BREAKING NEWS: Medical Marijuana Outlawed

[streetsoldier]

The obvious solution is to send E-mails, faxes and letters/phone calls to your Representatives and Senators to CHANGE the law re: marijuana, including regulations for medicinal distribution, purity of substance, etc. (i.e., by MD's order from a pharmacy).

This wouldn't cover "recreational" use, but it would help a lot of very ill people.

[drudd1]

The obvious solution is to send E-mails, faxes and letters/phone calls to your Representatives and Senators to CHANGE the law re: marijuana, including regulations for medicinal distribution, purity of substance, etc. (i.e., by MD's order from a pharmacy).

This wouldn't cover "recreational" use, but it would help a lot of very ill people.

Very well put!

[Stephanie]

The obvious solution is to send E-mails, faxes and letters/phone calls to your Representatives and Senators to CHANGE the law re: marijuana, including regulations for medicinal distribution, purity of substance, etc. (i.e., by MD's order from a pharmacy).

This wouldn't cover "recreational" use, but it would help a lot of very ill people.

Great suggestion.

[rainstorm]

The obvious solution is to send E-mails, faxes and letters/phone calls to your Representatives and Senators to CHANGE the law re: marijuana, including regulations for medicinal distribution, purity of substance, etc. (i.e., by MD's order from a pharmacy).

This wouldn't cover "recreational" use, but it would help a lot of very ill people.

but the people in those 11 states already did that and won, and 6 judges told millions of people they mean nothing

[rainstorm]

i am totally against the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes because i think its a huge loophole for abuse.

I hear this a lot and was just curious. Are you also against prescription drugs such as morphine? Also what is your view on alcohol? Both kill daily because of abuse. Lord knows I'm not picking on you, I am just curious why there is such a negative connotation associated with marijuana, but not far worse substances. If it is because it's against the law, so was alcohol during prohibition, but prohibition was repealed because it couldn't be enforced successfully. Also, no doubt, it was posing a problem for the polititions, hiding those afternoon snorts of whiskey.

I have no doubt the taxes collected from alcohol sales would ensure, should 3 out of 5 Americans become alcoholics, it would still be sold and blessed by the government to collect those dollars.

Maybe the answer is to legalize it, tax it, and put all the agents currently hunting for the marijuana smugglers and users to work hunting rapists and murderers.

For the record, I drink on occasion and enjoy it, and don't get the stigma attached to marijuana. While I have personally seen a person kill themselves from drinking, I have yet to see anyone die from marijuana. For that matter, I have never met anyone who has seen this. It has been 25 years since I smoked marijuana, and it didn't lead to abuse of stronger substances, etc. All my close friends also smoked it, and with the exception of one, are leading very successful professional lives, and have been wonderful parents. The one exception became an alcoholic and eventually drank himself to death. Hence my failure to understand this whole thing, i.e. alcohol is fine, but heaven forbid anyone smoke a joint, and for medicinal purposes to boot.

very simple answer for you. i dont think judges should make law, period. as i already said, i am against the use of medical marijuana, but the people in those 11 states did it the right way and convinced the legislatures there or did it by referendum, that medical use should be allowed. by the way, the reason abortion is such a burning issue is because it was forced on people by 5 judges. i also believe abortion should be decided in state legislatures by the people, but i reckon we cant discuss that anymore.