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Carey defends medical marijuana online
AP via Yahoo ^ | November 1, 2007 | Sandy Cohen

Posted on 11/02/2007 6:22:06 AM PDT by period end of story

LOS ANGELES - Bob Barker famously closed each episode of "The Price Is Right" with a pitch to spay and neuter pets. His successor is taking a stand on a more controversial subject: marijuana. Drew Carey won't tout toking up on "Price," but he defends the use of medical marijuana in a video posted online Thursday on Reason.tv.

"Smell that smell," the 49-year-old comedian says as he walks into a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary. "That's the smell of freedom."

The video is one of 20 Carey will host for the Reason Foundation, a nonprofit educational group whose ideas "some people call libertarian" and whose mission is to "advance freedom," said president David Nott.

Carey offered to produce brief documentaries on topics ranging from traffic congestion to immigration for the foundation's Web site, Nott said.

"Drew Carey connects with regular people. ... He has a regular guy's look at things, and that's why this seems like a great thing," he said. "We're interested in freedom across the spectrum, and good journalism about these subjects is important in the world of ideas."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: drewcarey; medicalmarijuana
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To: period end of story

I guess I’m watching “Price is Right” reruns. At least there has to be a couple thousand of them.


21 posted on 11/02/2007 8:37:43 AM PDT by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: period end of story

There are also plenty of people who smoke dope because they’re depressed, sad, their life is screwed up. Hell...tons of excuses.


22 posted on 11/02/2007 8:39:07 AM PDT by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: Puppage

“As do I. It was the ONLY thing that helped my wife through her 2 bouts of breast cancer. You have no idea how heartbreaking it is to stay up all night, constantly emptying the “bucket” so it can be used again & again.”

I’m sorry, but according to some of the stalwarts who always come to these threads, you’re wrong. Pot didn’t help your wife and there were PLENTY of other things that would have. Your wife is a just a pothead who wanted to get stoned and used her cancer as an excuse. /s

Well, maybe I exaggerate a little, but you get the picture.


23 posted on 11/02/2007 8:44:32 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: gracesdad
but according to some of the stalwarts who always come to these threads, you’re wrong

I know. God forbid they have to go through what my wife & I did....I suspect their take on it would change quite fast.

24 posted on 11/02/2007 9:08:07 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage

One would hope.


25 posted on 11/02/2007 9:19:32 AM PDT by gracesdad
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To: Puppage
wait until robertpaulson shows up!
seriously though hope your wife is doing well, I have a friend who has a degenerative disease who told me of all the drugs that they've tried on him on over the years pot is the only thing that actually works.
he's been using methadone for years but said it's effectiveness has worn down over time.
26 posted on 11/02/2007 9:20:00 AM PDT by houston1
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To: period end of story

I don’t use hemp, but I will defend the plant to anyone. It’s a viable drug, great for making rope and other things. It’s an amazingly useful plant. It used to be grown as a crop legally, but no more.

Line made of hemp was stronger, more flexible, and more resistant to the damaging effects of salt water than other types of natural line.


27 posted on 11/02/2007 9:29:56 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: houston1
pot is the only thing that actually works.

But that can't be! The big government loving drug warrior statists told me that pot has no medical use!
28 posted on 11/02/2007 9:32:09 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: Southerngl
Ready for the flaming of me and my mother who went to church for her whole life and was a hard choice to try it.

No flames from me. If it helps a loved one laws be d@mned. Big difference between medical and recreational use in my book. Of course the taliban section of FR forgets where all the "cain" drugs come from. If its made in a lab it's ok.

Sorry about the loss of your mom. You did good by her.

29 posted on 11/02/2007 9:32:18 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Rudy: When you absolutely,positively need a liberal for President.)
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To: mysterio
and as a side effect of that kind of thinking I have a cousin that has MS who I think it would also help but she won't try it because it's "illegal".
it's frustrating for me because she 's always trying a new medication since none of them seem to work, though they do help somewhat for a while.
30 posted on 11/02/2007 9:57:30 AM PDT by houston1
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To: beltfed308
Big difference between medical and recreational use in my book. What do you have against the recreational use of marijuana? And do you also oppose the recreational use of tobacco and alcohol?
31 posted on 11/02/2007 10:47:35 AM PDT by THC
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To: THC
What do you have against the recreational use of marijuana?

Nothing. If it was treated exactly the same as alcohol. I guess my point was that if it helps a sick person, the way the laws are now they'd be hard pressed for a conviction if I was on the jury.

And do you also oppose the recreational use of tobacco and alcohol?

Nope. I enjoy both regularly.

32 posted on 11/02/2007 11:07:47 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Rudy: When you absolutely,positively need a liberal for President.)
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To: houston1; robertpaulsen
wait until robertpaulson shows up!

Where is paulsen, anyway? Maybe he can tell the people on this thread that pot didn't really help their sick relatives.
33 posted on 11/02/2007 11:15:43 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: period end of story
"the Reason Foundation, a nonprofit educational group ..."

... that also publishes Reason magazine, a pro-recreational-pot libertarian rag. Get medical marijuana accepted and recreational marijuana will follow.

Or as Keith Stroup (former Director of NORML) said, "We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name. That's our way of getting to them just like the paraphernalia laws are their way of getting to us."

34 posted on 11/02/2007 1:10:57 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: mysterio
"Maybe he can tell the people on this thread that pot didn't really help their sick relatives."

They say it did. Who am I to argue?

But I'm sure they're not using their anecdotal story as proof that marijuana should be legalized for everyone as medicine. Why, that would be irresponsible, dangerous, and just plain nutty.

35 posted on 11/02/2007 1:17:51 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
But I'm sure they're not using their anecdotal story as proof that marijuana should be legalized for everyone as medicine. Why, that would be irresponsible, dangerous, and just plain nutty.

No, nutty is denying sick people the access to a plant that makes them hungry. Actually, it is both nutty and cruel.
36 posted on 11/02/2007 1:28:43 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: mysterio
"No, nutty is denying sick people the access to a plant that makes them hungry."

No, nutty is allowing sick people access to a plant which may injure or kill them.

A plant which no major medical organization supports as medicine -- and that includes the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. A plant that does not have FDA approval.

A plant where a doctor does not know how to prescribe it in terms of dosage and frequency, what the side effects are for his patient, or what drug interactions there might be with other medications he's prescribing.

We've come a long way since Clan of the Cave Bear, yet you'd rather we chew on barks and roots.

37 posted on 11/02/2007 1:47:25 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: MEGoody
For the most part, it shouldn't be smoked.

That's my biggest objection on this issue. Then again, I never liked the taste of any kind of smoking, whether it was cigs, or pot.

38 posted on 11/02/2007 4:29:20 PM PDT by period end of story (I may be totally wrong, but I'm a dancing fool.)
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To: robertpaulsen
No, nutty is allowing sick people access to a plant which may injure or kill them.

Who was killed by consuming marijuana?
39 posted on 11/02/2007 4:31:38 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: Puppage

But, but, the mommy government knows what’s best for you and your wife.


40 posted on 11/02/2007 4:33:31 PM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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