Medical Marijuana From Sea to Shining Sea? A Lawsuit Wants to Force Feds to Say Yes to Pot

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ALL drugs should be legalized and taxed. Alas,so profound a change is really a pipedream. It does not take much intellect toponder the implications for such a radical change as that. Billions of taxdollars are wasted every month on this "War on Drugs" with notangible goal or purpose. Redirect this effort into something with utilitarianconsequences. I'm sure we could all benefit from the scientific discoveriesmade as a result of some redirected funds. And for all those muscle headedworthless Federal and State enforcement officers: they can be yoked to a millor some other purposeful device, and then they can do some meaningful work andget paid for what they really contribute to society. Let them, for once intheir worthless lives, pull their own weight.

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just blaze it and all our problems will go away!!

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Medical marijuana, and all marijuana should be legal! It is helpful to people for pain reduction and other maladies, plus marijuana can be a much less harmful recreational drug than liquor, heroin, crack, and cocaine.

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Unfortuately, this is not about science or what is true. It's about the power to make criminals out of a selected segment of the population. People who disagree with the world view of those in power are being successfully marginalized through the use of anti-marijuana laws. This power will not be willingly given up.

as sad as it is this will never happen, the pharmaceutical companies are to big to let a cheap plant take all of their customers.

No problem in legalizing it.  You simply need to get a prescription from a doctor, go to CVS for example and purchase it like any other drug. It should only be manufactured under strict quality control conditions like other medicines. Prescriptions will be tracked by the DEA like any other scheduled drugs. No more buying it at "cooperatives" etc.  You are not allowed to manufacture and use any other drugs at your house so why should this be different?  Let's face it, probably 95% of people who say it is for medicinal purposes are just people who like getting stoned.  Personally, I can't imagine my life being so pathetically boring that sitting around getting stoned is how I would chose to spend my free time.

Marijuana needs to be separated from death causing drugs.  Clearly Marijuana is helping Millions of people in the world deal with different health issues and is not causing death.

we all know it will be legal because GREED to make more money is strong

Call me pessimistic, but I'd rather it be decriminalized so EVERYBODY just leaves us alone - everybody from the police to the greedy cronies and profiteers who would inevitably try to get into the business - to smoke in peace and not worry about jail or hefty legal fees. If I get 1 ticket per year at $100, (which one does not need to pay in MA, by the way...), I'll gladly take that as my "tax" for being able to smoke it (for whatever reason).

And by the way, Dani Flores makes some great points - it's not about the plant's medicinal value, it's about its lack of toxicity, relative similarities to other legal, regulated substances, and the peoples' right to do what we will so long as we do not infringe on others' rights.

I read some medical research that stated if marijuana was discovered in the Himalayas today, it would be hailed as the new "penicillin".  I recently was doing a ceramic tile job  for young quadrapallegic, and watched in horror while he had a violent muscle spasm, that I could only liken to a seizure.  Upon lighting a joint for him and holding it in his mouth for about two tokes, I watched as his whole body relaxed and th muscle spasm quickly and completely subsided.  Fortunately, Michigan is one of I believe 9 states that now have medical marijuana laws in effect.  Instead of spending billions each year on ineffectly fighting and enforcing marijuana laws that are based on a "Reefer Madness" mentallity, it is time for US to join the 21st Century and realize that marijuan is here to stay.  Wouldn't billions of dollars of tax revenue from the the legal cultivation and distribution of the drug be better than spending billions to barely make a dent in it's availability?

If Berkshire Hathaway or Blackwater (Xe Services LLC) were in the medical marijuana business this wouldn't be a problem. The U.S. can justify illegal torture of detainees, illegal wars, illegal use of bio weapons on U.S. citizens, grants TSA rights to illegal search and seizure & giving our money to banksters but can't see what George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce saw in the use of cannabis sativa.

Good luck, I've been wanting the Government to stay the hell out of my body and mind.

I agree with California NORML director Dale Gieringer: It is unacceptable for seriously ill Americans to wait a decade for their government to even respond to their petition for legal access to medicine to relieve their pain and suffering.

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It will be re-graded to a schedule 3 so marinol like pills can be given to you all...Relax and let our regime wash over you. The pill is so much easier than that smelly plant thing

Oh man, drugs that get people blitzed out of their mind are not legalized! What is this country coming too? This is simply outrageous! I mean really, look at the Chinese, do we want to end up like THEM of all people??? It's illegal over there, and they will even EXECUTE a person for harsh drugs. What? Even pornagraphy is illegal over there too??? O.K., enough is enough! Someone get these drugs legalized in our country or we might end up owning it, like the Chinese!!! That drug free highly intelligent nation! Who do THEY think they are owning our country, walking around sober with children garduating with a college-equivalent degree by the age of 12!!!

