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Why Is the Federal Gov’t Providing Pot to 4 People? ‘Compassionate Reasons’

Federal Government Providing Pot to Four People

Elvy Musikka, 72, who suffers from glaucoma, shows the canister holding marijuana cigarettes she regularly receives from the U.S. Government in Eugene, Ore., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. For the past three decades, the federal government has been providing a handful of patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around. The program grew out of a 1976 court settlement that created the country’s first legal pot smoker. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.

She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government.

The trooper and his supervisor were doubtful. But after a series of calls to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Agency and her physician, the troopers handed her back the card — and her pot.

For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing a handful of patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around. The program grew out of a 1976 court settlement that created the country’s first legal pot smoker.

Advocates for legalizing marijuana or treating it as a medicine say the program is a glaring contradiction in the nation’s 40-year war on drugs — maintaining the federal ban on pot while at the same time supplying it.

Government officials say there is no contradiction. The program is no longer accepting new patients, and public health authorities have concluded that there was no scientific value to it, Steven Gust of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse told The Associated Press.

At one point, 14 people were getting government pot. Now, there are four left.

The government has only continued to supply the marijuana “for compassionate reasons,” Gust said.

One of the recipients is Elvy Musikka, the chatty Oregon woman. A vocal marijuana advocate, Musikka relies on the pot to keep her glaucoma under control. She entered the program in 1988, and said that her experience with marijuana is proof that it works as a medicine.

They “won’t acknowledge the fact that I do not have even one aspirin in this house,” she said, leaning back on her couch, glass bong cradled in her hand. “I have no pain.”

Marijuana is getting a look from states around the country considering calls to repeal decades-old marijuana prohibition laws. There are 16 states that have medical marijuana programs. In the three West Coast states, advocates are readying tax-and-sell or other legalization programs.

Marijuana was legal for much of U.S. history and was recognized as a medicine in 1850. Opposition to it began to gather and, by 1936, 48 states had passed laws regulating pot, fearing it could lead to addiction.

Anti-marijuana literature and films, like the infamous “Reefer Madness,” helped fan those fears. Eventually, pot was classified among the most harmful of drugs, meaning it had no usefulness and a high potential for addiction.

In 1976, a federal judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must provide Robert Randall of Washington, D.C. with marijuana because of his glaucoma — no other drug could effectively combat his condition. Randall became the nation‘s first legal pot smoker since the drug’s prohibition.

Eventually, the government created its program as part of a compromise over Randall’s care in 1978, long before a single state passed a medical marijuana law. What followed were a series of petitions from people like Musikka to join the program.

President George H.W. Bush’s administration, getting tough on crime and drugs, stopped accepting new patients in 1992. Many of the patients who had qualified had AIDS, and they were dying.

Federal Government Providing Pot to Four People

Elvy Musikka, 72, who suffers from glaucoma, shows the canister holding marijuana cigarettes she regularly receives from the U.S. Government in Eugene, Ore., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. For the past three decades, the federal government has been providing a handful of patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around. The program grew out of a 1976 court settlement that created the country’s first legal pot smoker. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

The AP asked the agency that administers the program, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, for documents showing how much marijuana has been sent to patients since the first patient in 1976.

The agency supplied full data for 2005-2011, which showed that during that period the federal government distributed more than 100 pounds of high-grade marijuana to patients.

Agency officials said records related to the program before 2005 had been destroyed, but were able to provide scattered records for a couple of years in the early 2000s.

The four patients remaining in the program estimate they have received a total of 584 pounds from the federal government over the years. On the street, that would be worth more than $500,000.

All of the marijuana comes from the University of Mississippi, where it is grown, harvested and stored.

Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly, who directs the operation, said the marijuana was a small part of the crop the university has been growing since 1968 for all cannabis research in the U.S. Among the studies are the pharmaceutical uses for synthetic mimics of pot’s psychoactive ingredient, THC.

ElSohly said the four patients are getting pot with about 3 percent THC. He said 3 percent is about the range patients have preferred in blind tests.

The marijuana is then sent from Mississippi to a tightly controlled North Carolina lab, where they are rolled into cigarettes. And every month, steel tins with white labels are sent to Florida and Iowa. Packed inside each is a half-pound of marijuana rolled into 300 perfectly-wrapped joints.

With Musikka living in Oregon, she is entitled to more legal pot than anyone in the nation because she‘s also enrolled in the state’s medical marijuana program. Neither Iowa nor Florida has approved marijuana as a medicine, so the federal pot is the only legal access to the drug for the other three patients.

The three other people in the program range in ages and doses of marijuana provided to them, but all consider themselves an endangered species that, once extinct, can be brushed aside by a federal government that pretends they don’t exist.

