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- stonecircle, on 06/11/2009, -0/+35Signed the petition to get it on the ballot. Will be voting Yes on Proposition One.
Getting bombarded, here, though with commercials that equate this proposal to opening up main street to drug dealers who are going to turn our children into addicts.
Was pleased my 94 year old dear-old-dad who is voting Yes on Prop One. - darylyounge, on 11/02/2008, -0/+23The war on drugs is a ***** joke.
- inactive, on 11/02/2008, -0/+21How do we go about getting this on the national ballot?????
- thbemky827, on 11/02/2008, -0/+21bring it to PA!!
- jackieblu, on 11/02/2008, -0/+19It still baffles me how people don't get how much more damaging alcohol is than pot!
- skiner24, on 11/02/2008, -0/+17That guy saying kids are going to buy it out of vending machines, we could only wish
- inactive, on 11/02/2008, -1/+18People are going to look back at Marijuana oppression and view it like abortion.
Give it a few more years, the tides are turning. - FiestyPumpkin, on 11/02/2008, -0/+16I think we should drop the "medical" part. Legalize marijuana already!!!
- highlymodified, on 11/02/2008, -0/+16My fellow Michiganders! I work in the University of Michigan Cancer Center research laboratories.
My mother is battling metastatic breast cancer. Oxy, fentanyl, and vicodin are the only options for management of systemic bone pain. Habituation, overdose, and depression are constant risks.
She and millions more like her need more options for pain and legal access to one of the most medicinally powerful and least harmful medications in existence. Not only can it help manage pain, but also actually help fight cancer and other conditions.
No matter how one feels about recreational drug use, for the sake of the ill, VOTE YES ON PROPOSAL ONE. - mtnmusicman, on 11/02/2008, -0/+14A friend of mine is looking at prison time for selling medical marijuana here in California. What a joke!
- wild, on 11/02/2008, -0/+13Only idiots would tell others what to do with their own body.
- highlymodified, on 11/02/2008, -0/+10Actually, funny because it's true.
Certain cannabinoids a pro-apoptotic agents, which is a fancy way of saying they encourage damaged cells to kill themselves.
This doesn't SOUND like a good idea, until you realize that it's your body's way of preventing cancer. Cells that incur damage from smoking are rapidly cleared from the body.
This is also one of the ways in which cannabis can act as an anti-cancer agent.
However, that's not to say that smoking it isn't without risks. Smoking anything (including weed) produces tar and other possible carcinogens. FOR MEDICAL USE, cannabis should not be smoked but eaten or vaporized IF POSSIBLE.
I say "if possible" because for many, smoking provides good dose-management (rapid onset, stop as soon as you feel better) and many suffering from nausea may not be able to keep down food. Also, vaporizers are expensive and may be beyond the reach of those with heavy medical bills. - WeedCollege, on 11/02/2008, -0/+7Hopefully it gets legalized and that other third will try it and see why everyone else thinks it's so beneficial.
- FiestyPumpkin, on 11/02/2008, -0/+6Kinda funny how they have no problem prescribing those meds. They are addictive and cause other problems. It's just sad how some people are so narrow minded.
Our buddy just died of bladder cancer Friday morning. He had his bladder removed a few months ago. He was in a lot of pain and had lost a lot of weight. He was still smoking weed and some of our other friends got upset about that. I kept sending them links and articles which supported the benefits of marijuana for cancer patients, but they were still against it. I think they thought that his long term pot-smoking was what gave him cancer to begin with. If he lived in Maryland, they probably would have prescribed it for him. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 11/03/2008, -0/+5Your dad rocks.
- nichesiteexpert, on 11/02/2008, -1/+5There goes poprockandsoda mouthing off again - you're becoming famous as a world-class idiot troll, dude. What happened to you as a child to make you such a world-class dick-hole? Nobody likes you, and your idiot inflammatory comments only reflect back on how moronic and unevolved you are. You're certainly not helping your cause, whatever it may be (oh yeah, I remember now - hatred, xenophobia, intolerance, and stupidity)
- masterkenobi, on 11/02/2008, -0/+4@poprockandsoda
Actually, there were no links between cancer and marijuana. In fact, some studies show that it is helpful in some cases against cancer. Found this in super leftist websites like WebMD though, not sure if you'll agree on the viewpoints there (http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/200005 ...
Try Google sometime. It's kind of a nifty tool that some of us use. - wild, on 11/03/2008, -0/+4Pop rocks. I support laws in Chicago that ban smoking in public spaces. I would expect the same of marijuana, except in specified coffee shops or for home use.
I would also expect it to be treated as alcohol, controlled and restricted at public events.
I don;t want you to tel me what to with my body, and I don;t have the right to harm yours in a secondary fashion. We can work out a compromise. - ThsGuyRightHere, on 11/03/2008, -0/+4I was really worried because you posted a comment earlier that I actually agreed with Pop. Thanks for going back to normal.
Legalizing marijuana is not encouraging its use. Infidelity, alcoholism, and self flagellation are all legal, and I believe they should be legal, but none of them are ways I'd recommend spending a Friday evening. - WeedCollege, on 11/02/2008, -0/+4everyone should look at it the same as prohibition. That said, there are still a number of dry counties in the US. What we need is more smokey counties.
