Posted on 02/06/2016 9:51:27 AM PST by grundle
What will you compile lists about after Obama is gone?
Marijuana is still classified as a Class 1 drug. Cocaine and Meth are Class 2. This means that not even pharmaceutical companies can perform tests on marijuana. From what I’ve heard from MDs there are benefits, but the medical industry doesn’t want it explored.
I don’t smoke it or have a stake in it one way or the other. It’s like Trump, if tptb are against it, there must be something there.
Obama chooses to enforce only those laws he wants enforced. Why does he want marijuana laws enforced? For the drug companies, or the Cartel?
In OH, it was an amazing unpredicted example of herd intelligence when that legalization bill was voted down. Users actually caught on that verifiying that an individuals marijuana was okay within the law meant a whole lot of loss of privacy and yet another government-approved monopoly ripping folks off with the state getting its take.
So now concerned legislators (oxymoron?) want to investigate a compassionate medical marijuana law.
Here's my concern. There's a horrific heroin epidemic; everybody knows someone who lost someone to overdose. Most of them had either as a gateway drug or an intermediate step a prescription pain killer. So why is it a good idea to let the medical community prescribe another gateway drug? How will it not become a first step toward addiction to more powerful legal stuff if the medical community is involved and "it's covered"?
These new strains of pot are too strong and are turning people psychotic. It used to be just stupid and lazy but turning them pyscho is too far.
Come to think of it, all these mass shootings are probably pot heads that went psycho smoking skunk.
Maybe both. We know heroin is coming out of Afghanistan and some of it is coming through Mexico. Some of it comes out of Afghanistan and goes to the pharmaceutical companies. Don't know how it works, but the it would make sense that there is a middleman (cia?).
The reason Obama is doing is probably because it’s cutting into the kickback money that the cartels give ALL good Democrats and crooked Republicans.
I pick the Mexican Cartel! Do I win a prize?
You?
FMCDH(BITS)
Obama’s war against Medical Marijuana
1.Allows stoner states to sell non-approved drug by the FDA to be sold to the public.
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Those are good questions. There are tradeoffs. We have to weigh the good against the bad.
So who do you want deciding that, fedgov?
Doesn't anyone remember the Tenth Amendment anymore?
(sigh) FYI =>
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Hypothetical: A lot of folks who don't support gun control say it's okay for prohibiting those with psych issues to not be allowed to have a gun. What's to stop the gov from deciding everyone who uses marijuana can't have a gun?
Think about it. Legalization means taxation and registry of use. That's progress??
Where have you been? Fedgov decided just that decades ago. If you respect the Constitution, you tell Fedgov to FO and support the Second and Tenth Amendments.
Think about it. Legalization means taxation and registry of use. That's progress??
If the state is the one regulating, yes. That's how federalism is supposed to work. Do you not think the Tenth Amendment should be supported from unconstitutional fedgov intrusions?
As far as folks who get caught and charged with possession of marijuana? Is that really the only offensive thing they're doing if they're cited?
The "gateway theory" of marijuana is nonscientific nonsense - very few of those who use pot go on to use harder drugs. Users of harder drugs often used marijuana first ... because they wanted to drug themselves, and marijuana was more prevalent. The same bogus number-juggling that paints marijuana as a "gateway drug" also paints alcohol and tobacco as "gateway drugs"; should we ban those too?
Rubbish - stronger pot means only fewer puffs to get high. A user might get caught off-guard by unexpectedly strong pot ... which is another argument in favor of legalization: only a legal product can successfully be regulated for potency.
I'll neither agree nor disagree since I don't use marijuana. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is if marijuana becomes a prescription drug, many of the doctors prescribing it will use it as a gateway and it won't be long before many of those folks will be put on prescription painkillers. For many people who become heroin addicts, they say the "gateway" was legal and prescribed pain killers. Legalization will bring these folks to those doctors.
And what about folks who get caught with marijuana but don't have a prescription? Won't the penalty be severe?
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