@kathykato said:

It was mildly amusing when the hospital staff ate pot brownies on Grey's Anatomy a few years ago. It can still be humorous if done right.\

No, it can't. Somehow, despite the fact that they all ingest mountains of cocaine, Hollywood screenwriters have absolutely no idea what the high from marijuana is actually like.

You don't repeat the same word over and over 'lamp, lamp, lamp, lamp, lamp' and then announce 'gee, if you think about it, that's a weird word...lamp.' I've seen that in at least 577,654 movies and TV shows, and it doens't ring true. That's not what being high is like.

Hollywood screenwriters seem to think that marijuana is exactly like LSD and you see crazy psychedelic visions everywhere, like people's faces melting, or they think it is like the withdrawal symptoms from methamphetamines, where you see giant spiders crawling all over the wall, that's not what it's like either.

Marijuana has an effect similar to alcohol, you don't see crazy visions when you're drunk, despite thousands of jokes about drunks seeing pink elephants. When you're drunk, you just kind of feel happy, and everything you see seems to be hysterically funny.

That's what marijuana is like, Someone could be completely stoned out of his mind in the very room with you and unless you are observing him very closely, noticed the glazed over eyes, and the excessive giggling, you would have no idea he was even high.

I've worked with people who came to work completely stoned, and the only way I could tell they were stoned was that when they were close, I could smell the marijuana smoke on their clothing.  Their behavior was indistinguishable from anyone else, as the cliche goes they were 'as sober a priest on Sunday.'

People high on marijuana do not act anything like what you see on TV. Indeed, all those sitcom episodes about people accidentally ingesting 'pot brownies' and acting completely crazy seem to be based less on the reality of what it is actually like to be stoned, and more on anti-drug movies like 'Reefer Madness'.

So who exactly is Trina?

I can't recall.

@SoapWatch said:

So who exactly is Trina?

I can't recall.

Josslyn's friend who hid condoms in Josslyn's purse.

Trina also had the tranny date to whatever school party that was at Jake's when the earthquake hit.

@Dedoc1967 said:

Trina also had the tranny date to whatever school party that was at Jake's when the earthquake hit.

Was Dakota Trina’s boyfriend who knew the pot dealer?

Just weird how Cam knows just who to go to for weed.

Also is weed off the street the same thing as medical marijuana? You just put them in brownies and they have potential healing power?

Medical marijuana comes in different forms. Pills and extracts are often used for kids.

Marijuana doesn't heal cancer, obviously, but is known to reduce nausea, increase appetite, and help with seizures. All of which would be helpful to Oscar.

Who is Barney Miller?

@Briabba2 said:

Who is Barney Miller?

One of Mike's old friends.

@SoapWatch said:

Just weird how Cam knows just who to go to for weed.

Also is weed off the street the same thing as medical marijuana? You just put them in brownies and they have potential healing power?

He doesn’t know. The text literally refers to the pot guy as UNKNOWN.

@SoapWatch said:

Just weird how Cam knows just who to go to for weed.

Also is weed off the street the same thing as medical marijuana? You just put them in brownies and they have potential healing power?

And how many brownies would Oscar have to eat? The whole pan?

@SoapWatch said:

You just put them in brownies and they have potential healing power?

No one has ever claimed that marijuana has 'healing power', what has been claimed is that it can be effective for pain relief when traditional pain relievers don't work. I'm not sure I really buy that claim, but assuming it is true, I don't see why they can't just isolate the ingredient (probably TCH) that can relieve pain and mass produce and market that as a non-addictive pain reliever.

The reason why they don't do that, of course, is that 'medicinal marijuana' is usually just a cover for the purely recreational use of marijuana. I'm skeptical of the legalization movement simply because the advocates of legalization are not honest about their real motivations. If they would just come out and say 'I don't care about any alleged medicinal value, I just want to get stoned out of my mind' I'd have a lot more respect for them. I'm not convinced there is any more harm to marijuana than there is to alcohol, but again, until legalizations advocates are willing to tell the truth, I'm a skeptic about claims of 'medicinal value'.

@SoapWatch said:

@Briabba2 said:

Who is Barney Miller?

One of Mike's old friends.

That is such a great response!

They do isolate the THC, Auto, for the pill and oil forms used for kids. And as I already mentioned, it's proved to be helpful to reduce nausea and increase appetite, which is especially a godsend for people receiving chemotherapy.

Medical marijuana in its regular form can be prescribed for anxiety. It is much safer and better than the typical benzos prescribed. Benzos are highly habit forming, and people can OD on them. Medical detox is often required to get off them. In fact, the only more dangerous drugs in terms of dependency and detox are heroin and alcohol. In light of these facts, it's bewildering to me how anyone could have a problem with medical marijuana. I think it should be legalized in general, it is much less toxic than alcohol, cigarettes, or fast food, the typical fare people use to sell-medicate anxiety .

@kathykato said:

I think it should be legalized in general, it is much less toxic than alcohol, cigarettes, or fast food, the typical fare people use to sell-medicate anxiety .

I self-medicate by being sexually compulsive. So much cheaper than any of the above.