medical mary jane is a canard
It slipped the leash long go. We no longer live under the system of government bequeathed to us by the Founders, IMHO.
If they can take heroin and make a useful drug that is available by prescription, why can’t that be done with marijuana? People should not have to inhale smoke to get the benefits of a medicine. Make it available legally and in another form.
MaryJane was indeed one of the few effective “drugs” against chemo side-effects 20+ years ago.
There’s been a lot of progress since then, including a synthetic pill form of the same ingredients of MJ. There is no reason to buy pot for “medicine”.
If people want to legalize it — and I’m ambivalent on this issue — at least they shouldn’t try to use a straw man to do it.
This is the way any federal trial goes. Did you or did you not sell MJ? Anything else is not allowed unless it is evidence that you did NOT sell MJ. Your reasons why don’t matter, and there is no discussion of mitigating circumstances until sentencing.
Also, in fed trials I have watched, the defense can only bring up topics the prosecution brings up, defense can’t bring up a new topic. So the cancer patient was not allowed to bring up a new topic.
Sentencing itself is constrained by mandated point systems- so many points (or levels) for this and so many for that, minus points for mitigating circumstances- so (I’m making up the numbers because I don’t have the guidelines open), four levels for possession, eight levels for possessing more than five ounces, ten levels for possession with intent to sell, ten levels for actual sale, and minus five levels because you pled guilty adds up to seventeen levels which translates to X months in Club Fed. The mandated system came about because people on both sides were screaming about too harsh or too lenient decisions from judges, so they developed a rigorous setup of levels and points that pretty much ties judge’s discretion.
Want legal or decriminalized pot? Stop voting for Drug Warrior candidates. As long as being tough on pot gets votes, and being soft on pot loses elections, we will get more and better Drug Warriors who will pass laws and appoint judges so that we get more Drug War.
The Constitution is written on it.
DuPont and King Cotton didn't care much for it.
Ask Anslinger about it turning you into a homicidal maniac.. Just lookit all the people Willie Nelson has murdered.
It will not be long under an Obama presidency that some guy sitting in a cabin reading his pocket copy of the Constitution will have his door kicked in by the Dept. of Homeland Security and have his entire family wiped out. And then FR will be ablaze with indignant flamefests.
But suggest abolishing the DEA and you might as well stick a needle in your vein and start porkin young boys as far as some here are concerned. And for those anti-drugnazis on their way to accuse me of being an addict, realize that I have volunteered for a job with mandatory drug testing. I not only dont use drugs but I couldnt even if the DEA disappeared tomorrow.
I don't want to use drugs. In fact I would support state bans and fairly strict drug regulations, so long as they were constitutional. I just want to live under a just government. I honestly cant comprehend why some otherwise logical and even brilliant conservatives cant seem to understand that point.