The Science of Medical Marijuana Prohibition (Op-Ed)

Frontiers of Freedom ^ | June 15, 2006 | Kenneth Michael White

[tacticalogic]

Oh, you bet it does equal that and it always has. Libertarianism does not equal banning non-rights-violating acts. Let's get that straight.

The arbiter of conservativism has spoken.

[winston2]

Wouldn't it be a wonderful United States of America - if - we had a bunch of bureaucrats making laws against every conceivable way that the citizens might in some small way harm themselves - and - tax the citizens heavily to pay the police to enforce this protection?

[winston2]

I forgot my /sarcasm tag for post # 62

lest anyone think I was serious.

[pageonetoo]

...I have to be made aware of your life history is that you want me to think you're typical of marijuana smokers?

I am not typical of anything. Your mileage may vary.

But, I dare say that the majority of those on this FR thread, against your WOsD), fit a similar profile!

You aren't aware of much reality, dude! You seem to wish to force yours on everyone else! We don't need you, and don't want to hear from you. You are worthless in this conversation.

Start your own threads, and see who shows up! You can always invite that cal gal.

[KurtZ]

"Conservatism also does not equal banning non-rights-violating acts."

Oh, you bet it does equal that and it always has

Nope, your thinking of Totalitarianism.

[tacticalogic]

Wouldn't it be a wonderful United States of America - if - we had a bunch of bureaucrats making laws against every conceivable way that the citizens might in some small way harm themselves - and - tax the citizens heavily to pay the police to enforce this protection?

Someday, we will celebrate the attainment of a risk-free society, and promptly be arrested for it.

[PaxMacian]

"You tell me. Why shouldn't marijuana have to go through the same approval process as any other prescription drug? Why is marijuana so special?"

I have been telling you for years now!
Because it is an herb! Have they approved any other
herbs through their rigorous process? Thank God that
the Congress has failed to pass its many attempts at
controlling the herbal supplement industry. They have
been used since the very beginning of time by mankind.
We do not need the state spending billions on testing
now to find out what has been known for eons.

[mugs99]

Good for you.
You are finally the right track.
Follow it through.
WHO DOES bankroll the "scientific" industry?

I'm afraid you've lost me, Crunch. If Soros and the drug lords bankroll the "scientific industry", they are also bankrolling the companies that develop the drugs to fight cancer and every other human ailment. If that's the case, we owe Soros and the drug lords our gratitude and respect.
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[mugs99]

The followers of Mike Jones and his Culture Wars rag can't come up with anything new. They keep George Soros in the spotlight. I wonder if he's paying them a PR fee?
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[MrCruncher]

Show us some proof.

[MrCruncher]

"You tell me. Why shouldn't marijuana have to go through the same approval process as any other prescription drug? Why is marijuana so special?"

I have been telling you for years now!
Because it is an herb!

THAT's one I haven't heard before.

Show us where ANY source lists marijuana as a herb.

[Mojave]

However, the FDA/govt hasn't sought to prohibit or control that plant have they.

The government of Louisiana has.

http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=288583

[rdb3]

And I had it suggested to me that medicinal marijuana should be used for my MS. Never did that, though.

[robertpaulsen]

"if - we had a bunch of bureaucrats making laws"

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a system where, every two years, we could throw out those bureaucrats who write laws the citizens don't want?

Wait a minute ...

[robertpaulsen]

"Nope, your thinking of Totalitarianism."

You're confusing a form of government with a political philosophy.

[robertpaulsen]

Look, Clan of the Cave Bear, we stopped chewing bark, roots and herbs a few years ago, favoring a sysyem where we knew what we were ingesting. If you wish to continue doing so, be my guest.

But if you wish the rest of us to accept it, then there's a process.

[winston2]

I didn't even know about those plant materials and their hallucinogenic qualities.

Why didn't grain squeezings make that list?

[winston2]

"if - we had a bunch of bureaucrats making laws"(winston2)

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a system where, every two years, we could throw out those bureaucrats who write laws the citizens don't want?

Wait a minute ...

You are correct, so you don't mind if I push for state's rights, legalize cannabis initiatives, and try and make the citizens aware that our governments have been exaggerating the dangers of cannabis for decades - do you?

[robertpaulsen]

Be my guest. As long as you don't mind me pointing out your errors -- if you make them.

[winston2]

Look, Clan of the Cave Bear, we stopped chewing bark, roots and herbs a few years ago, favoring a system where we knew what we were ingesting. If you wish to continue doing so, be my guest.

But if you wish the rest of us to accept it, then there's a process.

Quote from news article below:

Posted on Friday June 16,2006
Deaths rise from addiction, misuse of painkiller patch Overdoses of fentanyl become more common as addicts chew, inject gel from patch made to ease pain for cancer patients By Jeff Douglas ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. LOUIS -- Justin Knox bit down on the bitter-tasting patch, instantly releasing three days' worth of a drug more powerful than morphine. He was dead before he even got to the hospital.

The 22-year-old construction worker and addict was another victim in an apparent surge in U.S. overdoses blamed on abuse of the fentanyl patch, a prescription-only product that is intended for cancer patients and others with chronic pain and is designed to dispense the medicine slowly through the skin.

"I cannot tell you the amount of people I've seen and the creative ways they abuse this drug," said Dr. Scott Teitelbaum, director of the Florida Recovery Center in Gainesville, Fla. "Fentanyl has been abused for years. But recently there has been an increase. I've seen more chewing, squeezing of the drug off the patch and shooting it up."

Fentanyl, a synthetic narcotic, was introduced in the 1960s, but it was not until the early 1990s that it became available in patch form. Last year, the first generic versions of the patch hit the market.

At least seven deaths in Indiana and four in South Carolina since 2005 have been blamed on abuse of the fentanyl patch, along with more than 100 deaths in Florida in 2004. About a week after Knox's death in Farmington, Mo., in March, a second man in the same county was prescribed the patch legally and died after injecting himself with the gel that he had scraped from it.(snip)

ContraCostaTimes.com

How many overdose deaths can be blamed on cannabis?