All four have become crusaders for the marijuana-legalization movement. They’re rock stars at pro-marijuana conferences, sought-after speakers and recognizable celebrities in the movement.

Irv Rosenfeld, a financial adviser in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has been in the program since November 1982. His condition produces painful bone tumors, but he said marijuana has replaced prescription painkillers.

Rosenfeld likes to tell this story: In the mid-1980s, the federal government asked his doctor for an update on how Rosenfeld was doing. It was an update the doctor didn’t believe the government was truly interested in. He had earlier tried to get a copy of the previous update, and was told the government couldn’t find it, Rosenfeld said.

So instead of filling out the form, the doctor responded with a simple sentence written in large, red letters: “It’s working.”

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  • PApeacemaker
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 11:43am

    All weed does is make you hungry, paranoid & want to go to sleep. Its a waste of time & I find it hard that anyone can hold a real job that smokes it regularly. I have 3 herniated discs in my spine it happened when I was 20 years old from a car wreck.I was on methadone for 5 years & I felt 100 times better on that then I ever did smoking weed. The weed actually increased my sensitivity to pain & messed my joints up. I got off the heavy narcotics when I was 25 which was pure hell by the way but now Im narcotic free & still have pain but its tolerable now. Weed does not help with pain at all its horse crap but it would be helpful for people with cancer or AIDS who dont have an appetite because it does make you very hungry.

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    • RumsfeldFan
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 12:16pm

      PAPEACEMAKER you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Medical research has proven that marijuana is effective at controlling pain. It is also a very effective anti-inflammatory. As an arthritis sufferer I can tell you that it does exactly what the medical research says it does. The only reason the federal government won’t make marijuana legal is because they profit from forfeiture and seizure laws. Just another way for the government nanny state to tell me what I can and can’t do. Do your research before spouting your lies please.

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    • Rev.sLeezy
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Holy Smokes. Easy answer for your condition is “Don’t use it.” However, if it works for others let them. That’s all.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:23pm

      you do not know of what you speak, PeaceMaker. Weed is just not for you. (keywords: FOR YOU)

      I do NOT get hungry from smoking weed.
      I do NOT get tired from smoking weed…
      weed DOES let me concentrate on my work, whereas, without it, I think WAY too much and get unfocused.

      A LESSON FOR YOU:
      EVERYONE has DIFFERENT chemical reactions to ALL SUBSTANCES.

      1 beer makes me about passout. – so by your logic, 1 beer makes people pass out, that’s all it does… right? EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT, you NEED to realize this, or you are going to be a communist like the rest of these idiots who thinks we are all “The Same”. we aren’t.

      my solution : I don’t drink beer. but I also don’t go around telling others not to drink beer… why? because I’m NOT them. how’s that for some logic?

      Also, I have a great job, working from home, with great pay and I have smoked weed for over 15 years.
      If you can’t handle it, don’t do it… what a concept…

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    • libertyordeathpls
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 2:25pm

      Be sober minded, be vigilant for your adversary the Devil walk about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 3:51pm

      Who told you I’m paranoid? That’s a lie spread by the CIA because they know that I’m the only one who knows the truth about what really caused the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 6:43pm

      For three years my mother suffered through Pancreatic cancer before it took her life. During this time, she was in intense pain. Almost every pain killer stopped working, except for marijuana. Marijuana treated her pain, improved her mood, and increased her appetite, which is extremely important when your body is not getting the nourishment it needs.

      I thank God for the hospital staff that allowed her to smoke marijuana there, and I think its criminal that others in a similar position do not have access to what, in this case, really is a miracle drug.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 7:19pm

      weed DOES let me concentrate on my work, whereas, without it, I think WAY too much and get unfocused.
      ___________________________________________________

      Thats because you’re addicted.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:07pm

      I know people who smoke pot and still work circles around those that don’t..doesn’t give them the munchies.. nor make them sleepy.. depends on the personality..and the DNA.. I myself tried it when I was younger I got the munchies but I am NOT a snack person.. and it didn‘t make me sleepy by as relaxed as if I had a wine cooler so I didn’t feel like cooking anything worth eating so I didn’t eat.. it made me have to think to hard to do things I do without thinking so I didn’t really care for it.. I can see it for cancer patients or those who have to take drugs to cure nausea.. I don’t know how it is on pain.. guess it’s no worse than the drugs BIG PHARM sells.. most likely less side effects..

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteeenkinBadges
      Posted on September 29, 2011 at 2:37am

      “the Federal Gov’t Providing Pot to 4 People”

      Oh, the humanity! Can’t someone stop those evil pushers?

