Medical pot law gains acceptance

S.F. Chronicle ^ | January 30, 2004 | Bob Egelko

[Cultural Jihad]

Californians are higher than ever on medical marijuana.

Proposition 215, the state's pioneering initiative that made it legal for doctors to recommend pot to patients, has gained significant support across all segments of California's population since voters approved it in 1996, according to a Field poll released today.

[ClintonBeGone]

"Everybody knows someone with cancer. If one person is easing their nausea, feeling better with marijuana, that resonates with others. ... These people are not strangers. They're not hippies and drug addicts. They're regular people.''

Yes, it appears that as long as you recite the 'everyone knows someone with cancer' even if you don't have it (yet) you should get a pass and be allowed to toke up. News of the weird I tell ya.

[Pern]

Jonathan Hayes, whose responses were included in the Field Poll, said Thursday that the government's war on marijuana in general, and medical pot in particular, is "a ridiculous waste of taxpayers' money."

It sure is. With more dangerous drugs out and about (coke, meth, ex, etc.) I can't understand the govt's anit-marijuana stance. We have higher (no pun intended) priorities, ladies & gentlemen.

[Cultural Jihad]

But last month a federal appeals court carved out an exception for individual users of medical marijuana who grow their own pot or obtain it for free from within the state.

We hear so often how cheap it is to produce, and it is a natural herb, etc. I like the idea of mandating that anyone who obtains it must obtain it for free. Today, city-government-distributed marijuana costs the same or more than the same illegal commodity selling on the street corner. So far, the law is just a Full Employment Act For Crony Marijuana Growers.

[steve50]

Democracy at work. Polls show similiar numbers across the country. The over 65 crowd is about the only demographic that supports this WosD as currently waged.

[Moleman]

Make it legal and tax it. Im sick of having tax on my Beer go up all the time.

[CygnusXI]

Make it legal and tax it. Im sick of having tax on my Beer go up all the time.

...and smokes..

:p

[Lurker]

I've known a couple of people with cancer, including my own mother.

Until you've seen someone puking their guts out from chemo, unable to even keep chicken broth down, you don't have much room to talk.

I'll tell you this; if black market heroin worked on the nausea I saw my mother suffering, I would have found a way to get her some in a red hot New York minute.

L

[ClintonBeGone]

Democracy at work. Polls show similiar numbers across the country. The over 65 crowd is about the only demographic that supports this WosD as currently waged.

And interestingly, they're the demographic most likely to suffer from these debilitating ailments like cancer. I guess they haven't yet found Harry Brown on their WebTvs.

[vin-one]

I'm with you on this one
Watched my brother waste away to nothing from Cancer.....

[ClintonBeGone]

We hear so often how cheap it is to produce, and it is a natural herb, etc. I like the idea of mandating that anyone who obtains it must obtain it for free.

You make a great point. Interesting how the libertines seems to oppose government and taxes in all aspects of our life except when it comes to providing them their dope.

[steve50]

We hear so often how cheap it is to produce, and it is a natural herb, etc. I like the idea of mandating that anyone who obtains it must obtain it for free.

You'd have to get the feds out of the property seizure racket that makes the risks of growing your own medical too costly. Besides, the pharmaceuticals have a product out that has all the canabiniods that they can make a fortune producing.

A poster here has a script for marinol he claims runs him about $1,200 a month. Going to be hard to take those kind of profits away from the big boys.

[ClintonBeGone]

I'll tell you this; if black market heroin worked on the nausea I saw my mother suffering, I would have found a way to get her some in a red hot New York minute.

I'm sorry to hear about your moms suffering. What did the doctors offer her to ease her pain?

[Wolfie]

Its also funny to watch "conservatives" tossing about mandates on how people should live their lives.

[ClintonBeGone]

You'd have to get the feds out of the property seizure racket that makes the risks of growing your own medical too costly.

Is it really that difficult to grow your own if you truly use it for only your own consumption?

[ClintonBeGone]

Its also funny to watch "conservatives" tossing about mandates on how people should live their lives.

Yah, think about how much more fun life would be if it was legal to molest little kids.

[Wolfie]

Straw man.

[Cultural Jihad]

It's a scandal! People are making money off of the suffering of others! AIDS patients have to pay for something which grows in a ditch! There oughta be a law!

Seriously, where are the Henry David Thoreau's of the medical marijuana issue willing to accept any consequences for what they deeply believe in?

[ClintonBeGone]

Seriously, where are the Henry David Thoreau's of the medical marijuana issue willing to accept any consequences for what they deeply believe in?

Like Wolfie, they're too scared to suit up. They'll throw some marbles in the road once in a while, but they certainly don't have the passion of their convictions, nor the willingness to defend them.

[Pern]

Is it really that difficult to grow your own if you truly use it for only your own consumption?

I honestly don't know from experience (really, I don't), but it didn't get the term 'weed' out of thin air. It's pretty easy to grow, just not worth the risk of losing everything you own to grow it.