I'm sorry if I come off harsh. Some people here may know that I'm going through a rough time. I went to the ER a few years ago for stomach pain and openly admitted to using marijuana when they asked. The doctor then said "that's what's causing your stomach pain, we see it in the ER all the time" and proceeded to run NO TESTS. It had been weeks since I smoked but I thought they might be right. The nurse came to me a moment later, said the doc was full of it and I had no marijuana in my system and to ask for a referral outside Kaiser if these doctors continued to make assumptions. I did ask and was declined. I've had stomach problems since I was young....long before my first puff of cannabis. Turns out I have something in my stomach and had those jerks looked when I first started coming, my family and I could have been saved years of torment. I'm ANGRY. I've had psych issues since I was young, long before that first puff but I have no doubt they have assumed that pot caused it. These are deadly assumptions people make so freely. Do you know how many people have been jailed long term for innocent pot use? How many lives destroyed, families in ruins because the bread maker was put in jail and kids growing up without a father or mother! Pot makes people laugh, eat and sleep....not commit crimes, become abusive or anything to warrant jail in MOST cases. If someone gets psychosis from it, hopefully they will stop. but assumptions do nobody any good and are freakin deadly. I'm sorry if I'm coming across as hostile...but perhaps it's for all the people who have lost their freedom unjustly due to other people's ignorant assumptions and need to control others.
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