One in 25 Globally Using Cannabis – Study

Paul, at best thats naive…
and to just blurt out a baseless opinion,
with no facts or even logic, is drug worrierish.
Same asinine idiots spewing Ganja smoke does harm
with no victims in 5000 years.
No Medical Value $$$$…
Homegrown in the Herb Garden…

Plus the Crude Oil competition.
The meat and dairy competition.
The tree lumber and paper competition.
The cotton competition.
The 90 million pounds of poison not used on Hemp.
Prisons, copshops, rehabs and pisstaster profits.
etc etc. You think thery’re just nice guys?

The Elkhorn Manifesto

Medical Marijuana Is An Insult To Our Intelligence
By Charles Lane October 20, 2009

Not Everyone Is High On Medical MarijuanaNPR: Audio

Reaction To New Medical Marijuana Policy
VPR: October 20, 2009 Washington, DC

Supporters of legalized marijuana use are praising a Justice Department memo that tells federal prosecutors not to go after people who are using or distributing marijuana in compliance with state medical marijuana laws.

But Republican Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas says it’s the wrong move — and that marijuana is the “cash cow for most drug trafficking organizations.”

The new guidelines make clear that federal agents will go after those whose marijuana distribution goes beyond what is permitted, and those using the law as a cover for other crimes.

The Bush administration had insisted it would continue to enforce anti-pot laws, regardless of state codes. Vermont and Maine are among the 14 states with laws that allow the use of medical marijuana in some circumstances.

@Paul: Medical marijuana represents a major competitor to Big Pharma, a factor which they lack control over. It threatens to take profits away from them. Fascist Capitalists always hate anyone or anything that threatens to steal their profits.

The fact that they place their profits over the people’s right to choose their own lifestyles, medicines, and vices, is enough of a reason to despise them.

The 30 million in donations to both parties has a pleasing cynicism to it, but all large industries must pay so they will be left alone, and so that they have a voice in matters that concern them.

I’ve never understood why the public hates the pharmaceutical companies so much. Those companies are dong the risky and expensive research that keeps you and your loved ones in much better health than was possible in your grandparent’s time.

Their involvement in politics is unfortunate. Mostly, they seem to spend their lobbying dollars on making FDA rules harder for small companies to follow, and on preventing the re-importation of drugs into America, which would screw up the pricing arrangements they make with countries around the world. Please don’t get me wrong–those are bad things, but it is the vast federal government that is at the root of the problem more than the pharma companies.

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=H04

Above is link to election fund donations. While there,check your legislators and see if yours recieved donations from big pharm and you will know for sure if you need too replace them. Barney Frank and Ron Paul recieve $0 from them,while the two senators from my state receive hundred of thousands from big pharm,and both state they will not support medical marijuana or rescheduling it. We are working on replacing them both.

Of course we can expect the usual resistance, and some prosecutors will go on doing whatever they want. But it’s a start.

By the way, someone mentioned that the DEA’s budget may get reduced. I don’t think the Obama admin is in cutting mode at all right now, but if they finally come to their senses and start cutting, I hope they start with the DEA. Many other 3 letter agencies deserve cuts, but the DEA is special.

If I were president, I would have cut the DEA 100% right after I finished the oath of office. “…do solemnly swear to uphold the constitution of the United States. I would like to thank all my supporters for making this great day possible. Now, let’s get to work. First, everyone working at the DEA is fired, no exceptions. Clear out your desk and be gone before 5:00 p.m. tomorrow. Security is going to chain the doors shut, and anyone still on the premises after 5:00 p.m. will be arrested for trespassing. Now if you work for the FDA, the Department of Agriculture, Education, Energy, Treasury and especially the IRS, you are probably fired. I have a list here…”