Medical marijuana advocates drop 2010 push, will wait ’til Pawlenty’s gone

Irresponsible marijuana consumers like this are holding back the movement. I wish idiots like this weren’t associated with marijuana in anyway. Want to know what the marijuana laws are in your state? Go to http://www.theweedblog.com. There is lots of interesting stuff on that website.

This effects lots of people I know, my friend even keeps blog of his marijuana growing at http://www.igrowblog.org I hope these guys don’t put a bunch of good people out of business.

I’m not sure if Pawlenty has fully understood how many people found his objections to even chronically ill people receiving protections from prosecution to be completely offensive and out of touch with the will of the people. Still more shocking for someone who is supposedly a “Christian.”

Equally offensive is HF2997 which currently seeks to make legal the export of medical marijuana to legal mmj states to pad the coffers while still affording NO legal protections to MN patients. The legislators and the governor have lost their minds and morals long ago. I am so disgusted by our government each and every day.

I’m all for people that are terminally ill getting meds but I believe the Replacements said it best, “Dope smoking morons don’t make me yawn!”

All over the world they have been calling for the legalization of marijuana. Since the seventies i am made aware.

I know for a fact it is less harmful than alcohol or hard class A drugs like cocaine.

What i don’t agree with is its mode of consumption. Smoking of anything is wrong and not natural.

Marijuana has medical uses and if it can be consumed in other ways i.e sprinkled on food or missed in soft drinks i am all out for it.

Myra,

I appreciate your concern for peoples’ health and well-being. The American Medical Association has even recognized that smoked cannabis is a medically viable, effective delivery method. Studies have failed to link any increases between smoked cannabis use and cancer. In fact, they have even shown a DECREASE in risk, if anything. (Cannabis is presently being studied in countries which allow its scientific study as it pertains to cancer cells, and it is showing effectiveness in slowing or killing cancer cells while LEAVING healthy cells unharmed, -unlike conventional cancer treatments like chemo.)

When patients are nauseous, it’s hard to keep things down. With this in mind, smoked or vaporized inhaled cannabis is in fact the most effective method. Many people opposed to medical cannabis state that the synthetic pill form Marinol is “good enough” but I don’t think they take the nausea problem into account when they make such assertions.

I’m not from Minnesota but from Alabama. However, I think Minnesota aught to pass this medical marijuana law today! The governor with his blue laws needs to be quiet for the people have spoken. Medical marijuana isn’t for criminals people just for needy people in need of comfort. What good is the damage, if they are already dying? I mean what does it matter anymore. So, compassion is needed and patience not so much in this case. Alabama next year is pushing ahead and I hope you guys don’t fall behind little old Alabama in passing it. I thought Minnesota was much more progressive than this state? Think about that when you vote!

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Why is marijuana illegal when it kills cancer cells? Rick Simpson cured his skin cancer in 4 days with a THC oil, and cannot go back to his country or he will be arrested because of cannabis laws.Chemotherapy (which does not work and will probably kill you or give you one or two more types of cancer) puts billions of dollars in the pockets of people who would rather play a part in a chemical holocaust than give you a cheap, safe, affective cure.

I feel that the state is stealing more money from the population by using a prohibition ban on the marijuana industry the piece of **** governor is putting his ok on anything and everything that makes him look good like things that build funding instead of acting for the people and keeping there life from being taken away and there kids life and freedom being taken away because of a wild plant that is grown everywhere throughout the whole world and is not man made in any way! It has helped many cancer patients and many other people with very hard to live with illness’s. It should not be illegal in minnesota or in any state for use of taking more money for funding!

someone needs to kick the governors as* and anyone cop that tickets someone for having just marijuana on them.

I help out with a church I work 5 days a week I pay my bills and tax’s are tooken from me for the state I dont need to be stolen from just like a motorcycle has no seatbelt and if you do not wish to where one or have time to put one on at the time doesnt mean it should be illegal he might as well outlaw bike’s and motorcyles next. to make himself look good. Someone needs to reach to the top and represent for all of the state being a celebrity and making a change for good.

