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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."
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I find it interesting that people who will take strong prescription drugs, morphine, etc., would look down on marijuana. I don’t smoke it and wouldn’t if it were legal, but if I were ill like your mother was, I certainly would. It’s ridiculous not to take something that can ease pain.
robertpaulson is disgusting.
he’s a bit unreasonable on the issue but I don’t mind debating him on it if he wants to use facts, he ignores the fact that we have had federally sanctioned medical marijuana since the 70’s and still have patients approved to use it, they just froze enrollment when Reagan started the war on drugs
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Reagan far from started it. He may have turned it up a notch or two, but it was already underway for decades.
In pill form, medicalized and prescribed as an alternative to other meds...fine.
Smoked for highness and sold in bags...NOT!
The WOD has done nothing to reduce the problems that drugs cause society. At some point it is luncacy to try the same thing over and over with the same results.
Of course. If the all knowing benevolent Congress thinks that marijuana is wrong under any circumstances, who are any of us to resist? Especially since the SCOTUS has ruled that taking marijuana in one State, and that is made in that State, is interstate commerce.
Good for Drew Carey (the new Bob Barker) and the State of California for doing the right thing. Additionally, good for the State of California for telling the Congress and the SCOTUS where to go.
LOL!
he has quite the fan club here. He's one of only 3 posters who are tagged in my FRTrollbolocker GreaseMonkey script.
When he posts, all I see is
"All posts by known troll robertpaulsen have been Blocked, to view posts by this person you must edit the FRTrollBlocker.user.js
file."
I thought you used to be able to debate without resorting to flat out lies. Maybe I was thinking of somebody else.
So throw em in jail!!!
Is there really a trollblocker? I would like to use it!
Some folks can take a beating from the cops better than others.
"Hamadeh and associates. Chest, Vol. 94/2, pp.432-433, 1988. "Invasive aspergillosis has become a significant cause of death in immunosuppressed patients". Physicians should be aware of this potentially lethal complication of marijuana use in compromised hosts such as patients with AIDS or malignancies."
When your immune system is suppresed (as it is when you have AIDS or on chemo for cancer), it's not a good idea to inhale a fungus or bacteria. But you're going to sit there and tell me that cancer patients should be allowed to smoke marijuana.
What you're doing borders on criminality.
First of all, smoking marijuana is not illegal. Possessing it is. Taken collectively, possessing marijuana has a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
No different than flying your private airplane within your state. The moment you start having a substantial effect on interstate air traffic (ie., flying within controlled airspace), Congress (via the FAA) may regulate your in-state activity.
Or are you saying that since your flying is not interstate and is not even commerce, that Congress has no right to intervene?
Yeah. You were thinking of ItisaReligionofPeace.
You do what you gotta do. And I'm sure you're man enough to face the consequences of your actions (seriously).
Just don't come here and say we all should be doing it for our illness. That's not your call. You are in no position to say that.
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