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It may be 4/21, but two state lawmakers are introducing legislation to legalize medical marijuana. Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) and State Senator Thomas Duane (D-Manhattan) were to introduce a bill today. Gottfried, who previously sponsored a similar bill that passed in the Assembly but was stalled (of course) in the Senate, said, "I think we've got by far the best chance we've ever had." The Daily News has some details: "Under the bill, people suffering from specific diseases such as cancer or HIV-related ills could obtain a certification from their doctor that would allow them to possess up to 2-1/2 ounces of marijuana and up to 12 plants." Governor Paterson's spokesman said, "if the bill successfully passes both houses and reaches the governor's desk, the administration will seek input from interested parties before the governor acts." Ganja Grannies and Gramps are crossing their fingers.
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So it turns out that the man that was pinned by the 5 train this weekend was high. This was off the
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listen, paterson, you're not getting elected no matter who you pander do, so just make your own damn decision.
...only to be shot down seconds later.
Aight people - please.
I never urge strangers to be politically active, but I can't help myself on this one:
Call your reps. in the Assembly and Senate!
Let them know that they gotta pass this!
It's just a phone call, but if we all bombard them, they'll know we aren't fucking around.
It's so easy to frame: "Your child's suffering from cancer and the chemo's brutal - why exactly, oh wise Assemblyperson, should my child go to prison for ingesting the only thing that'll make it all bearable?"
YEAH ! It'll be good for my Headaches too.
Besides They Can Get RICH from . Look $$$$$$$ see that?
MONEY
I don't know if saying you want to get your sick child high is super persuasive, but then again, if it works I'm for it.
LEGALIZE IT ALREADY - FOR THE SICK AND HEALTHY.
What's more dangerous - a violent drunk cruising the streets of the city, or a stoner looking for munchies?
Ultimately, the road to legalization/regulation has to begin with medicinal use.
It's about time we catch up with the other 11 states who've OK'ed this.
It's time to legalize and take it out of the hands of criminals and murderers. Let the liquor companies handle it. The competition among the various sellers will lower the price. The potheads will use it at smoke bars and will be thinner versions of beer drinkers, but just as dangerous on the road.
I don't think they would be about "just as dangerous on the road." Don't knock it 'til you try it.
this law will never pass because pharmaceutical companies will be up the motherfuckin river if it does. Weed cures everything and if it doesn't it feels like it does. I would like them to make 55 the legal smoking age. Cause that's when the shit starts to hurt. I don't think young people should smoke weed til 55 cause they don't need it if they are healthy. who the hell would buy all those expensive anti depressants if they could smoke cheep weed? they need to make pharmaceuticals sell varieties of weed and then tax their asses. That way both parties will be satisfied and it's weed for everyone.
because pharmaceutical companies will be up the motherfuckin river if it does.
Yup.
It's nice to talk about, but it's not going to happen.
Having seen how pot can help someone on chemo keep food down, I think it should be legalized. No question about it. After all, narcotics such as morphine and oxycontin are medically legal, but not street legal-where's the differance? Morphine helps people beat down extreme pain, why can't we also get a script for pot for the various ills its been proven to help, like extreme nausea, MS, and glaucoma?
My own friggin' mother has to get weed under the table for her medical condition, so hell yes it should be legalized. It's crazy, the doctors can prescribe her all kinds of narcotics that she won't even take because they make her so loopy that she'd rather be in pain. But a little toke now and then on the bad days makes her feel better. The doctor can give her something addictive that could kill a horse but she can't smoke something she could grow in her own backyard? It's nuts.
i dont like racists.
I don't get it. I can grow Deadly Nightshade, Jimson Weed, Castor Beans (the source of ricin), Hemlock, Mountain Laurel, Poison Ivy (Sumac, Oak), Amanita spp., have pufferfish & stonefish in my aquarium, drink myself to death, smoke six packs a day (as long as I pay the taxes), down the Oxy, Xanax, methadone, Lyrica, Ambien, (even more toxic stuff, like methotrexate, etc.) precribed by a doctor, supersize my Angus Deluxe with the large fries and giant shake, have unprotected anal sex with multiple partners every night, sit on my butt and grow to enormous size because I just can't miss American Idol and my other shows, work myself to death, and do all sorts of really bad stuff. BUT, if I grow a 6 inch hemp plant, light up a doob, or try to get a job and my hair sample says I was exposed to THC I don't get the job or have to wear an orange jumpsuit for a few years? I hereby propose a referendum vote that all elected officials submit to systematic hair sampling for "drugs of abuse" and that the results be posted for the electorate. Then, let's revisit the subject.
Your life sounds awesome.
Post of the day.
I was being facetious and hyperbolic.
(About the anal sex and American Idol stuff). :)
Yeah, sure - why not? We all know that this bill is going to go up in, dare I say, smoke. But constant bombardment of this issue will be the the only way to help repeal this hilariously counter-productive relic of the war on drugs. Subsidize it, tax it to hell, whatever.
Now, if there was a way to keep stoners from inserting their goddamn habit into every conversation...
If you need it just grow your own, legal or not.
the drug companies are really the politicians...who do you think pays for all this shit. They will fight it tooth and nail. Do you know how many drug companies call NY...Pfizer is so big they have 3 offices in NYC alone.
Cool, it'd be nice to not have to risk arrest to have the only painkiller that actually works for my celiac disease (when I accidentally ingest gluten)
Marijuana prohibition is a crime against the people. You can't actually reform marijuana laws without continuing to violate people's inalienable rights. The only new marijuana law that would be legit is one that accnowledges people's right to choose how to manage their own health when they are not harming anyone else.
Three Reasons why marijuana prohibition is a fraud:
1) It is listed as a schedule 1 drug (no medical value and high potential for abuse). THC oil kills cancer cells and protects healthy cells and the federal government owns a patent on cannabis as an anti-inflammatory agent. There have been no proven negative health concequences of regular marijuana use, and no physical addiction.
2) The Constitution (the supreme law of the land) gives government the authority to protect the safety and welfare of the citizens and the obligation to defend them against any invasion or violation of their individual freedom and privacy. There is no provision given to government to regulate your personal health choices and certainly not to prevent you from using effective natural medicine grown at home. Religious freedom means that you will not be compelled to live by the moral standards of others as long as you are not harming others. You do not need government permission to grow a medicinal herb.
3) There has never been any realistic threat to public safety or health posed by marijuana and there was never a public outcry to make it illegal in the first place. The question of it's legality comes directly from false information, exploitation in the media of certain lifestyles and social groups, and religious ideology disguised in public policy. It has always been a home and family issue, and the marijuana laws do not help at all to protect anyone from any real danger. A law that does not serve any public good and is based on false facts is void (not valid). So we've all been conned into believing there was a ligitimate law against marijuana, and now many are believing that the government has a right to offer to give back a distorted version of our constitutional rights.
Vote NO to medical marijuana. Vote YES to exposing the fraud.
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