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- CopsSayLegalize, on 03/17/2009, -4/+45Make sure to vote in the Chicago Tribune's web poll, "Do you support the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes?"
- wishninja, on 03/18/2009, -1/+36From the comment section:
"I am the dispatcher in the article. I just want to clarify a few things.
To: Billy Bob---It wasn't for pain!!!--read the article again!
To: Everyone Else:
I am trying to speak up for medicinal marijuana. Marijuana has been proven to help and has been legalized in 13 states for medicinal use.
And to the girl who lost her parents to someone driving High....I am sorry for your loss but do you really think a Cancer patient on chemo who is sick and can't eat is really going to be getting behind the wheel of a car?
Everyone is scared to talk about this subject and I am losing everything - MY JOB-MY CAREER-and my reputation because I thought people were fundamentally decent. Yes, I work in 9-1-1 and I know that my biggest mistake was opening my mouth in the first place. I was not trying to be a "big shot" - Working as a 9-1-1 dispatcher, you become family with your co-workers.
I am not ashamed of why I got fired. I am only ashamed that I trusted my faith in the goodness of people. I was ultimately betrayed by a co-worker.
Yes, I committed an illegal act but do I deserve to be banished from my career for buying $20 worth of pot for a cancer patient?
Medicinal Marijuana can be controlled, just ask the 13 states already doing it. Why should the rest of the country's cancer patients suffer because local government officials are so afraid of this subject." - shitforbrains, on 03/18/2009, -2/+29Unfortunately Ms Llanes, you cannot use reason or logic to argue this issue because when it comes to all drugs, people are generally unreasonable. It's a religious issue. If you can convince yourself regardless of the overwhelming evidence that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, you can believe that a plant is "evil". It's the same magical thinking that allows people to attribute charactistics to inanimate objects which they don't really have. Have you ever seen someone react repulsed upon being handed an unloaded gun? It's just a chunk of metal but in some people's minds it is imbued with "evil". I'm sure there is a German word for this but I don't know it.
- hooah212002, on 03/17/2009, -3/+25I (as a legalize-weed advocate) HATE to say this, but it IS a crime. Just because we ALL know it shouldn't be, sadly, it still is.
However, I highly doubt the company had the right to fire her over it. Especially since Illinois is not an at-will empoyment state. - Frankyfan3, on 03/17/2009, -1/+22Munchies Save Lives
Global Marijuana March is coming up May 2nd 2009 and I hope to see a bigger turn out this year.
pics from last year in Seattle:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2205/2462199381_86e ... - inactive, on 03/17/2009, -6/+19I'm pretty sure you can't get fired for that.
Water cooler talk, "Yeah, I bought some weed.."
Co-workers tell boss. Boss fires you. That's just asking for a lawsuit.
If you don't have it on you and you pass the drug test (if they have one), then there's no proof of any wrong doing either way. - counterspin, on 03/17/2009, -1/+13He'd have had a better chance of going unnoticed had he simply swiped it from the police's own confiscated stash!
- FLMarijuana, on 03/18/2009, -1/+13She didn't get fired for buying pot, she got fired for talking to the police! Which is something that smart people never do!
- eemfitz, on 03/18/2009, -1/+9My mother went through a double mastectomy and chemo, just like the woman's aunt did. I would have done nearly anything to ease her pain or help her feel better. It's a shame the medicine to help patients like them is right in front of us, yet so unattainable in most states because of ignorant laws against medicinal marijuana.
- Qbryzan, on 03/18/2009, -0/+8Excellent point. Since many of those German words are merely 2 words smooshed together, I propose:
übelsache (literally "evil thing")
As in - the kind of thing a dummkopf ("stupid head") believes in, and feels schadenfreude ("malicious delight") when someone else is punished for using/liking/not fearing. - icanrule, on 03/18/2009, -0/+8It doesn't come right out and say it but here is what I got from it.
1. She bought drugs illegally.
2. She is police officer.
I think that buying drugs should be legal. But law officers can't openly admit that they broke the law by buying marijuana. I am not going to walk into a donut shop full of cops and say that I have just purchase marijuana. It's just asking for trouble. - pinchduck, on 03/18/2009, -0/+7I absolutely support legalization. However, until that day comes, if you are a cop, don't admit to breaking the law. Jeez, don't be stupid.
- Sinnic, on 03/18/2009, -0/+7because the war on drugs isn't a political issue right novenator
- Uaedaien, on 03/18/2009, -0/+7What does that even mean?
- JoshReflek, on 03/18/2009, -0/+6I support the use of whatever a person chooses, "legal" or not.
It's none of the government's bidniz what you do for recreation, medication or anything else when it's not harming other people. - Floydian08, on 03/17/2009, -2/+8It's unfortunate cancer patients sometimes have to pay thousands of dollars for a single shot, when a few dollars worth of Cannabis can ease their suffering. :(
Voted yes, of course :]
Minnesota has MMJ bills up for vote... Vote on this poll too, http://www.twincities.com/ci_11921519
show some love to your friends up north! Make a statement! - The story can be dugg in my profile if interested.
Current: 239 votes
Yes. 94.56 %
No. 3.765 %
I'm not sure. 1.673 % - jtobe, on 03/17/2009, -2/+8voted :)
Yes (256 responses) 91.4%
No (24 responses) 8.6%
it's looking pretty obvious so far! - Fhwqhgads, on 03/18/2009, -0/+5They didn't use Big Pharma's chemicals. That was their crime.
Nothing shall get in the way of corporate profits! - CaptOblivious, on 03/18/2009, -2/+7First, I believe that all drugs should be legal and well regulated.
