Posted on 02/20/2009 6:14:14 PM PST by Gondring
The tide is slowly turning on this.
I also. I feel for the people who legitimately need it for medical purposes.
I don’t care what any pot smoker says, it does change a personality.
It may calm but it can cause agitation just as easy.
Besides it makes people act stupidly silly and they can just as easy try something else for “fun”.
So do I.
Marijuana was the only thing that gave my cousin relief from the unrelenting nausea of chemo.
Marijuana was made illegal in 1935 by FDR, just one more of that a-hole’s disastrous policies that we’ve been forced to deal with down to the present day.
Can someone explain to me why tobacco and alcohol are legal, but medical marijuana is illegal? The medical marijunana issue left a black mark on the Bush presidency and the liberal justices that enabled the DEA to violate states’ rights.
Interesting that the article mentions fentanyl. I remember reading an article a few years back about fentanyl “popsicles” and the potential for abuse, including off-label prescriptions and possible issues involving its marketing.
OK, it’s time for all the usual FReeper libertarians to come out of the woodwork for medical marijuana, which if I am not mistaken is SMOKED, with all the attendant hazards to one’s lungs.
All together now, “There is no pain reliever EVER produced by medical and pharmaceutical science that is as effective as smoking marijuana!” Go ahead, proclaim it to the heavens.
I’m in the Reserves. Tomorrow morning, more than likely I will have to stand observed and pee in the bottle to prove my innocence of not having used an illegal drug.
Therefore I really have no pity for marijuana smokers of any stripe. Oh, I forgot to add, I’m in the JAG Corps and I process the paperwork to separate those who “popped hot”.
So flame away.
“The tide is slowly turning on this.”
I certainly hope so. With few exceptions, this is the story of my life.
When they make owning a gun a crime will you turn yours in?
No victim, no crime. Does “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” convey a message of fraud or what.
This story is linked at JackHerer.com and people that somehow think that we are on the right path really need to read the online edition of “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.”
Hemp/cannabis prohibition is so wrong, they won’t let anyone get on television and call it a fraud and demand a cost-benefit analysis of a prohibition policy that does not even prohibit- thank goodness.
You may know law, but you surely do not know justice. The harms of cannabis come from the laws with a big part of that being letting the greatest medicinal plant in the history of man do its job.
Cannabis prohibition is a crime against humanity and mass murder and you either understand it or you don’t. Be sure and watch Run From The Cure at JackHerer.com. He also has a YouTube channel, JackHererTV, that has some eyewitness testimony.
As Jack Herer says using the extensive Jamaican studies, if you use hemp everyday morning, noon, and night you will live two years longer and live a healthier and happy life with that.
“If and when impediments to medical marijuana use are removed and the American people begin to avail themselves of it en masse, the pharmaceutical manufacturers will lose a third or more of their sales.”== Fred Gardner at http://counterpunch.org/gardner02042009.html
Free Pot.
Legalize it already.
“Tomorrow morning, more than likely I will have to stand observed and pee in the bottle to prove my innocence of not having used an illegal drug.”
Just think - once upon a time you would have been a free man in a free country.
What a sorry pass we have come to.
I won’t flame you, I’ll just say....but for the Grace of God go you...
Banning medical marijuana is ridiculous.
Too much $$$ being made on the marijuana drug trade.
Some people really want to know who to listen too on medical pot. Dr. Lester Grinspoon was is the grandfather of cannabis researchers and he has two websites of interest. One is http://rxmarijuana.com/ where after you enter you can type in your ailment to get testimony of people that have used cannabis for their ailment. The other is the uses website at http://marijuana-uses.com/
Dr. Grinspoon has a wonderful blog entry at his uses page that is very well stated and it goes hand in hand with an hour long interview of telling his story of researching cannabis as medicine. It really is wonderful. It is too wonderful for television, that is for sure.
Grinspoon podcast from June of 2008 = http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/living-purpose/episode-127-lester-grinspoon-md
Granny Storm Crow Master List is something that might interest the hard core. It collect research by disease- http://medicalmarijuanapatient.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65
Because marijuana is a political drug, just like aids is a political disease.
No doubt the “medical” part of medical marijuana is abused by some, but if it produces relief in those suffering the effects of chemo and cancer, what kind of person would withhold it?
What's to flame? You made absolutely NO ARGUMENT TO SUPPORT THE CONTINUED BAN!
Just who's the dunce here?
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