Terminology. Marijuana or medicine? Patient or stoner? Dealer or caregiver?

Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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North of England brought up a good point IMO.

Legalization has changed terminology. Dealers are now calling themselves caregivers, etc..

How do you feel about this?

Yes, there is truth in the terminology. It is medicine, there are MANY patients, there are many, many caregivers. Not picking a fight on that. But, to me, the whole thing smacks of jargon. It reminds me of how the medical profession (and everybody associated with it) started to use the word "lives" instead of patients. "We have 1265 lives under our care". Makes them sound so damned important.

I'm a stoner. I smoke weed because I like it. On the other hand, I could be riddled with diseases that marijuana treats. I have no way of knowing.:bigjoint:

Is this just a dance that gets done to stay right with the law? Is it a pretentious wank?
 
vostok

vostok

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I used to smuggle weed, often one would inform the local air traffic tower, we are medical cargo, with 3 souls on board ....lol, we often blazzed up on that 'souls' as we imagined that souls can walk of a crashed aircraft .....lol
 
canndo

canndo

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vostok said:
I used to smuggle weed, often one would inform the local air traffic tower, we are medical cargo, with 3 souls on board ....lol, we often blazzed up on that 'souls' as we imagined that souls can walk of a crashed aircraft .....lol
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I thought souls only inhabited ships and passengers rode in airplanes.
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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canndo said:
I thought souls only inhabited ships and passengers rode in airplanes.
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I am guessing that he might have been implying that the three souls were medical personnel/patients. Or I could easily see this trend having made it so that even bus drivers refer to their passengers as souls. It seems like the entire country is on this kick. Sort of a magical, feel-good, make-us-better-by-changing-nothing-but-the-terminology school of thought.
 
dannyboy602

dannyboy602

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i don't even call it weed. i call it cannabis. it sounds more professional. but the law still calls it marijuana. i much prefer "possession with intent to be a caregiver" than the current description.
 
bendoverbilly

bendoverbilly

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vostok said:
I used to smuggle weed, often one would inform the local air traffic tower, we are medical cargo, with 3 souls on board ....lol, we often blazzed up on that 'souls' as we imagined that souls can walk of a crashed aircraft .....lol
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Can you please repeat, this time in something other than klingon.
 
WeedKillsBrainCells

WeedKillsBrainCells

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I rarely will call it medicine just for the sake of irony - even if it does have medical value its still weed to me. Caregiver? Meh, definitely depends on the guy giving it... Haven't met a dealer round here yet that wouldn't sell to like a 10 year old if they coukd
 
Milovan

Milovan

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Unclebaldrick said:
North of England brought up a good point IMO.

Legalization has changed terminology. Dealers are now calling themselves caregivers, etc..

How do you feel about this?

Yes, there is truth in the terminology. It is medicine, there are MANY patients, there are many, many caregivers. Not picking a fight on that. But, to me, the whole thing smacks of jargon. It reminds me of how the medical profession (and everybody associated with it) started to use the word "lives" instead of patients. "We have 1265 lives under our care". Makes them sound so damned important.

I'm a stoner. I smoke weed because I like it. On the other hand, I could be riddled with diseases that marijuana treats. I have no way of knowing.:bigjoint:

Is this just a dance that gets done to stay right with the law? Is it a pretentious wank?
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I believe new terminology such as "medicate" and "caregivers" is used mostly by
newbies and not by all out hardcore stoners or hippies.
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Milovan said:
I believe new terminology such as "medicate" and "caregivers" is used mostly by
newbies and not by all out hardcore stoners or hippies.
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Ok. But are they really thinking any differently than us old timers? Is this the primary school of thought (weed is medicinal, not recreational) among the new generation? Even during Prohibition you could get a script for good whisky and fill it at a pharmacy. But to my knowlege, this did not make many people deceive themselves that they using it for their nerves any more than before.
 
giggles26

giggles26

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Well when I was a kid yea I was a pot head but now that I've grown up and got me an education it's a medicine for me as I fucked my body up when I was younger and cannabis helps with the pain.

Oh and no were not hiding behind being a caregiver. We are farmers, what is so wrong if we can make 60,000 a year just like any other farmer of crops does?
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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Im a medical marijuana patient that chooses to give up his extra meds for a donation sometimes..not a pothead or a drug dealer its the proper way to speak about mj in cali times have changed bros dont fight it embrace it!
 
MojoRison

MojoRison

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For me it will always be "lets go smoke a joint", I'm unwilling to kowtow to anyone for the correct term in society, so someone else can feel better about my use of cannabis...bah humbug
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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giggles26 said:
Well when I was a kid yea I was a pot head but now that I've grown up and got me an education it's a medicine for me as I fucked my body up when I was younger and cannabis helps with the pain.

Oh and no were not hiding behind being a caregiver. We are farmers, what is so wrong if we can make 60,000 a year just like any other farmer of crops does?
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Farmer! I like it. Backbone of American society.
 
BygonEra

BygonEra

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IME people who say they "medicate" with their "medication" think they're above all the other stoners out there. And now that it's "legal" it's just like any other prescription. If you smoke anything, I'm sorry, but you are damaging your lungs. There's no difference whether you smoke it because you "need" it for your ailment, or because you smoke it to get stoned. It's the same thing. Just my (possibly offensive) two cents.
 
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