Legalize drugs, sell them like alcohol. Prohabition didn't work. Maybe all the junkies will get overdosed and kill themselves off. If people are stupid enough to take them, let them. Just don't let insurane companies foot the bill for their accidents and when their livers fail and when they need a rest home.

Fed Up wrote:

Legalize drugs, sell them like alcohol. Prohabition didn't work. Maybe all the junkies will get overdosed and kill themselves off. If people are stupid enough to take them, let them. Just don't let insurane companies foot the bill for their accidents and when their livers fail and when they need a rest home.

Alcohol is the 3rd leading cause of death in America
and it's a legally regulated and taxed drug.

Do insurance companies foot the bill for alcohol related
diseases or does the public pay the cost?

Marijuana is far safer than alcohol or tobacco and the government
is pushing people to drink instead of smoke marijuana.

And marijuana has never been linked to liver disease, that's alcohol all the way my friend.

It is far reaching to say that a pot head is more dangerous
behind a wheel than an alcoholic and the argument isn't supported
by the facts.

Marijuana is medicine and a safe alternative to alcohol and tobacco.

Tobacco and alcohol both cause cancer.

THC KILLS CANCER CELLS/

I rest my case.

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skinwalker wrote:

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Much respect. Thank for posting on topic. And thanks for the helpful CNN link.

I agree. Fox is neither fair or balanced.

you can't control how wasted you get on pot.

with booze I can have one drink 2,3,4,5. I can stop and come down.

With pot 3 hits and I am in a coma. i will kill someone if I drive a car - or anything else that could.

ONLY thing pot is good for is spending time with a heart beating. No work, no play, no nothing, a sloth....

doper wrote:

you can't control how wasted you get on pot.
with booze I can have one drink 2,3,4,5. I can stop and come down.
With pot 3 hits and I am in a coma. i will kill someone if I drive a car - or anything else that could.
ONLY thing pot is good for is spending time with a heart beating. No work, no play, no nothing, a sloth....

Of course you can. I am not a statistic. I'm the real deal. That is crazy for you allude erratic driving to smoking cannabis.

And if your so useless when you smoke pot that you feel comatose, how could you get into a car to drive?

Most cannabis users are responsible and do not drive while high.

alcohol kills millions. Marijuana doesn't. Marijuana has accepted value as a medicine and pain killer with proven research.

Ask any doctor and they will tell you that alcohol is a poison, damaging all bodily tissues.

The only bad thing about Cannabis is smoking it, but you can solve the problem by vaporizing your herb.

After even two drinks you are legally intoxicated under the law.

I am alcohol certified and I do know the law.

I know that no one has died of smoking Marijuana.

So it may make you feel a way you're not comfortable with.

Don't smoke it but don't vilify it.

There are more things at stake. Industrial hemp is not truly marijuana but a distant cousin. It can not get you high.

We prohibit it's cultivation because it's lumped with marijuana the herb. that is outright hypocrisy.

doper wrote:

you can't control how wasted you get on pot.
with booze I can have one drink 2,3,4,5. I can stop and come down.
With pot 3 hits and I am in a coma. i will kill someone if I drive a car - or anything else that could.
ONLY thing pot is good for is spending time with a heart beating. No work, no play, no nothing, a sloth....

It's sounds like you some hyper-sensitivity to pot if you are "comatose" after 3 hits. Also, if you think that you are thinking clearly after 5 drinks, you don't know enough about alcohol to drink responsibly. Do yourself and the world a favor and stay straight and sober, please.

elise in burque wrote:

<quoted text>It's sounds like you some hyper-sensitivity to pot if you are "comatose" after 3 hits. Also, if you think that you are thinking clearly after 5 drinks, you don't know enough about alcohol to drink responsibly. Do yourself and the world a favor and stay straight and sober, please.

I agree. One should not become impaired and purposely choose to endanger others lives. I say that I'd rather have stoners on the road than have drunks driving. At least most pot heads are actually much more cautious while high.

And I smoke marijuana and I don't lose any cognitive function. I'm smoking as I'm typing in fact.

peace to you and thanks for the great comment.

kudos on the sentiments. I said the same thing. Sounds like a ONDCP commercial.

New Mexico Activist 505 wrote:

<quoted text>
I agree. One should not become impaired and purposely choose to endanger others lives. I say that I'd rather have stoners on the road than have drunks driving. At least most pot heads are actually much more cautious while high.
And I smoke marijuana and I don't lose any cognitive function. I'm smoking as I'm typing in fact.
peace to you and thanks for the great comment.
kudos on the sentiments. I said the same thing. Sounds like a ONDCP commercial.

Thanks.
While I neither get high or drink anymore, I know that back when I did use, I could always function well while high on pot. This was not the case after several drinks. I do think that it is dangerous to drive under the influence of any drug just as it is when tired or distracted. Driving aside, I don't think there any doubt that alcohol is much less safe than marijuana for the user and the community.
What does "ONDCP" stand for?

elise in burque wrote:

<quoted text>Thanks.
While I neither get high or drink anymore, I know that back when I did use, I could always function well while high on pot. This was not the case after several drinks. I do think that it is dangerous to drive under the influence of any drug just as it is when tired or distracted. Driving aside, I don't think there any doubt that alcohol is much less safe than marijuana for the user and the community.
What does "ONDCP" stand for?

Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Big brother like no other. They are the one's responsible
for wasting nearly 11 million dollars on anti-marijuana ads.

You know the kind. the dog tells you he's sad when you're high
and walks out.

stupid stuff like that.

kudos.

California
Medical Marijuana Gets a Boost From Major Doctors Group

John Hoeffel
November 11, 2009
Los Angeles Times

The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research.

The nation's largest physicians organization, with about 250,000 member doctors, the AMA has maintained since 1997 that marijuana should remain a Schedule I controlled substance, the most restrictive category, which also includes heroin and LSD.

In changing its policy, the group said its goal was to clear the way to conduct clinical research, develop cannabis-based medicines and devise alternative ways to deliver the drug.

"Despite more than 30 years of clinical research, only a small number of randomized, controlled trials have been conducted on smoked cannabis," said Dr. Edward Langston, an AMA board member, noting that the limited number of studies was "insufficient to satisfy the current standards for a prescription drug product."

The decision by the organization's delegates at a meeting in Houston marks another step in the evolving view of marijuana, which an AMA report notes was once linked by the federal government to homicidal mania. Since California voters approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996, marijuana has moved steadily into the cultural mainstream spurred by the growing awareness that it can have beneficial effects for some chronically ill people.

This year, the Obama administration sped up that drift when it ordered federal narcotics agents not to arrest medical marijuana users and providers who follow state laws. Polls show broadening support for marijuana legalization.

Thirteen states allow the use of medical marijuana, and about a dozen more have considered it this year.

The AMA, however, also adopted as part of its new policy a sentence that admonishes: "This should not be viewed as an endorsement of state-based medical cannabis programs, the legalization of marijuana, or that scientific evidence on the therapeutic use of cannabis meets the current standards for a prescription drug product."

The association also rejected a proposal to issue a more forceful call for marijuana to be rescheduled.

Nevertheless, marijuana advocates welcomed the development. "They're clearly taking an open-minded stance and acknowledging that the evidence warrants a review. That is very big," said Bruce Mirken, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project. "It's not surprising that they are moving cautiously and one step at a time, but this is still a very significant change."

Advocates also noted that the AMA rejected an amendment that they said would have undercut the medical marijuana movement. The measure would have made it AMA's policy that "smoking is an inherently unsafe delivery method for any therapeutic agent, and therefore smoked marijuana should not be recommended for medical use."

Dr. Michael M. Miller, a psychiatrist who practices addiction medicine, proposed the amendment. "Smoking is a bad delivery system because you're combusting something and inhaling it," he said.

Reaction from the federal government was muted.

Dawn Dearden with the Drug Enforcement Administration said: "At this point, it's still a Schedule I drug, and we're going to treat it as such." The Food and Drug Administration declined to comment.

In a statement, the office of the White House drug czar reiterated the administration's opposition to legalization and said that it would defer to "the FDA's judgment that the raw marijuana plant cannot meet the standards for identity, strength, quality, purity, packaging and labeling required of medicine."

The DEA classifies drugs into five schedules, with the fifth being the least-restrictive. Schedule II drugs, such as cocaine and morphine, are considered to have a high potential for abuse, but also to have accepted medical uses.

Several petitions have been filed to reschedule marijuana. The first, filed in 1972, bounced back and forth between the DEA and the courts until it died in 1994. A petition filed in 2002 is under consideration.

Kris Hermes, a spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, said that advocates hoped the petition would receive more attention. "Given the change of heart by the AMA, there is every opportunity for the Obama administration to do just that," he said.

In a report released with its new policy, the AMA notes that the organization was "virtually alone" in opposing the first federal restrictions on marijuana, which were adopted in 1937. Cannabis had been used in various medicinal products for years, but fell into disuse in the early 20th century.

Sunil Aggarwal, a medical student at the University of Washington, helped spark the AMA's reconsideration after he researched marijuana's effect on 186 chronically ill patients. "I had reason to believe that there was medical good that could come from these products, and I wanted to see AMA policy reflect that," he said.

The AMA is not the only major doctors organization to rethink marijuana. Last year, the American College of Physicians, the second-largest physician group, called for "rigorous scientific evaluation of the potential therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana" and an "evidence-based review of marijuana's status as a Schedule I controlled substance."

Last month, the California Medical Assn. passed resolutions that declared the criminalization of marijuana "a failed public health policy" and called on the organization to take part in the debate on changing current policy.

marijuana is wild plant and is all natural instead of hurting you it helps you medicaly

Hell friends.

In answer to the the opposition I present further evidence that marijuana is a safe and scientifically verified therapeutic substance.

Of course any medical doctor would be hard pressed to admit that marijuana does no harm, and I wouldn't blame them. There are always some risks, albeit minimal, associated with inhaling smoke.

I always advocate vaporizaton as the most efficient means of ingesting cannbinoids.

The vaporizer warms the material to a pre-ignition state, just enough to release the therepeutic compounds without generating any significant amount of carcinogens.

So again I reiterate: Marijuana is safer than alcohol.

In terms of the harm caused to society, alcohol has had one of the greatest negative impacts in our history.

We need to reexamine our draconian marijuana laws and work towards a model of treatment and harm reduction of instead of perpetuating the racial disparity of marijuana prohibition.

Stop arresting patients. End this war on personal liberty.

Thank you for supporting safe access and common sense marijuana laws.