Medical marijuana advocate kills herself

Missoulian.com ^ | 10/26/07 | MICHAEL MOORE

[Libloather]

...the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder...

Maybe, in the future, there will be a cure. Marijuana doesn't seem to be it.

[burzum]

Maybe, in the future, there will be a cure. Marijuana doesn't seem to be it.

Be sure to pat yourself on the back. This woman was suffering and you would rather see her kill herself than to allow medical marijuana be used to help her. That is such an ethical choice.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for this poor soul. May she RIP.

[pepsionice]

Marijuana might be the cure for something...but too many folks will think of it as the cure for everything. Then it goes downhill fast.

But on the positive side...if we could ever find something to use it for...legally...and could tax it....we’d cut out income tax within three years. Course, we’d all be addicted and smoking a dozen joints a day and act like potheads.

[Hornitos]

May the God of peace be merciful and bestow His grace upon His servant Robin Prosser, and may perpetual Light shine upon her.

[Libloather]

...and you would rather...

I said nothing of the sort. Shut up and sit down.

[burzum]

But on the positive side...if we could ever find something to use it for...legally...and could tax it....we’d cut out income tax within three years. Course, we’d all be addicted and smoking a dozen joints a day and act like potheads.

I think your major premise is wrong here. I don't think marijuana causes people to act like potheads. I think potheads are one group of people who use marijuana just because they are potheads. When marijuana was made illegal and the penalties for use increased, the casual user was scared off. Now marijuana sold on the streets is much more concentrated in THC than what it was decades ago. This is because the primary customer, the potheads, want the extreme effects. The same is true for all illegal drugs. Cocaine sold at the turn of the 20th century is nothing in concentration like cocaine sold to people today.

[Grimmy]

Amen.

[burzum]

Would you rather have this woman suffer and commit suicide rather than allow marijuana be used as a treatment?

A simple yes or no will suffice.

[Libloather]

...rather than allow marijuana be used as a treatment?

It was used as a treatment. Did you read anything before you knee-jerk reaction?

[GLDNGUN]

Would you rather have this woman suffer and commit suicide rather than allow marijuana be used as a treatment?

A simple yes or no will suffice.

And do you still beat your children?

"A simple yes or no will suffice."

[Darkwolf377]

I know you weren't asking me but your question is the core one.

I don't see how anyone who's not for banning alcohol can be for banning pot. As long as no one makes me smoke that crap, they can do what they want in their own homes, as far as I'm concerned--that's the conservative, small-government response.

[pawdoggie]

Be sure to pat yourself on the back. This woman was suffering and you would rather see her kill herself than to allow medical marijuana be used to help her.

Instead of taking this obviously biased article as the Gospel truth (written by someone named "Michael Moore", probably not that Michael Moore, but certainly someone who shares Fatso's journalistic objectivity), you may want to read a little deeper into the "reportage". For example, the article says that "Prosser suffered from an autoimmune disease that gave her allergic and dangerous reactions to most pharmaceutical painkillers". It also states that Prosser had located an alternate source for her medical weed, "but it didn't go well". It sounds to me that, the journalist's bias notwithstanding ("So she turned to marijuana. When that was no longer available she had no where else to turn".), MS Prosser may well have had other options for pain relief, but preferred her pot to other medications that would relief her pain, but would not give her that nice buzz that would have relieved the depression that probably was the actual cause of her suicide.

[SteveMcKing]

We don't make laws and policy based on a few exceptional cases.

This is a demagogic sob story, aka "Women and minorities hit hardest..."

[CarrotAndStick]

I think the 'treatment' for such disorders aren't one-off measures, but rather, for life.

From the article:

"Without the relief that marijuana delivered to her, Robin Prosser killed herself at home last week. She was 50. "

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

At the time, the DEA special agent in charge of the Rocky Mountain Field Division said federal agents were “protecting people from their own state laws” by seizing such shipments.
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Once again States Rights goes down the tube,,,
I for one don’t care if this woman was smokin’ Monkey Turds
If it helped her,,,

Thank You Big Brother For Protecting Me From A “Dope Fiend”.

[Libloather]

Thank You Big Brother For Protecting Me From A “Dope Fiend”.

Take it easy. The woman just died...

[CarrotAndStick]

Exactly. I may be wrong, but I haven’t heard anything against the convincing argument that legalisation would render the drug dealers, and their inherent crime problems, obsolete.

[endthematrix]

"...fear spread through the system of marijuana distribution set up in the wake of the medical marijuana act. Friends said Prosser turned to other sources for marijuana, but found problems nearly everywhere she turned.

“Most recently, she had found some people who said they could get her what she needed, but it didn't go well,” said her friend Jane Byard."

Women in back-alleys again...

[Hornitos]

Maybe, in the future, there will be a cure. Marijuana doesn't seem to be it.

No one is asserting that a particular treatment is a cure, just that if its use alleviates the symptoms of those who are suffering then they ought to be allow the treatment.