However, this is just another example of a police officer/official thinking that the laws that the rest of us are subject to don't apply to them. It seems to happen all the time in Chicago. - inactive, on 03/18/2009, -1/+6There are things you just don't tell co-workers, neighbors, etc.
They don't need to know that she buys pot for her sick aunt. - WindWalker84, on 03/18/2009, -1/+6yet another casualty from the war on drugs.
decent honest people end up getting their lives disrupted because of this issue. - inactive, on 03/18/2009, -0/+5Cop purposefully shoves a guy off a bike = suspended with pay until convicted.
Cop buys a bit of medical marijuana for sick aunt = fired on the spot.
I don't think the system could make less sense if they tried. - partrow, on 03/18/2009, -2/+6She was just "stunned" when she was fired for doing something that was illegal.
Just like a cop - above the law, 'the law was not written for me and my aunt'.
She ought to spend her time trying to get the law changed, not breaking it. - puter, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4she works for the police department.
she broke the law.
and she is shocked that she got fired?
I'm not arguing for or against marijuana...but how stupid do you have to be to be shocked that you got fired from working at the PD when you were caught breaking the law? - smemily, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4Someone didn't read the article. That "he" doesn't have a penis.
- acudoc, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4The State in action-----brutish, reactive, stupid, and destructive. The Constitution attempted to limit its power, but people love to control and be controlled. The free men among us are few and far between.
- funkyloki, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4That's a pretty lame excuse, considering you didn't misspell any other words in your post, including "confiscated". Your grammar was good too. You should have just admitted you did not RTFA, at least that would have been honest.
- blakeage, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3They have stashes??? SWEET! Next stop, police school!
- funkyloki, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Yeah, it's called the evidence room, and good luck getting into there. Hell, regular police can't even go in to that room, only specific officers are allowed to enter.
- LibertyLady7, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Cop accidently shoots and kills alleged drug dealer = Suspended with pay until cleared of all charges
Dispatcher tells 'friend' who is really a judgmental narc about her sick Aunt's medicine = Fired
Oh yeah, that TOTALLY makes sense. The law is the law, right? Yeah right! It's when the law doesn't make sense, that people stop following it. Ever hear of civil disobedience? - FXNGLAS, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Never trust your co-workers, period. It's her own fault for opening her mouth.
- jtobe, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3voted. yes is still higher.
i hope you can get this passed for your needs, especially if you have a medical purpose.
good luck sir - LibertyLady7, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3I really don't understand how ANYONE can deny a chronically ill person medicine that will help them. Unbelievable.
Yes (746 responses)
94.9%
No (40 responses)
5.1%
786 total responses (Results not scientific) - NikoKun, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Lol, someone dugg you down for the cancer bit. But it is totally true.
Sethgroup.org and Run from the Cure - Metavised, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3I have three foot piece of wood in my garage. I could say it was a wooden sword if I carved it, or I could say it wooden chair leg. It's purpose is solely what I need it to be at the time.
If my leg broke I would most likely bind that length of wood to my leg. It's use would help prevent any further damage I may cause to a gimped leg and it would be justified. It is still a piece of wood, but using it for my the benefit of my well-being makes it a medical brace. - sirloxelroy, on 03/18/2009, -1/+4She admitted it to her supervisor, that is enough for a legal termination. Read the article.
- smemily, on 03/18/2009, -1/+4"Has anyone really been far even as decide to use even go want to do look more like?"
If there were signatures here, that would be mine. You accidenty your verb, noun, direct object, and syntax as a whole, sir? - drufus, on 03/19/2009, -0/+3the real news here is she got shafted by her friend, two dime bags and only got three joints? she got pinched in transit
- sirloxelroy, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3If you do something illegal then admit it at work to your supervisor, there is a good chance you will get fired.
- PlusTheBear, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Agent Saboteurs. They 'll try to make it look violent. All the news has to do is give the march a bad review and have it cycle from show to show.
- censormagnet, on 03/18/2009, -2/+5helping her sick relatives... detestable..
hemp oil CURES cancer.. but its illegal, some free country - GovernmentSp00k, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3The organized crime in power make more profit criminalizing pot
with their fraudulent "WAR ON (some..) DRUGS" scam
than they would if it was legalized... - Ouze, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3Generally I think pot should be legal (period, and surely for medicinal purposes) but I can't much say I disagree with her firing. Were here state one where medicinal marijuana is legal it would be sort of a different story, but it isn't.
As a representative of the police, she should be held to at least the same legal standards as her community, and last i heard buying 2 dime bags still gets you arrested in Illinois. - hooah212002, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2Swivelstick....you sir, are a moron. How, exactly, am I supporting it? Laws are laws. Breaking them is NOT a good way to change them.
However, being an upstanding citizen in the fight for the legalization of marijuana IS a great way to help try and change them. Show "the man" that not all people who smoke weed are "stoners" and that maybe "stoners" aren't such a bad group.
Following laws is not supporting stupidity, breaking them is BEING stupid. - censormagnet, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2people hate it when others try to help .. others
thats what the article was all about ;) - Coinspinner, on 03/22/2009, -0/+2Tragic story, but if you work for the Nazi's do NOT go bragging that you're Jewish.
- Barackalypse, on 03/18/2009, -1/+3So change the law, but the moment you start picking and choosing what laws we enforce is the moment the law becomes arbitrary and thus can be broken whenever someone feels it shouldn't apply to their situation.
- counterspin, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2Someone has a broken finger and made accidental typos. Thanks for reminding me. LoL.
- mickm615, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2dick move man, dick move..
- Vriess, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2It's really great how we weed out all the caring and non sheeple like individuals from our police force.
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