Poll: Majority back easing pot laws

Arizona Daily Sun ^ | 10/02/2002 | HOWARD FISCHER

[Huck]

Well, there's some difficulty, if you are a dork like me. A lag time of sometimes up to a month. I mean, uh, hypothetically.

[MrLeRoy]

Still like Proposition 203?

I like it better than the status quo---just as I liked Dubya's tax cuts though I would have preferred much deeper ones.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

enormous external costs dopers inflict on other tax-paying citizens

You mean the WOD, of course.
You see, decriminalization would save the nation BILLIONS of dollars with no appreciable rise in other costs.
It would still be illegal to drive a car, work as an Air Traffic Controller, etc., so there should be no rise in insurance costs, etc.
But then you knew that.

[MrLeRoy]

Well, there's some difficulty, if you are a dork like me.

Or me.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Almost as sad as worshipping arcane laws that are ineffective. How sad.

[robertpaulsen]

"ANY prescription medication..."

Give me an example of ANY other prescription drug that is handled this way. Do you see legislation setting a maximum amount of morphine per month? Ritalin? Codeine?

[MrLeRoy]

Still like Proposition 203? Got ze papers? Oh my, I didn't know you had AIDS.

At this point, your charade of supporting "properly prescribed" medical marijuana fools nobody; it's a transparent ploy to appear reasonable while attacking all actual plans.

[MrLeRoy]

Give me an example of ANY other prescription drug that is handled this way. Do you see legislation setting a maximum amount of morphine per month? Ritalin? Codeine?

I can't; no; no; and no. What's your point?

[Dead Corpse]

Free? Not with my G*dda*mn tax-money!!!

De-criminalize it, then let 'em pop on down to the local smoke shop to buy their own.

[robertpaulsen]

You're showing your true colors -- Marijuana uber alles!

You're the first one to yell and scream about government intervention, yet you're willing to vote to let them into your medical records and issue you an identity card -- incredible!

[Protagoras]

Maybe not "difficult" ... inconvenient, though. Quite a bit easier for me to locate and acquire a six-pack of beer or a pack of cigarettes.

Like I said, I never have used the stuff, but I know many people who do and they don't have to travel as far as the local store to buy it. But it is beside the point unless someone wants to make the case that the years and years and billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives are worth it to make obtaining drugs "inconvenient".

[robertpaulsen]

My point is: Why doesn't the State of Arizona let the physician and the patient arrive at the proper dosage whether it's .1 oz./month or 10 oz./month like they do with any other, and more dangerous, drugs? What's the real reason for this particular restriction? Do they suspect a potential for foul play and are trying to limit the damage? Are they safeguarding for this?

This just seems strange to me, that's all.

[monkeyshine]

Who legitimizes? The Doctor? The Federal government?

The authoritarian of the week. This week, it's my mother. She's making brownies, but they are 'clean'.

[Protagoras]

Still like Proposition 203? Got ze papers? Oh my, I didn't know you had AIDS.

Uhhhh, who ever said I was in favor of anything called proposition 203? Or any other proposition being made? Certainly not me. Maybe you had better get a parachute for taking a leap like that.

[MrLeRoy]

you're willing to vote to let them into your medical records and issue you an identity card -- incredible!

Being able to get the medicine one needs at the cost of some privacy is better than the status quo of being unable to get it at all. There's nothing unlibertarian about preventing the best from being an enemy of the good.

[MrLeRoy]

Why doesn't the State of Arizona let the physician and the patient arrive at the proper dosage whether it's .1 oz./month or 10 oz./month like they do with any other, and more dangerous, drugs? What's the real reason for this particular restriction? Do they suspect a potential for foul play and are trying to limit the damage?

I think they expect the anti-marijuana fanatics to yell about "potential for foul play" and are trying to defuse that issue. Medical marijuana with unusual restrictions is better than no medical marijuana at all.

[jayef]

You know, prisons, courts, law enforcement. Those costs. Good thing the LEOs can steal to help pay for it all.

[robertpaulsen]

Wellll, seeing as how the subject of the thread was Proposition 203, I thought you might have something to say about Proposition 203. I guess you're just more comfortable with generalities and philosophical discussions.

[robertpaulsen]

"Being able to get the medicine one needs at the cost of some privacy..."

I wonder how many of the 53% agree with you? That is to say, I wonder how many of the 53% actually know what's in the Proposition?

[rb22982]

LOL