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

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Per Fox News:

The Supreme Court has ruled Medical Marijuana as illegal.

[markedman]

Oh please. Gimme a break. The war on drugs is and always has been a joke. Drug money paid for a lot of the development in Florida during the 80's and the old Chemical Bank was fined a minimal amount for laundering money. Now you and you amen corner want to outlaw over-the-counter medicine.

Sooner or later pot will be legal, but to withhold now from people to ease their suffering, well, that's just plain immoral.

The best thing about this ruling is those 11 states will not likely enforce it.

[A CA Guy]

I'm no fan of smoking which causes lung cancer, nor do I advocate drinking more than modest amounts of alcohol having had my neck broken in a car accident by a drunk driver.
A little alcohol is good for you, even being mentioned in the Bible as a food purifier, and is a known blood thinner.

[A CA Guy]

accommodations: wrong word, meant awards.

[vikzilla]

I refuse to become addicted to it.

MJ is not addictive. Take some time and educate yourself.

[jayef]

O'Connor, Rehnquist and Thomas

[A CA Guy]

How so? You express your gleaming example og logic to us all and I will gladly reply with mine.

[A CA Guy]

og = of

[jayef]

Here's some logic for you . . . Clarence Thomas is right.

[Basil314]

It is somewhat encouraging that the court decided we should let elected officials decide this rather than the courts.

It would be more encouraging if the will of the people could decide this (and they have) and not elected officials much less the courts.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

It is full of activist liberal judges. They just didn't want this to happen, for whatever reason.

[fanfan]

Of course it makes sense.. you can't say that a Doctor can overrule a law. If a drug is ruled illegal, its illegal.. you can't say that if the law says its illegal, but you get a doctor to write you a script for it then its not illegal.. that's nonsense.

If the law makes no exemption for medical use of a drug, a doctors perscription for it does not make it legal.

If people were running around buying morphine, we would have a problem. Some people who are sick are able to eat better, keeping food down, while also sleeping better.

When did the members of the US Supreme Court become doctors?

[JeffAtlanta]

I said the same on a thread many moons ago and the MJ taliban went ape_s88t on me. Meanwhile, new and better prescription painkillers keep coming out.

Such as?

[Basil314]

There's plenty of good alternate methods available. I'd rather have my 12 guage take away the pain if it got bad enough

That would be euthanasia and that's illegal too.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Just mentioned what I hear on some threads from Libertarians when they occasionally come out of their dark basements to post.

ROTFL!

[A CA Guy]

Good for Clarence.

[fanfan]

A little alcohol is good for you, even being mentioned in the Bible as a food purifier, and is a known blood thinner.

They used to give alcohol to people before they preformed surgery, to help knock them out. Did that help or hurt the surgeries?

Alcohol is also an antiseptic.

[takenoprisoner]

"It is full of activist liberal judges. They just didn't want this to happen, for whatever reason."

States are now put on notice. Send your legislators home since they are no longer needed...and no need to have citizens cast votes at the local level...per the USSC.

Now you know "whatever reason."

[HamiltonJay]

Morphine is exempt for medical use under the law, pot isn't, its that simple. The supreme court made the right ruling based on the law. If the law allows for an exemption for medical use, and doctors prescription makes it legal.. if the law makes no such exemption, then a doctors perscription does not make it legal.

Its pretty simple, you don't have to like the statutes, but the Supreme Court cannot grant doctors the right to override the law at will. They could come to no other conclusion legally.

[mugs99]

Sadly,
The Bush administration supported this expansion of federal power. Anybody remember the so-called 10th amendment?

Sadly,
This life long republican voter who voted for Bush will never again vote for a republican. I can no longer support a party that will not preserve and protect the Constitution.
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