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Re: Medical Marijuana
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:04:47 GMT
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Hmm. Your post is amazingly similar to junk mail I received today. Funny that.
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> There is substantial evidence that marijuana has significant medical uses.
I agree, I'm all for effective cannabis-based prescription drugs. But then
many illegal drugs have a place in medicine. What is the big deal?
> Several states have recognised this and authorised doctors to prescribe it
> (for uses such as an anti nausea drug for chemotherapy and AIDS patience)
> and have authorised the creation of mechanisms to dispense it.
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> Yet the federal government has held this not to be the case and has usurped
> state power of self determination thanks to an irrational fear of marijuana
> by some. (or perhaps a desire to retain bureaucratic empire...)
Paranoia.
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> This website highlights a recent DEA raid on a distribution organization.
> http://www.mpp.org/states/site/index.cgi?state=USA Knowing that no
> California jury would convict, no arrests were made. ALL that was done was
> that every single material good of this organization was confiscated,
> putting them out of business.
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> At a time when our law enforcement efforts ought to be concentrated on
> important things, the DEA still has time to harrass cancer and AIDS
> sufferers,
No. They are harassing the suppliers of illegal drugs.
> and the federal government still has time to organize state
> police to carry out roadblocks to enforce seat belt laws!
Yep. Think of the lives that will be saved. By publicising the fact that
there will be "roadblocks" you are helping in that effort. Well done!
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> Some lawmakers are aware of this injustice and have sponsored bills to
> redress it. http://www.mpp.org/mmj_support.html To the eternal shame of the
> republican party, all of these lawmakers are democrats or independents.
> Except one, of course. That sole courageous "republican" lawmaker happens to
> be an MD and happens to be from Texas. I'm sure you can guess who I refer to.
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> But that's not the point of this post. The *point* is to suggest that if you
> feel as I and the majority of americans (around 70-75%) do, that you visit
> the http://www.mpp.org/mmj_support.html link and generate a letter to your
> representative. Note that if you don't unclick the "send me periodic info"
> you will be put on an email mailing list so do be aware of that.
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> If on the other hand you feel medical marijuana is a bad thing (and you're
> thus in the 25% or so percent of the people that do feel that way, according
> to some polls), why then, you ought to send your rep a letter saying so, but
> you're on your own as to how to go about doing that. :-)
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> Non US people can ignore this request, of course.
The UK perspective on this is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1616000/1616061.stm
Scott A
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| (...) What junk mail is that? Are you getting mail from someone or some organization that you didn't sign up for, or have tried unsuccessfully to unsubscribe from? If not, it's not junk mail, since you are getting (whatever it is) at your request (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| There is substantial evidence that marijuana has significant medical uses. Several states have recognised this and authorised doctors to prescribe it (for uses such as an anti nausea drug for chemotherapy and AIDS patience) and have authorised the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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