Medical Marijuana


Though the US government bans marijuana, some states allow it's residents to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Earlier, this month, the US Supreme Court allowed the Feds to arrest even those who use marijuana in states where it's legal to smoke for medicinal purposes!

Here's some commentary from Debra Saunders

http: //jewishworldreview.com/0605/saunders060905.php3

That's because there is no recognized medical use for marijuana, according to the American Medical Association, the drug warriors respond. Fair enough. But the California Medical Association supports medical marijuana.

What does this show? Despite the claims that medicine is supposed to be objective, those in the medical industry disagree on many medical issues. This is true for marijuana, birth control pills, and many other things.

And dont forget that the American Medical Association (AMA) has gone along with many political fads. For example, the AMA supports stricter gun control laws! This even though 1) not all doctors (even those working in trauma units) believe in stricter gun laws, 2) more people die in swimming pools than by gunshots! But because the political fad in many urban areas is in favor of strict gun control, many in the AMA go along with it.

In the case of medical marijuana, it might be a fear of ridicule from the right-wingers that is keeping the AMA from supporting medical marijuana! Or a fear of a tax audit from the Attorney General!

The White House drug czar John Walters has been a strong opponent of medical marijuana. As he sees it, pot-heads are using sick people to push marijuana.

I am sure he is right. And I don't care.

The Extreme Right says that the sick people are a red herring in the push for legalizing medical marijuana! Want to talk about red herrings? Fine, those potheads smoking in school bathrooms are the red herring put out by the Mega-Conservative Morality Fascists for the purpose of scaring people from supporting the legalization of medical use of marijuana!

Yes, some stoners and thugs smoke weed! We know that! But they also drink water! Does that make water a bad thing?

Does marijuana have side effects? Yes! It can cause hallucination, lack of focus, lung problems and loss of sperm! That's why I never smoked marijuana!

But the Morality Fascists on the Far Right want you to think the only chemicals with side effects are marijuana and birth control pills!

The Morality Fascists doesn't want anyone to mention that marijuana have positive effects. But facts are facts.

From the same editorial mentioned earlier

http://jewishworldreview.com/0605/saunders060905.php3

And many users note that medical marijuana relieves their nausea without drugging them into oblivion.

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I saw 93-year-old Dorothy Gibbs, who suffered from post-polio syndrome. She found that marijuana eased her severe nausea.

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Corral, an epileptic, believes she suffers fewer seizures because of medical marijuana. She used to take more powerful pharmaceutical drugs that "made me feel as if I was underwater. " With marijuana, she said, she is more functional.

But don't expect the Morality Fascists to pay attention to the facts. They dont care about facts! They'll continue to focus on the stoners and the street thugs in order to distract us from real life cases in which some innocent people have benefited from marijuana!