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  ind061 year, 5 months ago

  And thus, illegal for you to live.

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  NelsonR1 year, 5 months ago

  Everyday I am amazed at political events and then an article like this comes up. How far can a government and its laws intrude into a private life if no harm is done to another by the act considered illegal??

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  1-2-Oscar1 year, 5 months ago

  We did this story pretty thoroughly yesterday, with 78 votes and 259 comments.

  Those of you who want to run through it again, enjoy yourselves. I've said all I had to say.

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    1-2-Oscar1 year, 5 months ago

    Thank you for the well-intentioned advice.

    The nicest thing about Nescape is the people you meet here.

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      mbkijb1 year, 5 months ago

      CAN'T WE ALL JUST FREAKIN' GET ALONG?

      lol

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      mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

      Why do you stay on these threads if you have no interest in the subject? Are you addicted?

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    earthlingerer1 year, 5 months ago

    Medical Marijuana is legal in California. Period, OscarYeraWiener.

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      MetalNun1 year, 4 months ago

      Yeah, it's "legal" except for some reason that did not prevent both the Clinton and Bush administrations from sending in the police to arrest terminally ill people whose doctors had prescribed it for them.

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  puffin1 year, 5 months ago

  To answer your question ...

  nearly 150 million people worldwide.

  I'm willing to bet there's more, though.

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  SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

  Do you people know the history of drug laws and where they stem from?

  Circa late 1800's Virgina City, NV. in leiu of the Opium Houses for Immagrant Chinese Railroad Workers. And everything was lied about and exaggerated to scare people and pass Bills.

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    SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

    In 1896 you could order a heroine pain relief kit!? I'm not making this stuff up.

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      david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago

      In 1898, cocaine was often prescribed as a way to cleanse the bowels and provide for greater stamina and a clearer mind. It was also said that cocaine could make people more efficient. Amazing how times change in a little over 100 years.

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        mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

        Dr Bayer,of Bayer Aspirin,invented heroin.

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          socialclimbr1 year, 5 months ago

          Actually Bayer did not "invent" heroin, C.R. Alder Wright was the first to synthesize it. However heroin did not begin to receive notriety until 23 years later when Felix Hoffman a chemist for the Bayer pharmaceutical company independently re-synthesized it.

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            mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

            I stand corrected

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          mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

          socialclimbr

          Whats the problem,cant handle the truth?

          http://www.answers.com/topic/bayer-heroin-bottle-j

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        mbkijb1 year, 5 months ago

        Cocaine used to be in Coca Cola at the turn of the last century. Too much government involvement in our lives! Though I think there should be testing for certain professions, in coke and heroin and weed, for the most part, they over govern the stuff- especially weed.

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  SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

  I'll bring the munchies(LOL)

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  KYRed1 year, 5 months ago

  Drugs fot the dying. Oh, that wouldn't be right. They might feel good as they die.

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  Existential1 year, 5 months ago

  How is marijuana "keeping her alive"?

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    earthlingerer1 year, 5 months ago

    Well, medical science has proven that the ingredients in marijuana retard the growth of tumors.

    People who have to use medications for cancer are often nauseas from them, and the marijuana helps them keep food down, thus not starving from vomiting it up all the time.

    But you can do the research yourself.

    And you don't have to smoke it for it to be effective.

    And if grown by a patient, it is hundreds of dollars cheaper per month than pharmaceuticals, and patients can easily and salely figure out their own dosages.

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      mbkijb1 year, 5 months ago

      Yes, it does- my friend has a somewhat rare genetic disease where tumors grow on the tips of his nerve endings, and he smokes it all the time (he just does it- like normal "law breaking" pot smokers do...hehe) Anyhow, his father died from it, his sister has it and is deaf from it, and he still is doing "OK". He admits to his doctor that he smokes it and his doctor admits that that is probably what is prolonging his life.

