Maybe it started out that way. Maybe it was and is the pot heads pushing for legalization, but, the sad truth today is that those pot heads are recruiting politicians to pass legislation to "medicalize"  marijuana and decriminalize all drug use.  Nancy Pelosis is one of those paid puppets.

Dang I hate to get this started again.   My stance on it hasn't changed.  If people want it legalized for medicinal use then that's fine.  Just make it a MEDICINE.  Get a prescription from a legitimate doctor (Not Aywzadoc with his internet degree) dispensed from a legitimate pharmacy (Not a storefront on Oildale Drive) by a legitimate pharmacist (not some hack selling you MJ butter and brownies.)  Now you're talking about a legal, medicinal item prescibed for your pain or nausea.

Trouble is..that eliminates most of the people I've talked to who think it should be legalized.

By the way..I heard they're considering making sudafedrin a prescribed item again.  Don't know if it's true or not.

Anti ex,

If pot smokers dont give a damn why should mainstream America.  Why should we be forced to live under that umbrella. I dont want to, and I wont be forced to.

And we won't be forced to live in a country which has a double standard for some drugs, and legalizes more deadly ones. 

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Despite your misquotation of statistics, it remains true that someone can walk into a liquor store with $20 and walk out with a lethal dose of alcohol--yet a lethal dose of marijuana has to be dropped on your head from a height.

(Heck, a recent story on the news has a woman who died from an overdose of *WATER*.  Death from WATER overdose (and I'm not talking drowning here) has claimed more lives than marijuana abuse.

Linda,

I am a staunch conservative and I very rarely see eye-to-eye with the liberals.  I do not like Pelosi because of how she stands on self protection issues. That being said I have to agree with them.

There are people who abuse marijuana. There are those that abuse prescription medications "pretending" to be in pain just to get a fix.  The abuses of the system will continue. I know of elderly people that live with pain because they cannot afford the outrageous price of medication. If you give someone who is financially insecure but in pain the option of growing medicinal marijuana at a cheap cost to remove his pain I am all for it.  You are talking about a substance that has basically no lethal dose factor.  Even salt has a lethal dose factor; it cannot be too bad.  People get strung out on opiates all of the time; they steal, rob, and plunder just to get a hold of it.  Marijuana does not have the chemical dependancy risks that narcotics do. This is a substance that is safer than alcohol yet it is illegal.

I have never smoked marijuana and would not even if it were legal. I am still young (30).  If there ever came a point in my life where I were in chronic pain it would be my medication of choice.

Semper,

A staunch conservative huh.... I doubt it...

 If you think marijuana is safe, then why not put it through the rigorous process of the FDA. Why then does the Amercian Cancer Society, and a long list of other reputable companies reject marijuana as medicine. Because they know that a drug should never be smoked. . Would pro-druggies be interested in capsule form marijuana, NO. This whole medicalization of marijuana is just a ploy to smoke it without consequence. It's very simple. Sativex is already available, capsule form marijuana, and that is not appeasing pro-drug advocates. WHY? Because thats not the agenda. Get it?

Linda, let's run a test.  You run marijuana past the FDA, and I'll run tobacco past them.  In an honest test, which of them would be approved for sale to the general public?

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The test isn't honest.  You like some drugs and you dislike others--and that's the sole basis of your objection.  Hooray for those who are restraining the Federal jackboots on *SOMETHING.*

Pete, you hit the nail on the head. Years ago, the pharmaceutical companies lobbied for the criminalization of pot for obvious reasons. Then, they went down to South America and purchased as many coca farms as they could get their hands on. The rest is history, as they say.

Another factor in the criminalization of marijuana was William Randolf Hearst. The infamous newspaper czar lobbied hard to keep all hemp products illegal because he feared losing his monopoly on the newsprint business. It seems he owned enough forest land and pulp mills to produce the majority of the paper used by the nation's print media. Congress has long been the paid stooge of the rich, on both sides of the isle.

The Drug Policy Alliance the proponents behind California's Prop 215, the medical marijuana scam,  openly state their mission to be to legalize ALL drugs. Drug by Drug,  State by state. No matter what you hear from some people on this site.

So, pro-druggies, are you supportive then of legislation that would increase penalties for meth users, heroin addicts, and other "harder" drugs if used in the presence of children?   As long as marijuana is left out.     Cant wait to hear this one.

I don't see that here, Linda.  Which one of these supports your statement? 

(By the way--you *DO* support the legalization of alcohol and tobacco, right?  That's a remarkably pro-druggie stance for you to take...)

 Making marijuana legally available for medical purposes;

Not even for drug users who abuse children?  Or what about drug users who kill people? You do understand that meth users are violent dont you? 

August 9, 2006 - Some justice for the people who dunked a little boy into scalding hot water. Severe burns changed the face of a little boy, known only as Isaiah in court.

"To hear what your baby or your child went through is nothing any mother wants to hear," Isaiah's mother Regina Rayos said while crying.

She asked the court for stiff punishment. A judge sentenced Garza to life with the possibility of parole, after he pleaded guilty to aggravated mayhem.

His mother, Susan Garza, also pleaded guilty to child abuse.

Police reports say she rubbed aloe and mustard on the boy's burns, but never called 911.

"I am sorry, I think I made a mistake," Susan Garza said.

Despite that plea to the judge, she'll spend two years in prison for what happened.

A bailiff took her into custody on the spot. Frank Garza's attorney said his client was high on methamphetamine at the time and is wholeheartedly sorry for what he did. But Regina Rayos isn't ready to forgive.

She lost custody of Isaiah, and the abuse cost the little boy his ears and his eyesight.

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The latest studies show that marijuana not only does not lead to cancer, T.H.C content may actually help kill aging cells and protects against Cancer. Another study shows that there is no comparison between alcohol driving and marijuana driving. Alcohol is far worse of a menace on the road. And just the other day on the Today show, a company that sells hemp laced food has a diet plan using those foods. Of course, the THC content is minimal in that hemp, but Linda will tell you that hemp is evil in all it's forms.

But let's leave alcohol alone.

You cannot compare marijuana to meth, or even alcohol in how it affects the human condition.

http://www.washingtonpost.c...

http://www.webmd.com/conten...

http://www.sciencedaily.com...

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BS. Your just dodging the question, and not wanting to acknowledge what can and does happen. Are you willing to vouch for meth users? Can you say that a meth user is not capable of violence, with a straight face. Are you going to defend them??/   lol.

There is no doubt that Meth is the scourge of today's youth. Highly addictive, and easily obtained, it will kill your dopamine receptors faster than you can say sudaphed, thus taking away your brains ability to feel happy. That puts you on an endless cycle of self destruction, you destroy more receptors, you need more meth, and your body fades like a leprosy victim.

Although I don't stand with Linda on the issue of medicinal, or for that matter, recreational use of marijuana, I have seen even highly intelligent people ruin their lives by use of meth.

I would say that although I agree with Pete that not all meth users will become violent, most of them do become manic, and that can lead to violence.

I doubt if anyone disagrees with that Linda.