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- NikoKun, on 05/09/2008, -0/+53Yet the DEA continues to claim that the federal government doesn't recognize medical cannabis. HAH
Here's the proof that they DO. 30 years of medical marijuana being sent to the patients, who battled with the federal government long and hard to prove their medical NEED to have it. They PROVED IT and that's why the federal government is forced to give it to them.
Yet the DEA, in their ultimate ignorance, just denies this... turning a blind hypocritical eye to it... Why is this allowed to continue? - alcimedes, on 05/09/2008, -0/+38I like how they haven't done any studies since nothing terrible happened to these patients due to marijuana use.
- AustinMandi, on 05/09/2008, -0/+37Because then they would be forced to admit they were wrong and have withheld medication from literally millions of sick and dying patients. Lawsuit, anyone?
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -7/+31"The reason marijuana is having such a hard time becoming legalized is nobody can remember where they left the petitions."
--George Carlin - wynja, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2330 years of government sanctioned research and we still don't know how safe it is........... I call BS.
- NikoKun, on 05/09/2008, -0/+11Well, they brought it on themselves, and they deserve the lawsuit. They deserve a lawsuit for withholding medicine, AND for jailing millions of people over the last 70s years for this prohibition. I just hope it's personally targeted at the people running this prohibition, rather than the government overall... because that would just eat into our tax money.
- RST1123, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10My tax money goes to fund these people's pot, but I'll get arrested for possession of it. I love the system.
- mrzisme, on 05/09/2008, -2/+12Shh, dont tell the sheeple about this program, they still believe their refer madness propaganda that told them the devil put that plant here. When you combine this article with the one that said they found almost zero correlation with marijuana and lung cancer, you have to wonder how its even fathomable that this is illegal, I can only guess that if they legalized it, they fear its going to dig in to their 80 billion a year overpriced anti-depressant market, all containing more dangerous side effects. Go United States!- the land that never ceases stealing from its residents.
- EatingPie, on 05/09/2008, -1/+10Just an FYI. These particular patients received the medicinal marijuana due to a lawsuit. It looks like the government was legally mandated to supply the people with the drug, and doesn't *necessarily* mean the government recognized marijuana's medicinal value. The courts said give these people pot, the government gave them pot. End of story.
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-Pie - RanIntoTheDevil, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9So many problems would be solved if we just legalized it. I mean hemp can be used for anything and everything and is easy to grow, pot has many medicinal uses, and not to mention the huge boost it would give our dying economy.
- DirtPile, on 05/09/2008, -1/+8God bless President Jimmy Carter.
- mrsteveman1, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7Why is it allowed to continue? Because there are idiots in charge who think doing drugs is immoral. It is wrong to get high according to some people. Those people are typically hypocrites though, and are the same ones who drink at night to drown out the wife, then get up in the morning and drink 16 oz of coffee because they don't feel like getting up without chemical assistance. So yea, the DEA and a good portion of the rest of the government, and of course the mainstream media have been pushing the idea that one should not be legally permitted to get high, and this is the SOLE reason pot has remained illegal for so long, it has nothing to do with health, danger to users, medical necessity or anything else.
There are more dangerous drugs that are still legal, but most of them aren't fun. There are fun but safe drugs that are highly illegal. You do the math. - haylel, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7How dare you!
- dizilbdog, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7You know on side with these cops who love to arrest people for pot an stuff. If you were to ask any officer would you rather deal with 30 guys drinking all night long at a bar and there is a disturbance, or would you rather go to a house of 30 people smoking pot. I think most cops would take the latter.
- NikoKun, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6But they had to prove medical necessity in those lawsuit cases... The government was shown proof, and the courts/part of the government found in favor of these patients. Is that not the same thing, as the government recognizing medical marijuana? If they truly didn't, then that court case would never have succeeded.
When the government wont believe it on it's own, it has to be forced and proven, in court. - wishninja, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6OF all the evil nasty drug war policies out there this is the worst. These are sick people, people that are going to die or are living their live in unspeakable pain and the DEA crushes them with their knee high black boots.
Not only should these vile laws be repealed but the police DEA and everyone involved should be the ones filling the prisons for what they have done. These drug war cowards are not Americans they are treasonous occupiers that use children to justify their blood lust and I hope they burn. - amdahlj, on 05/09/2008, -0/+6"***** you"
--George Carlin - nubbz51, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7420th digg
- isaactwito, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5Maybe if we don't have mandatory classes in schools where they slander marijuana and teach false information about drugs we might not have such a foolish majority. In the end it's just that people are too ***** proud to accept fact. It's like people ignoring scientific proof in place of religious myth, pure *****, perpetuated by the people.
- starmanfalls, on 05/09/2008, -1/+640 years of smoking every day, no health issues. It is safe. Trust me, I am not the government. BS confirmed
- mrsteveman1, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5Yea, by age 30 that baby should be ***** out of college and running a full fledged pot business.....
- mrzisme, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5Im with you. They know exactly how harmless it is, and the pharmaceutical companies know exactly how much it would tap into their 80 billion a year anti-depressant market if it was legalized. As long as the drug companies hold all the monopoly money, the politicians will always side with them. Since Marijuana and its active ingredient THC comes from nature, they are not allowed to patent it, claim it as their own and sell it. So they will continue to keep it illegal and continue peddeling their weak attempts to create chemical copycats of THC which they call anti-depressants, and sell their garbage to the public at inflated prices.
