[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.

[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.

[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.

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[Stone Mountain]

Sounds like you don't know anyone who has suffered from these ridiculous laws. My best friend's wife is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and the "anti-nausea" drugs they prescribed for her had such severe side effects, she had to quit taking them. Fortunately, I knew someone who was able to get her some marijuana (for free) and she is able to eat on a semi-regular basis now. I have yet to meet someone who has had a close friend or family member experience chemotherapy-induced nausea and is still against medical marijuana. It's all just a big political argument until it hits home with someone close to you...