i wish these people would just fuck off.
* and this:
A Food and Drug Administration statement on Thursday denying any medical benefits of marijuana reinforced the divide between federal officials and the states that have approved the drug's use to ease some medical conditions.i wish these people would just fuck off. do they hate science or sex more? perhaps it's the fear of the great unknown. they don't know God - and they're as scared as hell of him. science? it's just a blackbox. sex? anything but a blackbox. here's some help for our redvoter friends. this is what a joint looks like. (nb - you can even do it with the lights on)"It's consistent with the long-held federal view on this medicine, and that is that marijuana is the equivalent of heroin and cocaine," said Nathan Barankin, a spokesman for California's attorney general, Bill Lockyer. "California voters disagree."
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Several officials in the 11 states that allow medical marijuana disputed the F.D.A.'s contention that there was no research supporting the drug's medical use. They noted, in particular, a 1999 review by the National Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's most prestigious scientific advisory panel, which found marijuana to be "moderately well-suited" to some conditions, including wasting disease from AIDS and the nausea that often results from chemotherapy."
still scared?
3 comments:
Well, if the courts start to take Barankin's comments literally as the basis of law that mairjuana "is the equivalent of heroin and cocaine", and that there cannot be medicinal use of any form of marijuana, then how long before courts find that every place using other opiates for medical use such as morphine is also illegal for the same reasons. Afterall, we cannot be having people taking opium legally either now can we! Medicinal use isn't an excuse there either is it?
'...the Drug Enforcement Administration and Justice Department -- alarmed by the seemingly widespread diversion of opium-based prescription drugs such as OxyContin and Dilaudid to addicts and abusers -- have investigated, arrested and prosecuted as "drug dealers" scores of pain doctors who allegedly misused their authority to write prescriptions for narcotic painkillers...' from today's WaPo.
it's a sick, sad situation. ps, my kingdom or whatever for a damn Dilaudid.
calipendence - good point.
rimone - my kingdom for a new course.
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