Posted on 12/20/2011 6:30:01 PM PST by neverdem
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wants to prohibit patients from protecting themselves.
If you are a medical marijuana patient in one of the 16 states (plus the District of Columbia) that allow for it, youve got reason to believe lately that the government has it in for you.
Youve got federal raids on the places where you can conveniently buy your medicine, the governor of Arizona trying to overturn in court her citizens choice to institute a medical marijuana system, and Michigans attorney general trying to make life as hard as he can for those using the system his states voters approved by 63 percent in 2008. And while it isnt directly the governments fault, doctors are taking people off liver transplant waiting lists for using medical pot.
It isnt just that the government on both the federal and state level doesnt want you to be able to legally and conveniently obtain your medicine, if that medicine is pot. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) insists you inherently lose a key constitutional right merely by letting your state know you might want to take pot medicinally.
Merely having a state medical marijuana card, BATFE insists, means that you fall afoul of Sect. 922(g) of the federal criminal code (from the 1968 federal Gun Control Act), which says that anyone who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance is basically barred from possessing or receiving guns or ammo (with the bogus assertion that such possession implicates interstate commerce, which courts will pretty much always claim it does).
Nevada licenses medical pot users. Rowan Wilson, a Carson City-area woman who works as a medical technician in residential care homes, believes pot might be useful for her painful menstrual cramps. After going through
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Yes, sure, it has about 2 properties that are beneficial and not easily replicated by other drugs.
Medicine is not one size fits all. The more different medications are available for any given condition, the better.
However, the vast majority of medical marijuana users dont have medical issues that require those unique properties, they just want to get high.
Why should that worry me? Anyone who wants can get a legal nonprescription buzz on at their nearest tavern.
I didnt say it should worry you. The comment wasnt addressed to you
Actually, it was - see post#97.
and I dont think you are following the conversation.
So what's your point in claiming that 'the vast majority of medical marijuana users [...] just want to get high'? What would you have us conclude from that?
Ok, I got that confused with my previous post you jumped on which was making pretty much the same point, which was not addressed to you.
“So what’s your point in claiming that ‘the vast majority of medical marijuana users [...] just want to get high’? What would you have us conclude from that?”
That the medical qualities of marijuana are irrelevant to the argument I was making with Tenacious 1.
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