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SUPREME COURT RULING: You can arrest those using marijuana for medical purposes

Posted on 06/06/2005 7:16:18 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs

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To: dawn53

Yes that's true, as soon as they find a way MJ will be legal..

Godd luck with your MS I know it can be painful but manageable and I say if MJ helps you *Screw the Feds! use it unfortunatley discreetly...


161 posted on 06/06/2005 8:27:56 AM PDT by missyme (Tell it like it is!)
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To: newgeezer
O'Connor wrote the dissenting opinion. Who are the other 2? Scalia? Thomas?

That's what I was thinking, that surely Thomas would have dissented this (as would I).

162 posted on 06/06/2005 8:27:57 AM PDT by soundandvision
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To: kjam22

You don't know Thomas very well.


163 posted on 06/06/2005 8:28:50 AM PDT by jayef (e)
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To: Lazamataz

I guess Clown Posse is closed this morning.

;>)


164 posted on 06/06/2005 8:29:09 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: newgeezer
Which one?

That's classified information, mister.
I could tell you, but........(you know the rest)

165 posted on 06/06/2005 8:29:33 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Monthly donors make better lovers. Ask my wife.)
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To: Just another Joe

Shine, Perishing Republic

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening
to empire,
And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the
mass hardens,
I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.
Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances, ripeness and decadence;
and home to the mother.

You making haste, haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it
stubbornly long or suddenly
A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.
But for my children, I would have them keep their distance from the
thickening center; corruption
Never has been compulsory, when the cities lie at the monster's feet there
are left the mountains.

And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man, a clever servant,
insufferable master.
There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught -- they say --
God, when he walked on earth.

-- Robinson Jeffers


166 posted on 06/06/2005 8:31:44 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: Celtjew Libertarian
Good morning.
"The whole point of the Bill of Rights is that there are rights that people have as individuals that trump even what the voters want."

I'm probably just being dense, but I don't see how that applies to what I wrote. Are you saying that the will of the People, as expressed through the initiative and referendum processes should not be as binding as the will of the judges or am I just missing your point?

Michael Frazier
167 posted on 06/06/2005 8:32:21 AM PDT by brazzaville (No surrender,no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: soundandvision
O'Connor, Rehnquist, and Thomas voted against the ruling.

Scalia voted for it but issued an opinion separate from the rest of the majority. I haven't read the opinions yet. Another reply has links to the written opinions.

168 posted on 06/06/2005 8:33:28 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republicans and Democrats no longer exist. There are only Fabian and revolutionary socialists.)
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To: wardaddy; Xenalyte
I guess Clown Posse is closed this morning.

Say, about that: They've routinely claimed I am a pedophile. My screen name is widely associated with my real name, and they in fact have often used my real name.

I'm saving some pennies and retaining a lawyer. We'll soon pierce the veil of their screen names and offer them a chance to either formally retract and remove all such claims, or face a fullblown civil lawsuit.

The 'net is not anonymous, and you cannot make libelous claims without serious ramifications.

169 posted on 06/06/2005 8:33:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
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To: Mikse
But I thought the supreme court was full of activist liberal judges! Confused...

Activist or conservative, it's obvious that none of them believe in states' rights.

170 posted on 06/06/2005 8:33:52 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

Scalia is a political animal. You didn't know that. That's why Thomas is the thinking man's choice for Chief. Probably won't happen though.


171 posted on 06/06/2005 8:34:08 AM PDT by jayef (e)
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To: jwalsh07
I don't believe that at all. I know the arguements for upholding the laws passed by legislatures, etc. But if the laws passed by legislatures are un-Constitutional then what's a justice that's sworn to uphold the Constitution to do?

I think Thomas is the best justice there is just slightly ahead of Scalia. Of all of our justices, Justice Thomas seems best to understand original intent of the Constitution and that means a lot to me as someone that thinks we will never see a day were we start slouching back towards original intent. We're forever going down this road that throws the Constitution out the window, we have been for well over 70 or 80 years (probably longer).

172 posted on 06/06/2005 8:34:50 AM PDT by soundandvision
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To: jayef
PEOPLE ARE DYING

I'm on your side but, to my knowledge, no one claims marijuana prolongs life. It just eases the pain, right?

173 posted on 06/06/2005 8:35:39 AM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs

That's not a surprise. The law must be changed at the federal level.


174 posted on 06/06/2005 8:35:46 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Elpasser

"I applaud the Supreme Court's decision."

Bigtime ditto


175 posted on 06/06/2005 8:36:04 AM PDT by LAURENTIJ
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To: Petronski

Federal pre-emption doctrine ... oh well.


176 posted on 06/06/2005 8:37:07 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (In memory of our bravest in armed service to our nation.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I'll look for it and I, for one, and pleased at how Justice Thomas ruled. I love the man (in a straight way).


177 posted on 06/06/2005 8:37:34 AM PDT by soundandvision
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To: LAURENTIJ
Bigtime ditto

On what basis?

178 posted on 06/06/2005 8:38:14 AM PDT by JeffAtlanta
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To: Lazamataz
I support Hillary

I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya. Never thought I'd see the day.

179 posted on 06/06/2005 8:38:25 AM PDT by newgeezer (Sarcasm content: 100.00%)
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To: soundandvision
I don't believe that at all.

What? :-}

180 posted on 06/06/2005 8:38:35 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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