Medicinal marijuana is primarily used by people who are terminally ill and wish to reduce their suffering. I don't see what is wrong with legalizing its use for this purpose, as long term health issues are irrelevant since the user is near death. I don't take issue with people who are dying of cacer and want to make their life less painful.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court was forced to rule medicinal marijuana illegal, because its job isn't to make the law, but to interpret it. And since Congress has made it decidedly illegal and there is no constitutional precedent to strike down the law, it is up to Congress to legalize medicinal marijuana. It is up to ordinary people to urge their representatives in Congress to change the law.
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marijuana is the f-wording s-word, n-word!
i love to f-wording smoke that f-wording s-word all of the f-wording time.
and i f-wording mean all the f-wording time.
im so f-wording high right now
s-word man.
well, piece out my n-word
-johan sebastien mother f-wording bach, my good sir.
As you can see here, johan has just demonstrated what happens when marijuana is misused.
them is f-wording fighting words, b-word.
i will ram my f-wording foot so far up youre f-wording a-word it will knock out your f-wording teeth, mother f-worder.
you wanna f-wording mess? cuz if so, b-word, ill kick your f-wording sorry a-word.
s-word n-word, lets go, or are you too f-wording pussy?
-johan sebastien mother f-wording bach, my good sir.
wow...johan definitely needs to grow up and find something better to do with his time. I agree with mick.
"piece out?" um...OK...does he even know what that means?
My father took 6 months to die as a terminal cancer patient. He was taking 130 mg. of morphine daily (to put this in perspective, an epidural uses appx. 7 mg. of morphine.) The morphine made him nauseaous and kept him from eating. How I wish he could have legally ingested marijuana for his pain, the nausea and to help his appetite. He was goofy enough from the effects of morphine, pot couldn't have been worse than that. I might have even enjoyed smoking a reefer with him in his last days. No, I don't normally do that...but I would have then.
Although medicinal marijuana is extremely beneficial for terminal AIDS and cancer patients, it is not only the terminally ill that can benefit from its healing properties. In fact, the U.S. government (under the Carter administration) started the Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program, under which some patients have been receiving government sanctioned medical marijuana for as long as 23 years.
Irv Rosenfeld, a Florida stockbroker, has been receiving a tin of marijuana cigarettes regularly for the last two decades, because he suffers from chronic pain. George McMahon has a rare neurological condition, called Nail Patella Syndrome. He used to take harsh drugs, with devastating side effects, before he was admitted to the IND program. Today, his pain is under control.
Unfortunately, there are only seven patients in this program today, because in 1996 the government barred any new patients from being admitted. Five of the seven are affiliated with the Virginia-based medpot advocacy group, Patients Out of Time.
Patients Out of Time is organizing a major conference on April 6-8, in Santa Barbara, California. The Fourth National Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics is co-sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco, and the California Nurses Association, will lend credence to those who assert that the evidence for medical use of marijuana is plentiful and convincing.
Many prominent physicians and health professionals will deliver papers. “Cannabis in Pain and Palliative Care,” “The Current Status of Cannabinoid Research in Israel,” “Therapeutic Cannabis Use in Pregnancy,” and “Using Cannabis to Treat AIDS and MS” are only some of the sessions scheduled.
This conference will once again refute the U.S. government position that cannabis has no medical purpose. In 1972, under the Nixon administration, cannabis was classified as a Schedule One drug, alongside heroin, meaning that it has no medicinal value.
Patients Out of Time (POT) is leading the struggle to get marijuana re-scheduled, along with drugs that are used in medicine. Eleven states currently recognize medicinal marijuana as being valuable, thanks in part to the advocacy work of POT and other organizations.
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