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Republicans back use of pot if prescribed by physicians
Times Herald-Record (NY) ^
| May 11, 2005
| John Milgrim
Posted on 05/12/2005 5:11:33 PM PDT by Know your rights
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To: Know your rights
It oughta be legalized. It's a waste of time and money trying to enforce those pot laws.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:13:51 PM PDT
by
LauraleeBraswell
(Where were you when Tom Delay demanded justice!)
To: LauraleeBraswell
I heartily agree.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:17:03 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Know your rights
New York's law and order Republicans said yesterday it's high time marijuana be made available for patients in pain. Finally, some sanity on this issue. I hate pain, if licking frogs relieves the pain, let's prescribe frogs and a glass of water. What is the difference between prescribing pot for pain, or heroin? Both are potentially addictive drugs and both of them work. Heroin, Barbituates and Amphetimines are addictive, yet we use them.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:18:55 PM PDT
by
Hodar
(With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Hodar
I have no problem with this either.
My brother just died of cancer, and if smoking pot would have made him feel better before he died then I would have been okay with it.
To: LauraleeBraswell
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:29:21 PM PDT
by
Redgirl
(I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him.)
To: Hodar
Heroin [I think you mean morphine], Barbituates and Amphetimines are addictive, yet we use them.Quite correct; in fact, they are all considerably more addictive than marijuana (as is alcohol, which we allow for recreational use).
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:30:13 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Know your rights
Why does marijuana have to be
smoked to have medicinal effects?
Can't they put it in a pill or cough syrup or something? Smoking causes all kinds of other health problems, like lung cancer.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:33:12 PM PDT
by
wai-ming
To: Know your rights
OH GREAT!
A cancer-causing agent ostensibly 'prescribable', and with insufficent science behind it ALL because 'popular outcry' calls for it.
"Just say no."
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:36:07 PM PDT
by
_Jim
(<--- Ann C. and Rush L. speak on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
To: wai-ming
Why does marijuana have to be smoked to have medicinal effects? It doesn't have to be; but smoking acts quicker, which means patients are better able to stop when they've had enough, and nauseous patients have a hard time keeping pills down.
As for the bad effects of smoking: many medicines have harmful side effects. It should be up to doctors and patients, not government, to decide whether the benefits outweigh the harms.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:37:12 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: _Jim
A cancer-causing agent [...] with insufficent science behind itThese issues should be decided by doctors and patients, not government.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:38:53 PM PDT
by
Know your rights
(The modern enlightened liberal doesn't care what you believe as long as you don't really believe it.)
To: Know your rights
What we have here is the worst situation: Legal to use it, illegal to produce or distribute. That is what leads to the wars on the streets, which leads to the intrustions on the 4th and 2nd amendments. Personally, I think it should be legal and Phillip Morris can grow it. But, if not, then we need to fight the war as hard as we can.
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:05:37 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Know your rights
"It doesn't have to be; but smoking acts quicker, which means patients are better able to stop when they've had enough, and nauseous patients have a hard time keeping pills down."
I would imagine that a transdermal skin patch could be quite effective and one could avoid the cancer risks associated with smoking.
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posted on
05/12/2005 6:57:57 PM PDT
by
Avenger
To: Know your rights
"I would imagine that a transdermal skin patch could be quite effective and one could avoid the cancer risks associated with smoking."
However, in spite of the possibility that a transdermal patch (with some standardized levels of THC) might have many benefits over smoking pot, I guess it would get significantly less support since I suspect a large amount of the support for the medicinal use of pot is from otherwise healthy people who just like to smoke fatties and get stoned of their gourds.
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posted on
05/12/2005 7:16:28 PM PDT
by
Avenger
To: _Jim
"Just say no."Or, just say, "Yes."
Ever heard of liberty?
Ever heard of 'natural rights'?
Ever heard of 'mind your own business'?
Hmmm?
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posted on
05/12/2005 7:32:17 PM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: Know your rights
Prescribed? Hell, even I would support that!
To: headsonpikes
Or, just say, "Yes." Ever heard of liberty? Ever heard of 'natural rights'? Ever heard of 'mind your own business'? Hmmm?
The ACLU would argue the same thing about simulated child porn. Too each their own. Personally, I think our founding fathers had more lofty concerns in mind, rather than getting stoned and looking at porn, when they enshrined Liberty as a fundemental principle of our country.
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posted on
05/12/2005 7:46:21 PM PDT
by
Avenger
To: robertpaulsen
LOL! Well, me too. Having taken two friends through terminal cancer I'm not going to worry about whether it makes them lazy or not. It's sort of beside the point.
To: Avenger
The ACLU would argue the same thing about simulated child porn. Too each their own. Personally, I think our founding fathers had more lofty concerns in mind, rather than getting stoned and looking at porn, when they enshrined Liberty as a fundemental principle of our country.You give great Koolaid!
Wow! Smear with child porn, then hike up your skirts to show off your blue stockings!
Remember, Koolaid is a gateway drug.
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posted on
05/13/2005 5:32:41 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: Rodney King
"Personally, I think it should be legal and Phillip Morris can grow it. But, if not, then we need to fight the war as hard as we can."
Why? It's an unwinnable war that isn't worth fighting. Why go to the trouble and expense? Why blow lots of money and lock lots of people up when we know it's not going to do anything but cost us a bunch of money and fill up our prisons and jails? I think trying to enforce the prohibition against marijuana causes more problems than it solves. We'd have more control over marijuana if it was a legal and regulated industry. I think that's going to happen someday, but in the mean time I don't want my tax dollars being wasted waging a futile war on people involved with marijuana.
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posted on
05/13/2005 10:07:58 AM PDT
by
TKDietz
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