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    • loriann12
      Posted on September 29, 2011 at 7:55am

      The only way it made me hungry was the fact that it stopped the nausea while I was on Chemo, thus I didn’t LOSE weight, because I could eat. I also have a degenerative spine and it has less side effects than Hydrocodone, which makes me throw up and I can‘t drive because I’m sleepy. You must have gotten some stuff that someone told you was weed and was yard clippings.

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    • bellereve
      Posted on September 29, 2011 at 12:38pm

      AMEN, JBKids, AMEN!! :)

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  • Inuyasha
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 11:33am

    Sounds like the gov’t supplies some pretty crappy buds . . . go figure. This should be a state issue anyways. Some folks use it medicinally others just prefer it over alcohol. I have no problems with it either way.

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    • closetotheedge
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 3:54pm

      You’re right. Gov herb is a joke. 2 % THC,when new strains top 18 to 22. And since the collge in Miss. in production of everykind of seeds they could get and being the US Gov they could get the finest in the world. Even students in genetics working there were said that at the end of the day,they would rub their hands on the Buds and the resin would stick so they had the finest in the world. But all the uses so outway really no adverse effects.High Blood pressure, anxsiaty,All forms of cancer , the gov’controled pharmasutical companies and the multitude of drugs that destroy other life threatening side affects;ie.4 hour erections,after 1hr you better get to the ER,so many more sides’ when balancing herb with Gov-drugs,it’s a no brainer! Epiliptic sezures completly gone..And these were friends that suffered Grand Mal Seziures daily.It’s a crime via Pharma/Gov again’st what works for so many. Change the law and vote accordingly. 4th Amendment, safe and secure in our persons our homes or cars and C-phones and any other intrution into our personal lives. A Christian Patriot ,, Are you ready for the big one? Prepare now.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 7:21pm

      closetotheedge
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 3:54pm

      You’re right. Gov herb is a joke. 2 % THC,when new strains top 18 to 22.
      _____________________________________________

      Is the claim that higher THC levels produce a more effective “medicinal” effect?

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  • Harpotoo
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 11:27am

    Only 4 people? Now with that in mind would you TRUST to smoke government issued Pot? I sure as hell wouldn’t.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:55am

    Just proves how two faced & hipocritical the federal government is. They will let a few have it, legally, even supplying them with it. That makes the gov’t drug dealers. At the same time, they are arresting people for the same thing, from coast to coast, destroying their lives, putting their mug shots & fingerprints in their data system and leaving them there through the people’s whole lives. Is it any wonder I hate the gov’t with such a passion?

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  • Devin676
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:51am

    3% is some of the lowest grade I’ve heard of. The government can’t even grow properly

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  • Blazer123
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:37am

    Why are so many people interested in what I do in the privacy of my own home? I think that’s a better question.

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  • alcarfl
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:20am

    Where’s the warehouse for those nicely packaged smokes? I can’t imagine this to be an isolated case for just four citizens. The public still has to roll its own. Reminds me of WWII K rations. What business is our government actually in? Who else is on the dubie dole?

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  • Dawn
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:18am

    Back in the early 80′s, my then mother in law, was one of those who participated in this program, due to her having glaucoma. I found it very strange, seeing this stuff, actually coming to her, from the government. I didn’t know how small the group was, I was surprised to see it was still in existence. She has since passed away and it appears as though the group is getting smaller.

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  • rdietz7
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:17am

    If you don’t have a serious illness you should not use this drug. (not like it will hurt a little old lady who does not have goals and ambitions) It will make you lazy, loose focus and pretty much be wack’d out.

    Crohn’s patients, people with glaucoma, and cancer patients should be able to use this drug. It has way less side effects than opiates. Dr.’s love writing scripts for those and they kill your liver amongst other things. If they legalize it and regulate it and tax it, some major issues could be remedied.

    I think laws like these were created for suppressive purposes. If they can’t regulate it and tax it then they make more money fining people.

    Also, if they legalize it and have stronger penalties on kids and youth partaking then less kids will use it. I’ve heard that more kids smoke this substance rather than consume alcohol because of it being more accessable to them. That is where it poses the most danger… to developing minds.

    But, like they say, if you do the crime then you have to pay.

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  • NC
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:54am

    I use the Veterans Administration health care services. They’ve been providing me with hydrocodone (Vicoden) for 3+ years for pain relief. Smoked my last doobie some 30 years ago.

    I’m wondering which would be less detrimental to my health; the hydrocodone with the acetaminophen additive or a joint a couple times a day. It really doesn‘t matter because the federal gov’t (VA healthcare) will never make marijuana in any form available in their pharmacies.

