Is the US Dpt of Health & human Services for or against Medical Marijuana?
Even law enforcement officers are against prohibition of marijuana.
Are the marijuana laws FOR us or AGAINST our welfare?
Fact: Did you know that 82% of Washington residents support medical use of marijuana? But Feds are harassing even the doctors who are legally allowed to prescribe the plant for medicinal use.
Are you for or against marijuana for medical use? Either way, educate yourself. It’s not about ‘partying’. That would defeat the purpose and usefulness of it.
Don’t let the legalities keep you from becoming informed. Watch this video and make an educated decision, not a blind one.
Note: Video by US Dpt. of Health & Human Services
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April 9th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I, along with hundreds of thousands of other’s like me, as legal Marinol patient’s, living in a non MMJ state, are plagued by corrupt/evil politicians like Sen Tom Harkin (D-Ia) who believe that, “If you smoke marijuana you will find yourself huddled in a corner willing to sell your children for just one more puff of marijuana.” How ridiculousally frightening these people are. They deny the facts and think that government should control scientific and medical research and treatments. What kind of government approves of interfering with the health of its ciizens by controlling what doctors are allowed to research, study and prescribed? Not one I want to live in, so use the power of your vote to remove the corrupt, evil and sadistically insane politicians denieing Medical Marijuana to those patients that would greatly benefit from its use, at least its not physically addictive like morphine or other opiate analgesic’s, that Dr’s are allowed to legally dispense and, with approval by the patient (sometimes) addict them to opiates. “Marijuana, in its natural form, is the most theraputically active substance known. For the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferer’s and the substance is unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious.”—Francis L. Young DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge, 1988. Now how can you argue with that? This was a report sent to the president and congress in 1988. They immediatly buried the report and told Francis to re-do it this time emphasizing only negative aspects of marijuana use. As this would cause Francis to deny his Hippocratic Oath he quit. So we must take charge and continue the good fight to legalize Medical Marijuana and recreational use while releasing all people incarcerated for the non violent crime of growing, selling and using marijuana. The punishment does not fit the man-made non violent crime. Why was cannabis use not only legal but prescribed by doctors from the beginning of time until 1937 when the US oulawed it? Because it is a safe and effective theraputically active substance yet the mexicans who flooded the southwest after the 1910 Mexican Revolution bringing the practice of smoking marijuana with them, thank God, were the target of a homogenous government with severe racial prejudices. So the U.S. Gov’t made anything to do with marijuana illegal to give them the power to deport the mexicans. See it was strictly a racially prejudiced move for the governnment who did not want any involvement from the scientific or medical communities for the AMA was against putting Cannabis in a schedule 1 catagory. So remove the nay-sayers and say YES to the advancement of medicine welcoming the cannabis plant and its theraputical values while researching more into the benefits from the cannabis plant. Don’t forget all the products available from the cannabis/Industrial Hemp plant, like alternative fuel, eh…
April 11th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Jeff, I haven’t quite known how to respond to your comment. Everything you have said makes complete sense, but I am still not as up-to-par as I should be when it comes to technicalities / legalities. All I have an understanding of is my own personal experiences with marijuana and it’s benefits at times when it was sincerely needed. It was part of an equation that saved my life I believe. No, I do not actively use it today, but if I had chosen not to use it while entering recovery from other substances, I most likely would not be writing here today. I had tried just about everything under the sun to get clean for the past 20 years..but going cold turkey always led me back to where I began. Societies alternatives for recovery networks are too rigid in their views towards marijuana. They believe it to be yet just another drug to remain abstinent from. They approve of a wide array of other substances, by prescription use (i.e. antidepressants, antipsychotics, anxiety medication, etc) but pot is not of the approved meds on their list neglecting to acknowledge it’s benefits.
I believe that one of the reasons for members and organizers of certain anti -drug affiliations (i.e. NA / AA) reject the use of marijuana, as an alternative health measure, is due to the preaching of abstaining from ‘old behaviors’..with the ideation of these old behaviors being the root of addiction as opposed to the actual use of the drug being the addiction. In essence, they not only dispose of any sort of acceptance of truth and reality concerning the drug, but also join counter measure opposition concerning it’s being decriminalized (even for prescribed medical use, which they have very little working knowledge)
All that said, I’d like to point out the fact that these same organizations speak against ‘denial’..claiming that denial is at the forefront of most addictive behaviors that need to be acknowledged and changed in order to recover..
Catch 22, ey?
I feel very sorry for mankinds unwillingness to educate themselves in regards to marijuana. It is one of the safest substances to medicate our ill ones with, yet is off-limits to sufferers, while coffee, nicotine and other highly dangerous / threatening substances are legal, glamorized and promoted daily…as they are killing us.
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