It seems to me that many of the people wanting to 'legalize' marijuana are pot-smokers, themselves, and don't give a rat's bum about those less fortunate, less healthy people who could use a hit or two to just make it through the day.
Marijuana can be a powerful drug, depending upon where and how it was grown. And MEDICAL MARIJUANA must be legalized. It is certainly less harmful than Vicodin or Oxycontin, and some other synthetic 'pain drugs' I was given several years ago when I was near death, and hospitalized due to a pulmonary embolism (that's a blood clot in the lung, for those of you who may not understand tech terms, which was about a quarter of an inch away from my heart).Those who should be allowed MEDICAL MARIJUANA are looking for relief from pain, NOT for a 'POT HIGH'.
Here are a few 'snippets' from the article:
The Obama administration still opposes smoking marijuana for its medicinal benefit, says Tom McLellan, deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
He says more research is needed to deliver the medically useful ingredients in a non-smokable form.
"We have the safest medications in the world and it's not a coincidence. We have an enviable process by which we approve medications, and that's through the (Food and Drug Administration)," he says. "It's a bad idea to approve medication by popular vote."
The Obama administration opposes it? Most of them appear to be "on something", especially the Reader-in-Chief and his Chief-of-Staff!
Safest medications? BS!
Approve medication by popular vote? It's done all the time, by BIG Pharma--hence the side-effect warnings, which your doctors NEVER tell you about (which can, in some instances, include DEATH!).
Among the states considering marijuana bills this year:
*Alabama, Delaware, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, are debating allowing medicinal use of marijuana for people with certain illnesses;
*Hawaii and Rhode Island, are considering bills to reduce the penalties for marijuana possession to fines rather than jail time;
*Vermont is weighing whether to allow state-licensed liquor stores to sell medical marijuana.
Must be cold and dreary in Vermont! If you are prescribed MEDICAL MARIJUANA, it will be attainable at the local Walgreen's, or other such pharmacy--NOT at a 'liquor store'!
Rep. Gail Finney, a first-term Democrat, has proposed legalizing marijuana for use by the critically ill.
The bill is unlikely to pass this year, Finney says, but she wants to use the hearings to educate fellow lawmakers and plans to reintroduce it until it passes.
"It's time for Kansas to have an open, honest debate about this," she says.
She thinks many of her House colleagues would support the bill if they didn't fear backlash in an election year — a fear she says is unfounded.
A Feb. 2 poll of 500 Kansans by KWCH-TV in Wichita found 58% supported medical marijuana.
"If they were in touch and in tune with their constituents," Finney says, "they would know that this is what they want."
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As I say, MEDICAL MARIJUANA and a DIME BAG are not the same!