    NC (working through the pain)

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    • rdietz7
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:18am

      Those pills will destroy your liver amongst other body organs. You should try and get off it if you can. Sorry top hear about your pain. God bless.

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    • Rev.sLeezy
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:13pm

      Holy Smokes. The pills they are giving you can cause problems. Be very careful. Work with your doctor. The problem I see you face is the chance that the VA would stop giving you any medicine if you test positive for MM. Even if you are in a MM state. The VA would most likely frown upon your decision to seek an alternative pain management substance found in MM. Thank you for your service. I only wish you could be free to choose your course of action to relieve the pain. Blessings.

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  • Stonedage
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:41am

    How is it that even Glenn seems to think that the onlything that FDR did right is outlaw hemp? Learn your history people.

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:46am

      It also makes you wonder then what Glenn thinks of FDR’s repeal of The Volstead Act back in 1933 (considering Glenn’s admitted alcoholic past)…

      I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to bringing back The Volstead Act considering some of the things I have witnessed people doing over the years after too much imbibing….

      Nobody HAS to have red wine….or scotch….or Budweiser….they can easily do without it. During the 1920′s, then you had to have a doctor’s prescription in order to be able to obtain wine or other spirits, so I don‘t see why this shouldn’t be the case today.

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:26am

    Marijuana has absolutely no pain relieving properties, other than the fact that it makes you forget that you have pain.

    Pot should not be illegal, nor should it be consumed. But hey, to each his own. Do what ever the hell you want just don’t do it on my porch!

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  • Miyegombo Bayartsogt
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:21am

    Anyone who has researched the reasons the U.S. government criminalized marijuana knows the process was fraudulent. If you read the contemporary news articles and records of government proceedings, there was no secret that marijuana was made illegal only as a tool to target Mexicans and blacks. There is no debate over this fact. Marijuana was made a crime merely as a method of minority repression. Look it up. It is in the public record and the fact cannot be disputed. There is no way marijuana would be criminalized in modern America for the same reasons. If marijuana was made illegal for bogus reasons, why has it been kept illegal? Because ignorant people are afraid to change the law that was enacted by bigots who feared Mexicans.

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    • sabrinacle
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 5:38pm

      finally a sane voice in the sea of knee jerk politico jingoism

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    • JohnGaltSpeaks
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 6:49pm

      An even more compelling question would be why has Marijuana been categorized as a Schedule 1 drug – for those of you who aren’t aware – Schedule 1 drugs are the most restricted and considered to have a very high abuse and addiction potential while having no accepted medical safety or benefit of use. Drugs within this category include heroin, LSD and marijuana.

      Schedule 2 drugs are considered ‘safer’ and ‘less addictive’ than Schedule 1 drugs.
      Schedule 2 drugs include PCP(angel dust), cocaine and methamphetamines (Meth/Crank/Crystal).

      Now which one do you think is worse to use –
      Cannabis: which no one has ever died from, become addicted to or has ever had an overdose of
      - or –
      Cocaine: which kills hundreds of people a year from overdoses and leads 10′s of thousands of people a year into a spiraling addiction cycle.

      The reason that no one can find any ‘peer reviewed’ or university studies on the medical effects of cannibis is that all medical research on Schedule 1 drugs is expressly forbidden except under absolutely restrictive and draconian rules and regulations.

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  • rabblechat
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:03am

    Anyone notice the date on that can, 1996. 15 year old pot, you would think she’d be ready for a fresh batch by now.

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  • Darla_K
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:02am

    There is probably alot of people with medical problems that pot does help them, but I bet there is alot of “young people” like in CA that all of a sudden have medical problems where they need pot.

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    • brian8793
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:00am

      She should be vaporizing her weed. She should get herself a Volcano vaporizer and make some CannaButter.

      Vaporize Super Silver Haze in the morning, and eat a Kush brownie at night ; )

      I can’t think of 1. A healthier and more enjoyable energy pill for the morning than some fresh Super Silver Haze 2. A safer sleeping pill than the O.G. Kush brownie.

      LEGALIZE IT! Aren’t you guys supposed to be Conservatives and believers in Gid? Did God mess up when he created Marijuana? Don’t you believe in personal freedom anyways?

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  • RRFlyer
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:54am

    I live in a state that has legal medical pot houses. (yes, some are even named, “The Pot Pie” and similar)
    It’s funny the only “Sick” people you see buying medicine are in their 20s and 30s. A very low percentage of people are actually using it for medicinal purposes

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:44am

    Because they’re corrupt hypocrits.

    Next?

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  • Delete the Elite
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:40am

    Good lord that is a lot of splifs!

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  • ares338
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:18am

    I can’t see….I can’t see!

