[Gondring]

Marijuana can help some people a lot and I wish we could get past the other issues so people in distress could get relief.

[Mr. Blonde]

The tide is slowly turning on this.

[TribalPrincess2U]

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”.

[SoKatt]

So do I.
Marijuana was the only thing that gave my cousin relief from the unrelenting nausea of chemo.

[eclecticEel]

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.

[WheresMyBailout]

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.

[Cu Roi]

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.

[mysterio]

Banning medical marijuana is ridiculous.

[BallyBill]

You can't get more natural than pot. You can get coca and opium in prescriptions, why not reefer?

[poodle]

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

[DouglasKC]

There's no such thing as "medical" marijuana. It's like saying there's "medical" beer. Sure it will make you feel good and deaden your pain, but the side effects far outweigh the benefits, it any.

Nope. The whole concept of "medical" marijuana only exists because the people that are hooked on getting stoned want to be able to do it without getting punished. Their addiction is such that they will risk their families, their freedom and their finances to keep smoking dope.

[acliffhang3r]

Legalize pot and then tax the finished products that are manufactured with it.

[Force of Truth]

Bump to read and comment on later. Just remember that the War On Drugs is really the war on We The People.

[RayChuang88]

If we legalize cannabis, we need to regulate it like we regulate alcoholic beverages and tobacco. This has a couple of advantages:

1. Cannabis will be of consistent quality, with standardized THC levels per gram.
2. We weed out (pun intended!) all the cannabis dealers who put in potential dangerous additives into the cannabis.
3. It would tremendously cut down on a lot of illegal criminal activity.

In short, it would be like ending the Prohibition, especially given the problems with poor quality and sometimes poisonous alcoholic drinks of that period!

[bamahead]

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[poodle]

The Canadian Senate Select Committee was the last big governmental study on cannabis in the tradition of the Indian Hemp Commission and the Schaffer Commission. It called for legalization of cannabis for people over 16.

The Senators in Canada are appointed for a lifetime so they do not have to worry about re-election. This is a must read for anyone that is serious about developing an accurate view of cannabis. It called for legalization for Canadians over 16: http://tinyurl.com/1d16

There is a little summary of it here- http://hempcity.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=575

[Ken H]

Marijuana is THE money maker. Why not regulate it like alcohol and take away the cartels' main source of funding? From the Dallas News:

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John P. Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana, not heroin or cocaine, is the "bread and butter," "the center of gravity" for Mexican drug cartels that every year smuggle tons of it through the porous U.S.-Mexico border. Of the $13.8 billion that Americans contributed to Mexican drug traffickers in 2004-05, about 62 percent, or $8.6 billion, comes from marijuana consumption.

-snip-

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/022208dnintdrugs.3a98bb0.html

Anyone who supports the failed prohibition of marijuana is aiding and abetting the Mexican drug cartels.

[Larry Lucido]

Anyone who is against it is free not to take it. Otherwise they can pound sand.

[Free Descendant]

If the WOD keeps just one person from giggling unnecessarily then it’s worth it.

[Free Descendant]

“It would be less harmful for [a child] to ingest the marijuana than any of those meds,” he said. “If they took a handful of any of my meds, they’d be dead.”

Is it less harmful? If the child injests marijuana there will be no end to the conversations of how we can make rope and clothes and soap and oil from hemp. Further it will cause obesity and increase ratings for aqua teen hunger force and, correct me if I'm wrong, they're some kind of terrorist organization.