[mr.pink]

I agree fully that the "Medical Marijuana" movement is a political ploy. The folks I've seen out lobbying for it in my neighborhood look like leftovers from last night's Pfish concert.

But while that sort just want to get high, the folks who really need the door opened via "Med mari" loophole are the professional classes who don't want to risk their careers just because they like to smoke weed.

I find the stealth qualities of this movement dishonest and cowardly. A bit like how in the partial birth abortion debate alot of pro-PBAs hide behind the "healh of the mother" language, where everyone with half a brain knows that that is a loophole easily navigable by the very best of oceanliners.

BTW- I support the legalization of marijuana, but find it hard to garner respect for those lobbying for something while knowing it's a ruse.

[jmc813]

The folks I've seen out lobbying for it in my neighborhood look like leftovers from last night's Pfish concert.

First of all, it's Phish. Second of all, who, pray tell, are some of your favorite artists?

[PaxMacian]

Political ploy? Ignorance! It has been a medicinal herb since the beginning of time and will always be a medicinal herb whether or not the medical community dictates. There is an air of absolutism and elitist fascism running rampant in health care professionals as of late. The puritanical dictates of this profession are a threat to the liberty and security of our nation. I find these issues far more important than possible health risks of herbs. They pander to parental fears in an attempt to adopt us all as children of a nanny state. All hail the oligarchy of the doctors, we want to be enslaved by paying top dollar for scripts for the elderly while paying debt service on the money we have to borrow to buy these drugs, even though we know there will not be a dime left for us when we get old. Meantime, the oligarchy will dictate what you may ingest, regardless of what your religious beliefs or the Constitution has to say on the matter.

I can grow hundreds of herbs in my own garden all of which have an effect on the human body in one way or another. Some have medicinal properties. Some which I am permitted to grow have portions that are deadly if ingested at all and others if in too high a quantity. Why is it that this particular herb which pre-existed this nation upon this land is so different that it falls under the jurisdiction of the commerce clause?

It is simple fascist ignorance to believe that this herb bearing a seed is just a weed to be eradicated when it just so happens that its seed contains the most complete and absorbable combination of amino acids required by the human body for sustenance of any plant on the face of Earth