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Should Pennsylvania legalize medical marijuana? (Poll in need of freeping)
Morning Call (Poll on the left) ^ | 12/3/2009 | Staff

Posted on 12/03/2009 12:36:47 PM PST by Red in Blue PA

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To: SaxxonWoods

400 applications a day is a gross misuse of any TRUE medical uses that marijuana might possess.

This damages the cause of decriminalization and/or legalization of this substance for recreational use, in my opinion.


21 posted on 12/03/2009 1:33:17 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: Red in Blue PA

Marijuana growers upend hard-luck California town

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-dope-county1-2009nov01,0,2717156,full.story


22 posted on 12/03/2009 1:37:47 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Waste and fraud are synonymous with gov't spending)
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To: SaxxonWoods

“...and there has been no increase in crime problems due to the medical marijuana bill passing...”

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The only crime pot-smokers are likely to commit is sitting, unmoving at an intersection through 7 or 8 traffic light cycles....


23 posted on 12/03/2009 1:42:10 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: Red in Blue PA

Bump.


24 posted on 12/03/2009 1:49:09 PM PST by houeto (Free Republic will not support RINOS!! Rudy McRomney, et al, can go straight to hell!! -JR)
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To: Red in Blue PA
So...because some people abuse the system, you would deny it to those who do actually need it? Wow. Nurse a loved one through extended chemotherapy as I have, and I guarantee you it will change your mind about medical marijuana. As for your heroin leap, that was uncalled for.

Anyway, it looks like the poll is being Freeped...although not in the direction you wanted. That is what you get for assuming the drug war is a conservative ideal...it is not and never has been.

25 posted on 12/03/2009 1:57:48 PM PST by ravingnutter
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To: vortigern

Last I heard in Pennsylvania you can’t buy beer or wine at the supermarket – if you want a six-pack of beer you need to go to the tavern. If you want a case of beer you go to the “distributor”.

Absolutely correct. Liquor sales, both wholesale and retail, are a state monopoly run by the PA Liquor Control Board and it’s public sector union employees (Holy Ceaucescu, Batman!) Beer is only available at taverns in six packs or by the case at distributors, who are a well-organized lobby and fight to protect their turf every time the subject of beer in grocery stores comes up.

That being said, if they do legalize pot here I’d expect it to be sold exclusively in State Stores by Unionized state employees.


26 posted on 12/03/2009 2:04:13 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EyeGuy

Now there’s oxycontin. Heroin either was never patented, or it’s off patent now, so big pharma can’t make big money from it.


27 posted on 12/03/2009 2:11:12 PM PST by truthfreedom
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To: EyeGuy

“400 applications a day is a gross misuse of any TRUE medical uses that marijuana might possess.”

You are talking through your hat. What number per day would be proper? You have no idea.

“This damages the cause of decriminalization and/or legalization of this substance for recreational use, in my opinion.”

Wrong, since the state law went into effect, Denver has decriminalized possession of less than one ounce. We all have a lot to learn on this subject. I’m sure some people with no true medical need are getting cards. That’s GOOD. They aren’t buying from criminal pushers anymore, which means they aren;t supporting gangs and other possibly violent criminal enterprises. They are no longer exposed to dangerous drugs pushed by those dealers. They were all smoking pot before anyway, they didn’t start smoking because of this law. Now they do so legally, and law enforcement isn’t wasting time on them.

Eventual legalization has been accelerated by this law in Colorado, as evidenced by Denver’s move.


28 posted on 12/03/2009 2:57:27 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (TIME Person Of The Year, 2006 (You can look it up!).)
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To: EyeGuy

“The only crime pot-smokers are likely to commit is sitting, unmoving at an intersection through 7 or 8 traffic light cycles....”

You are having a bad accuracy day, though I know you were joking. Driving while under the influence of marijuana in Colorado is illegal, no matter what one’s relative driving performance might be. The DUI laws apply just as they do for alcohol. Don’t smoke and drive. The incidence of marijuana DUI arrests is very low, though not non-existent. The information is available at the Colorado State Patrol website.


29 posted on 12/03/2009 3:05:44 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (TIME Person Of The Year, 2006 (You can look it up!).)
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To: Red in Blue PA

“Ever see the results of CA? Most people who are on it do NOT have cancer.”

Cancer is not the only reason a doctor might give somebody marijuana.

Have you been to California, to see the effects of medical marijuana?

I have been here, all along. Near as I can tell, those who wanted to use it before decriminalization were doing so.

I don’t see medical marijuana having increased use.

What is the big harm to society of this issue?

I don’t use alcohol or drugs, at all. But I don’t have a right to control and dictate to others, how to live their lives.

Moderate alcohol or moderate marijuana seem to be far less harmful to our society, than the loss of rights, loss of free enterprise, etc.

I guess that makes me a classic liberal (libertarian leaning conservative).


30 posted on 12/03/2009 3:16:16 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: SaxxonWoods

You have no idea what you are talking about.

The vast majority of those “medical” uses of marijuana are highly questionable at best. 150,000 new people per year have a legitimate medical use for marijuana in Colorado? Utterly ridiculous.

That taints not only acknowledged, proven medical uses of MJ, but the whole (also legitimate) argument for its decriminalization.

If that kind of fraudulent nonsense has not harmed decriminalization in Colorado, it is only because the powers that be, and the populace at large, want it to be so.

That distorted, stretching of the truth will not work in other states with different political environments and demographics.

People need to stop playing games with the whole “medical marijuana” issue. Legalize it for its own sake, and not because it is some kind of wonder drug with an absolutely unprecedented number of uses.

Regarding the traffic comment. YES IT WAS A JOKE and that was quite clear. Do I have to say that I know DUI is a crime? You created your straw man and by golly, you sure defeated him.

“Bad accuracy day”?

See the nearest mirror.


31 posted on 12/03/2009 3:47:17 PM PST by EyeGuy
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To: Red in Blue PA
Final result:

YES (1655 responses)
66.5%

NO (835 responses)
33.5%

2490 total responses

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Got any more polls that need FReeping? :)

32 posted on 12/03/2009 9:24:26 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Ken H

The man got it knocked a whole 0.5 percentage point down! Mission accomplished!


33 posted on 12/04/2009 9:27:53 AM PST by Nate505
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