Posted on 06/09/2016 6:11:20 PM PDT by Ken H
Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a medical marijuana legalization bill into law on Wednesday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
The former Republican presidential candidate's penmanship makes Ohio the 26th state in the nation to legalize marijuana use for medical purposes.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Now there are 2 marijuana stores and the town is seeing the benefits in the form of taxes.
I don’t understand the controversy over medical marijuana. If it legitimately medicates people, then let them use it.
Morphine is much more addictive and dangerous, and it is used in medicine.
I broke my arm and was given morphine for pain. I took two doses as prescribed — and then flushed the remaining pills down the toilet. Those two doses made me realize why people get addicted to the stuff.
It can and should block both meth and cannabis from crossing borders and state lines. As I said before, that is in keeping with the original Commerce Cl.
Now, do you believe fedgov has legitimate constitutional authority to override CO's mj laws - yes or no?
“Marijuana prohibition is dead and it won’t be coming back”
Oh I know you’re right about that. I fundamentally don’t care if users accept the consequences of their use of whatever is their drug of choice.
That will never happen, of course. We will pay folks to sit around get high and encourage them to leech on society. “Hey, it’s legal”
Next up, heroin, and every other drug.
Aspirin will be regulated more than MJ
Oh but they love their booze
Freepers are like Yosemite Sam about weed
Edgy
Next thing you know the ChiComs will start opening up Opium Dens here in the US.
Nah...it won’t be the chicomms. It will be a franchised operation, like McDonalds.
Give the people what they want.
Bring back the original formula of Coca-Cola.
No
Ok, so why are you not up in arms over more dangerous drugs passed around by drug king pins who wear nice suits and white coats?
Pandora's Box
I see, it's too hard. Like government said about controlling our own borders?
Again, why do you want weed on "that list"?
That's a really disingenuous question. Could you quote me where I indicated that was my position? No you can't, can you? Why the BS disingenuous questions?
I personally couldn't care less if it's on some government list or not. This isn't about me personally anyway.
Ya got your answer, now I will ask you once again, did some list ever stopped people from obtaining pot for the past 35 years?
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One of the reports key findings was that the number of children aged zero to five exposed to marijuana increased 268 percent when comparing the period from 2006 to 2009 to the period from 2010 to 2013: triple the national average.
The report showed that more young people aged 12 to 17 were using marijuana as well. When asked during a national survey in 2012 whether they had used marijuana in the past month, 10.47 percent of Colorado’s youth said they had, which was 39 percent higher than the national average.
“I never dreamed in a million years that this would happen to my son,” Kendal, a parent who didn’t want to use his last name, told CBS, referring to a time when he came home to find his 13-year-old son unconscious from what he says was a marijuana overdose.
“He was gray. His heart wasn’t beating and he wasn’t breathing,” Kendal said.
Kendal used CPR to resuscitate him, and later talked to his son’s high school peer and supplier.
Marijuana-related emergency room visits grew 57 percent in two years, from 8,198 in 2011 to 12,888 in 2013, the study found, with a 29 percent increase in emergency room visits for teens.
The report also found that drug-related suspensions and expulsions increased 32 percent between the 2008-2009 and 2012-2013 school years. The majority of expulsions were for marijuana violations.
From 2006 to 2008, there were 1,000 to 4,800 medical marijuana cardholders and no known dispensaries in Colorado. As of the end of 2012, there were 108,000 cardholders and 532 licensed dispensaries.
In November 2012, voters passed an amendment allowing anyone over the age of 21 to use marijuana recreationally.
The report was carried out by the federal government’s Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a program that assists federal, state and local and tribal law enforcement in critical drug-trafficking regions.
Keep your heads in the sand.
Name at least 20 Senators and 90 HOR who want Valium, codeine, etc. made illegal. Next, name every current admin of the FDA calling to end the legalization of all opiates and benzodiazepine.
Next, show me an overwhelming percentage of the population (Who elect Representatives) that are vehemently against weed, Valium and opiates.. This is the difference between your fantasy against real world demographics.
Demand always gets what it wants regardless of the legality of the actual product. Where there is will, there are solutions.
My objection is to not turning weed into a subsidized product. Demographics shun Natural Law, we are at the point of a pseudo Democracy mixed with tyrants who rape the producer fiscally while allowing social perversions to run wild in exchange for the individual’s liberty. That is reality. God is shunned and pleasure is worshipped.
Very long description. Haven’t read all of it yet but I did do a little research. There hasn’t been a documented overdose that caused death from marijuana. Now of course, there are people who have made that claim but literally all have been debunked by a doctor.
Don’t take me the wrong way though. I’m neither for or really against it. I have no care either way. It is proven to be less dangerous than drinking for obvious reasons (like driving at 20 mph and thinking you are doing 100).
There was an uptick in drinking right after prohibition. By thousands of percent. Kids saw it. Kids started doing it. Everyone did. It was legal and easy to get. Just as pot suddenly is. When something goes from being prohibited to legal, there is an uptick in people doing it. Even kids.
I’ll continue reading.
Exactly! Let the Gov tell me what I can and can not injest. Not really a fan of the whole marijuana deal but on the other hand, I am capable of doing tons of research. I have.
Alcohol, which is literally a drug, kills many people every year. Marijuana does, quite factually, not kill many people.
Do I think Heroin should be legal? No. A line must be drawn. Heroin is hardly a safe drug as many are dangerous.
You are hysterical.
I’m glad for Ohio. It’s quite a benign medication with many applications. There is no need to get high nor to smoke it. A lot of sick people can get help.
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