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2009-10-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users

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Posted by Fred 2009-10-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Great. Like there are not already enough 20-something glaucoma patients.

Posted by ed 2009-10-20 00:55|| 2009-10-20 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I thought that the President had sworn to protect the Constitution and the laws of the United States. As long as the law has not been abrogated Obama is _not_ free to enforce it or not.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2009-10-20 01:14|| 2009-10-20 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a victimless crime with no direct impacts on society right?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-10-20 05:22|| 2009-10-20 05:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Now you don't see Mexican cartels chopping people up over alchohol or prescription meds, why do you think that is?

Posted by Gaz 2009-10-20 07:04|| 2009-10-20 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Is this what he meant when he said he'd create thousands of new 'green' jobs?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-20 08:04|| 2009-10-20 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Now you don't see Mexican cartels chopping people up over alchohol or prescription meds, why do you think that is?

Give 'em time.

Posted by Pappy 2009-10-20 09:14|| 2009-10-20 09:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I'd feel a whole lot better about this if the effort would be diverted from medical marijuana to border enforcement, or gang violence enforcement, or.... But I suspect it will be diverted to enforcing restrictions on free speech and other Constitutional rights.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-10-20 09:27|| 2009-10-20 09:27|| Front Page Top

#8 ed: There are a heck of a lot of 20-something retinitis-pigmentosa patients out there, willing to smoke marijuana instead of going blind.

Oddly enough, only one kind of marijuana, a subtype called "skunk weed", is known for the effect. This was found out because some native fishermen discovered that it strongly enhanced their night vision for fishing.

A female journalist for The Times (London), with r-p, discovered this in Amsterdam, when suddenly her vision remarkably improved. After her article came out, England suddenly relaxed its marijuana laws, for fear that tens of thousands of people would feel it necessary to emigrate to the Netherlands to treat their r-p.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-10-20 10:19|| 2009-10-20 10:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Hmmmm, My wife has RP and is legaly blind, but she's also staunch Catholic. I read her this article and she thinks it's a joke, there's no way in hell she'll ever smoke "Grass", Pity.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-20 13:09|| 2009-10-20 13:09|| Front Page Top

#10 One would think there would be a way to get the helpful effects into pill form.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-20 13:50|| 2009-10-20 13:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Pill? You make the mistake that the medical jane movement is about health.

Posted by ed 2009-10-20 14:36|| 2009-10-20 14:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Seems to me the feds ought to stay out of this anyway. It is more of a state-level thing.

Is the THC itself somehow involved in improving night vision or helping RP patients?

Posted by gorb 2009-10-20 15:53|| 2009-10-20 15:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Ed, I'm well aware the medical pot deal is not about health benefits but Redneck Jim's wife, and others, won't smoke the stuff to get the medical benefit. A pill would also take the lie out of the debate.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-20 18:17|| 2009-10-20 18:17|| Front Page Top

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