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To: presidio9
I'm all for medical marijuana as long as it is approved and regulated by the FDA...just like any other drug.
7 posted on 03/19/2010 12:34:10 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Rush:Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you!)
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To: ari-freedom
I'm all for medical marijuana as long as it is approved and regulated by the FDA...just like any other drug.

Like it is in the places where its now legal? In SF Hippies complain about phantom headaches and get perscriptions for "medical marijuana." Seems to me that about 90% of the people being perscribed want it for one reason: Because it is a mind-altering drug. There are better pharmaceutical options for all of the syptoms pot supposedly treats. Now, there are people dying of cancer, who claim that pot helps their appetite after chemo (there are other drugs that will do this). I sympathize with them, and would not have a problem with doctors prescribing pot to them so they could get stoned and say it was for the appetite. The rest of these people are just looking to get stoned. Even that wouldn't be such a big deal, except that when you are dealing with raw plants, there's no way to regulate the dosages. All people who seek to escape reality through mind altering drugs are obviously dealing with a reality that they would be better off addressing.

16 posted on 03/19/2010 12:48:43 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: ari-freedom

Can I have my androstenedione back too please?


63 posted on 03/19/2010 2:07:46 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: ari-freedom

And I am for getting rid of the FDA, since, there being no Constitutional authority for it to exist, it is an illegal agency! So who ya gonna get to regulate your drugs? Maybe Underwriters’ Labs? Let the Free Market deal with that issue and leave government OUT of it. More government regulation is a LIBERAL and Progressive position, NOT a Conservative one, OR libertarian.


88 posted on 03/19/2010 3:24:19 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III OK)
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To: ari-freedom
I'm all for medical marijuana as long as it is approved and regulated by the FDA...just like any other drug.

Impossible.

It is a plant, a weed. It mutates with every generation and is different in every soil, sunlight, moisture and nourishment environment just like tomatoes, tobacco, asparagus and cantaloupe.

126 posted on 03/19/2010 9:01:22 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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