Comments on: Medical marijuana: Law enforcement caught in a lie?

By: steve

steve — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:22:48 +0000

kohls: don’t be a jagoff.

By: Thomas C Gallagher

Thomas C Gallagher — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:37:12 +0000

Good discussion. I’d like to point out that not all law enforcement folks are prohibitionists. For example, take a look at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) http://www.leap.cc/

As a Minneapolis criminal defense lawyer who defends numerous marijuana cases, I know that many police officers either view marijuana as a less serious drug, or favor legalization. Many of them seem to feel a peer pressure to remain publicly slient. LEAP is a light in that darkness, otherwise.

My comments on medical marijuana are here: http://www.liberty-lawyer.com/drugcrimecharges/medicalmarijuanamn.html

My argument for legalization and durg crimes home page are here: http://www.liberty-lawyer.com/drugcrimecharges.html

My blog is: http://minneapoliscriminallawyer.liberty-lawyer.com/

Bottom line: harm reduction is the way to not only reduce the harms caused by prohibition laws, and black market self-help, but also reduces the usage rate. Legalize now.

By: pat p

pat p — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:33:24 +0000

I’m bi-polar. have disk damage from military. neck injury and back cause suicidal pain. morphine doesn’t work. cannabis works better on the pain that accrues on the right side of my skull a burning hideous pain that lasts for months, compiled with bi-polar disorder its maddening. cannabis helps with my mental illness, and pharmaceutical psychotropics are worthless and you would think that after a million years in the running someone would come up with something its so disgusting. i have known people with aides, watched my uncle die from cancer was told of their pain and sit in the same category. cannabis helps with pain and that in term makes me less depressed. i know the drug lords (pharmaceutical co.s) don’t want to here this I take a pill called seroquel and the side effects are possible sugar diabetes disease. Most of the drugs have hideous side effects but that’s OK for the police and Plenty. the narrow mindedness of these diminutive Neanderthals will go down in history. Point of interest, the Katrina flood in New Orleans what happened to the confiscated moneys and the drugs, and why did the chief of police retire there after. I’m not saying birds of a feather but oh well there goes the fun money. Every cop in every city knows that cannabis is harmless but if you threaten their plans look out its an embarrassment to the citizens of the great state of Minnesota to have their best acting like you just impounded their vehicle, but that’s life. I’ve been around for 60 years and never seen this country so lame as to hire someone because of looks and a fat wallet, the bad part is you think its OK. cannabis helps with many ailments and that’s the only way to cut down on medical costs. You still have to realize that the middle class would rather pay 75 to 100 dollars for medication than take the peasants medicine. I smoke it and I d don’t wake up with a colorful tee shirt on a matching hand knitted stocking cape with a bag of potato chips on my head please. I have things to say and they will be said. I’ve had senators ask for my opinion, lawyers and the military. the federal government doesn’t run this country the people do and should start exercising their right before they don’t have one. One sect runs this country one sect runs Russia one sect runs China one sect runs many countries, one day Americans will hear a pop sound and that will be the sound of their heads coming out of their rectums. I love this country and the people however you scare the ba Jesus out of me from tine to time.

by by baby blue

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By: MIKE STROUP

MIKE STROUP — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:28:12 +0000

Many in law enforcement do much worse than lie, on an ongoing basis. Police departments object to anything that that might reduce their power. Their main concern here is that this might result in reduced funding, and they are hopelessly addicted to drug money. Law enforcement is part of a failed national drug policy which guarantees and protects access to dangerous drugs by the youth of this nation. This policy has also wasted more than a trillion dollars, violated the Constitutional rights of American citizens and destabilized the domestic tranquility of several allied nations. This disasterous policy also directly funds terrorism and gang violence. For the immense damage they have done to this nation and its citizens, those who continue to support this insanity should be convicted and locked up for crimes against humanity. When enough citizens of this country wake up, and that day is coming relatively soon, police will have to limit their crime fighting to violations of the law where there are actually victims. Part of law enforcements legitimate job is to protect us from each other, not protect us from ourselves. The authors of the Constitution made this clear, and all in law enforcement should carefully review this document.

By: mark godfrey

mark godfrey — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:53:59 +0000

..And then it turns out hemp oil not only cures cancer, it does so incredibly quickly.

By: JohnTints

JohnTints — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:19:52 +0000

Well so much for “paying people off” did you hear about the district Judges, a pair, pleading guilty to receiving 2.5 Million dollars from newly constructed prison owners, to steer the young drug offenders to these prisons. Plead guilty to purposely wasting these youthful offenders lives. As if they did’nt already have enough power. It is their jobs they are really worried about. Or at least a move across the hall at police headquarters. It happens often. We just don’t always catch-em.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:35:09 +0000

I take back what I said 2 posts up; I really don’t think lobbyists are paying people off or anything. It would take a real cynic to think that. While I’m sure it happens sometimes, I think here it’s just people protecting self-interest (like police officers wanting to keep their jobs; if marijuana was legal, a lot of them wouldn’t be needed) and also ignorance or political pandering.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:24:22 +0000

Just a follow up, I can somewhat understand people wanting marijuana to be illegal for recreational use, even though that flies in the face of freedom that our country was founded on. To advocate marijuana being illegal while wanting alcohol and tobacco to be legal though is just really bad hyprocisy.

However, to be against medical marijuana is like being against chemotherapy for cancer patients. It just doesn’t make sense and only results in people suffering and dying.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:21:18 +0000

I wonder how these policemen and legislators voting against this bill would feel if their medicine was being stolen from them or medicine that their friends and relatives needed to live comfortable lives or even live at all was taken from them..

It really disgusts me that people are willing to do this, make people suffer in terrible pain and possibly die for who knows what reason, maybe they were paid off by some lobbyist; I can’t really imagine any other reason…… Because no decent human being just wants people to suffer.

Meanwhile, much more harmful drugs like alcohol and cigarettes are able to be bought over the counter without even a doctor’s prescription.