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:17am

    Would Granny Green Grass here give up sucking a bong for a cannabis pill, sans hallucinogens?

    Soviet Union, they would have prescribed Vodka for glaucoma. British socialized medicine once prescribed gin and heroin for cancer sufferers. Obamacare will probably prescribe cannabis for everything from hangnail to hangover, anything to stop the bed room slipper vote from complaining.

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    • Progressives_are_useful_idiots
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:43am

      seriously?? Nothing like “TEA party freedom advocates” hypocritically claiming “drugs are bad”
      Dont get me wrong, I consider myself aligned with TEA, but to me that means freedom of choice for YOUR OWN LIFE. Get a grip buddy and stop being a demo-crite.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:04am

      @Progressives are useful….you or correct and this is one point that makes me almost a Libertarian. It’s one of their founding beliefs… alcohol is legal but NOT everyone is an alcoholic!

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    • obama-mecca-me-sick
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:14am

      If you or a loved one was dying of painful cancer and herion would make your last weeks bearable, you might take it too. You cant judge unless you have walked in their shoes or laid in their deathbeds. The problem with legalizing drugs is the abuse by recreational use. It should be legal for medicinal reasons and perscribed by doctors and supplied by pharmacies just like perscription drugs.

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    • slimbo
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:26pm

      I am a middle aged woman with a rare nerve disorder. I am prescribed powerful narcotics which I cannot tolerate. My doctor, of many years now prescribes synthetic marijuana along with opiods. The marijuana (pill form) eases my nausea, gives me an appetite (I’ve lost 20+ pounds from being sick) and helps with the pain. I get it at my pharmacy, along with my other 10+ meds. I do not abuse it and I wear a medic-alert bracelet. I feel that without it, my health would be MUCH worse. So, IMHO, if it eases pain and you are responsible, I’m all for it. Thanks OMecca-me-sick, for pointing this out.

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    • obama-mecca-me-sick
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:38pm

      Hang in there SLIMBO. I suffer from chronic pain and wasnt aware they actually prescribe a pill form. Something else to ask my doctor about. Thanks right back at ya!

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  • MySacredHonor
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:16am

    This is one of the reasons pot should be at the very least De-criminalized. if not made legal. there are hundreds of others.

    If you look at the very “worst” drugs, they are all processed and produced in labs, but pot is a naturally occurring herb and has been proven harmless over and over, yet it is still demonized. Here’s an idea, at the very least, make natural drugs legal. Pot, Peyote, and Mushrooms since all of these have been used by people for literally centuries with little or no harm to the “fabric of society”

    Can anyone make a RATIONAL argument not to?

    And this says nothing about the literally HUNDREDS of other uses for the cannibus plant, including, but not limited to Clothing, Paper, Wood Products, Rope…. etc etc etc

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    • TheLeftMadeMeRight
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:53am

      Shut up and DIE HIPPY! Go plug in your Prius or Volt or VW bus or whatever you drive to score your weed…. :)

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    • MySacredHonor
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:05am

      UMM…. I did specify rational.

      sorry TheLeftMadeMeRight that does not even come close to qualifying.
      I i would not drive one of those Hybrid POS’s if you paid me!

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:26am

      No doubt. I haven’t smoked pot in 15 years, nor would I again if it was legal, but I firmly believe that what I do in the privacy of my own home is MY business. Of course DUI/DWI laws should still apply. Not to mention the tax benefits to the government, and the positive effect it would have on the economy.

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    • JustJerry
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 11:25am

      I’m glad to see some people here understand the War on Drugs is just wrong. I just wish that we could grow pot in our own unregulated gardens.

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  • TexasStu
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:10am

    When it as originally outlawed it was to prevent illegal imigration from Mexico….boy did that work well! Legalize it make it like beer and we would have a lot more money to spend elsewhere except locally where they take the money from users and spend it on more police to bust more users where they use the money for more police where they take the money from users to spend it on more police…….see a redunance here?

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    • cemerius
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:25am

      Yeah but I am sure cigarette and alcohol sales would plummet…….woohoo no more hangovers :)

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:08am

    .
    I think we are all gonna need a 300ct can of Government Weed before long………..

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:08am

    3%? High grade? Might as well be tobacco. How about an average THC concentration of 7.5 percent to 24 percent. Now we’re talking. As usual, the government can’t even do pot right!!!!!

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    • KidCharlemagne
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:23am

      “3%? High grade? Might as well be tobacco.”
      ===================

      Sounds like bunk.
      I bet they keep the good stuff for themselves.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on September 28, 2011 at 8:07am

    Dr. Paul should write a prescription for all his supporters.

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