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Marijuana Lobby Grows in Sophistication (After you smoke a joint, I do Too!)
FOX News ^ | Friday, January 28, 2005 | By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

Posted on 02/01/2005 10:22:25 AM PST by .cnI redruM

WASHINGTON — Pot. Cannabis. Hemp. Weed. Grass.

The herb takes many names. But in the nation’s capital, where the marijuana lobby (search) was once the recreational diversion of Playboy Magazine's Hugh Hefner, pro-pot special interest groups have crystallized the divergent issues behind the plant and gained a seemingly unified voice.

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"It’s a no-brainer. It makes no sense putting old and sick folks in jail for an herb that makes them feel better," said Bruce Mirken, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project (search), which was established in 1995 by Rob Kampia, a former mainstay at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the first pro-pot lobby in Washington, D.C.

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To: monday
just get tired of making the same arguments over and over again. Feels like banging my head against the wall, except not as much fun.

Yes, and our ole pal Robert just asserted the oft used "right to violate other's rights". No such right exists, but the same people keep pretending it does. Their whole house of cards falls without it.

I'm confident that intelligent thinking lurkers will see through such childish assertions.

141 posted on 02/01/2005 1:04:28 PM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: Trinity_Tx
Better use my own server, lol:




(BTW, I've never touched the stuff myself, or care to - just think it's senseless to prohibit it.)
142 posted on 02/01/2005 1:09:27 PM PST by Trinity_Tx (Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
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To: bird4four4
"So you admint that MJ has some medical use"

I do not. I admitted it had been studied, but it's laughable to draw any conclusion from that.

"yet are not bothered by the obvious oversight by the government of the two substances that they prefer."

Oh, who says I'm not bothered? For all you know, I could could be losing sleep every night over this issue.

You want those two drugs regulated, go for it. Write your Congressman. Start a petition. I couldn't care less.

I'm trying to figure out why Dihydrocodeine is a Schedule II drug and not Schedule III. We all have out little concerns, don't we?

143 posted on 02/01/2005 1:12:24 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Protagoras
The most dangerous and life-threatening addictive drug, Government Koolaid, appears on no list or schedule that I am aware of, yet has destroyed more lives than any other toxic substance.
144 posted on 02/01/2005 1:14:44 PM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: headsonpikes
The most dangerous and life-threatening addictive drug, Government Koolaid,

Authoritarians come from both parties. And from many different ideologies. The left and the right both want to use government force to get what they want. And both sides are elitists. They hate the idea that people should be left alone to make their own decisions. The people are too stupid you know.

They embrace even the most bizarre concepts to get what they want, no matter how inconsistent they are. They love majority rule if it fits their agenda, but hate it if not. They assert rights when it suits them and make up new ones when it doesn't. Both sides do it. Our little pal Robert has just asserted an old favorite. Hillary does the same thing from a different side of the spectrum. Strange bedfellows.

145 posted on 02/01/2005 1:25:17 PM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: Protagoras

Silver-tongued rationales for tyranny are a dime-a-dozen historically. Every sleazy regime in the world has employed skilled liars to advance their interests.

Big lies are the easiest to believe, I suppose.


146 posted on 02/01/2005 1:29:40 PM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: robertpaulsen
You want those two drugs regulated, go for it

No. What I would like is some consistancy from the legislature, but I'm not holding my breath. I don't have time to begin trying to change the law. But that brings us back to original article (wow hard to believe) That there are groups out there petitioning Congress and circulating petitions. Someday maybe these inconsistant applications of the law will be rectified through their efforts in the proper way. Would you be OK with that or do prefer the selective efforcement we have now?

147 posted on 02/01/2005 1:38:37 PM PST by bird4four4
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I agree that pot is not commonly used as medicine. It can, however, have some thereputic uses in individual cases.
I also think that the pro marijuana lobbies are trying to, "boil the frog", in order to legalize marijuana.
I agree that the case for legalization should be made without the medicinal factor.
148 posted on 02/01/2005 1:46:11 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: bird4four4
I don't see it as an inconsistency. Unlike you, I don't see it as "since drug A is legal then drug B must also be legal"

We have a system whereby some drugs are legal for everyone, some are legal for adults only, some are legal only with a prescription, and some are illegal.

If a case can be made for moving a drug from one category to another, that can be done, and is done all the time. Drugs, for example, move from prescription status to over-the-counter quite frequently.

You do favor all drugs being legal, don't you? Including prescription drugs? Not just marijuana, correct? And to all ages, or would you arbitrarily pick a number and make that a minimum age? Could you then explain and defend your choice of that age?

149 posted on 02/01/2005 1:59:38 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
I don't see it as an inconsistency. Unlike you, I don't see it as "since drug A is legal then drug B must also be legal"

I never made any since A then B arguement. I am arguing for consistancy, and if you can go back to the scheduling criteria and not see it being applied inconsistantly then I can reason with you no further.

150 posted on 02/01/2005 2:04:55 PM PST by bird4four4
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To: bird4four4

You do favor all drugs being legal, don't you? Including prescription drugs? Not just marijuana, correct? And to all ages, or would you arbitrarily pick a number and make that a minimum age? Could you then explain and defend your choice of that age?


151 posted on 02/01/2005 2:20:23 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Protagoras

When did Dane and cincy get booted? It was waaay past time.

These drug warriors will never learn...they are incapable of rational thought.


152 posted on 02/01/2005 3:15:31 PM PST by rebelyell
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To: Protagoras
I agree, I didn't mean that people who do crimes just involving drugs should go to jail. People who commit crimes should go to jail, but just having a plant shouldn't be a crime.
153 posted on 02/01/2005 4:02:46 PM PST by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: robertpaulsen
And to all ages, or would you arbitrarily pick a number and make that a minimum age? Could you then explain and defend your choice of that age?

All ages except minors. So yes, like all other things in society, people who are incompetent to make their own choices, good or bad, are restricted from that until they are competent. So, people pick arbitrary ages along with restricting the insane and retarded and senile.

In short, in a rational situation, someone as crazy as you would be restricted. :^}

154 posted on 02/01/2005 4:29:53 PM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: rebelyell
These drug warriors will never learn...they are incapable of rational thought.

They were more than drug warriors. They were authoritarians on every subject and at all times. In love with force, they thought use of it by government was what conservatives stood for. Quite insane, both of them. Not to mention the other names there. The Roscoe guy was way over the top, probably a danger to himself and everyone around him.

155 posted on 02/01/2005 4:35:43 PM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: .cnI redruM

The libertarian cult's favorite message.


156 posted on 02/01/2005 4:37:01 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: robertpaulsen

You could have just said you didn't know.


157 posted on 02/01/2005 7:56:25 PM PST by stuartcr
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To: rebelyell; Protagoras
Dane and cinFLA haven't been "booted". Neither has Roscoe.

As I said, they're just not needed. What little limp-wristed pro-drug propaganda remains out there, I can certainly handle in a debate.

Especially with people who can't tell the difference between freedom and anarchy.

158 posted on 02/02/2005 6:44:44 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
You haven't handled anything. You have been more marginalized with each thread. Particularly when you assert bizarre "rights" which do not exist.

You haven't a clue about freedom, much less anarchy.

159 posted on 02/02/2005 6:48:16 AM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: Sender

99% of the "Pot Lobby" is financed by a few billionaires. Soros, Sperling, Lewis. Now, why are these guys so concerned about sick grandma who wants her pot. They aren't!


160 posted on 02/02/2005 6:51:22 AM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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