- WeedCollege, on 11/03/2008, -0/+41. Eating it
2. Vaporizing it (kinda like smoking it but without the smoke, smell and carcinogens) - neuromachine, on 11/02/2008, -0/+4There are other ways to get the effects.
- johndi, on 11/02/2008, -0/+3It would require a constitutional amendment to allow national referendums. Even one specifically allowing for this one thing to be voted on would work. Congress could pass a law allowing such a vote, but I'd bet on it being struck down as an unconstitutional delegation of powers reserved for Congress. Our best bet is to start electing politicians based on the individual instead of their party.
I think we're stuck with waiting out the baby boomers. - dngermouse, on 11/02/2008, -2/+5Traffic is my favourite movie of all time.
- 55mph, on 11/03/2008, -0/+3the war on drugs is a scam. even law enforcement knows pot should be decriminalized.
in 2006 the US government spent under $4 bil on research into heart disease, the number one cause of american deaths. they spent $35 bil on the war on drugs.
fukin scam! - WeedCollege, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2That's the only thing McCain could do to get my vote.
- kemp34, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2It IS a terrible comparison.
- Bilabrin, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2@poprocks...etc
"Not when second hand smoke comes my way. If pot is legalized I'll look to class action a second hand pot smoking lawsuit."
No you won't, You'll watch some T.V., order a pizza and take a nap. - Setherex, on 11/03/2008, -0/+2Didn't the feds overrule the california law legalizing it?
- Bilabrin, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2Hmmm... I find that to be an odd analogy.
A few years ago I wouldn't have because abortion was a no brainer for me. Since then I have come to think deeply about the issue and come to the conclusion that If one says on one hand that they care about the lives of humans and/or Americans then Pro-choice would be an inconsistent stand with that feeling.
I'm not religious at all but if we delve into what Abortion actually is namely, cutting a live human baby out of a womb and putting it in a bin to die (you see we've whitewashed it with one word) then we see it as a little bit more difficult to defend it as a right.
I'll probably be buried by a ton of pro-choicers but I've tried to be fair and thoughtful about the issue and in any case, I find the analogy of the right to smoke marijuana and the right to abortion to be a poor comparison. - WeedCollege, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2I think the second.
- Bilabrin, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2It always amuses me when Marijuana opponenets use the argument that smoking anything is bad and then turn around and say that Marijuana today is 10 times more powerful than "Our fathers weed".
So, you mean that I can get the same effect now while only having to inhale 1/10th the smoke? Awsome win for me! - WeedCollege, on 11/03/2008, -1/+3@poprocks
How about if they legalize it but keep the smoking of it illegal. Then it's healthier for everyone and you have nothing to worry about. - Bilabrin, on 11/04/2008, -0/+2Don't confuse advocating drug use or smoking with not wanting someone to be arrested and prosecuted for it. There is a false dichotomy out there which states that removing criminal penalties is an endorsement of the activity. Beware this logical fallacy.
For instance, I wouldn't advocate not showering for a week but I also wouldn't want to see anyone arrested for it either. - stonecircle, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1UPDATE!!!! THE BALLOT PROPOSAL PASSED IN MICHIGAN!!!!
- balajiskq, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1good
- highlymodified, on 11/02/2008, -1/+2Perhaps I'm just a little dull, but what do you mean?
Do you mean that in the future, abortion will be considered as bad as the drug war?
Or that we'll decide that abortion, while an ugly right that most people will not have to use, should always be legal, as should cannabis? - dilpil1, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1Give abortion a few more years before you make that analogy.
- Mujokan, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1Wait for about three SCOTUS judges to die and hope the right person is in the Oval Office at that point.
- samsmartjr, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1It would be easier to get the states to sue for marijuana legalization as a states' right issue, which is probably what it should be. Some states are more suited to having marijuana being legal than others, for a variety of others. Of course, those states who DO legalize marijuana would probably find it harder to get federal funding for some projects, which was the same tactic the federal government used to get all the states to make the drinking age 21. THEN it could go to the national ballot.
- Bilabrin, on 11/04/2008, -0/+1Not exactly, California will no longer arrest and prosecute medical marijuana users and dispensaries. The Federal government has their own set of storm troopers though and they have been conducting raids on dispensaries for violation of federal law.
- Bilabrin, on 11/04/2008, -0/+1Federal or state?
- Mujokan, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1It has negative effects, but more emphysema than cancer.
- Mujokan, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1I had this up in YouTube when I noticed this thread... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8S_dzylAR8
- inactive, on 11/03/2008, -1/+1Second?
- poprocksandsoda, on 11/02/2008, -4/+1So what your saying is inhaling burning leaves is healthy or has no negative effects? Wow that's incredible!
- poprocksandsoda, on 11/02/2008, -11/+1Only idiots would advocate any type of smoking. Let me guess ... marijuana isn't dangerous if smoked.
- poprocksandsoda, on 11/02/2008, -13/+1Not when second hand smoke comes my way. If pot is legalized I'll look to class action a second hand pot smoking lawsuit. The good news is that all the people I'd be suing will be in a State database since they were prescribed the weapon they used against my health.
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