November 30, 2004
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TUESDAY POLITICS
“Several U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed reservations November 29, 2004 about allowing medical marijuana for sick patients whose doctors have recommended they smoke it for pain. The justices appeared sympathetic to the federal government’s argument that it has the power to prosecute or take other action against patients who use home-grown marijuana in states with laws allowing medical use. ” See this article.
I just have to say that I think this is one of the most extreme examples of fear-based political meddling in the very large group of such activities currently underway in the second term of Hell we’ve just elected. While Angel Reich begs for help with brain tumor pain on TV and thousands of other patients crawl out of their sickbeds to grow their own weed because they can’t just buy it even if it’s prescribed by their doctor in the few liberal states that allow even that, millions of people walk into their local supermarket and buy legal alcohol and go home and get drunk and beat their wives to death and batter their children and drink themselves into an early grave, but hey…… guess who has the biggest lobby? Give me a freaking break!
Deep Thought: “I’ll take that little one, way in the back,” I said. “That little collie mix?” said the animal shelter guy. “No,” I said, “the other one behind him.” “The gray terrier?” he said. “He’s gray,” I said, “but way in the back, in the corner.” “You mean the water faucet?” he said. I realized then it was a water faucet, but I didn’t want to look like a jerk, so I said, “Yeah, that’s the one I want.” It ended up costing me almost five hundred dollars to get that faucet removed. But you know, I’ve still got that faucet, and I wouldn’t trade it for any dog in the world.”
Today I am grateful for: Sobriety
Guess the Movie: “1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then. I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth. She and the infant had been buried less than half a year; I would have been happy to join them. I couldn’t bear the pain of their loss: I longed to be released from it.” Answer: Interview with the Vampire, 1994.
Winner: thenarrator.
You Want A Moral Issue? How About Drugs That Don’t Kill?
by Arianna Huffington
As Democrats continue to search heaven and earth for a moral values issue they can call their own, I have just the prescription: Why not start with the immoral behavior of giant drug companies such as Merck that continue to sacrifice the health of the public on the altar of higher and higher profits?
(Rest of article here.)
End of Day: 8:16 pm
+ = Doesn’t look likely that they’ll pass a constitutional amendment to elect Schwarzenegger before he’s too old to run.
- = I’m feeling the Christmas pressure already and it isn’t even December yet, well not for another 4 hours anyway.
Comments (16)
I find it so amazing that the government won’t support medical marijuana. My oldest and dearest friend has lupus and is in constant pain. She is allergic to any opiate based pain killer which leaves her with very few options. Medical marijuana could help her so much. I don’t understand why the powers that be think that marijuana is so dangerous that the government couldn’t regulate it.
It seems so incredibly inhumane to deny a person in vast pain the ability to release the pain by smoking marijuana. I find it equally appalling that the high and mighty ‘moral’ people of this government can accept the fact that they are sentencing so many innocent people to suffer needlessly because they have some puritanical fear that someone might accidently use the drug for fun. These are of course the same people who go home each night and use their favorite drinkable drug to help them cope with the stress and pressure of enforcing their hypocritical beliefs. I don’t and have never smoked the stuff, but I wouldn’t hesitate to start growing it and use it if I were suffering from an illness that it could help me with. Yup I would do it despite the fact that the government would surely punish me if caught and force me to die a painful death in a prison all for trying to relieve my pain.
Our government can be cruel just like every other
or all the other so-called legal drugs that people abuse regularly, like pain killers. you know, those people using medicinal marijuana already have bodies poisoned by drugs and illness. if smoking a joint helps their pain, then so be it. i’m sure old justice rehnquist will take a few tokes if that was the only way to alleviate his cancer pain . . .
The alcohol lobby, which outlawed marijuana in the 30s as soon as their drug became legal again, dominates this discussion. The whole idea that marijuana isn’t legal for pharmaceutical use is absurd, I mean, heroin is legal (in it’s morphine form, yes, but it’s the same drug). This is why we need a tidal shift in American political discussions. This shouldn’t even be an argument.
Interview with a Vampire?
You win again!
I obviously watch too many movies. But, if I’m writing at home, they’re almost always on in the background.
Unlike alcohol or cigarettes, if marijuana were to be legalized, the government couldn’t control its sale, and grab lots of tax money from it, because people would just grow it themselves. We’d all have potted pot houseplants. It’s legal for medical use here in Canada – but the covert government sites to grow it, hilarious. Will it ever be fully legalized so that people can get stoned for FREE? No doubt a real problem in the upper beaurocracies. You’re invited to a bash over at my site – a virtual party in the comments!
aack. The narrator beat me to it!
California allows legalized marijuana use for people with very painful illnesses.
When I did my second round of chemo, I took a drug called Taxol. On the third day, I could barely walk because the bottoms of my feet hurt so badly. The way my oncologist described it was that I could expect to feel like a truck ran over me. I knew my landscaper smoked pot all the time, so I had him hook me up. That third day, ’til the day 7, I would smoke every four hours. I found that when it was over I was slightly addicted. Because I have children I am trying to model behavior I feel good about. And unless someone gives me some or I am at a party with some, I abstain.
Ooh ooh ooh I’m so glad you brought this up. Merrrow – this is about the consitutionality of CA’s laws. I heard on NPR that one of the possible reasons for marijuana not having been thoroughly tested is that Big Pharm sees no money in something that any fool can grow on their window sill. Huh? Does it not already bring it’s growers and dealers plenty of cash? Tell me that any fool can’t work a still – yet that doesn’t mean folks won’t shell out 30$ for a bottle of vodka.
I agree with you…probably the root of all the unrest is because the big drug companies are are afraid they might lose some money if the herb was allowed…
When you look at what “pharmaceuticals” are supposed to do, things like morphine–which can easily be misused–what’s the big difference, I ask? Medicine is medicine. Taking medicinal things to numb out your life is well, a different ball game. Surely, we’re not so hysterical that we can’t distinguish between the two.
If the justices do not support the federal government on this it invalidates all of the US drug policy foreign and domestic…
wow..i got lost in the flow of your comments…
for I have had for many years prescription cannabis for
the pain that comes with my chrons….aah now to read your
post..hehe
I have to agree with your thoughts