Comments on: Medical marijuana wins in another Senate committee

By: crohnsguy

crohnsguy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:43:43 +0000

The DEA controls which substances are deemed to have medicinal purposes via the Controlled Substances Act (CSA.) Now, you tell me: Are the pharmaceutical companies worried about a plant anyone could grow doing away with their pharmaceuticals? Perhaps. Are the police, prosecutors, privatized jails worried about losing revenue? You bet. The FDA is in charge of determining the safety of drugs. Who gives them the majority of their funding? The drug companies. Conflict of interest? Yes.

It would be one thing to demand that science deem what is medicine. But when you have the DEA in charge of this and won’t allow adequate research to be done, how is that every supposed to take place? The science is there. We unfortunately must rely on other countries to complete it for us because of the DEA stranglehold over the CSA.

Everyone was just bent over backwards with disgust during the Presidential elections at the thought of “special interests.” Why is it that people support special interests when it comes to keeping marijuana listed as a schedule I narcotic with “no medicinal value?” It’s a simple plant. Let science deem what is medicine, not special interests and government bureaucracies.

Wake up indeed….

By: Michael O'C

Michael O'C — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:49:32 +0000

If this is such a great remedy, why hasn’t it been developed and promoted by doctors and drug companies? This is more about an ideology that embraces drugs then it is about alleviating pain. We already have drugs for pain and nausea. Medical marijuana is legal in California and only 3% of users are actually using it for medical reasons. Right now there are more people in treatment for marijuana than for alcohol. Marijuana eventually causes diminished perception and other types of brain damage. It destroys initiative, diligence, and good character. Used with alcohol or other drugs, it can cause death. This drug culture, symbolized by a marijuana leaf and tolerated by many, many politicians, is destroying this country and taking down Mexico, Colombia, etc. with it. Money from George Soros, a great promoter of legalized drugs and other “open society” policies, is heavily lining the pockets of many politicians in this country. He does not have the best interests of the United States in mind. Wake up, everybody!

By: sara_H

sara_H — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:41:25 +0000

she should check out this list of deaths from MJ compared to FDA approved drugs http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewresource.asp?resourceID=000145

By: thevoice@voicedup.com

thevoice@voicedup.com — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:40:55 +0000

Can marijuana help the economy?

http://voicedup.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html#6853630479585951082

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:14:30 +0000

Why does the government have to be involved at all other than a reasonable 7% sales tax or whatever tax the particular state already has. NOT this horrendus $100 per ounce tax some of these lawmakers are touting. WHY do they need to peanalize those already sick with exhorbant charges for a weed that cost almost nothging to grow? And why must any concerned with it be NON PROFIT? Is big Pharma non profit? Not by a long shot when they are charging $20 PER PILL for marinol, which in synthetic pot. Why must it be made synthetic just to fill the coffers of big Pharma when it can be grown naturally and have more benefitial things in it for us? It should be TOTALLY legalized thereby allowing THOUSANDS of new jobs, farmers growing hemp for cloth that is more high quality than cotton, but does NOT need all the pesticides and fartilizer that cotton needs, oil from the seeds that can be used for food, cooking and more important, bio-diesel to fuel our cars and trucks almost totally eliminating our need on foreign oil, clothing, textiles, so many uses OTHER than smoking it which in itself is beneficial. NO one has EVER died from taking pot, NO one gets lung cancer from it and dies as does 500,000, that is on half of a MILLION people who die from legal cigarettes. The government should get OUT of the pot business and let private industry and people take care of it themselves, the government only and ALWAYS complicates things and costs us much more money in the long and short run. It is the chemical company lobies, pharma lobies, and liquor lobbies that are against it, it would so drastically cut into their obsscene profits. Big pharma would loose so much business when you can use a weed that you can grow in your back yard that GOD put here for nothing to help with so many health concerns. Smoke it, eat it in cookies, drink it in a tea and you do NOT have to worry about the amount or quality as you CANNOT overdose on it. The more powerful a plant you have, you just naturally use less of it as you can feel the effects as you use it. And as far as dangerous driving, NEVER do you see road rage from a smoker. They usually are on cruise control to keep from going TO SLOW, drive in the slow lane, leave more room for the cars in front and generally concentrate on what it is they are doing, NOT like drinking alcohol where you are all over the road and would drive 140 miles per hour if your car would do it. LESS government and MORE power to the people. Let us run our own lives and leave us alone, MUCH LESS put us in jail for years at $40,000 per person for using a harmless but beneficial plant. Why must the lives of otherwise law abiding, tax paying, church going, family raising hard working Americans be arrested and have their lives destroyed, their children torn from their families and put in foster homes because of a beneficial herb, NOT a drug? It even says in one of the first verses of Genesis for the bible thumpers that God has put every seed bearing plant AND HERB on this earth and it should be for us as meat. Keep the eye drops handy, and one day maybe we as a supposedly free people in a supposidly democracy WILL be able to vote and have our votes finally count, NOT be ignored by the dictatorial federal government that RULES us as though our vote is NOTHING. Gary )^_^)

By: David McLaughlin

David McLaughlin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:32:14 +0000

Marijuana (and hemp) can be used for medicine (Big Pharma competition), fuel (Big Oil competition), clothing (Big Cotton competition), recreation (Big Alcohol competition), and even food (Big Agribusiness competition). it grows in all 50 states without the use of pesticide (Big Chemical competition). Does anyone still wonder why it is illegal?

By: David McLaughlin

David McLaughlin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:30:03 +0000

Oh, Rosen suddenly cares about dangerous pesticides being used on products we consume? Does she want to mandate organic farming methods at all of her giant agribusiness sponsors also? Meanwhile HR 875 would make organic farming methods illegal! These senators are so crooked the whole world can see it – they will go down in history as great villains in their support of the war on drugs, war on terror and war on food.

By: crohnsguy

crohnsguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:54:31 +0000

Minnesota has already decriminalized marijuana possession back in the early 1970′s after the Nixon administration’s own committee came back and recommended full legalization. So why is it, given this is already a low priority for law enforcement in MN, that they want to keep this medicine from the sick and dying? This is absurd! Tell Pawlenty as much!
tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us

By: Conservative Christian 1976

Conservative Christian 1976 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:06:53 +0000

Minnesota has the choice of either spending money to prosecute sick people who use marijuana or improving the public revenue by taxing this wide spread but unregulated underground economy.
Do we really want to spend $20,000 a year to lock up someone for using marijuana to ease their nausea, or would we rather take in some sales taxes on their use of this widespread product, or even a personal-use-and-cultivation permit ($100 a year for 12 plants, something like that).
Let’s put the drug dealing criminals out of business and let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own back yards.

By: data4t

data4t — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:24:20 +0000

If the funds used to fight marijuanna as part of the drug war were diverted to creating a system for legalized use and taxation, the U.S. would not only save millions of dollars but it could become a new source of tax revenue for the states (see California).

Sen. Rosen – Do some research before flapping your jaw! Your ignorance is blinding!!