glad you aren't my pharmacist dude, your negative vibes are really bringing me down.
I can understand your anger at the stoopid stoners.
Too bad cannabis has never killed anyone from an overdose, maybe if it were as deadly as some of the drugs you package up for people, there wouldn't be a problem because all the stoners would be dead.
Wouldn't that be cool?
The only people who ever died from pot were shot by a cop.
The Honorable Francis Young, an administrative law judge for the DEA held hearings back in 1988 regarding the rescheduling of Cannabis from Schedule 1 to a schedule more appropriate, in his summary, he refered to cannabis as one of the safest most therapeutically active substances known to man.
The DEA administrator filed his ruling in the circular file.
I can understand your hatred of stoners who appear too stupid to get it, but the feds classification of cannabis as having no medically acceptable uses and a high potential for abuse is as Judge young stated, arbitrary and capricious. Those are his words, not mine.
I'm curious how it can be that Marinol, a man made THC derivative can be scheduled as C-2 while its natural counterpart is listed as C-1. Actually I know the answer to that question, I'm just curious if you do.
It is like my investment broker told me when she noticed that there wasn't much diversity in the portfolio, "Some people object, but pharmaceuticals are usually the best investments you can make."
I apologize for my idiotic brethren. I usually don't do what you describe, I do however ask the opinion of the workers of pharmacies from time to time. If I ever ask your opinion, I'm certain I'll know that I'm dealing with you.
Peace my brother,
Logos
Maybe you should just relax and enjoy a fattie. Jeesh!
I just spewed all over my screen!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!
You might want to check out the Jan 22 issue of Drug Topics. There's a story in there on how pot may help slow the progression of AD. Supposedly the baby boomers who got high back in the 60s and 70s had a much lower risk of getting AD than the ones who didn't. WTF?!
I am not a big proponent of the drug war, particularly when it comes to pot. However I think pot is an absurd drug and think pot use is f-ing stupid. The whole 'medical' thing is friggin ridiculous - it's just an end around to making it legal. Every concert I go to has people smoking pot at it. Hell, I smell pot lots of places I go so obviously it's not hard to get.
IF it's legal, we'll have a lot dumber populace and like you said, we are lazy enough as it is.
Please please please, hell, I'll send you a camera you can keep, go into work one day off the clock and snap some pictures of people looking for Medical Marijuana.
I'll tell you man, this blog is better than any drug. No matter how bad my day is going, I can come here and laugh my ass off
Its so true! Preach it! Once again your site , gives me a reason to laugh at work.
Other agents indeed, but I duno about cheaper. ;-)
Whether people smoke pot is none of mine or anybodys business. I have lots of friends(even pharmacists) who smoke that are not stupid and smoke pot like most people would drink a glass of wine or beer. Its illegal? Thats a cop out who can not think for themselves.Booze hurts much more than pot does and most pharmacies sell the stuff,along with tobacco.
In reference to Logos, Marinol is actually a C-III controlled subtance. Which is less strictly controlled than C-II controlled subtances like fentanyl (~80x more potent than morphine) and hydromorphone.
Apparently, the World Health Organization is the only body that understands the potential medicinal purposes of marijuana. They recommend rescheduling THC to Schedule IV, their least strictly controlled substance, citing its low abuse potential and extremely low toxicity.
...Those damn hippies dont even realize Miranol has been made a CIII no longer a CII. Meh what ever he wont remeber in the next few minutes.
Thank You,
I thought I was the only one burned out by companies requiring us to be "team layers", "professional" and "dedicated".
What we go through as pharmacists can be traced to a fable known as "The Emperors New Clothes"-the story of con artists selling invisible clothes to an emperor with the pretext that the clothing was so fine that it was invisible to fools.
Nobody wanted to admit that they could not see the clothing at the risk of being called a fool. The modern term for this con is known as political correctness. The real name for this is social cowardice. In my opinion, due to this process pharmacists are bullied in to being the town whore for the medical community. "Boy if you had wanted to be a doctor they cry , you should have gone to medical school" Thus put in our place, we endure the travesty that is retail pharmacy. Uh, where are we supposed to hang the red light in pharmacy anyway?
You sir are the douche. You would give rx pills to drug addicts, if it wasnt marijuana. But when it comes to a harmless plant that illicits appetite and combats severe nausea like no other, you'll turn them down. Enjoy the conservative pole shoved up your ass.
....Because I would be so much more of a better person if I walked around snorting coke all day simply because its a Schedule II drug and considered legal. And lets not talk about all the junkies coming to my pharmacy looking for syringes and bringing fake rx's for "legal drugs." The majority of the pharmacists I work with say the only reason they dont smoke ANYMORE is because of random drug testing and fear of losing their jobs. And seeing that they have obviously made it through pharmacy school must say something about their intelligence. I have been a pharmacy tech for years, PTCB certified and I seem to be doing just fine. Don't talk to me about "lazy and stupid stoners" because some of the smartest people I know can roll a damn good joint! And with that being said...puff puff pass... ;)
I must say I'm very sad to see that you can't empathize with others who have chronic pain conditions. I'm shocked, actually.
Do you have any concept of what it's like to wake up every morning feeling like your arms are so heavy you can't lift them? To have to walk to work every day while waiting for a disability decision from the government and come home holding your side sobbing in pain?
You know NOTHING of how horrifying it is to be told you have a chronic, degenerative condition that has NO CURE. None. You know what that translates to? Do you?
It means there's no hope. There's nothing that can be done, sorry, here's some painkillers for that excruciating torment tearing apart your life. Too bad they'll put you in a semiconscious coma that leaves you drooling on the bed.
Yeah.
Fuck you too.
Cool--- 'bout time someone stood up to loser stoners !! Those bastards worshipped the "medical Marijuana King" Ken Gorman like he was Jesus. Now that he's dead (killed by another stoner), they hold this idiot up like a martyr !
--- Jethro
Author of this article: please kill yourself and do the world a favor. Thanks in advance.
fuck you, propagandist cunt.
OK YOU FUCKIN LOSER!!! YOU SUCK AND I AM GLAD THAT NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO YOU CAN ALWAYS SMOKE BUD LEGAL OR NOT! SO HA HA MOTHER FUCKER. I LOVE NOTHING MORE TO COME HOME AND SMOKE A BIG FAT BOWL. SOME STICKY ICKEY AND I HAVE 3 FUCKIN KIDS THAT ARE FED,BATHED, AND CLOTHED RIGHT AFTER I GOT DONE SMOKIN AND I AM A SINGLE MOTHER THAT WORKS AND GOES TO SCHOOL FULL TIME SO HOW IS THAT FOR A LAZY ASS HUH? IF I DIDNT HAVE BUD THEN I DONT THINK I COULD MAINTAIN MY SANITY WITH THOSE KIDS WITHOUT IT. SO TO ALL MY FELLOW POT HEADS THIS JOINT IS FOR YOU DONT FORGET PUFF PUFF PASS DONT BABY SIT. TO EVERYONE ELSE YOU SUCK YOUR MISSING OUT!
I know this guy is rants about an English requirement for pharmacists, but it's a language that even he's yet to master. They really should add more writing, grammar, and possibly logic requirements to those PharmD programs. Logic to avoid so many logical fallacies and grammar to help our angry friend find the apostrophe button once in a while. But then again, those new pharmacist are way smarter than his graduating class anyway--and he got in with just a bachelor's degree. Sad that this is the profession I have chosen, because it's just filled with this kind of shithead. Now I've sunk to his level of ad hominem attack. I'll let everyone get back to watching Glenn Beck.