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Singaporean man executed for importing cannabis
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Because you cant avoid repercussions of easily avoidable actions?
Yep, thats the typical response when people are backed into a corner and cant make a valid retort.
LOL you didnt realize that wasnt comment OP. Username still fits.
And another one attacking the person cause they cant say anything against the message.
No, because I require prescriptions that would earn me a death sentence there.
You might want to get a better doctor. Cannabis has been found to be ineffective for most of the conditions it's prescribed for. The very few that it has shown effectiveness for have better treatment options available. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/evidence-lacking-medical-cannabis-most-conditions
Ain't cannabis, which is exactly my point since the classification of "narcotic" is too arbitrary to justify the sentence of death, but thanks for the pop medsci slop.
As far as I know, all other narcotics prescribed in the US are allowed in Singapore with an HSA approval, which is exactly my point.
I'm not in the US, and I know for an absolute fact that mine isnt. Even if that were all true, guess what, that permit would not qualify me to move there with my medication as it is not permanent. Even if that wasn't the fucking case, then I would still not want to risk a lapse in renewing my permit or filing it improperly and losing access to my medication or worse.
You do not know enough about this topic to be so dedicated to pushing misinformation. Fuckin internet dudes die on hills they don't even care about enough to look up shit, why?
Take a chill pill. I did look up the HSA application for medicines. Cannabis and chewing gums were specifically banned, but nothing else was called out.
You embarrassed yourself online because you have a weird offense to even the notion that weed can be used for medicinal purposes. So much so that you didn't just smugly say shit that is demonstrably false, but even refused to admit you didn't research well enough or consider what a person who actually has to check these things would need to look out for in this sort of bureaucratic control.
Clownish. Won't be reading whatever you send next.
Not embarrassed at all. If anything, I take offense to people being given bad medical advice. If you were prescribed cannabis, you would be among them.
What have I said that is demonstrably false? Please demonstrate. I'm all ears. What should I have researched instead of the HSA website?
Chill.
YOU'RE not embarrassed, of course. We are embarrassed for you.
You don't know enough to be embarrassed.
I take offense at your ignorance, things are tough all over.
What am I ignorant about? Are you just going to let me wallow in my ignorance? So far, I have only stated things that are true as far as I know and presented my sources. You and the other lady say that I am misinformed but don't care to inform me.
No, it hasn't.
Cannabis has been proven to be a very effective treatment for nausea and seizures and more (as your source clearly indicates immediately).
Reading is hard ¯\(ツ)/¯
Also, studies were quite impossible until recently (with the relaxation of The Drug War). We're still learning about the efficacy.
Regardless, cannabis has been an effective treatment for many medical issues for centuries for a reason, as we are still discovering, as your source clearly indicates.
From the very beginning of the linked article: "Medical cannabis lacks adequate scientific backing for most of the conditions it is commonly used to treat"
Reading is hard, as you say.
Not "very" and not for "nausea and seizures" in general. It has shown effectiveness specifically for "chemotherapy-induced nausea" and "certain severe pediatric seizure disorders such as Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome" according to the very article that you claim to have read. For more, Dr. Chung explains
"Recently, cannabidiol (CBD) is the one that showed efficacy, but people tend to extend that into any other epilepsy.... It is confined, as evidence suggests, to those 2 syndromes, but not other types of epilepsy."
The standard of care treatment for chemotherapy induced nausea is antiemetics. More recently, Dravet Syndrome can be treated with Zorevunerson with over 90% efficacy. This is without the risk of cannabis associated psychotic symptoms. I have personally witnessed a smart kid at a top university succumb to debilitating marijuana induced schizophrenia and get banned from campus as a safety risk. That is not a side effect that patients should accept.
Mercury was a mainstay in medicine for treating syphilis, constipation, and infections (using calomel) from the 16th to 20th centuries, often causing severe toxicity. Medical science is a relatively new concept. Doctors didn't start sterilizing their instruments until the late 19th century.
Very smug, how many innocent deaths are you comfortable with?
Cops are found planting evidence all around the world... the judged are proven innocent with DNA every day.
... and even if everything above wasn't the case, even IF every one of the guilty were truly guilty... they were each murdered by the State, many with no blood on their hands.
It's an abomination. But be smug about it, it lets everybody know what you are
You know what else is easily avoidable? Not murdering people. Singapore should try it
Singapore does try it.
Thats why there are warnings everywhere about what will happen to you if you are so unfathomably self centered and stupid to try and do it anyways.
Basically begging people NOT to do it.
And no amount of your performative pearl clutching will change the fact that this is the smugglers fault and that he faced the very publicly known consequences of it.
Trying to compare it to police planting evidence is a fucking insult to actual victims.
But I'm the smug one. Yeah, sure buddy.
Not very hard. Stop murdering people over transporting plants.
Simple.
Doesn't matter, still murder.
Not the smuggler's fault often; many are doing this unaware. For example, driving a vehicle for work without knowing your coworker is a smuggler.
But, even IF every single one was 100% guilty (even though this is not the case), it's murder.
Many are totally innocent. It doesn't matter to you.
Wrong. Imprisoning and murdering people over plants is a fucking insult to all humanity
You're revolting to me, pal. You are defending murder.
Because they will never let him in in the first place. Vast majority of countries don't take in immigrants.