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Video Exposes Medical Marijuana as Hoax - (shows addicts LOL-ing about what a joke the law is!)
A.I.M.ORG ^ | JUNE 30, 2005 | CLIFF KINCAID

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.

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To: Sirc_Valence
You would do well to read the Constitution. Merely being deemed as harmful to society isn't enough to legally prohibit something in the United States - the federal government does not legitimately have that power (only brute force to impose its will). During the original Prohibition (of alcohol), the Constitution was specifically amended to allow that - later repealed - which demonstrates that the federal government does not have that power granted to it by the Constitution.
61 posted on 06/30/2005 4:01:13 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The legislative process is like the digestive process, same end product)
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To: whd23
I join those thoughts, but still want to execute meth cookers and dealers.
62 posted on 06/30/2005 4:01:38 PM PDT by investigateworld ( God bless Poland for giving the world JP II & a Protestant bump for his Sainthood!)
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To: thoughtomator

Well, drunk driving is prohibited. Don't tell me banning that is unconstitutional.


63 posted on 06/30/2005 4:02:07 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence (By "paint the nation blue" they mean "depress everyone.")
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To: CHARLITE
"medical marijuana" movement, largely funded by billionaire George Soros.

Soros? So does this mean the druggies here that push recreation illegal drugs are going to tell us all Soros is a conservative backer of the Constitution?

IMO Soros wants to manipulate our downfall in America to elevate is stock. Seems the pot freaks are enabling the control freak Soros.

64 posted on 06/30/2005 4:02:30 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Yep, this means the druggie libertarians are being played as pawns by Soros.. Hope they're proud. But what do they care as long as they get high.


65 posted on 06/30/2005 4:03:33 PM PDT by G32
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To: thoughtomator

BWAhahahahahaahahha


66 posted on 06/30/2005 4:04:03 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: thoughtomator

Prohibiting the production of WMD has the same purpose as prohibiting the production and sale of social WMD. Read the Constitution it's for the general welfare. You can't do ANYTHING that you want.


67 posted on 06/30/2005 4:04:23 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence (By "paint the nation blue" they mean "depress everyone.")
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To: Lexington Green

Cancer wards have better drugs than pot and many need morphine.


68 posted on 06/30/2005 4:04:41 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Sirc_Valence

That's because it's one of the conditions under which the license is granted. Driving is a privilege, not a right. By accepting the license you accept the terms of driving, one of which is you cannot legally drive while intoxicated.


69 posted on 06/30/2005 4:05:21 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The legislative process is like the digestive process, same end product)
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To: feinswinesuksass

The WOD(enforcement of drug law) is the only defense for America against drug addicts and their distributers.


70 posted on 06/30/2005 4:05:49 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Lexington Green
"Come to the cancer ward and spew this dogma. Your words are hollow here."

I don't happen to agree with about 25% of the articles and columns that I post on FR. I put some pieces up just to generate discussions on issues which I feel are important to debate.

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.

I have, however, experienced excruciating pain a few times in my life, and if that "weed" were available, and if it relieved the pain that I was feeling, I would be the very first person to demand that it be legal.

My personal belief is that this should NOT be the "big deal" issue that it is, and that legalizing this plant does NOT produce catastrophic consequences.

So-o-ooooooo, FR readers should probably not leap to the automatic conclusion that the FR member posting a specific piece is in agreement with its premise or argument. Many times things are posted for the purpose of generating lively discussion.........which this seems to have done.

In a "free Republic" we can freely speak out for or against issues and not "blame" someone for having brought up a subject for others to consider and offer their opinions on.

I hope I've cleared things up.

Char :)

71 posted on 06/30/2005 4:06:45 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
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To: Sirc_Valence

Labeling something "social WMD" isn't a very good basis for discussion. It will take Hillary Clinton and her pals about two seconds to label Christianity, or firearms ownership, "social WMD". Could they then count on your support?


72 posted on 06/30/2005 4:06:52 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The legislative process is like the digestive process, same end product)
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To: CHARLITE
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."

Anybody with half a brain not fried on pot or not deceived leftist propaganda already knows this. It's nice to see these people get caught with their pants down.

73 posted on 06/30/2005 4:06:52 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Huck

You are limited in using illegal recreational drugs and operating on yourself to save money.


74 posted on 06/30/2005 4:07:15 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Black Tooth

"Most of those that kick in doors for a living, agree with that position."

Yes, and they would have considerably higher job satisfaction of doing a job that made a difference looking for nukes, weapons, and al quada coming across the border than pot.


75 posted on 06/30/2005 4:08:47 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
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To: thoughtomator

Theres lots of things here that suprise me coming fom a "conservative" web site.


76 posted on 06/30/2005 4:09:43 PM PDT by winodog (We need to pull the fedgov.con's feeding tube)
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To: Sirc_Valence

Yes, there are a few here that spam FR with pro illegal recreational drug activism.
You can read them much more at DU.

Their politics is mostly IMO anarchist, followed by liberal.

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.


77 posted on 06/30/2005 4:10:07 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: thoughtomator

You have no right to put all the extra responsiblity on society for your problems with illegal and dangerous drugs.


78 posted on 06/30/2005 4:12:14 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: thoughtomator

No. I don't see driving as a privilege, since a vehicle is YOUR property. The reason that drunk driving isn't allowed is because your inebreation is likely to harm others. To a lesser degree, your innebreation from being high is also likely to harm others. That's why the great majority of Americans stand against drug legalization. It really is about protecting the general welfare rather than I want to control what you do, as you see it. I understand your position, but in the end there is more to it than that.


79 posted on 06/30/2005 4:12:19 PM PDT by Sirc_Valence (By "paint the nation blue" they mean "depress everyone.")
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To: thoughtomator

I call it logicLITE


80 posted on 06/30/2005 4:13:02 PM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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