- CurtisLow101, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Urge your Congressional Representative to Support Medical Marijuana Legislation
A small bi-partisan coalition of members of Congress has introduced H.R. 5842, the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act. If passed, this legislation would, among other things, reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule II drug according the Controlled Substances Act and provide clearer protections for qualified patients, caregivers, and regulated safe-access sites. Write your U.S. Representative now and urge support for Patient Protection Act!
Visit http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/182/campaign. ...
write Congress now! Tell your U.S. Representative to support the Patient Protection Act! - mrsteveman1, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Good point, D.A.R.E is nothing but propaganda, i remember it well. Some of the stuff they told me was complete crap, and was obviously made up without even a shred of consideration for logic or evidence.
- RyanP, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Didn't that guy on P&T light up a huge joint in front of the White House?
- mCanada, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4who the hell dugg you down! fools!
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4He DOESN'T have a show you moron.
- mCanada, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4Dear Sir or Madam, I am VERY interested in your program. Please find enclosed an application regarding the aforementioned organization. I am fully qualified to be involved with your group and would put every effort forward to roll things forward. I never believe the grass is greener on the other side. thxbye
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Chances are they would have no reason to go to the stoners' house. They'd all be mellow and hungry instead of obnoxious and violent.
- EricCiccone, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3While the Feds are busy figuring out their *****, I'll get my prescription from one of 10 states that are brave enough to go ahead with a program that gets marijuana to me and others that benefit from it.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Genesis 1:12 - The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good.
- mCanada, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3+10^10
- lookb3hindu, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Thats the truth.....you would think with all those scientists they could grow some descent pot....
- eavesdrop, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2alcohol is the gateway drug. Everyone has tried alcohol first. Either way, if weed is a gateway drug, I should have overdosed on crack by now.
- aidave, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2It's shameful to realize we are in the midst of one of the most evil wars ever waged upon humanity: the Drug War. History will look back at this in horror. Yet many people are oblivious and think we are living in some type of utopia.
- Chronoped, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Prohibition has failed both times anyways...
- newbis, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Here's my only problem. Say we do legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Does that mean I have to actually get cancer?
Alcohol wasn't legalized by having legal "medical alcohol." The nation just jumped right back into the swing of things. - NikoKun, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Didn't the government blame LSD for those anti-gov protests? Cause now, if your caught with too much LSD, they charge you with conspiracy to overthrow the US government... XD It's really sad that that's true...
- starmanfalls, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2right on. The stealing is just getting warmed up. 6 more months and we may be fighting for our very freedom in this ***** oppressive system
- RockeN5, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2Why did you just diss The Man?
- aruhi, on 05/09/2008, -1/+3Follow the Money. Can you say "Pharmaceutical Company"? You can't patent Cannabis.
"We have the best politicians money can buy" - mrzisme, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2I disagree completely, when weed was at its peak of popularity in the 70's, there has since never been so much anti-government protesting, especially coinciding with Vietnam, most of them were smoking, your parents were smoking, and collectively they went against the system more than any time since then. I do believe the government doesnt mind when its citizens willingly intoxicate themselves and dont notice the crap their doing, but marijuana isnt like being drunk, sometimes its a squeegee for your third eye and gives you a pattern break from reality to remind you how your being f**ked on a daily basis, its had a history of waking people up as well as putting them to sleep.
- Iztikeit, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2People get busted with marijuana doing everyday things, like being a juror. Do heroin, meth, and other such "hard" drug users get caught NEARLY as often as these "less than discreet" smokers? The people have spoken, both the drug and the plant are useful for multiple purposes and specific money wielding propaganda machines don't want it. Lobbyists FTW!!!
There won't be another 30 with this next generation in charge. - inactive, on 05/09/2008, -2/+4and after 30 years, deaths = 0
But they still criminalize literally tens of thousands of Americans each day for having a plant
Unnerving tyranny - soulonfire928, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2For all the really serious crimes that go on, we're completely wasting space throwing people in jail for pot. Legalize it and free up room in the prisons for rapists, murderers, child molesters, and all the other really f-d up criminals out there.
- starmanfalls, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2proves they are smarter than they can admit publicly
- kinghajj, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2You can't sue a government agency for following the law. Well, you could try, but it'd just get thrown out.
- mrzisme, on 05/09/2008, -1/+3Buried at your notion of bringing sheeple to the forefront as a bad thing in attempt to feel special for having read comments that contained sheeple which you didnt enjoy. I dont care what words you dont like, keep your vocabulary preferences which you strangely consider negative to yourself.
- NormaCluster, on 05/09/2008, -0/+230 years that they have been giving it to patients for medical reasons. Yet, in Seattle this week, a musician named Tim Garon died of liver failure after being denied a place on an organ donor recipient list due to his marijuana usage, which had been prescribed by a physician and was legal under Washington State law.
- Metalheadfitz, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1Watch "The war on Drugs" from season 2 of Penn & Teller Bullsh!t for a way better story on the program
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