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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: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
If these guys had the brains or guts to argue for legalization on the merits, maybe somebody would listen to them.

Not around here.

61 posted on 02/01/2005 11:05:01 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: .cnI redruM
Sophisticated dope smoker

62 posted on 02/01/2005 11:05:10 AM PST by evets (God bless president George W. Bush)
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To: rhombus
Live free or die, brother.

Live to ride. Ride to live.

63 posted on 02/01/2005 11:05:20 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: dmz

Yeah, the south american warlords are ok


64 posted on 02/01/2005 11:05:23 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: bigfootbob
"I'm still waiting for you to obtain a signed physician statement."

I told you. I'm not going to break the law to prove anything to you.

Especially when I have articles like the one I cited which demonstrate the fact that medical marijuana is a scam.

65 posted on 02/01/2005 11:07:22 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Protagoras
Not around here.

Bring it on. We've only been arguing about this on FR for oh, about six years or so, and the drug warriors always lose to the real conservatives.

66 posted on 02/01/2005 11:07:39 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Caged in Canuckistan
"why do you think the so-called massive youth vote for Kerry evaporated on election day?"

Because about half of them voted for Bush? Anyway, there are more middle aged hippie stoners than young stoners.
67 posted on 02/01/2005 11:07:57 AM PST by monday
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To: .cnI redruM

LOL.

Acid isn't flammable.


68 posted on 02/01/2005 11:08:19 AM PST by dmz
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To: struggle
Freedom isn't freedom if one is not free to make mistakes.

I think that's a better way to say it.

69 posted on 02/01/2005 11:10:26 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: stuartcr
"Why is relaxing and enjoying life, against the law?"

It's not. We don't arrest people for relaxing and enjoying life.

70 posted on 02/01/2005 11:11:12 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Hu Gadarn

"That ain't gonna happen though because drug companies can't see a way to make a profit from something that can be grown naturally...."

Yeah, sort of like cigarette companies can't see a way to make a profit from something that can be grown naturally... </sarcasm


71 posted on 02/01/2005 11:11:25 AM PST by monday
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To: PaxMacian
Where is the power to criminalize the possession or digestion of an herb by the Federal Government enumerated in the Constitution?

Finally, someone interjects with a reasonable point! Right on!!!! But what about State constitutions?

72 posted on 02/01/2005 11:13:29 AM PST by Lekker 1 (A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul [G.B. Shaw])
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To: dmz
"The Afghan warlords are heroin suppliers, not pot."

I believe they have been known to produce a bit of hash from time to time. Never heard of Afghani Hashish?
73 posted on 02/01/2005 11:13:32 AM PST by monday
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To: .cnI redruM

I thought Heroin came along toward the end of the Nineteenth century to (chuckle) help people get off of morphine.


74 posted on 02/01/2005 11:13:33 AM PST by ichabod1 (The Spirit of the Lord Hath Left This Place)
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To: .cnI redruM

FREE CHONG!!


75 posted on 02/01/2005 11:16:25 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
We've only been arguing about this on FR for oh, about six years or so, and the drug warriors always lose to the real conservatives.

Win? Lose? How does that work? Which group has changed the other groups' mind?

76 posted on 02/01/2005 11:17:00 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: ichabod1

And then came methadone, with all the methadone treatment centers, so now the addicts are addicted to methadone.

Are there any methadone treatment centers still in existence?


77 posted on 02/01/2005 11:17:46 AM PST by peacebaby ("...please refrain from impugning my integrity." Dr. Condoleezza Rice, 1/18/05)
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To: monday
Never heard of Afghani Hashish?

No, my perscription drug program doesn't cover that. Will AARP be supporting an insurance rider for that too?

78 posted on 02/01/2005 11:18:49 AM PST by rhombus
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To: tallhappy
And so many who freeload and parasite on FR are thier hallelujah chorus.

Name them.

79 posted on 02/01/2005 11:19:06 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: robertpaulsen
It's not. We don't arrest people for relaxing and enjoying life.

THis reminds me of the interview I saw with Ted Nugent, who has never done drugs and says he only drank one time. They asked him, if he wasn't into drugs, why his band's first album was called "Journey to the Center of Your Mind", and he said "Well I thought....ok, yeah, introspection is a good thing."

80 posted on 02/01/2005 11:19:41 AM PST by ichabod1 (The Spirit of the Lord Hath Left This Place)
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