Posted on 06/30/2005 2:51:57 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri has vetoed a "medical marijuana" bill, saying it would encourage marijuana use and criminal activity. His veto comes as an anti-drug group has released dramatic video footage of a marijuana activist declaring that he uses dope for a health problem that he doesn't really have. The bottom line for this activist, Ed Rosenthal, is that "I like to get high. Marijuana is fun." The video has the potential of dealing a major blow to the "medical marijuana" movement, largely funded by billionaire George Soros.
The video footage, posted at the website http://www.sorosmonitor.com, gives the lie to the claim that we often see in the media that smoking marijuana is a legitimate medical treatment for people with diseases. Rosenthal, who was associated with High Times magazine for many years, is shown speaking to dozens of marijuana activists. "With all the talk about medical marijuana, I have to tell you that I also use marijuana medically (laughter)," he says. "I have a latent glaucoma, which has never been diagnosed (more laughter). And the reason why it has never been diagnosed is because I've been treating it (laughter)…But there is a reason why I do use it. And that is because I like to get high. (cheers, applause). Marijuana is fun."
The video proves that "medical marijuana" is a joke to those on the inside of the pro-pot movement who realize that getting the public and the media to accept the notion that smoking marijuana alleviates health problems is a major step down the road to complete legalization of dope.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
"In my own case, I could be the most neutral observer, because I have only taken two puffs, one time 30 years ago, from a marijuana cigarette, and quickly handed it over to someone else. I thought that it was bilious."
"I have never known anyone who smokes marijuana, let alone who uses it for medicinal pain relief."
So you were handed it by someone you didn't know, and passed it on to someone else you didn't know....??? :)
"Conservatives aren't obsessed about the right to use illegal drugs. That would be number 300,894,433,423,432,243,666 on the list."
The War on Drugs, the increase of power of the Fed Gov against it's constitutional authority, and the erosion of civil liberties, however, are a big concern.
We don't need no stinking republic, we've got a collective!
More problematic is the Justice Department of George Bush arguing for and defending the New Deal in support of that ruling.
To be precise, "a majority of Arizonans who voted". It was not a majority of Arizonans or even a majority of registered Arizonan voters.
"It was illegally overturned."
Nah. The Arizona state legislature constitutionally voted to require FDA approval, that's all. And what's wrong with that? Every other prescribed drug has FDA approval -- why does marijuana get a pass?
The video footage, posted at the website http://www.sorosmonitor.com,
As in thee George Soros?? Something fishy there for sure.
"Come to the cancer ward and spew this dogma."
Doesn't anyone find it ironic that smoking is known to cause cancer yet you and cancer patients want cancer patients to smoke (marijuana)?!! Smoke is smoke and in your lungs smoke is lethal no matter what type of tobacco it is. IMO, smokers period are passive masochistic suiciders.
"How do you mean?"
Don't play coy. Reread the website link with the name soros in it.
Cannabis is also injested by patients.
But how is the website's name fishy? Are you thinking it belongs to George Soros? I read it to mean it was monitoring and opposing his policies and agendas, such as "kerry-watch.org" or something.
"Cannabis is also injested by patients."
Well that's better than "smoking" when all intelligent beings KNOW inhaling any type of smoke causes mouth, throat and lung cancer.
That's all I was inquiring about, what's the intent of using the soros name in the website? You may have answered it.
Smoking can increase the risks for those diseases. I believe, though, that people intelligently weigh the risks and think the benefits outweigh them. Why worry about a possible throat cancer down the road when you cannot eat today without a efficacious nausea-suppressant such as cannabis?
"Congress can certainly regulate interstate commerce to the extent of forbidding and punishing the use of such commerce as an agency to promote immorality, dishonesty or the spread of any evil or harm to the people of other states from the state of origin. In doing this it is merely exercising the police power, for the benefit of the public, within the field of interstate commerce."
-- Chief Justice Taft, Brooks v. US, 267 U.S. 432 (1925)
" Why worry about a possible throat cancer down the road when you cannot eat today without a efficacious nausea-suppressant such as cannabis? "
Why smoke it when it can be administered through other means? We(scientists) can hit a collosal meteor in outer space with a bullet size missile but we can't figure out how to administer medicinals safely and smoke free? I don't believe it.
Smoking kills with negative thrills.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 allows Congress to enact legislation to enforce its powers. In this case, if a man, growing a plant on his own property and ingesting it there, has a substantial effect on the interstate commerce that Congress is constitutionally regulating, Congress may pass legislation to curtail that activity (commerce or not).
Were you under the impression that citizens (or states) could act to undermine and subvert Congress' constitutional interstate regulatory efforts in this manner? Why then give Congress the power?
Well, they're both Libertarians, so it's a start.
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