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Have you ever smoked weed? It's really fucking weak all around. I feel mostly normal and I act normal when I'm really high. People can't tell a difference. For comparison, pretty much everything else you can take, it's the exact opposite. Why not remove the high from opioids? Removing the high from marijuana is going to always make the possible side effects more frequent and negative.
We don't take out highs from medicines. Opioid medicines and others would react better without their high than weed and they would be easier/cheaper to remove. So why does anything get us high? Why is there not a push to do this to all drugs?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/record-high-americans-favor-legalizing-marijuana.aspx
I've smoked weed. I've smoked a lot of weed. But, I'm not really speaking for the moment as a recreational user, but rather as more of an advocate for its medicinal use.
I think the difference is that removing the high from the opiates is equivalent to removing its medicinal properties. The only reason people (legitimately) take Vicodin, morphine, etc. is for pain. There are two active ingredients in Vicodin: Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen. Without those, why take the drug in the first place? The high is the medical property.
Weed is a little more complex. Weed is notorious for being a drug that is actually many drugs-- cannabinoids, they are called. In its raw form, sure, it eases pain and even gets you a nice little psychotropic high. However, because of the (over 400, apparently) number of cannabinoids in the plant, it is possible to take away the high and still have medical properties. Over 400 cannabinoids-- each one could potentially function as its own form of medication-- for whatever condition it is suitable for.
Antidepressants are another example of a medication that does not have a high.
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