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Marijuana bill far from OK

Published Saturday, April 14, 2007

A medical marijuana bill that passed through a state Senate committee Tuesday is far from being ready for passage.

The bill would allow doctors to recommend marijuana to patients suffering from everything from severe nausea to seizures and constant pain.

Many prescription drugs end up being used illegally, but how do we take an illegal drug and make it a prescription drug?

For a government that has done nothing but tout the dangers of “reefer,” doesn’t that send the wrong message?

Clearly, the best advice we can receive on whether medical marijuana is a safe treatment for people suffering ceaseless pain comes from doctors, and their input is obviously needed.

The other conflict arises from the fact that medical marijuana would, if allowed to be used, be the only smoked drug available — doesn’t this also send the wrong message about smoking?

Medical marijuana has many benefits, especially for those suffering incurable and painful diseases. However, it’s hard to believe it’s the only effective drug available for them.

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Posted by stevensteiner (anonymous) on April 14, 2007 at 1:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ENGLAND, April 2, 2007, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Independent on Sunday, a British newspaper notorious for its vigorous efforts to persuade the British government to decriminalize marijuana, has issued an apology for its previous position and announced that, due to new evidence concerning the dangers of cannabis, it will cease advocating decriminalization of the drug. This latest development should give serious pause to efforts in Canada, the US, Mexico and other nations attempting to legalize marijuana use.

On March 18, The Independent published an article by writer Jonathon Owen in which Owen listed some of the more detrimental effects of pot use and informed readers the newspaper would no longer continue its campaign to decriminalize pot. Owen’s article, entitled “Cannabis: An Apology” lamented the newspaper’s previous decriminalization efforts and began with the subtitle: “In 1997, this newspaper launched a campaign to decriminalize the drug. If only we had known then what we can reveal today...”

Owen proceeded to summarize some of the newest data recently publicized in Britain on cannabis and the shockingly high numbers of users who are facing devastating consequences.

Read the full Independent article with links to further coverage of the issue:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_......

Posted by stevensteiner (anonymous) on April 14, 2007 at 1:34 p.m. (Suggest removal)

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_...

Posted by stevensteiner (anonymous) on April 14, 2007 at 1:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)

https://www.americansfordrugfreeyouth.or...

Posted by michael (anonymous) on April 14, 2007 at 2:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Why should it matter if marijuana is the only effective drug available for patients? Do we really want the government deciding which effective medicines patients are permitted to choose?

About the safety of marijuana:

Marijuana is extremely non-toxic. Not one person has ever died of an overdose and we have been smoking marijuana for over 5000 years.

But that does not mean that marijuana is perfectly safe. So what? No drug is perfectly safe - not one. The point is that it should be up to the individual as to which risks he or she is willing to take to treat themselves.

www.onmarijuana.com

Posted by DankWilliams (anonymous) on April 15, 2007 at 12:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Don't pay any attention to stevensteiner ladies and gentlemen, he's a mentally ill person who runs a prohibitionist vigilante site called dammadd.org.

His son died of an OxyContin OD. But for some odd reason he has something against Cannabis, which as stated by michael you cannot die of an OD from.

http://www.dammad.org/absolutenm/templat...

You would think he would be against OxyContin, but instead he has Purdue, the maker of OxyContin, AND other prescription drug companies as sponsors on his site!

http://www.dammad.org/sponsors.asp

The man is sick enough to put pictures of his dead son on his site!

http://www.dammad.org/realtruth.asp

That article he posted is the favorite of prohibitionists everywhere.

It's about a schizophrenic kid who killed himself, but the mother is in deep denial and blames marijuana for it.

Steven H. Steiner works with Mel and Betty Sembler, the darlings of George Bush and heads of Straight, Inc. A government sponsored drug rehab program that was sued for beating, molesting, and even raping children who were in it.

There's a site all about them:

http://www.thestraights.com/

Straight, Inc is now called DFAF.

www.dfaf.org

Steven H. Steiner is a sad, sad man. I do feel sorry for his son, but you cannot believe a single word this mentally ill prohibitionist says. He is the drug companys' little puppet.

http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/news/2...

Oh, here are some articles on medical uses of marijuana, and WHY it's illegal.

This is why marijuana is illegal, racism, yellow journalism, and the greed of the DuPont company:

http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2...

Marijuana doesn't cause cancer, but infact has a slight protective effect:

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/122...

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/23/...

Marijuana helps prevent Alzheimer's disease:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15145917/

Marijuana is shown to ease HIV/AIDS related nerve/foot pain:

http://www.voanews.com/english/Science/2...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...