Then you need to tell him that because he thinks he's a large-"L" Libertarian.
Posted on 11/03/2004 1:51:01 PM PST by Wolfie
Medical Marijuana Approved
Helena -- Montanans suffering from certain medical conditions may be able to legally smoke marijuana to ease their symptoms come January 1. The Medical Marijuana Act passed by a 63 to 37 percent margin Tuesday with 375 of 881 precincts reporting. The new act will protect patients, their doctors and their caregivers from state and local arrest and prosecution for the medical use of marijuana.
Teresa Michalski of Helena couldn't be happier. Michalski once lived in fear that her late son, Travis, would spend the last few months of his short life in jail for using marijuana during the last stages of Hodgkin's disease.
"I knew the people in Montana were compassionate and I could count on them," said Michalski, a fifth-generation Montanan.
U.S. Deputy Drug Czar Scott Burns, however, warned Montanans that federal law trumps state law, and said during a recent visit to Montana that no state initiative permitting the medical use of marijuana can circumvent the federal law prohibiting the possession and use of the drug.
"There's no safe harbor," Burns said.
But Paul Befumo, treasurer of the Marijuana Policy Project of Montana, said he's "elated" that the measure passed.
"People don't have to worry about being criminalized any more," he said.
Proponents say smoking marijuana relieves nausea, increases appetite, reduces muscle spasms, relieves chronic pain and reduces pressure in the eyes. It can be used to treat the symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma, among other diseases, they say.
Medical marijuana has been approved by voters in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. In Hawaii, a law was passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor in 2000. In Vermont, a law was passed by the Legislature and allowed to become law without the governor's signature in May 2004, the Marijuana Policy Project reports.
The Montana measure's campaign was financially backed by the national Marijuana Policy Project out of Washington, D.C.
ROTFL
So have I, I'm as Conservative as they come, but I don't think it should be legalized for a whole host of reasons.
Gonna be a mental toss flycoon.
I know he won't. He touts himself as the environmentalists best friend.
Me too! That was the capper for me last night. It couldn't have happend to a more smarmy guy.
Add to that that he wants to raise taxes to generate an extra 273? million dollars. That comes out to be something like an additional $1000 in taxes for a family of four. Too much if you ask me.
Brings to thought of the article of a software? developer based out of Bozeman that had to open an office in Texas just so he could fill some very well paying executive positions.
70 years of marijuana prohibition, 70 years of "substantial effects", 70 years of the New Deal Commerce Clause.
I remember that article from a few years ago in the Billings Gazette. Matter of fact I think it was in 2000, because jobs was an issue in the Governor's race. That issue cited the fact that this software company based in Bozeman had to move a bunch of jobs out-of-state because Montana's tax code punishes new businesses.
William F. Buckley is a Libertarian, not a conservative.
I figure I'm conservative in that I have voted twice for Bush and all, but I really don't have a problem with medical pot. From what I have seen Alcohol is a much more destructive product. If someone on chemo finds pot therapeutic then that is great. I want to see Bush reduce govt spending in this next term. That is what I'm concerned about.
It may indeed be a medical problem. I suggest those who use drugs seek out treatment before they get arrested.
I have no intention of paying for that treatment. Narcotics Anonymous (a spin-off of Alcoholics Anonymous) is an excellent free program.
(BTW, you'd be hard pressed to get anyone on this board who smokes marijuana to admit they're addicted, or even admit that marijuana is addicting. So your statement above seems to be ... irrelevant?)
And 70 years of Wonder Bread.
Back in California sheriff departments that used to actively seek out and deport illegals now fly around in helicopters looking for marijuana crops. They always seem to miss the big growers, but if you've got 15 plants out back they'll swoop down on you like there's a homing beacon out there. Then as they proceed to dismantle your life they'll explain that they really don't like to do it but they need the federal funds and besides you knew it was against the law. Anyway your property will make a nice addition to the Sheriff of Nottingham's estates.
Meantime there's fifty illegals sitting outside the local Home Depot that seem to be invisible to anyone with a badge.
As far as Brown goes, he ran a poor campaign, but I voted for him anyway, because to vote for a Democrat would just be wrong. There are a lot of people around here that are Republicans and spent all of today celebrating Kerry's defeat that voted for Schweitzer, however.
Then you need to tell him that because he thinks he's a large-"L" Libertarian.
And not quite a year and nine months of your desperate spin.
What, you didn't get the memo?
Same old RP, the consumate sophist.
Only if you want them to die.
"Someone on chemo" has a compromised immune system -- the slightest infection can be disasterous.
Marijuana can be contaminated with salmonella bacteria which gives diarrhea and with a fungus, aspergillus, which may cause severe bronchopneumonia. Bad enough for healthy people.
The United States is the most medically advanced nation on the planet. We do not need to be smoking plants or eating roots or chewing bark or dancing naked under a full moon to treat our illnesses.
No sophistry involved in my post. None needed. It's just a fact, pure and simple.
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