Posted on 11/28/2004 9:20:33 AM PST by Ellesu
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/28/MNGQ4A2RL11.DTL
Partially paralyzed, in constant pain from multiple disorders and desperate for help after trying nearly three dozen doctor-prescribed medications, the 30-year-old woman, a product of a conservative upbringing that made her recoil from illegal drugs, decided pot "might be my last shot.''
She's suffered back pain from scoliosis and pelvic pain from endometriosis since her teenage years. She became partially paralyzed from an allergic reaction to doctor-recommended birth control pills in 1995.
Since then, she's been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, a seizure disorder and a wasting syndrome. She keeps 98 to 100 pounds on her 5- foot-4 frame only by gorging on high-calorie foods and using marijuana to maintain her appetite.
There's no euphoric effect. I do not like using it.''
Still, she takes her pipe everywhere, even to the Oakland Police Department, where she's worked with officers on their encounters with medical marijuana patients. She also vaporizes the drug, mixes it with massage oils, or bakes it in zucchini bread, which she eats in large quantities before a rare and agonizing plane trip like her journey to Washington for Monday's hearing.
Raich, now 39, has a doctor's recommendation for marijuana, as required by Prop. 215, and says she needs the medication every two hours. She wakes up in pain every morning and requires help getting out of bed. She uses 8 pounds of marijuana a year and gets it for free from two caregivers -- "my heroes'' -- in thanks for her work as an advocate.
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Indeed. You should contact Raich and tell her that.
Free pot for EVERYONE!
Gather round the Pot & Ice Cream Truck kids and I'll tell you the story of how free pot came to be!
You see, it all started when medical marijuana was legalized in 2009...
Open up your ears and listen to LadyDoc...you MIGHT learn something!
So let me guess: She's a plaintiff cuz she's suing her dealer.
And one more time, if the law allowed a physician to prescribe "smoking opium" as a means to pain relief for someone like Raich, fine with me.
Yeah man, it's an HERB that God made and put in the Garden of Eden man!
Like, you know man, God tokes up every couple of hours with some really heavenly weed man!
(/sarcasm)
STONERS....!
Because it can't be both.
It can and is both. The Constitution says we get to make the decision. Hence, if we don't get to make the decision, the Constitution is being infringed.
The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution says that you don't get to make the decision.
It's true that where the federal government has jurisdiction, it makes the rules, not the states. But the feds don't have jurisdiction here. The Constitution does not give the federal government the power to regulate this.
Yes, and if there are some women who open their legs to every man who walks by, prostitutes will suffer, and interstate commerce is affected. That doesn't give the federal government the right to regulate loose women's naughty bits.
Anything can affect interstate commerce in some trivial way.
Medical marijuana does not affect it to a non-trivial degree; hence it does not fall under federal jurisdiction.
See UNITED STATES v. MORRISON et al., the very recent case in which SCOTUS rejects the "Violence Against Women Act," on the grounds that rape doesn't affect interstate commerce to enough of a degree.
...a product of a conservative upbringing that made her recoil from illegal drugs, decided pot "might be my last shot.''
It appears the poster did not read the article posted.
No kidding.
How about freedom to injest what thou whilst?
You know, if you mandated reading books for adults, people would be smarter. Want to make that a law?
OK, then why can't they just be honest about it? like you are?
They haven't gotten their way so they came up with this cock and bull story of medicinal use.
People just want to believe it. I know from personal experience it's not true.
The same reason we are incremental with pro-life laws. You go for the easy win, and hope to change the mindset of the people gradually. A reasonable tactic.
Sounds like the product of a stoned justice, all right.
Call it what you will, it is still a drug that saps a persons motivations and can cause irreparable harm physically and mentally.
Oh really? Is THAT what PALLIATE means? ROTHFLMIAO! (ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY IRISH ASS OFF) Well, for your information, stupid, I set a trap and you fell into it. According to the 19th TABERS CYCLOPEDIC MEDICAL DICTIONARY, page 1493, "palliate" is: "To ease or reduce effect or intensity, esp. of a disease; to allay temporarily, as pain; without curing."
I deliberately used the term palliative which is, in the same edition: "1. Relieving or alleviating without curing. 2. An agent that alleviates or eases a painful or uncomfortable condition."
You sir, may crawl back under the rock under which you dared poke your tick infested head.
Bullwish is a glutton for others' punishment, it seems
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