Like, dude, 'course Obama will pay for it. It's our medicine, man.
Posted on 10/22/2010 12:13:49 PM PDT by epithermal
The Colorado State Board of Health on Wednesday approved a program through which poor medical-marijuana patients can apply to the state registry for free and not have to pay sales tax on their cannabis purchases.
But the standard the board approved for determining who is poor enough to qualify for the program upset medical-marijuana advocates, who said some indigent patients will still be stuck with a bill. And even some board members expressed frustration that the health department — which has received millions of dollars in application fees since the medical-marijuana program began — couldn't put together a program that includes more patients.
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On a more serious note, will this open the floodgates to free pot subsidized by the government? Wasn't free pot written into Obamacare?
Flame suit/on
“As your physician, I recommend you inhale smoke until you are better”
Like, dude, 'course Obama will pay for it. It's our medicine, man.
Bummercare called for free pot?
While the stuff is officially still banned, there would need to be measures to assure that all pot issued is consumed upon the premises.
I’ve long taken a quasi-libertarian view on such things, believing that any physician willing and able to underwrite the associated risks of harm should be able to furnish literally any medication (other than suicide drugs). Liability insurance requirements would of course be tighter than for physicians who stick to the official government blessed pharmacopoeia.
Some pot is consumed via a vaporizer device, and is no more “inhaling smoke” than your kids’ Vicks salve vaporizer.
All the local “medicinal” pot users are smokers.
Since we know they spend their welfare checks on beer and lottery tickets, how do you suppose this is going to pan out?
Hey, I think I have just developed some kind of ailment which requires relief by smoking pot.
Wow. Free cell phones, broadband internet is coming too.
This country is more and more messed up by the day
If my parents were still alive this would kill them!
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