Lately the so-called "Christian" Action League (CAL) has been very busy lobbying the North Carolina state legislature for the "right" to bully school children who are perceived as gay or transgender. Fortunately, they just lost that battle.
So now they will be spending their time picking on sick people.
The group is currently spreading sensationalist lies in order to incite opposition to a North Carolina medical marijuana bill.
They're saying that, if the bill were to pass, "[w]ith a doctor’s recommendation and a $10 ID card, virtually anyone could legally smoke marijuana."
If I were a physician in North Carolina, I would be hugely insulted, because the CAL's words imply that, if this bill passes, doctors in North Carolina will waste no time in issuing pot prescriptions indiscriminately to everyone who asks for one, whether it's warranted by the medical facts or not. The CAL's words imply that doctors would immediately try to turn all good North Carolina residents into Cheech and Chong.
Yes, it's that ridiculous. (That's why we call them extremists.)
The fact is that doctors, in recent years, have become more conservative overall in prescribing pain relief. That doesn't sound like fertile ground for abuse of the new bill, if it should become law in North Carolina.
(And, of course, pot is likely to produce fewer undesirable side effects than, say, Rush Limbaugh's drug of choice -- Oxycontin.)
So, if medical marijuana can help some people to deal with their pain, where is the harm?
Why do the CAL folks want people to suffer needlessly?
I thought Christianity was supposed to have something to do with compassion.
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