[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.

[Moleman]

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

[Imal]

The drug warriors have a vested interest in keeping marijuana illegal.

The fight against pot alone brings in billions of dollars to law enforcement agencies, lawyers, prison guards, support and treatment services, and the economy built around them.

Legalizing marijuana would also potentially open the door for liberalization of drug laws in general, threatenting the entire multi-trillion-dollar War on Drugs franchise.

They will not give up this incredible cash cow without a very nasty fight.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Ahhhh... Let the PotBot Freeper hysterical shrieking begin...

[aodell]

This camel's nose won't be poking into the tent for very long. His whole damn body will be sitting in there, blowing his smoke in all our faces.

[missyme]

HI Cultural Jihad...You already know what I think..:-)

[VaBthang4]

[robertpaulsen]

CJ, like the loaded question?

"Marijuana should be legalized and sold like alcohol or tobacco, so it can be taxed to generate needed revenue for the state.

First, the poll is restricted to the Californicators, nice cross-section of Americana, huh? Then, in the only state that is on the verge of bankruptcy, the question is phrased to include "needed revenue".

Even then they only got 39%, which is exactly the same percentage that Nevada (another highly moral state) got when they put marijuana legalization on the ballot.

[tdadams]

The court said enforcement of the federal ban against those patients would exceed the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

Since when has that mattered one iota to the Fedgov? "Constitution? We don't need no stinkin' Constitution."

[Lexington Green]

I'm enthusistic about W's handling of thw war... but he and this whole country can go to hell before I support persecuting the sick, dying and lame for using medical marijuana.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Medical pot law gains acceptance

Public acts of homosexuality, pediopohelia, and homosexual "marriage," are all gaining acceptance too. Does that make all of them good?

[Protagoras]

So maybe you will fill us in about your use of illegal drugs, you use a pipe? Roll your own? A bong? Inquiring minds want to know.

[jmc813]

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