[mvpel]

My uncle could have used "the munchies" when he was recovering from chemo and radiation therapy for brain cancer. Instead, he lost about 50 pounds off of his already-compact frame.

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[jammer]

I'm glad they have their priorities straight. Instead of focusing on those minor issues like illegal immigration floods.

[gaucho]

This law can go one of two ways:

1) States that put pot laws on the books might do away with needed a prescription, in effect the opposite of what the AG wants to achieve.

2) Since the language appears so broad: "effectively licensed physicians to treat patients with prohibited substances" and interfered with the government's authority "to enforce the law in an area vital to the public health and safety," it seems to me that this law would be struck down. If not, the potential impact on other forms of experimental medicines i.e. "prohibited substances" could have unintended effects on the practice and advancement of medicine and treatments. For example, a doctor who develops a new vacine might try it out on themselves before any FDA approval process and it would in effect be a prohibited substance.

[Weimdog]

The biggest waste of our tax dollars is the war on drugs.

Deaths in the United States in a typical year are as follows:

Tobacco kills about 390,000 (lung cancer 160,000; lung deseases
-emphesyma, bronchitis, pneumonia, flu - 85,000, related heart
disease 30,000).

Smoking accounts for about 30% of all cancer deaths
and about 85% of all cases of lung cancer.

Alcohol kills about 80,000

Workplace accidents kill 60,000

Automobiles kill 40,000

Cocaine kills about 2,200

Heroin kills about 2,000

Aspirin kills about 2,000

Marijuana kills 0
There has never been a recorded death due to marijuana at any time in
US history.

All illegal drugs combined kill about 4,500 people per year, or about one percent of the number killed by alcohol and tobacco.

Tobacco kills more people each year than all of the people killed by
all of the illegal drugs in the last one hundred years.

[ravinson]

It looks like George Bush is going after the drug nazi vote hard and trying to prove that he is tough on drugs to distract attention from the fact that he himself is a former drug abuser and the father of two cokeheads.

[Sir Gawain]

I feel safer already. Thanks John Walters!

{^} J {^}

[breakem]

Wonder if the wh will be dictating all prescriptions or just this one. Sure glad those socialist/big-government democrats are not in charge.

[I_dmc]

What would be interesting is if a state were to enact a law calling for the arrest and specific punishments of federal officers interfering with that state's laws on marijuana (or anything else, for that matter).

[Cultural Jihad]

Justice Department lawyers this week asked the high court to take up the issue in its next term, which begins in October.

Oh, great. Now they're going to end up make it mandatory. ;-)

[Wolfie]

Simple solution - do away with the need for a prescription.

[MrLeRoy]

Department lawyers said the federal policy would not penalize a doctor for merely discussing marijuana with a patient -- as long as the doctor makes it clear that the drug is illegal under federal law, that federal authorities consider it dangerous and medically useless, and that the doctor is not recommending it.

Doctors have freedom of speech---as long as they say what the government wants them to say. How can I vote for a president that allows such Orwellian sewage to flow from its administration?

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[dead]

Thanks alot Uncle George!
I just wasted twenty large on fake pot prescriptions.

[dead]

Apropos of nothing:

[exmarine]

Oh yeah, why not ask the Supreme Court to make more laws. In fact, why don't we just abolish Congress and let the courts run the country! It's headed that way anyway.

[CDHart]

I'm getting a little tired of this administration acting like they know what all of us should do. Between Bush and Ashcroft, we've got a Napoleon complex on our hands.

Carolyn

[Liberal Classic]

George W. did well with the war in Afganistan and Iraq. This isn't really a war, though. I'm glad their spending their time on crucial issues instead of those illegal immigrants and terrorist cells.

[OXENinFLA]

What ever happened to "STATES RIGHTS"?

[RockyMtnMan]

Can someone please point me to the part of the constitution that authorizes the WOD? We had an ammendment for prohibition on alcohol but I can't seem to find one for drugs. Please help me understand.