Your Opinion on Medical Marijuana

[Mizmoon]

I would like to see what DUers generally think about medical marijuana.

[catmandu57]

1. Marijuanna should be legal period

Put age restrictions if possible, but, I should be able to grow and use it as I see fit.

[wtbymark]

6. i second that

[Vincardog]

7. I Second that emotion and go a bit further. Declare victory on the 'War

on Drugs'. Quit criminalizing health and mental conditions.

[H2O Man]

11. I agree.

Treat it like booze. It should be kept away from kids. People should be encouraged to grow what they need for personal use.

[marmar]

21. De acuerdo!

Unfortunately, we live in the puritanical hell known as the USA.

[comsymp]

31. Legal, hell!

It should be compulsory.

[rogerashton]

2. Grass does far less harm

than the laws against it do.

[wideopen]

19. Good post!

That would make a good bumper sticker/billboard. It would be very difficult to argue the case that it's not true.

[Squeech]

26. Reminds me

of a saying attributed to Timothy Leary: LSD is a hallucinogen so powerful that it causes delusions even in people who never took it. (Or words to that effect.)

Yes, marijuana should be as legal as alcohol. (Americans over 21 can brew their own wine and/or beer, within limits. We should be able to grow our own cannabis. It should also be grown for paper and fiber and edible protein, and sown in marginal soil where we need to have a root system to control erosion, and a bunch of other uses.)

[SteppingRazor]

3. I'm for complete decriminalization.

So, by definition, I think sick people should be able to grow pt. Heck, I think, _anyone_ should be able to grow pot.

[GiovanniC]

4. I Voted "Other"

I believe that marijuana is not substantially different than, say, Jack Daniels or Captain Morgan, and should be available with the same sorts of restrictions (no toking & driving, for example), and people should be free to grow it if they choose.

For medical purposes, it should be covered by prescription coverage and made freely available.

PS: I have never smoked pot in my entire life, but I support the right for anyone else to do so if they choose.

[beam me up scottie]

5. Legalize it.

Period.

[skylarmae]

8. should be legalized

[SusanF_CA]

9. other

make is legal for anyone over age 18 (if one is old enough to vote and fight for their country they are old enough to drink or smoke!). I, for one, think pot is less dangerous than alcohol.

[DanCa]

10. Marijuana is a natural herb

I really dont understand the culture of life crowd. They do one thing but say the opposite. If anyone has scene a person suffer with als or ahlzhimers its not right to deny them substances that can ease them suffering.

[Dora]

12. End the Prohibition

Legalize it.

Use per use, alcohol does more damage to our national health and safety than marijuana (IMHO).

[UncleSepp]

13. Legalize it

Growing your own should be free of restrictions. I think also that selling it should be legal, subject to regulation for safety. What's the big deal about pot, anyhow? So it's an intoxicant. If alcohol's legal, why not weed?

[me b zola]

14. Legalize it. period.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

15. Legalize it, but at very least let the sick use it.

[trotsky]

16. Totally legalized and taxed. n/t

[slackmaster]

17. Other - LEGALIZE IT!

Adult use of cannabis should be completely legal.

[walkon]

18. Voted Other

Should be legalized - decriminalize all drug possession.

[Walt Starr]

20. I support legalizing ALL drugs

Yes, even heroin.


The drug war has been and will continue to be a miserable failure.

[MindPilot]

22. What substance I put in my body is my business

and no one elses' especially the federal government.

[Webster Green]

23. Legalize it for medical and recreational use.....

All the laws against pot are based on lies. One of the coolest things about visiting this particular planet is that cannabis is found here.

Wake and bake, everyone! Its good for you!

[mike_c]

24. another vote for legalization, 100 percent....

eom

[Hobo]

25. I used it during my..

chemo treatments :hide: and I got to tell you it helped alot with the vomiting and stomach stuff.


It should be made legal to at least chemo patients if not made legal in its entirety.


Hobo

:beer:

[ProfessorGAC]

27. OK Who Voted "No Medicinal Value At All"?

Somebody freeped your poll. There is absolutely nobody with a brain, even those folks at FDA & DEA, who believe it has NO medicinal value at all. They just take the position that since we can't double blind it, we can't prove its medicinal value.

Whoever voted for that option is just an uniformed fool.
The Professor

[Mizmoon]

28. I was wondering too

Actually, the freeps agree with us so I think it's either a joker, or someone whose unusual opinion I would be interested in hearing ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417426/posts

[Tsiyu]

29. Marijuana is an herb

with a host of medical uses. If it did not work people would not use it.

Our own government has decided to hurt and oppress those people, partly because the politicians at the federal level suck off the pharmaceutical and alcohol teat, and partly because this oppression feeds a prison complex that nets them mucho $$$$$$$$$$$$$

Basically our government is using people's suffering against them, a shakedown Mafia style. Only an evil person would deny another the right to end their suffering in the manner they choose. Our federal government is obviously evil to refuse to allow medical use of a well known pain reliever/appetite stimulent/anxiety reducer.....

[kedrys]

30. Legalize it, period.

Alcohol is legal and does far more harm the the herb ever will. At the very least, doctors should be able to prescribe it to whomever they think will benefit from it without fear of losing their license, arrest and jail time, etc.

"Legalise it, and I'll advertise it." - Bob Marley

[nonconformist]

32. Should be legal for all adults nt

[pissed_American]

42. Pot/Marijuana/Weed whatever you want to call it IS NOT A DRUG!

A drug must be produced - just like alcohol, cocaine, heroin, LSD, etc -
which are all derived from the parent substance. If you have a few seeds and throw them (or drop them) in the ground you will have some marijuana NATUALLY in no time. I`ve never heard of anyone smoking some weed and getting on the freeway going the wrong way and smashing into a family killing the occupants - unlike a drunk driver.

