Dude, it's for my glaucoma!
Posted on 06/30/2005 2:51:57 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Rhode Island Governor Donald L. Carcieri has vetoed a "medical marijuana" bill, saying it would encourage marijuana use and criminal activity. His veto comes as an anti-drug group has released dramatic video footage of a marijuana activist declaring that he uses dope for a health problem that he doesn't really have. The bottom line for this activist, Ed Rosenthal, is that "I like to get high. Marijuana is fun." The video has the potential of dealing a major blow to the "medical marijuana" movement, largely funded by billionaire George Soros.
The video footage, posted at the website http://www.sorosmonitor.com, gives the lie to the claim that we often see in the media that smoking marijuana is a legitimate medical treatment for people with diseases. Rosenthal, who was associated with High Times magazine for many years, is shown speaking to dozens of marijuana activists. "With all the talk about medical marijuana, I have to tell you that I also use marijuana medically (laughter)," he says. "I have a latent glaucoma, which has never been diagnosed (more laughter). And the reason why it has never been diagnosed is because I've been treating it (laughter)…But there is a reason why I do use it. And that is because I like to get high. (cheers, applause). Marijuana is fun."
The video proves that "medical marijuana" is a joke to those on the inside of the pro-pot movement who realize that getting the public and the media to accept the notion that smoking marijuana alleviates health problems is a major step down the road to complete legalization of dope.
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I am generally libertarian and consider the war on drugs a waste of my tax money.
That said, now that I know Soros is a force behind the legalization movement, I have to reconsider.
Anything he is for is typically hidden evil.
Dude, it's for my glaucoma!
Bump for later.
So one schmuck joking on video about how he thinks he's getting away with something holds more weight than the substantial research that supports marijuana use as medical treatment? That's not a very logical analysis.
So if I find a video of ONE racist republican, I guess that means they are ALL racist! What a joke.
hmmmmmmmmmm
No Duh.
Come to the cancer ward and spew this dogma. Your words are hollow here.
Apparently so, to the simple minds that take this thread at face value.
oh yeah, the High Times guy is speaking for all glaucoma patients...all cancer patients. If it helps those in pain, they should be able to use it. The WOD is a waste of money.
It seems to me that, if you have cancer, "getting high" is a side effect that beats "throwing up" every time.
It's just moronic. The right moralists like the drug war because it prevents people they don't like from having fun. Well, not really. But it makes it more of a hassle anyway. This is the same country that once banned alcohol, though, and those same busybody genes are still swimming around in the national gene pool.
It's just amazing to me that with all the efforts we put forward here to advance the cause of liberty, that a totalitarian effort like the War on Politically Incorrect Drugs would find any support here at all.
Conservatism means you can only take gubmint approved medications.
Pretty weak.
It's called prejudice. People go with their own personal prejudices most of the time, and this is one of them. For them, limiting free human beings to only gubmint approved medications makes sense.
If any freeper disagrees with me on this, I suggest they accompany a cancer patient to an infusion session and see what chemo does to people first hand. The IV bags in the infusion suite have big bio-hazard stickers on them. Chemo's a b!tch and if the patient thinks some pot will help them, I'll be first in line to light their joint.
I'm with you and I'd go further. Whatever will help people in pain should be given without reservation or fear of the law coming down on you. I don't care if it's pot, morphine, heroin or whatever. Give it to them.
haven't you heard? Conservatism means free people can only take medications that the BIG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT approves. Got that? That's called CONSERVATISM.
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