I am not terminally ill. I am actually quite well, now.
Marijuana makes it possible for me to sleep at night. It has helped me control my depression without some expensive drug from the doctor. It helped me get my weight in check. I am not hurting anyone. I am tired of seeing other people hurt over a plant. Live and let live. As long as you are not hurting anyone else it shouldn’t matter what you do. It is the most beautiful exotic plant I have ever seen. How can it possibly be anything but good?

i am an 18 yr old pothead living in minneapolis. I know the plight of my demographic and our “abuse” of this beautiful weed, will not be heard for another 5-10 yrs in MN, but who cares i plan to move to cali. on the other hand the reckless and campaign driven actions of gov pawlenty disgust me, although the bill will do little to nothing for my purely recreational use of the plant, it scares me that people who actually need this wonderful CURE are unable to receive it, would you deny an individual with diabetes dialysis? or on an even smaller scale somebody who wears dentures their adhesive? (i use this analogy for the marihuana argument because they are synonymous in triviality) No you would not, so why then do we continue bar and criminalize these chronically ill patients, the only sick people i see around are the ones against this bill…but hey, fuck em i can still outrun 98% of these fat city cops anyways!

LEGALIZE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

I suffer from crohns and marijuana helps me in so many ways I cant beleave this was not passed the first time. Any one with crohns or there family member knows what we deal with, pain, nausea, trubel eating and many other syptoms. Pluse all the meds the GI gives me may work with keeping my condition under control but when im in a flare I can smoke a jay and get through the pain without the side effects of pain meds(wich r not recomended for people with crohns). So I say please pass medical marijuana in 2011.

After my wife went through chemo (after breast cancer and double mastectomy), and had a subsequent infection that required her to be on antibiotics for about 8 months, she had been in pain and barely slept every night. She finally decided to get a medical marijuana card (we live in CA). I never used marijuana in my life (and do not plan on using it any time soon), but I cannot begin to tell you how medical marijuana has improved her life (and by extension mine) by helping her relax and sleep and alleviate the pain. You do not have to be dying or terminally ill to experience major (daily or chronic) pain. This country needs to get into the 21st century and legalize marijuana for people over the age of 18.

Legal marijuana
In 1972, the US Congress placed marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act because they considered it to have “no accepted medical use.” Since then, 15 of 50 US states and DC have legalized the medical use of marijuana.

Proponents of medical marijuana argue that it can be a safe and effective treatment for the symptoms of cancer , AIDS , multiple sclerosis, pain, glaucoma, epilepsy, and other conditions . They quote dozens of peer-reviewed studies, prominent medical organizations, major government reports, and the use of marijuana as medicine throughout world history.

Opponents of medical marijuana argue that it is too dangerous to use, lacks FDA-approval, and that various legal drugs make marijuana use unnecessary. They say marijuana is addictive, leads to harder drug use, interferes with fertility, impairs driving ability, and injures the lungs, immune system, and brain. They say that medical marijuana is a front for drug legalization and recreational use.
http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org /
From my point of view, I think that alcohol killed far more people than marijuana has ever done.

I am a disabled veteran living in the wrong state. It is sad that other states allow people with chonic pain to use marijuana for releif. Yet here I have to fear getting arrested and possibly losing my benefits.
In fact two states now (Mass. & Washington) marijuana is legal for all adults, sick or not!
Myself and a few others do not want to leave Mn, but if they do not change the laws and soon, we WILL BE LEAVING and spending our tax dollars in another, more American friendly state.

It is estimated that pot is the largest cash crop in California, with
annual revenues approaching $14 billion. A 10% pot tax would yield $1.4
billion in California alone. And that’s probably a fraction of the
revenues that would be available — and of the economic impact, with
thousands of new jobs in agriculture, packaging, marketing and
advertising. A veritable marijuana economic-stimulus package! -Time

Criminally prosecuting adults for making the choice to smoke marijuana
is a waste of law enforcement resources and an intrusion on personal
freedom -Ron Paul

If we the people ever want to see legalization, its our duty to write our congressperson to support such bills…. they must listen for we have the power of the vote on OUR side.