I have completely lost respect for Charlie. Where did he get his marijuana facts? Reefer Madness? Every single 'fact' that he quoted about marijuana is absolutely false. I'm resisting the urge to use caps but this kind of blatant idiocy sends the pro-marijuana movement back decades. As a licensed user with severe Fribromyalgia, degenerative disc disease and chronic nausea (from the 'legal' medications I take for the first two illnesses) I'm furious. Charlie's statements: 1. "Marijuana is between 40 and 60% more powerful these days." Wrong. The average THC content in today's marijuana is around 3.5%. If today's marijuana is ten times more potent than it was in the Sixties, then the marijuana being smoked back then would have had hardly any THC in it at all which is obviously false 2. "Marijuana is highly addictive." Wrong. It is a proved fact that marijuana is far less addictive than chocolate or alcohol. 3. "I'm talking about your mental health" and "One of the side effects of long term cannabis use is paranoia" Partly wrong. Mrs. Fosters husband is getting calls from a mystery person and he's being very secretive about it. She is chronically ill and always in pain. Thinking he's cheating isn't from the pot, it's just common sense. And then Charlie comes up with this little beauty 4. "Pain is the body's way of telling us something is wrong. It's not a good idea to block it out altogether". As someone who has chronic debilitating pain I wanted to reach into the TV and give Charlie a flat handed slap upside his head!! Mrs Fosters joints (no pun intended) are being eaten away by arthritis leaving bones rubbing on bones and Charlie thinks she should just deal with it. Such a shame that none of the writers could be bothered doing a bit of research on the topic of medical marijuana. This could have been a stellar opportunity to educate people but instead they produced a storyline that is just insulting. Most episodes I'd give an 8 or 9 out of 10. This one gets a 2 for the sole reason that it was hilarious to watch Robin on pot cookies. Otherwise the Foster storyline was a complete waste of time.
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