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 ...
I'll go with the Supreme Court's rulings in Lopez and Morrison. The Commerce Clause applies to anything that crosses the border of a State, into the United States, from an Indian reservation, is using a pathway for interstate commerce (an intrastate flight would apply here), or "substantially affects" interstate commerce.
How does smoking, or otherwise using, marijuana that's been grown and used in the same State "substantially affect" interstate commerce?
Anyone that would flame that is a “pure male donkey” with a hole.
Experiencing that would likely change opinions.
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Thank you so much. And you are right, it changed my entire family’s views on the medicinal side of it. We have used herbs for years and just because a few people have enjoyed it for purely pleasure use, we have to punish the positive benefits of it.
And I love Drew’s line in his commercial ‘If you have a real problem with it, go in the store and pop a brew’.
Sorry about the loss of your mom. You did good by her.
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Thank you. I miss her dearly still and it’s been five years.
Who was killed by consuming marijuana?
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Answer is noone. Ever.
“Yes, cancer patients should be “allowed” to smoke whatever they want if it helps them to eat.”
Even if it kills them in the process.
And you say you’re the one who cares!
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And morphine hasn’t killed many a patient suffering in a terminal illness?
It’s wrong to self medicate with pot.
Carey should be self medicating with Prozac, Paxil, Lexapro, Celexa, Zoloft, Effexor, Cymbalta, Avanza, Zispin, Remeron, Edronax, Wellbutrin, Zyban, Nardil, Manerix, Emsam, Klonopin, Rivotril, Xanax, Risperdal, Zyprexa, Seroquel, Tegretol, Epilim, or Lamictal.
Scalia: "As the court explains, marijuana that is grown at home and possessed for personal use is never more than an instant from the interstate market -- and this is so whether or not the possession is for medicinal use or lawful use under the laws of a particular state. Congress need not accept on faith that state law will be effective in maintaining a strict division between a lawful market for 'medical' marijuana and the more general marijuana market."
OTC morphine?
The medications you listed are designed to help organize the thought process when prescribed correctly by a Psychiatrist.
If you read the lancet publication titled “Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review” you would find out that marijuana causes depression and other mental health issues.
It only compounds to make the illness worse.
Don’t play his flying airplanes game. He has been soundly trounced on that false example countless times.
Aspirin causes headaches.
Post hoc argument....
People who don’t take aspirin ——> Don’t have headaches.
Everyone who takes aspirin -——> Has a headache ——>Conclusion: Aspirin causes headaches
You woke up early too.
Who funded that study?
Sure it has. Are you suggesting that marijuana be limited to hospice care? 'Cause I thought we were talking about cancer patients in general.
Pffffft! In your dreams.
Thank you for conceding that smoking pot can kill, as has killed, patients with compromised immune systems (such as cancer patients on chemo).
You don't have to. You can go with their their decision in Gonzales v Raich, a case specifically about medical marijuana.
I see that Mojave already quoted Justice Scalia from that case, so there's no need for me to repeat it.
Pipe dreams?
He "trounces" me in his dreams he better wake up and apologize.
This wasn’t based on one study. It was based to 35 studies with 4804 references.
The Lancet study was reported in this FOX News article
Study: Even Infrequent Use of Marijuana Increases Risk of Psychosis by 40 Percent
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,291043,00.html
Most potheads wont believe any marijuana studies that point out its harm unless maybe its being conducted by their drug dealer and thats even doubtful.
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