So on a social networking site today, a "friend" posted her stance on what should happen on the cost of medical marijuana in the state I live in. Her belief is that it should be heavily taxed in order for transplants to be funded by the state again. I am very much looking forward to the day here really soon that I can get my medical marijuana card purchase the naturally occurring plant, difuse (infuse) it with butter and bake with it as a means to control my pain and once a week the nausea I feel due to methotrexate. This "friend", I refuse to not use the quotes anymore because apparently I am confused about who my friends are, didn't like me telling her that they should tax her insulin heavily then because she is a type 2 diabetic, is easily 100-150 pounds overweight is only an option (like the medical marijuana would be for me) because diet and exercise should help control her issue, may damage her body in the long run - but diet and exercise should fix it. (I know this because her doctors keep harping on her about it and she gets pissed and switches doctors to find one to allow her to do a gastric bypass) She got super upset that the medication she would need to control a medical condition she kinda sorta brought on herself should be heavily taxed. But apparently an option for pain/nausea management for me on a genetic predisposition (on both sides) to my Rhuematic condition apparently is less of an issue.
So when I bring this up, instead of doing the "friend" thing and saying, you know what? I should maybe think about this some, she just regurgitated what she had heard on some news program. Then tells me in all CAPS, not everything is about me. Here's the question, how is an issue that supposedly not about me - in which she knew I planned on taking advantage of trying (I take 4-5 different types of pills to control pain 2-3 have dual purposes) - saying that they need to really jack up the taxing something I shouldn't take personally? I mean, it sure as hell seems to me that she thinks that anyone who plans on trying to use medical MJ are just drug addicts. Or that they can afford to pay through the nose for the MJ and then through the nose again for taxes. I'm sorry, but I'm on a fixed income. I've not worked in a year and a half, I receive 60% of my former pay in disability (no, it's not much really) my husband's pay in garnished for child support for 3 kids (1 of which lives with us, but that's a whole other blog post) and an old debt from his ex wife. There are months that I don't get to take my full prescribed course of pill therapy in lieu of putting food on the table.
Here's the whole thing that irked me about this conversation. She stopped working about the same time I did because she didn't like the people she worked with and convinced her doctor's to put her on disability. She lives in a nice home in a well to do area here, drives a newer car, flies across country or is randomly shopping all the time. But....she went on state funded health care to pay for her insulin because it was "too much."
How about this for a solution to fix the state not covering the cost of transplants. Why doesn't the state perform a check on those people that are on state funded insurance because their medications cut into their disposable income too much, and kick their ass off of it since they can clearly afford to pay for it, but would rather take trips or shop a lot.
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