This thread is about medicinal marijuana and not about people sititng around in a commune smoking dope and getting stoned.
If it is found that MM helps alleviate patients symptoms and ailments why shouldn't they be allowed to use it. The arguement has been that it is because it is illegal and addicting. The counter-arguement presented here is that it is less addicting than cigarettes and almost ALL the drugs prescribed by the doctors that the patients would need to take in it's stead. The problem is that the drug companies won't be able to patent MM and there goes the profits that they would have gotten on it and are currently getting for the drugs being used instead of MM.
As to the illegal part...what makes it illegal? The governement's decree does but remember at one time alcohol was illegal.
The drug war has become costly, with some $50 billion in direct outlays by all levels of government, and much higher indirect costs, such as the expanded prison system to house half a million drug-law offenders and the burdens on the court system. Civil rights sometimes are infringed. One sharply rising expense is for efforts to interdict illegal drug shipments into the U.S., which is budgeted at $1.4 billion this fiscal year, up 41% from two years ago.
Why do we as a country keep spending money on something that doesn't work?
"Why do we as a country keep spending money on something that doesn't work"?
Because most of the people have been duped by a very simple lie; MJ is BAD!
Hitler took over a country with simple lies. Simple enough so even the most stupid person could understand the lie, but not understand that he was being lied to.
Politics, keeping the constituency happy by showing them there is a war against drugs. Sick, isn't it?