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What are your views on medicinal marijuana ?





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What are your views on medicinal marijuana ?
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I believe medicinal marijuana should be legal but strictly controlled. Its currently a Schedule I drug and I think the shift should be to being a Schedule III. I am a user of medicinal marijuana, yes my doctor knows I smoke it and why and would prescribe it for me if he could legally. It sure would make my life easier not to have to worry about getting arrested for the one thing that makes my life easier.
I have seen the differences it can make in peoples lives, those going thru chemo, those living and dying with AIDS, those with cataracts, many different problems for which this one simple thing can change their overall quality of life. Dont want to use it fine, but dont take it away from those whose lives it can help.





Personally I think Marijuana should be legal and treated exactly the same as alcohol.
I also think it is downright cruel to deny it to those who are, like Cranky said above:
" going thru chemo, those living and dying with AIDS, those with cataracts, many different problems for which this one simple thing can change their overall quality of life."
Last edited by GirlFriday; 12-22-2004 at 08:07 PM.
If the efficacy of marijuana for a given medical condition is as good as or greater than that of another treatment, then marijuana should be allowed to be prescribed. Seems easy enough.
As for legalization: Although marijuana arguably has no greater detriment than alcohol, there is already see a great deal of damage done to society by alcohol. That genie is irretrievably out of the bottle. But I don't have a great desire to add another legal intoxicant to society's inventory.
Last edited by GirlFriday; 12-22-2004 at 08:10 PM.





But really can you say that it isn't mostly conservatives who want to end ALL medical marijunia ? Is it not a mostly conservative cause ?
How many liberal groups out there have that particual "cause" on their agenda. Any?
How many conservatives groups have ending medical use pot use on their agenda ?
Right. I rest my case.
Last edited by GirlFriday; 12-22-2004 at 08:11 PM.
I make up my mind on each issue. I've stated my opinion on medical marijuana. Whether it's a conservative or liberal opinion to someone else matters nothing to me.
Last edited by GirlFriday; 12-22-2004 at 08:12 PM.
To focus on marijuana is to miss the larger, and much more important issue at stake in this case, i.e., the extent to which the States are going to be allowed to continue to have the ability to adopt social policies that differ from those of the Federal government - and it's a very serious question which, regardless of the way the Court rules, will have widespread effects on our future. IMHO, part of the strength of our system has been the ability of the States to try alternative strategies - much progress has been made in this way, as when a clearly viable solution is found by one, others adopt. Note that States adamently against marijuana, even for medical use, have filed briefs in support of the States being allowed to go their own way on this issue... they've done so because they're interested in the larger issue, not because they're interested in legalizing marijuana.
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I'm getting mixed messages whether the states are relevant (medical marijuana) or not (presidential elections).





BULLSEYE !!!Originally Posted by Jay Zeno
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Here's a link that I thought might interest those of us following this issue
and I think the following section pretty much covers the "why" in this effort to go after medical maryjane-- boldface by me.
the Bush administration has renewed the war on marijuana with a vengeance -- only this time, it is a war that pits the federal government against the majority of the American people, and sometimes against state and city officials and even local police officers. Headed by religious conservatives who take an absolutist stance against drugs, the Department of Justice, the DEA and the White House's Office of Drug Policy are using the might of the federal government and millions of dollars worth of advertising in an effort to roll back the public's growing acceptance of marijuana as a medicine.
Damn, this sounds as brutal as the Democrats at Waco, except no one got shot.
Seriously, if the article is without hyperbole, that's pretty bad. I suspect there's some hyperbole, though, being an advocacy piece.





I suspect your right Jay but the bare bones of the matter is still the same.
Morphine is basically the same thing as herion but I dont see conservatives trying to ban morphine drips.
Why do you think that is ? I think its because pot is seen as a "flower child" type drug- ie symbol of sorts of liberals. Hardcore conservatives want to destroy liberal thinking and ways. Much of whats on the rightwing domestic agenda for example
pot, gay marriage, abortion - I think its all connected when you get down to brass tax.
As for states rights- they are all for them if its an issue on their agenda, but as soon as it is a liberal cause suddenly states rights dont seem to matter anymore.
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