Comments on: The Debate On California's Pot Shops

Morley Safer Reports On Proposition 215

[juwboy]

marcpcbs:

Yes, THC, the active constituent of marijuana, has been available in capsule form for some time. However, as far as pain-riddled cancer patients on chemotherapy are concerned, it''s worthless.

While the chemotherapy is kicking in, anything ingested orally will be thrown up, so the THC has to be inhaled to be effective. The Feds have repeatedly vetoed any attempts to develop a THC inhaler because thay fear that THC in this form will be abused, so cancer sufferers have no choice other than to smoke marijuana as their THC source.

[brianbwb-2009]

So people like ingesting marijuana, so effing what?

For those who are anti smoking, it can be eaten, so there goes that argument.

It is fun, it aids relaxation, stimulates appetite, slows the progression of glaucoma, aids chemotherapy and is a mild aphrodisiac, as well.

For those who don''t like it, don''t use it, but to tell others they have no right do enjoy something that does no harm to others, and benefits themselves (if you discount the effects and consequences of it being illegal) is at best fascism.

Legalize it totally, tax it, and use the money to improve health care, education, and social services. For a plant that costs more than gold, but is a consumable, it is stupid to ignore the cash potential the pot sales people have enjoyed for centuries.

[ringading3]

Does anyone in the rest of the country really care what the pot heads in California do?

[tnt1954]

the libertarian society? it oughta be against the
law to make a law? the law of the jungle? 50% of
the world are teetotallers, never touch the stuff.
its just putrid fermentation. and the other
plants, and derivatives, poisonous, totally toxic,
and addicting. like deadly amanita in a way.
like sleeping with rattlesnakes in your cave.
the wisdom is non-intervention though. let the
society of drunks and stoners hit bottom. the grave.
that''s the final bottom. the bottomless pit, oblivion. co-existence? world health organzation
says constantly, not enuff being done by u.s.a. to
combat its dope demand, liquor demand, *** demand,
its gambling demand, its poisoning of the rest of
the world. u.s.a. called on the carpet continually.
again and again. we give lipservice to our recommendations for other countries and the rest
of the world. say one thing, do another. are
we responsible for the behavior of all our citizens,
here or overseas?

[tnt1954]

if you like living in a society of drunk, stoned
dirt bags, who only think of love and food and
music, its up to you. i don''t like driving
with millions of drunk and stoned drivers. do you?
epicureans? eat, get drunk, love, make merry, for
tomorrow we die? hedonists? the purpose of life
is to have fun, fun, fun, at others expense? good
luck. otherwise, i have no comment.

[gunownerdan]

marcpcbs,
Marijuana has been illegal for over 70 years.
Today it is America''s #1 cash crop and it is easier for kids to get than alcohol.
Drug gangs and drug dealers are making billions of dollars in profits because of their monopoly on the black market.
Legalization and regulation is a lot better than prohibition, we should have learned this important lesson from alcohol prohibition!
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[ladydrgnfly]

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Karen O''Keefe, Assistant Director of State Policies
Marijuana Policy Project
P.O. Box 77492, Capitol Hill
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[marcpcbs]

THC has been available in pill form for the last 35 years. It''s called Marinol and it doesn''t have all the carcinogens that come with smoking anything.

[marcpcbs]

Take it from someone who spent the last 24 years watching this problem grow first hand.

1 Who ever smokes pot gets all the same poisons as a person that smokes cigarettes.

2 Mendocino County CA alone profits over $45 Billions a year from pot.

3 More than half of the pot sold in this country is sold to students under the age of 18.

4 There has been the THC pill ( marinol ) around for the last 35 years. We don''t need pot.

5 These drug dealers took advantage of our sympathy for people in pain.

6 The pot growers care about nothing but money, and they make tons of it. Mostly from our kids.

We need to turn this around. We don''''t need to legalize pot and start collecting kids lunch money through taxation.

We need to stop the lie of med pot and stop the poisoning of kids now.

[marcpcbs]

Take it from someone who spent the lasy 24 years watching this problem grow first hand.

1 Who ever smokes pot gets all the same poisons as a person that smokes sigarettes.

2 Mendocino County CA alone profits over $45 Billions a year from pot.

3 More than half of the pot sold in this country is sold to students under the age of 18.

4 There has been the THC pill ( marinol ) around for the last 35 years. We dont need pot.

5 These drug deakers took advantage of our simpathy for people in pain.

6 The pot growers care about nothing but money, and they make tons of it. Mostly from our kids.

We need to turn this around. We don''t need to legalize pot and start collecting kids lunch money through taxation.

We need to stop the lie of med pot and stop the poisoning of kids now.

[revtombrown-2009]

Greetings Brethren,



Scott Imlar is a narc. He informed on peter Mc Williams and others in LA for his own profit. Nothing said by him should be given any credence - as he has none outside such credible sources as Morley Safer.



By the Way, the first intimations of Prop 215 came when Peter Gorman, editor of High times magazine, hosted Dennis Peron and our own Rev. Sam Smith of Our Church in his hotel room at the Norml convention in Washington DC in 1992 or 3. Sam met with Dennis to broach the subject, they worked out the details over seveal hours, and Dennis went back to San Francisco to write and organize the petition drive that resulted in the Initiative 215 being passed. Jack Herer attempted to mount a seperate initiative for hemp legalization that failed to get on the ballot as I recall. I have a picture of Dennis and Jack, united together on election nite 1996 in San Francisco, smoking the Peace Herb to their mutual delight. This has been verified to me as reported by Peter Gorman, by Dennis and Jack.



Again, give Scott Imlar a wide berth. He has no honor, nor respect amongst those who actually did the work. He has the blood of Peter McWilliams on his hands.



One Love revtombrown.

[bizzzz-2009]

Imler admits the noble idea turned out to be a pipe dream. "I think there''s a lot of people just buying the drug to get high,"
WOW, REALLY?
Minister or not. Just another liberal idiot who can''t see past his nose, much less long term consequences.

[linfinster]

HAHA My back hurts, I''m movin to California!

[thee0racle]

Just tax it, and that should relieve any angst the FED has about its'' distribution. Case in point: isn''t that why the killer of millions known as tobacco is still on the market?

[rematenaj]

No, prohibition will never work. The biggest problem is that marijuana is considered a drug. That in itself is ridiculous. It''s a plant that grows in the ground, and has many uses. Law enforcement should concentrate their efforts elsewhere!

[gunownerdan]

Marijuana has been illegal for over 70 years and today it is America''s #1 cash crop.
Prohibition will never work.
Cops say legalize and regulate marijuana.
FIGHT CRIME AND VIOLENCE!
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