[Nachum]

Cancer sufferers would tend to disagree with George here.

[walden]

I don't think so. Some cancer patients use marijuana to reduce the nausea produced by chemotherapy, but I have never heard it touted as a pain-killer.

[68 grunt]

George is insane, the arch-typical Amerikan nazi. He was the paraquat kid in the 70's, publicly assuming the position that the federal government should poison mj plants and kill the users. I can't wait until the other nazi, Buchanan, weighs in on the issue.

[TheOtherOne]

Is there anyone on FreeRepublic.com who admits to smoking pot (more than once), who also agrees it is dangerous and should be illegal to all people?

I want to meet that czar.

[sphinx]

Cancer sufferers would tend to disagree with George here.

No. Pot smokers who have cancer would disagree with George here.

[infocats]

Fifty years ago, as a much younger television reporter, I did a series of interviews with Dr. Hardin B. Jones, Professor of Medical Physics and Physiology at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Jones, in his thorough study, raised disturbing questions about marijuana's effects on the vital systems of the body, on the brain and mind, on immunity and resistance, and on sex reproduction.

Why is this reporter relying upon fifty year old data to support his conclusions?

[voteconstitutionparty]

Nonsense!

[Know your rights]

We had to interview 25 hard-core drug users before we found a single one who had not started with marijuana!

How many did he have to interview before he found a single one who had not started with alcohol? Tobacco? Milk?

Idiot.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act pretty much took this out of the states' hands.

It's a little late to be complaining that the SCOTUS should legislate drug laws.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

LeRoy must be so sad today.

[DoctorMichael]

Medi-juana

Marijuana has helped me a lot!
It's a marvel, this medical "pot"!
My condition's the same,
But I'm pleased to proclaim
I've forgotten what illness I've got!
—F.R. Duplantier

[philman_36]

Fifty years ago, as a much younger television reporter, I did a series of interviews with Dr. Hardin B. Jones, Professor of Medical Physics and Physiology at the University of California Berkeley. Dr. Jones, in his thorough study, raised disturbing questions about marijuana's effects on the vital systems of the body, on the brain and mind, on immunity and resistance, and on sex reproduction.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Hardin Blair Jones, Medical Physics; Physiology/Anatomy: Berkeley
As a staunch defender of academic freedom, Jones resisted those encroachments on that freedom that accompanied the disorders on the Berkeley campus in the mid 1960s. he was a man of high integrity and he held fast to his principles throughout those troubled times.
In his contacts with students Jones became aware of an increasing indulgence in hallucinatory drugs. The contradiction between scholarly pursuits and mental abuse by drugs troubled him and led to an exhaustive study of the drug question and the characteristics of users of sensual drugs worldwide. A course of instruction he developed on the use and abuse of drugs proved extremely popular. His publications and lectures on this subject culminated in a book, Sensual Drugs: Deprivation and Rehabilitation of the Mind, coauthored by his wife, Helen Cook Jones. Jones's scientific bibliography totaled 140 publications.

Jones's public service activities were extensive. On several occasions he made scientific presentations on radiation hazards to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and on drug abuse to subcommittees of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. He was chairman of the Biological Science Section of the White House Conference on Aging in 1961. In 1973, at the request of the Department of Defense, he undertook a wide scale study on drug abuse and its prevention in the U.S. armed forces throughout the world.
Please, give me a break. Look up "hardin jones" testimony and see some of the wacked out things this "DR." believed. Go ahead, George, just believe in your dotage what the good DR promulgated. I'll go with a little more recent information like this...Health Risks of Marijuana Use
The preponderance of evidence clearly indicates that THC is one of the least toxic chemicals that humans ingest. At doses achieved by heavy marijuana users, there is no evidence of genetic damage or effects on fertility, pregnancy, or offspring. Similarly, there is no evidence of damage to the hormonal or immune systems.
Research that finds damaging effects of THC generally falls into one of two categories: 1) studies that are not replicated by later research using more appropriate experimental designs; and 2) studies that use massive quantities of THC, far beyond the doses employed by heavy marijuana users.

As Dr. Jones himself stated..."The principal Psychoactive ingredient in Cannabis was only isolated in 1965. Modern research has just begun, yet since 1965, we have already discovered much about the toxic effects of THC on cells.
Undoubtedly, additional research will further establish that other chemical constituents in Cannabis, beside THC also affect the biological system. Such research takes time". (even though it is substantially stymied in the US)

He sure needed to spend some more time studying the matter before making such absurd claims or just stuck to cancer.

[Sloth]

Dr. Jones, in his thorough study, raised disturbing questions about marijuana's effects on the vital systems of the body, on the brain and mind, on immunity and resistance, and on sex reproduction.

That's great. But what does it have to do with the Constitutionality of federal drug laws?