Hell, even George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp...and separated the Males and Female plants -which will produce "seedless buds" for smoking.

By 1850 there were 8,327 hemp plantations of 2,000 acres or more.

If it`s good enough for the founding fathers, it`s good enough for America.

[GliderGuider]

33. Other: Legalize it!

[ohio_liberal]

34. Legalize it

I have a chronic back injury and I"d use it every day if it were legal. I'd use it every day illegally if I had a connection :)

[SheepyMcSheepster]

35. legalize it. period. exclamation point!

[cestpaspossible]

36. Marijuana should be legal, like chamomile

or any other herb.

[immoderate]

37. Legalize!

--IMM

[sam sarrha]

38. legalize and regulate the dose.. pay off the National debt in 3 years

I just hated getting 'Fried' on super Island weed when i just wanted to get buzzed and party..

i think the dose should be regulated to prevent problems of over intoxication.. an inhaler could be used.to prevent the lung damage of smoke . it could be taxed and the money used drug rehab and prevention programs.. there is no money for meth rehab..or harone..that is what the Netherlands did and they resolved nearly all their drug problems.

need to get creative about the resolution of this problem of Prohibition

[sam sarrha]

39. theyre saving legalization for when the Crash happens to placate the mobs

[fujiyama]

40. Legalize it.

Regulate it.
Tax it.

[G_j]

41. Legalize it n/t

[stranger81]

43. end the prohibition!

my "other" vote represents my support for full legalization. There is no legitimate justification for banning marijuana.

[Syncronaut Seven]

44. L E G A L I Z E You festering pieces of shit!!!

The current fascist machine would have far fewer teeth if not built upon the crushed bodies and destroyed families created by marijuana prohibition. The prison industrial complex is utterly dependent on marijuana convictions to pack their prisons and line their pockets handsomely.

This prohibition isn't about marijuana, this prohibition is about oppressions, violence and genocide.

Read "Opium, cocaine and Marijuana in American history" Published by Scientific American, July 1991.

Google the phrase "Opium, cocaine and Marijuana in American history"

Marijuana prohibition was the stepping stone to the realization that MY government had no qualms telling lies that destroy lives.

Marijuana doesn't kill, Lies about marijuana kill.

[Catchawave]

45. Other: Legalize Marijuana

It just makes good tax sense, like alcohol and ciggies.:beer: :smoke:

[Pushed To The Left]

46. I support legalization

I am not a fan of vice laws of any kind!

[UdoKier]

47. Yet another vote for blanket legalization.

It's just common sense.

[Sapphire Blue]

48. ***URGENT*** PLEASE support the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment

An email from The Marijuana Policy Project...

Supreme Court rules on medical marijuana — tell Congress to act!

Dear MPP supporter:

In an historic decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 - 3 that the federal government can continue arresting patients who are using medical marijuana legally under state law. However, the decision did not overturn the medical marijuana laws in 10 states, which still protect patients from arrest by state and local police.

The Marijuana Policy Project's grants program provided the majority of the funding for this litigation, which is only the second medical marijuana case ever to reach the Supreme Court.

TAKE ACTION

Now that the Court has ruled, we need you to spring into action. Please click here (https://www.kintera.org/site/c.ijJZJfMOIoE/b.712385/k.2314/Support_the_HincheyRohrbacher_Amendment.htm?kntaw9130=3D914F673AA14911B48548B4FDE8DEA6) to send a free fax or e-mail to your U.S. representative to ask him or her to protect medical marijuana patients, since the ball is now in Congress' court. In fact, a medical marijuana amendment is scheduled to come to the House floor for a vote next week. Our goal is to send 10,000 letters to Congress by the time of the vote, but we won't be able to achieve that goal without your help.

Then, please visit www.RaichAction.org to participate in a demonstration outside of your U.S. representative's local district office at noon on Wednesday, June 8.

BACKGROUND

In its ruling in Ashcroft v. Raich ,the Supreme Court said that Congress — not the Court — must be the institution to change federal law to protect medical marijuana patients from arrest.

Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that there are other legal options for patients, "but perhaps even more important than these legal avenues is the democratic process, in which the voices of voters allied with these respondents may one day be heard in the halls of Congress."

By stressing the need for plaintiffs to use the democratic process, the Supreme Court has clearly put the ball in Congress' court. This makes next week's vote in the U.S. House of Representatives (https://www.kintera.org/site/c.ijJZJfMOIoE/b.712385/k.2314/Support_the_HincheyRohrbacher_Amendment.htm) all the more significant.

STATE LAWS UNAFFECTED

The ruling does not affect states' ability to pass new medical marijuana laws; states are free to continue enacting laws that protect medical marijuana patients and their providers from arrest and prosecution by state and local law enforcement officials.

What the Supreme Court has done is continue the status quo: Patients in the 10 states with medical marijuana laws are protected under state law but will continue to risk prosecution under federal law. In other words, the Court's decision means that nothing has changed. Click here (http://www.mpp.org/raich/)for more background on the case.

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO PROTECT PATIENTS!

Since it's now clear that patients cannot count on the federal courts for protection, we must push harder than ever for Congress to change federal law.

We need you to lobby Congress to end the federal government's attacks on medical marijuana patients and caregivers. Please visit www.RaichAction.org to learn how you can help pressure Congress to protect medical marijuana patients.

Then — if you agree that sick and suffering patients should not have to live in fear of armed federal agents breaking down the patients' doors to take away their medicine — please ensure that MPP has the necessary funds to push hard (https://secure.mpp.org/donate/ann_index.php?ref=3015) this week and next for Congress to pass an amendment that would prevent the DEA from arresting medical marijuana patients or providers who are acting legally under state law.


Thank you,


Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.