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Carey defends medical marijuana online
AP via Yahoo ^ | November 1, 2007 | Sandy Cohen

Posted on 11/02/2007 6:22:06 AM PDT by period end of story

LOS ANGELES - Bob Barker famously closed each episode of "The Price Is Right" with a pitch to spay and neuter pets. His successor is taking a stand on a more controversial subject: marijuana. Drew Carey won't tout toking up on "Price," but he defends the use of medical marijuana in a video posted online Thursday on Reason.tv.

"Smell that smell," the 49-year-old comedian says as he walks into a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary. "That's the smell of freedom."

The video is one of 20 Carey will host for the Reason Foundation, a nonprofit educational group whose ideas "some people call libertarian" and whose mission is to "advance freedom," said president David Nott.

Carey offered to produce brief documentaries on topics ranging from traffic congestion to immigration for the foundation's Web site, Nott said.

"Drew Carey connects with regular people. ... He has a regular guy's look at things, and that's why this seems like a great thing," he said. "We're interested in freedom across the spectrum, and good journalism about these subjects is important in the world of ideas."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: drewcarey; medicalmarijuana
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To: Mojave
Check it out, The anarchists have done away with avigation esaements by philosophical decree.

1. I'm not an anarchist.

2. What is an avigation esaement?
121 posted on 11/04/2007 5:54:38 PM PST by mysterio
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To: mysterio

Avigations easements are real property.

For example: http://prcity.com/government/departments/publicworks/airport/pdf/Avigation%20Easement.pdf


122 posted on 11/04/2007 6:05:55 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave

And someone can fly a plane on their own property as long as they don’t leave the ground. The example is false.


123 posted on 11/04/2007 6:10:28 PM PST by mysterio
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To: mysterio
As opposed to your convenient invent-a-facts:

Lands – Lands are material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock or other substance, and include free or occupied space for an indefinite distance upwards as well as downwards, subject to limitations upon the use of airspace imposed and rights in the use of airspace granted by law (IC 55-101A).

General Real Estate Terms & Definitions

124 posted on 11/04/2007 6:12:23 PM PST by Mojave
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To: mysterio
And someone can fly a plane on their own property as long as they don’t leave the ground.

Their property doesn't stop at the surface of the dirt.

125 posted on 11/04/2007 6:14:03 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave

An airplane on the ground isn’t in public airspace.


126 posted on 11/04/2007 6:17:58 PM PST by mysterio
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To: mysterio
An airplane on the ground isn’t in public airspace

An person's airplane flying over that persons privately owned land in within the real property of that owner. Yet it is still subject to restriction and regulation.

You crashed and burned.

127 posted on 11/04/2007 6:22:18 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave
An person's airplane flying

Flying? As opposed to on the ground, you mean.
128 posted on 11/04/2007 6:25:44 PM PST by mysterio
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To: mysterio

Property doesn’t stop at the surface of the dirt, your citeless flight from the facts notwithstanding.


129 posted on 11/04/2007 6:27:59 PM PST by Mojave
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To: mysterio
Pesky old facts:

Avigation Easements
By: Ronald D. Steinbach, Attorney at Law
1. Introduction.

An easement is the right granted to a third person to use your real property in a specified manner. An easement may be given, for example, for overhead wires, underground gas, power, sewer or storm drain lines, for sidewalk or street purposes, for neighbors to maintain their views, or even for airplanes to fly over your home on a regular basis. The latter right refers to an avigation easement, which is sometimes called an air easement or aircraft easement.

Most parcels of real property are affected by easements along the exterior boundaries or adjacent to the street. Those easements usually do not interfere with development of the property or cause a reduction in value of the property. By way of contrast, easements that cross the middle of the property or cover the entire property may cause serious reductions in value, or cause the property to have little or no value.

2. Condemnation of Avigation Easements and other Methods of Acquisition.

California law expressly authorizes a government agency operating an airport to condemn avigation easements. California Public Utilities Code section 21652 states in relevant part as follows:

"(a) Any person authorized to exercise the power of eminent domain for airport purposes may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation, or otherwise: . . . (2) Airspace or an easement in such airspace above the surface of property where necessary to permit imposition upon such property of excessive noise, vibration, discomfort, inconvenience, interference with use and enjoyment, and any consequent reduction in market value, due to the operation of aircraft to and from the airport."

Condemnation is a legal proceeding whereby a homeowner is forced to sell his property, or a portion thereof. A real estate appraiser is hired to determined the value of the property interest being taken, and the court determines the value in the event the parties cannot agree. In the case of an avigation easement, the appraiser determines the decrease in value of the home caused by aircraft constantly flying over or nearby. This amount is paid to the homeowner, and thereafter the homeowner can no longer legally complain. This is because the homeowner has been compensated for the nuisance, and he can either keep his home and tolerate the noise or sell his home and move to a quieter neighborhood.

A government agency can also, of course, purchase an avigation easement from a property owner, or receive a gift of such an easement.


130 posted on 11/04/2007 6:32:35 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave

So to move a plane on the ground from my field to my garage, I must apply for an FAA clearance?


131 posted on 11/04/2007 6:35:54 PM PST by mysterio
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To: mysterio
Airspace is not private property.

You're in full flight from your falsehood.

132 posted on 11/04/2007 6:42:29 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave

So in other words, I can pilot a plane on the ground on my own property.


133 posted on 11/04/2007 6:49:02 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Puppage

Marijuana eased the sickness and pain in the last weeks of my Dad’s life and allowed him enough appetite to eat something when he had not been able to for quite some time. I know what it is like to watch a loved suffer from needing the ‘bucket’ whether or not they’ve had anything to eat. Makes me cry to this very day.


134 posted on 11/04/2007 6:53:04 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: mysterio
Airspace is not private property.

Are you conceding that your statement was a baseless falsehood? Or will you just keep dancing?

135 posted on 11/04/2007 6:54:10 PM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave

I’ll concede that I’m not completely familiar with where private airspace ends and public airspace begins. Will you now concede that a plant grown on private property for personal use is not interstate commerce?


136 posted on 11/04/2007 6:58:36 PM PST by mysterio
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To: robertpaulsen
Just don't come here and say we all should be doing it for our illness.

Just like a cheap attorney, putting words in the mouths of others and then beating them up for them. Look you sniveling little liar, no one sad that we should all be doing it. For all of your moral dudgeon, you are just a liar.

On the other hand, if someone with a terminal illness feels that it helps them through the pain and suffering, who the hell are you to deny the comfort that apparently God himself provided. Really, who do you think you are, besides a scummy little liar.

137 posted on 11/04/2007 6:59:28 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Southerngl
Where are your statistics on that?

He has an "inventive" mind, it turns out. Probably fabricated that too.

138 posted on 11/04/2007 7:00:41 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
allowed him enough appetite to eat something when he had not been able to for quite some time

But he could have died if he had contracted a fungal infection from inhalation, didn't you know?

139 posted on 11/04/2007 7:02:08 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: mysterio
I’ll concede that I’m not completely familiar with where private airspace ends and public airspace begins.

But you were so dogmatically and arrogantly certain before.

Will you now concede that a plant grown on private property for personal use is not interstate commerce?

When did I ever say it was?

140 posted on 11/04/2007 7:07:33 PM PST by Mojave
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