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10-21-2009, 12:55 PM #1
Justice Dept will no longer prosecute medical cannabis
The Justice Department this week announced that it will no longer seek to prosecute people using, prescribing, or distributing pot for medical purposes, as long as they're in compliance with local law.
Advocates hail the news as a step in the right direction. They say the move will likely encourage more doctors to consider prescribing medical marijuana in states where it's legal. And more patients may try using the drug, which can be prescribed for chronic pain, nausea, and other conditions.
all i can say is it's about time...the feds have been arresting and sending to prison taxpayers & sick people who have been in compliance with state laws....and yes, i do hope this encourages more doctors to prescribe and more states to medicalize, decriminalize, and legalize
Dr. Donald Abrams, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, says the announcement "certainly gives the nation sort of new hope that there's beginning to be some recognition that there is some medical value to this ancient medicine."
Abrams is a cancer doctor who prescribes pot to treat loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and pain. Instead of prescribing multiple medications for these symptoms, he says, "here we have one medicine that actually can speak to all of those different indications."
Abrams argues that given the alternatives, pot is pretty safe. "It's not really a toxic agent," he says. "Compared to tobacco, alcohol, and sugar, it's relatively benign."
yes, cannabis is a medicine...this is fact...but it has been outlawed for decades because of fear that people might actually smoke it for enjoyment
yesterday, my son was watching a show on NFL network that was presented by Coors Light, and featured an advertisement for Viagra...it's insane that alcohol and penis pills can be promoted at 5pm during a football broadcast, but the federal government for years has likened cannabis use to supporting terrorism and will send you to prison for it
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10-21-2009, 12:58 PM #2
Wow, I'm impressed. Maybe support is actually growing...
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10-21-2009, 01:04 PM #3
How unexpectedly progressive of them.
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10-21-2009, 01:05 PM #4
That will earn him some votes. Makes sense. the Justice department doesnt have time to deal with Pot, Acorn, The Black Panther voter intimidation, or illegal immigration. They are too busy weakening our national security and playing politics.
Big announcement- we are NOT going to do something. It seems that all of Obamas "accomplishments" are centered around doing nothing.
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10-21-2009, 01:07 PM #5
If only Bush could have said the same.
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10-21-2009, 01:09 PM #6
titantron...do you think the federal government should continue to interfere with state law? do you feel that people who use pot are criminals and should go to prison?
and what's this black panther voter intimidation....please tell me you have something other than the two guys outside a philadelphia housing complex and i just missed it
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10-21-2009, 01:20 PM #7
1. If the state is California? yes. Somebody needs to. i dont care if people smoke pot. I could care less. Dont announce it in a cheap attempt to rally the left. Dont openly tell the nation that you are not going to enforce a law. Dont condone breaking federal laws.
2. Those 2 guys represented the Black panther Party. Its a joke that Holder dropped the charges without explanation. You put 2 guys out there in sheets and hoods and it would still be front page news. You would have a huge problem with it. Every republican in the Country would be KKK. MSNBC would be the KKK network. There would be daily trial updates in the news from here to eternity.
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10-21-2009, 01:26 PM #8
ah, yes. The instinctual obama defense......BUSH!!! or is it FOX!!!!! I cant remember which one it is this week.
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10-21-2009, 01:28 PM #9BANNED
I do thinks it good they are no longer going after medical cannibis, but I do not support all out decriminalization or legalization of it for regluar everday use. You have a chance to end up like B.C. decriminalizing the weed now you have safe injection sites for junkies for junkies to O.D. in; and they are trying to get the same type thing for crack users, where does the stupididity end? One thing gets legalized and then the next chute on the ladder gets the chance with "Well now that pots is legal why not...."
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10-21-2009, 01:38 PM #10
They're all the same, right? I mean, conservatives do have a collective hive-mind, right? "We are the Right. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
Funny how you criticize others for committing red herring fallacies when you are so exquisitely guilty of them yourself. I mean, you can't go two sentences without trying to hijack every discussion into some conspiracy about racism.
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Originally Posted by Titantron 