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  foksipayne1 year, 5 months ago

  how sad it is that a person cannot live the remainder of their life in peace, only because peace means smokin' a little reefer. no wonder this world is so f***** up

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    mbkijb1 year, 5 months ago

    All we are saying.....

    is give peace a chance.

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  jwh14761 year, 5 months ago

  to me what is so messed up is that they will let her do the oxycotin, oxycodone, xanax, valiums, methadone and about a thousand other drugs that are probably worse than the green.If they cant guarantee their tax revenue off the drug it wont be allowed.Anyhow smoke it anyway, or make it into a nice brownie whatever your flavor, happy st paddys day heres to the green!

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  vialacta1 year, 5 months ago

  Breath on your own time. Keep the government out of our personal lives. When I was in the Military (USMC) as a private

  discipline was what made things work efficiently but as always there was some individual that would think for himself and get reprimanded because it wasn't legal under the UCMJ. Uniform Code of Military Justice. It got bad then worse when all you were allowed to do was work. Everything else was forbidden for one thing or another. In this case the 9th Circuit Court Judge displayed his ability to be ridged and not flexible. He appears to have forgotten that LIFE, LIBERTY and the pursuit of happiness was violated causing a GREATER HARM. Loss of life! Will he be prosecuted? Of course not, they are above the law. Hemp can make this country Middle East Almost Petroleum free but out government

  chooses to use food(corn)which IS NOT ECONOMICAL because it costs more to make a gallon of alcohol than it does to produce a gallon of gasoline. This judge is clearly a yes man.

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  ghengisghan1 year, 5 months ago

  As of next year I have to test all my employees for drus or wont be able to get workmenscomp insurance.

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    mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

    I had a boss who started drug testing for the same reason.The first time the test was given,both he and his wife failed because they had eaten poppy seed cake.

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      mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

      Check this link out,it may help you come up with a fair policy...

      http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7160

      And here is a company that provides life insurance for marijuana users

      http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7128

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      mbkijb1 year, 5 months ago

      sick, ain't it MM??

      That is not the first time I have heard of that.

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        mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

        In my experience,the places I've worked at who did drug testing ,in all cases ,the bosses and the best workers were always the only ones who came up positive.

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  jwh14761 year, 5 months ago

  the bad thing about drug testing is that it mainly just catches the pot smokers and the people that do coc or crack can usually get away with it if they dont do it for a day or two before the test, so i know that it encourages some to do harder drugs.I think barbituates stay in your system the longest though, then weed.

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    mbkijb1 year, 5 months ago

    I believe pot and PCP stay in there the longest.

    Like, who runs around looking for PCP????

    And whose business is it what I do on my weekends?

    Random drug tests suck, especially when you are an honest citizen trying to make a living. Totally against it.

    I do not smoke it now, but I am not denying that I have in my lifetime either. I am a proponent of it and my kids know that. My kids, to the best of my knowledge, have never tried it and I show them all the houses on the block they can get it from- reverse psychology- and if they do, I would prefer to be there when they do, so I know what they act like and look like when they are stoned.

    Color me a horrendous parent. My kids are awesome. All three of them. Not perfect, but awesome. What more can we ask for?

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  skyryder1 year, 5 months ago

  This shows me just how incompetent our courts and government is, If I had a terminal illness I wouldn't give a crap what they say I would smoke it any way!

  Pot should have been legalized in the 70's .

  Think how much tax revenue it could create.

  I have never seen or heard of any one going berserk because the smoked a joint!

  But some people do when they get drunk not to mention killing people when they drive drunk!

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  dr-don-from-denver1 year, 5 months ago

  Damn activist Conservative judges!!

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    amazed1 year, 5 months ago

    actually, the 9th circuit is generally known as a very liberal court -- often in opposition to most of the other US districts and the Supreme Court.

    e.g. the use of "under God" in the pledge of allegiance is unconstitutional

    and stuff like that.

