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MI: ED/OP - MEDICAL MARIJUANA DELIVERS MORE THAN PAIN KILLERS
Cannabis News | June 26, 2004

Troy-Somerset Gazette

The argument for legalizing marijuana over the past few years has been that it gives comfort to those with AIDS and cancer.

Who would deny relief to people with such horrible diseases?

In several states it has seemed like a good idea to the voting public and "medical marijuana" was legalized.

Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Jim Haluska believes it is a very bad idea, and that there's more to this "medical marijuana" campaign than giving comfort to the dying.

He is particularly concerned this year because there is a "medical marijuana" issue on the Detroit ballot.

"Supporters of "medical marijuana" are running a sophisticated, slick, poll tested PR campaign," he told the Troy Kiwanis Club. The problem is that if you repeat a lie enough, people start to believe it must be true."

[Greenbudnote: Example: Jim Haluska, believer of marijuana propaganda.]

Haluska, a Troy resident points out that three backers of the campaign to legalize marijuana have spent millions of dollars on this issue. They've won 16 of 17 campaigns they launched in the last four years, failing only in Michigan in 2002- perhaps because of Halushka's personal efforts to defeat it.

One of the ways the supporters of legalizing marijuana get on the ballot is to bring outsiders into the state and pay them to stand outside libraries, courthouses and grocery stores and spread the story that marijuana is just a way to help the sick to enjoy their last days.

"Compassion sells," Halushka observes. And while this group is very quiet until two to three weeks before the election, at the end, they spend millions on commercials filled with lies. The trio spent over $3 million in California on Prop.36.

Greenbudnote: This guy must have been roommates at the Academy with John Walters.]

Halushka hopes the tide is turning. For example, their website hasn't been updated since 2000. The issue was taken off the ballot in Michigan and Florida.

"Facts speak louder than money." He noted that opponents are finally getting their act together to counter the fight to legalize drugs.

[Greenbudnote: Correction = Money speaks louder than facts. This is America, remember? The prohibitionists and ministers of marijuana propaganda have federal funding on their side. Billions of dollars worth. Medical marijuana activists use their own money and donations. You may have the monopoly on funding but we have the monopoly on the truth.]

Halushka said he had no problem giving people with serious medical conditions the drugs found in marijuana, but it should be done by a medical professional.

"We've never before made medical decisions at the ballot box," Halushka continues. "This is a decision that needs to be made by medical professionals... If the FDA says it's safe and effective, then smoking marijuana can be offered."

[Greenbudnote: Medical decisions are made at the ballot box every year. Every vote for or against anti-drug measures is a medical decision. And I believe MMJ has a pretty strong backing in the medical community, Mr. Halushka.]

Of course, the problem is that marijuana isn't "safe" Halushka says. In fact, marijuana contains over 400 carcinogens and five times the tar and carbon monoxide of a regular cigarette. AIDS patients on marijuana in states where it has been legalized have had a huge increase in cases of deadly pneumonia.

[Greenbudnote: Lies...this is old propaganda that was debunked years ago. A huge increase in pneumonia in AIDS patients?Where are the reports? Last I heard there were a few cases and they couldn't be attributed to MJ use.]

Yes, there are benefits to THC, but it has been availible in pill form since 1975, so there is no real need to smoke marijuana.

[Greenbudnote: Fella, have you even researched this subject outside of the DEA (Drug Exaggeration Administration)? There's a reason why the patients don't want to take synthetic THC. It doesn't work very well and has bad side effects. Take your head out of your *** and get the facts.]

To help end the drive to legalize marijuana in Michigan, Halushka, who will be president of the Troy Community Coalition next year, says he is pushing for Lansing to say that anyone circulating a ballot question in Michigan must be a registered voter in Michigan. He thinks that will kill the campaign to legalize marijuana in our state.

[Greenbudnote: Michigan voters are gonna prove you wrong on that one, buddy.]

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reggie_the_dog

Bla bla bla medical marijuana is a joke.......


Bla bla bla government studies say carbon monixide from cannabis is terrrible....

Bla bla bla I will completely ignore that vaporizing cannabis releases no carbon-dioxide and keep insisting that medical cannabis users muct SMOKE their medical cannabis and say it is baaaadddd


The Vaporizer cuts this guys whole argument to shreads.....

Vaporize your medical cannabis and there is no carbon-monoxide released

No tar in the lungs

No second hand smoke for other people.....

StewScum

The tar in marijuana has already been proven not to cause cancer, in fact, marijuana has never caused cancer in use of itself. The only side effects from marijuana on the body, is a chronic cough, thats about it. THey are still living in the past with these lies that havn't been proven, but havn't been completely disproven either and they will use the very small chance they were right to the max.

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