Stigma of the lazy pot-smoker hurts medical marijuana users
When people hear that someone uses cannabis, they often give a nudge nudge wink wink and say, "Lucky you, getting high on weed, eh?"
I usually chuckle and reply that the official scientific name of the plant is "cannabis," and that it is medicine. For me, it's used to dull chronic nerve pain left after an invasive surgery to repair burst bowels and remove a 25-pound desmoid tumour.
It can also be used as an appetite stimulant, it quickly kills nausea and it relaxes anyone who needs to deal with frightening flashbacks of their time in hospital.
Different strains of marijuana are on the menu at a dispensary in Ottawa. (Stu Mills/CBC)
Yet the image of the lazy pot-smoker remains one of the most prevailing stigmas about medical cannabis users, and it was on full display recently during a CBC News interview with former NDP MP Peter Stoffer about...
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