This is a joke right? Maybe you just can't drive? And smoking pounds in days, get real! That "tunnel vision" is a complete joke, driving high isn't hard. I have also rode with high driver's who drove completely fine. What do you mean by grey area? Alcohol can kill you, marijuana can not. Finally, if you don't like the drug sir, don't use it, why take it away from everyone else who enjoys.

The FDA is the last to be trusted. Is that not the entity that approved the 'prescription medicines' being sold today?

In 2009, over 26,000 Americans were killed by prescription medications.

Deaths caused by marijuana: NOT ONE in recorded history.

Several years ago, I had surgery on my right shoulder. Pain medication was prescribed..."take one capsule every 4 hours."
I took one capsule.
I was down for over 20 hours. When I came to, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. The next time I felt discomfort, I smoked a small amount of marijuana ...pain gone, no after effects.
I threw the pills out.

Then I wrote:

Shoulda Robbed a Bank

My contribution to helping point out just how ludicrous our pot laws truly are.

I would be honored by your review.

This has got to be one of the stupidest articles I have ever seen in Patch. To let this former stoner, who apparently had no control over his drug addictions, weigh in on the legalization of pot for medical use makes no sense at all. Just because you can't control your addictions, Mike, doesn't mean other people can't. You have zero credibility here. Marijuana has already proven to have beneficial medical use with less ill effects than alcohol. Its illegality causes the same problems as Prohibition did. It's time to just legalize and tax it and just solve a lot of problems at once. By the way, I don't smoke pot so, I don't have a personal agenda here.

Articles like this continue to set us back as a society.
You're not sure about the medicinal value ? Then you either are biased against this particular plant or you're not ignorant of the facts. We continue to let folks with an alternative agenda dictate what grown adults can put in their body ... Shameful
You have historically done positive work on keeping kids of drugs, but you're on the wrong side in this discussion. Any reasonable person knows that alcohol is far more dangerous.
Antiquated thinking begets a stagnate society.

So if you take the tiniest toke you're high? LMFAO.

I'd rather ride in a car with a driver who was high on marijuana and had experience driving high than with a driver who had consumed any amount of alcohol. Andrew Weil MD. Google it.

Gimbel is just like every other recovered addict. He thinks that everyone that takes a toke can’t do it with control, just because he was unable to control himself. Recovered alcoholics are the same. Reborn Christians and Muslims in prison…same thing. Pot grows as naturally as a tomato, so why is it a drug. Gimbel’s face did not get that gaunt from just pot. Something more evil caused it.

People such as Gimble find it completely acceptable to go home and slam a fifth of vodka, but consider a joint an unholy vice. It's a plant. It is not a drug. It grows freely out of the ground with no altercations given to it. Yet it is still classified as a schedule 1, right there with heroin? We've known marijuana has been safe for decades. Nixon knew and decided to remain ignorant anyway.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legalize-marijuana-recreational-usage/PBSwY4b0

It's time to take back our right. It's a plant. Legalize it, and love it.

Always be wary of anybody that self labels themselves as an "expert" .

In reality, it's not how it effects you, but the choices you make. As with all legal drugs, you are held accountible for your actions while under the influence. Regardless of whether your high or drunk, if you choose to get behind the wheel, rob a liqour store, etc., you're responsible for the crime. As with alcohol, you should have the right to partake and your behavior judged. If like many drinkers, why suffer if you're a responsible pot smoker.

I'm not sure the author of this article has actually ever smoked weed.

"Would you take a drug, which the Maryland legislature said cures cancer but the FDA never approved it? I don't think so."

Obviously sir you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Go ahead and walk around any infusion center in the country and ask the patients this question, especially those who are terminal. Let's see if they agree with your moronic response. Your ignorance is disgusting.

Sit back and have a drink or a toke Gimble and relax. You're not going to persuade anyone to abstain that hasn't been taught from their parents. There were plenty of anti-pot public service messages around when you were a teen blasted out of your mind and it didn't stop you. Hitting rock bottom is the usual turn-around for those that can't control it. I can do a dooby or a couple of drinks without acting like an ass.

There are many drugs approved by the FDA that are killing people. Gov't is Gov't.

This is obviously a person that was brainwashed by drug counseling and propaganda for prohibition.