Ashcroft Should Butt Out

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 25 SEP 02 | Editor

[Senator Pardek]

10th Amendment? What's that?

[gcruse]

Thou shalt not have dominion over the grass in the field?

[Isle of sanity in CA]

It's amazing how pot is the ONLY thing that can alleviate people's pain now. I have more sympathy for pot heads that are honest...

[Senator Pardek]

That's what my old man used to say when my momma would tell him to mow the lawn.

[Mr. Mojo]

It's amazing how pot is the ONLY thing that can alleviate people's pain now.

They're not talking about physical pain. The pain they speak of is more of an existential one.

[bat-boy]

Yep...Everyone is getting cancer just so they can smoke pot. Them damn potheads will do anything won't they?

[gcruse]

 
That's what my old man used to say when
my momma would tell him to mow the lawn.

My father was always on about trimming
the bush, or something like that.  Damn,
this is some good sh!t.

[Howlin]

Oregon patients have already threatened to shoot themselves if Mr. Ashcroft's directive goes into effect

*Snort*

[sinkspur]

It's amazing how pot is the ONLY thing that can alleviate people's pain now. I have more sympathy for pot heads that are honest...

Yep. If marijuana was available in pill form, the term "medicinal marijuana" would never be heard again.

[SR71A]

If marijuana was available in pill form, the term "medicinal marijuana" would never be heard again.

But it is available. It's called Marinol. Why is this available by prescription but you can't grow a plant that contains the same ingredients in your back yard? Could it have anything to do with government hypocrisy?

Marinol is now, I believe, a Class III Controlled Substance, while the plant remains a Class I. They both contain the same active ingredient. Why is one a (nice profitable) prescription drug, and the other "a drug", as in the War on Drugs? Why is a nice capsule legal "medical marijuana", when the plant is not?

[sinkspur]

Why is a nice capsule legal "medical marijuana", when the plant is not?

Thank you for proving my point. Nobody wants to swallow Marinol; they'd rather toke a dube.

[bat-boy]

Why is one a (nice profitable) prescription drug, and the other "a drug", as in the War on Drugs? Why is a nice capsule legal "medical marijuana", when the plant is not?

"The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government." - William Colby, former CIA Director, 1995

[dead]

People on chemotherapy and many AIDS drugs cannot swallow without puking it back up. So the little pill does not stay down.

BTW, why is any of this your's or Ashcroft's business? It should be between a doctor and patient.

But you and Ashcroft feel it is the government's job to say "Administer via the stomach = good. Administer via the lungs = bad." The drug companies support that theory.

And you seriously don't think this has anything to do with the fact that people can't grow pills in their backyard?

[Cicero]

This article also wants Ashcroft to let Oregon doctors kill their patients.

That is an extremely dangerous business. Under the guise of letting a few people die painlessly, it will bring in an enormous death industry, and we will end up seeing "useless eaters" and expensive medical cases killed off on orders of the government and the AMA, whether or not they choose to be killed.

It has already happened in the Netherlands. Do you really want to be treated by a doctor who might kill you when you aren't looking?

[sinkspur]

People on chemotherapy and many AIDS drugs cannot swallow without puking it back up. So the little pill does not stay down.

My brother died from colon cancer, and administered morphine to himself, intravenously, for three years. It seemed to blunt the pain; we went to DisneyWorld in Orlando while he was under this regimen.

Look, if somebody needs to snort marijuana for pain, that's fine with me. I'm just not convinced that all of this "medicinal marijuana" stuff is about medicine.

But, my dear friend dead, you're a drug legalizer, so we will never agree on this subject.

Toke one for me, and I'll slam some Cabernet for you.

[Sir Gawain]

if somebody needs to snort marijuana for pain

LOL.

[dead]

Typical loser. I point out the holes in your argument, you call me a "druggie".

I've got better things to with my time. There's intelligent debaters on this site.

[bat-boy]

I didn't knowabout the Netherlands thing. I'll have to look into that.

I don't want the things you describe. Not at all. However, I believe in the 10th amendment and the citizens of Oregon have voted for it. Regardless of how I feel about it, I don't live in Oregon.

One problem that may help alieviate the problem is proper pain management without government interference. I'm not speaking of pot. I'm speaking of doctors being afraid of prescribing the proper amount of medication due to fears of the DEA coming down on them. This is a real problem of which many articles have been written about.

[sinkspur]

Typical loser. I point out the holes in your argument, you call me a "druggie".

I don't recall doing that. I recall calling you a drug legalizer. There's a difference.

I've got better things to with my time. There's intelligent debaters on this site.

Yes there are. Some can read, some can't.