It is going to come to a head just after the deadline for our MMAR up here in Canada. In less than 2 months the pot laws will be null and void in Ontario (barring some last minute miracle the government may try to do). At the same time our Supreme Court is going through the last ditch efforts of the government to shut down INSITE. When that has run it's course the entire CDSA and the MMAR will both be void and ALL drugs will be legal till the government fixes the laws. The courts are basically saying we MUST treat drugs as a health issue and NOT a CRIMINAL one. Looks like it could be fun this year!

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If "WE THE PEOPLE" have to take our own government to court to Legalize a God Given Right to a Plant that can Help so many....I say so be it! 

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Yes it is way past time. FACT: Cannabis & our Endocannabinoid System KILLS Cancer at the cellular level. Causing Cancerous Cells to self destruct, programs old cells to die before they can become a health/Cancer problem. It has been proven that our Endocannabinoid System along with the Cannabis plant KILLS Brain Cancer Cells while not harming any healthy cells around it. There is nothing in today's FDA Approved drugs or treatments that could even come close to being this therapeutic to the point of Life Saving, especially for Cancer patients while remaining benign to the patient. Chemo is a Shotgun, approach to killing cancer cells when compared to Cannabis. Money is the root of the problem. You can not patent a plant. So the Feds want the U.S. Gov't & Big Pharma to extract the healthy effects of Cannabis, including the temporary & benign psychoactive effect either synthetically (which has already happened with THC only, placing it in Schedule II then moving it to Schedule III because of its safety & lack of abuse or potential for abuse) i.e. Marinol, synthetic THC in a gelatin base and contained in a gelatin capsule with the therapeutically safe, short & benign Psychoactive effect removed, for me, is a FAILURE. I was on Marinol for over 2 years at a cost to the State of over $800 a month for 60-5mg capsules. It takes an hour to start working and then it did nothing for me. I might as well been eating candy. Only Whole (or as Uncle Scam likes to put it) Raw Cannabis itself with its 60+ Cannabinoids working in harmony with our Endocannabinoid System can heal & raise the quality of Life for millions as therapeutically and efficiently as possible with no ill side effects to the patient whatsoever. Yet the Federal Gov't will not remove Cannabis from Schedule I. Why? That's a damn good question. The answer, if it ever will be known, is definitely all about corruption in Gov't & Private Industry to control and manipulate the Medical Cannabis Movement (Marijuana is slang the Gov't prefers to use because people have been so brainwashed that when they hear the word Marijuana an evil image comes to mind.) Obama does not want to be the first black man to be President of the U.S. and also be known as the President that removed Marijuana from Schedule I. I can hear the racial slurs already, even though it is financially & health wise the most intelligent thing to do that will help our country out of these hard economic times.

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yeah but then Obama would alienate the non pot smoking crowd (I am not joking this is why it wont work... maybe in his second term)

What else do you expect from a government that calls for "Scientific Integrity" in its policies, yet specifically excludes the Office of National Drug Control Policy from being subject to it?http://www.drugwarrant.com/201...

Smelly potheads.

One hundred years from now, people will look back at the drug war as one of the darkest chapters of our history.The amount of lives it has ruined and the trillions it has wasted is shameful. Marijuana is a miracle. Period.

Deschedule, don't even think about merely rescheduling.  This only benefits Big Pharma.

Because Marijuana is Safer that Beer . . . How About We Start Treating It That Way?MERP HeadquartersThe Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy Project (MRPP)= "MERP"http://www.newagecitizen.com/M...

The topic of legalizing pot is THE never ending story.

Beyond the ridiculous amount of time that it has taken for them to address this issue I think the fundamental problem is with the scheduled drug act and its modifying legislation. If it takes 9+ years to even get the ball moving on rescheduling a drug yet it takes no time at all to put a near permanent ban on it by labeling it as a schedule 1 drug is just wrong. This is further exacerbated by the hypocrisy between the scheduled drug act and the federal analog act. We have Marinol the synthetic form of THC in schedule 3 but we place Marijuana in schedule 1, according to the governments own laws as it pertains to the federal analog act this should not be allowed.

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