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yeah, I've seen this guy on Discovery channel before.
Irvin Rosenfeld, a 56-year old stockbroker from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., doesn't look like a record-setting pothead, but last week he woke up, turned on CNBC, and lit up his 115,000th joint.
If you think his dealer is thrilled to have a client who has smoked 10 to 12 joints a day for the past 28 years, you're wrong. Rosenfeld, who suffers from a rare form of bone cancer, isn't your typical weed smoker, and his dealer isn't your typical drug pusher. He gets his joints -- 300 at a time, one shipment every 25 days -- courtesy of the United States federal government.
"I don't know that I've broken a record, but I've certainly set one. No one else in the world can do ent having smoked 115,000 cannabis cigarettes – let alone the ones I smoked before that. I'm living proof that medical cannabis is real medicine. We need to get medicine in the hands of patients who really need it," said Rosenfeld.
Ironically, the government that supplies Rosenfeld with medical marijuana has for decades denied the drug's efficacy, penalized those states that legalized medicinal cannabis and -- until just months ago -- actively prosecuted suppliers in those states.
Rosenfeld said the drug acts as "a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory, a painkiller and keeps tumors from growing."
What it does not do, he said, is get him high.
"I don't get high. I need the medicine; I'm not getting any euphoria," he said.
Rosenfeld said the marijuana allows him to maintain a normal life. He's been married for 36 years, goes to work every day, volunteers teaching disabled children to sail, and is working on a book.
His clients, he said, know about his marijuana use and are impressed by his doggedness.
"I always ask them, 'Have you ever met anyone who has taken on the federal government and won? If you want that kind of expertise and work ethic, then hire me.'"
When Rosenfeld began receiving marijuana from the federal government in 1982, he became the second patient to benefit under a narrowly defined "compassionate protocol" that supplied glaucoma and cancer patients with cannabis until the Federal Drug Administration's Investigational New Drug Program was disbanded a decade later.
Cont'd here: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/man-s...ory?id=9159281
yeah, I've seen this guy on Discovery channel before.
He smokes two joints in the morning, he smokes two joints at night.
Where can I sign up?
Although I'd be happy with a joint a day.
It really helps with my attention deficit disorder.
The program was discontinued but he is "grandfathered" into it but he had to fight legal battles to still get the treatment.
Today, Rosenfeld is one of only four patients who continue to receive weed from the federal government. He is the longest surviving member of the program.
He smokes two joints in the afternoon, it makes him feel alright.
Your avatar is on acid.
I was part joking anyway.
We have legal "Medical Marijuana" laws here in Oregon. I could get it legally so easily if I wanted. As it is though, I have had no major stress these last couple years, and I like it best to get to sleep then my mind runs wild. I've only used it once this year so far.
When I did use it daily, a single bong hit was all I needed to help focus on things better, and keep my attention deficit to take me on tangents.
Since a few pot heads are in this topic anyone want a PC Guitar hero guitar for a dime bag?
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wasnt he on Bull ?
One of my roommates from college told me just before he died of cancer that he realized that he figured out that he smoked dope so much his whole life because it allowed him to concentrate in college and jobs. He was a prodigious electronics engineer, only because of MJ. He figured he must have truly had ADD, decades before it was invented.
MJ as illegal is just another aspect of puritanical, Bible-thumping, hypocritical America's rampant stupidity.
Prosecuting marijuana possession does infinitely more damage than marijuana usage.
yawn, the facts are well known. The stupidity and damage continues unabated.
One of the few things we agree on.
Since a few pot heads are in this topic anyone want a PC Guitar hero guitar for a dime bag?
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i'll give you two dollars.
if you got it... smoke that up! don't be stiff on the reefer.
Don't put this on the Christians, this is one you can put on Capitalists, the dirty and underhanded ones. The only reason alcohol isn't still illegal is because of all the violence that occurred when they tried to illegalize it.
99% of the people I have ever known that smoked pot were Christian, the founders of this country that smoked it and used it(and a lot of other things) were Christians...
It's about money it always has been.
We could totally cut the legs out from under the Mexican drug cartels by legalizing it...
So why aren't we doing it boutons?
In case you notice, those aren't the Conservative Christians running the country right now.
You are flat out stupid if you think Conservative Southern Christians don't smoke the living out of weed...observe:
Table 3. The Top Ten Outdoor Marijuana Producing States
Plants Production (lbs) Value ($1000s)
California 17,445,553 7,692,043 $12,353,421
Tennessee 6,742,057 2,972,688 $4,774,137
Kentucky 6,171,906 2,721,299 $4,370,406
Hawaii 5,340,368 2,354,660 $3,781,583
North Carolina 900,204 396,915 $637,446
Washington 834,835 368,093 $591,157
Alabama 797,955 351,832 $565,042
West Virginia 672,200 296,385 $475,994
Georgia 603,671 266,169 $427,467
Arkansas 599,632 264,388 $424,607
I don't know where you grew up but it damn sure wasn't Texas.
That's pretty much the entire neck belt in that growing chart.
It's not them...it is the government.
You see right now there are 3 of us with differing political views all saying it should be legal.
Both of my parents, never smoked a joint in their lives(or so they say) think it should be legalized, my brother, who is a cop, thinks it should be legalized.
Even Miss Palin smoked it when it was legal in Alaska.
We have had a string of going on about 3 consectuve Presidents that have smoked weed, probably a lot more extensively than they will ever admit, and it's still illegal.
It's the money made from keeping illegal, the rights it gives the government to seize property(because they know people are going to get high period), the money it makes for the alcohol industry, etc, that keep it illegal.
Wise up and don't make it a partisian political issue if you really want to see something done about it.
Oh and btw, like this guy has the record.
That has to be wrong. Oregon should be somewhere between California and Washington, and I don't mean geographically!
He has the public record, but I agree. There are some I'm sure that smokes more than he does.
Someone had to do it.
helps keep me sane in an insane world. I live in a place where possession has been decriminalized for about 20 years, and has it gone to ? Far from it.
This country would be so much better with legalized weed and acid.
I'm not sure about acid - a lot of people can't handle acid, it's too much of a mind for them. I've seen people go really crazy on acid.
OTOH, 100-120mg of MDMA should be available on prescription for anyone who wants it once every 6 weeks or so (the literature suggests that waiting until your serotonin system has recovered before the next dose vastly reduces harm) - it is not physically addictive, and a totally amazing, positive high. Legalize it!
I hated Ecstacy when I tried it. LSD by contrast is by far the most fun thing I have ever taken.
Hydroponic mushrooms, the natural alternative.
Who needs hydroponics?
They grow wild in the Cascade mountains!
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