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  daviddonaldson161 year, 5 months ago

  I'm sick of the hypocrisy in America. Our own president abused COCAINE and ALCOHOL for years but people can't smoke a little pot. I'm moving to Canada.

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  mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

  Here is what the DEA has known for years about the medical benefits of marijuana as concluded by the DEA's own law judge...

  http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studie

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    mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

    froggy

    I agree,thats why I decided many years ago to stand up and show them just who they are up against,I have tangled with many drug warriors,been threatened ,ridiculed and had attempted intimidation for speaking out.

    I'm still here and they're not.All we have is our voice and our vote,I intend to use mine and they will just have to find another job.

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    SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

    froggy57, I commend you. I agree with you 100%. But people have to say enuff is enuff, and not just about drug laws.

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  AnvilHead1 year, 5 months ago

  One of the conservative virtues is supposed to be making the government mind its own business and stay out of the peoples.

  The phony drug war and invasive law enforcement threaten the republic itself.

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    protoham1 year, 5 months ago

    Unfortunately we don't have a conservative government. Neither Dems or Reps are Conservative. We are moving towards Socialism, with every election. Eventually, they will be running your life for you because they think you are to stupid to run your own. Some jumps in this direction are bigger than others, Clinton was a big jump. Kennedy was a big jump.

    I want to know what my country can do for me, not to me?

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  walden31 year, 5 months ago

  the government does what it wants while the media makes us think that the government is doing what the people want.

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  evelyna1 year, 5 months ago

  Couldn't that be seen as an act of terrorism by the government on it's own people?

  You cannot live because it is against "our rules." Yet there is medical data to prove she is surviving longer.

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    SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

    Yes, but who is to enforce this? The minute there a census reached, they will make another distraction, do you understand what I am implying?

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  ballbuster21 year, 5 months ago

  those b**t**ds in the U.S. politicial system that are trying to control my medical needs can bite my red, white and blue a**!! i smoke pot to control sever pain in both of my legs, due to a nurological disorder caused by their ordering the use of a very toxic and dangerous chemical(agent orange)in vietnam. and over the course of several years through their vet's adm. med. clinic's and hospital's can not fined one(1)pill or any combination of several pill's that can give 1/3 rd of the relief that i recieve from smoking 1/2 of a MJ cigarette. U.S. GOV./POLITICIAN'S KISS MY ****ING A** !!!!!!!!

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  protoham1 year, 5 months ago

  I don't advocate indiscriminate drug use, but when a doctor prescribes it, there should be no question by the state.

  The Fed's are wrong on this one. MJ is a drug, one God has provided. One that grows almost anywhere and is almost impossible to control.

  Prohibition does not work, never has, never will. It just makes the law breakers rich.

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    SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

    MJ is plant, drugs are manufactured, and therfore should not subject to drug laws.

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  dfwx1 year, 5 months ago

  The Republican culture of death for profit kills again and again and again. Why would Republican Supreme Court judges allow anyone to live without paying drug manufacturers who finance the Republican Party?

  That woman does not pay money to Republicans via drug companies,therefore they want her to die. Nothing new about this story. Pay Republican shakedowns, tolls and taxes or be killed.

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  Dsb2k61 year, 5 months ago

  F U C K the government. I will continue to do my part to make sure marijuana is available to those who want to use it. Anyone who doesnt like that can go suck an egg.

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  Gungnir1 year, 5 months ago

  She needs to move to Canada (where medical marijuana is widely accepted and legal) ASAP to continue her treatment. Fighting it out in the US is costing her precious time...

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    mntnman4441 year, 5 months ago

    The new govt in Canada is on its knees trying to please the DEA and has started a new drug policy that is copying the US...good luck with that Canada.

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    SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

    Hows she gonna get there? and that is the problem.

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      Gungnir1 year, 5 months ago

      Fly maybe? This comment doesn't make any sense.

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        SuperX1 year, 5 months ago

        Money is the problem, if she was rich, it wouldn't have made a story, and she would be taken care of regardless of legality.

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