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To: grand wazoo
As those rules suggest, city officials are not prepared to treat marijuana like any other medicine, despite a 1996 state ballot initiative that allows patients with doctor’s recommendations to use it for symptom relief. It’s hard to imagine the city council arbitrarily limiting the number of pharmacies, insisting that they not do business near competitors, creating buffer zones between parks and Duane Reade locations, or demanding that patients obtain their Lipitor from one and only one drugstore. Such restrictions reflect marijuana’s dual identity in California: It is simultaneously medicine and menace

It's only "medicine" because a bunch of rich hardcore leftists brainwashed enough people into voting that it's a medicine.

18 posted on 04/16/2010 6:39:13 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
It's only "medicine" because a bunch of rich hardcore leftists brainwashed enough people into voting that it's a medicine.

Hey, we'll take Soros' $ when we can get it, then throw him under the bus afterwards. Please remember that it was "a bunch of rich hardcore leftists" back in the Progressive Era that started the trend of making drugs illegal to begin with.

24 posted on 04/16/2010 7:18:27 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (Alright, tighten your shorts, Pilgrim, & sing like the Duke!)
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To: DouglasKC
It's only "medicine" because a bunch of rich hardcore leftists brainwashed enough people into voting that it's a medicine.

Rasmussen says 63% favor medical marijuana (Oct 2009):

Sixty-three percent (63%) of Americans believe patients should be allowed to smoke marijuana if it is prescribed by a doctor.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 24% of adults say patients should not be allowed to smoke pot in cases like that. Thirteen percent (13%) are undecided.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/october_2009/63_say_doctor_prescribed_pot_is_okay

27 posted on 04/16/2010 8:01:19 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: DouglasKC
It's only "medicine" because a bunch of rich hardcore leftists brainwashed enough people into voting that it's a medicine.

No, marijuana is enough of "a medicine" that a pharmaceutical company developed and markets a synthetic version of it called Marinol. Unfortunately, synthetic- cannabis Marinol doesn't work quite as well for controlling nausea in many cases and can have some substantial side-effects that marijuana doesn't have, including a heart palpitations, stomach pain and vomiting.

And for those who think "just take Marinol instead of use marijuana, because Marinol won't get you high", think again. Marinol also has the same psychoactive effect that, in some people, is even stronger than marijuana. Confusion, paranoia, anxiety, and dizziness are not uncommon with Marinol

The only advantages to Marinol is that it is in a pill form and can have a longer duration of effect than smoking marijuana.

Beyond that, unless you own stock in the drug company that makes Marinol, there are no other real advantages.

67 posted on 04/17/2010 6:14:40 PM PDT by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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