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| Drug Czar Says Medical Marijuana 'Dying' Audrey McAvoy| LA Times | 07/29/2005 HONOLULU -- The White House drug czar said Friday that medical marijuana is "dying out" after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that federal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe pot to ease pain. John Walters, the national drug policy director, said state legislative efforts to expand medical marijuana programs have stalled in the two months since the high court's ruling overrode laws in Hawaii and nine other states. "I think it's dying out," Walters told reporters after a meeting with Hawaii drug treatment counselors and law enforcement officials. "The real issue here is, is it the safe and best way for medical treatment? We don't think the best thing for people who are really sick is to make them high and send them away." Walters said the federal government was funding research into whether cannabis could be used as a source of "medically sound" drugs, but he said "smoked marijuana hasn't met that science." Steve Kubby, national director of the American Medical Marijuana Association, objected to Walters' remark, saying there are "hundreds" of peer-reviewed scientific studies showing clear medical benefits from cannabis. "The drug czar has blood on his hands for blocking the humane and medical use of cannabis for sick, disabled and dying people," Kubby said. Kubby, a force behind the passage of a California proposition that legalized pot clubs, said marijuana can help treat nausea, pain, arthritis and cancer.
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| Sadly, I agree with Walters, the Prohibitonist are winning this "war" by a rather large margin right now. |
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| That may be, for the moment, but 11 states is pretty damn good, and change is 'a-coming...but hey, I'm not the one with "blood on my hands" either, so I can sleep at night. Like Walters could care less anyways, can't wait until that man (et al) is gone.
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| Drug Czar Says Medical Marijuana 'Dying"..... The Drug Czar says alotta dumb sh!t. This is not any different. Quote:
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The DEA and the entire government prohibition machine is like the little stone in the big river, eventually it will be washed away. Even "The Man" can't change Supply and Demand! | |
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Prohibition is not going to just whither away because it's a bad idea or because a lot of people enjoy marijuana. Unless marijuana users get off the couch and start funding the organizations that are fighting prohibition, prohibition will be with us for the foreseeable future. The vast majority of marijuana users don't seem to give a damn.
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I plan on following Buzzby's example and donating to the MPP, since it looks like they take decisive action. Also, I'm in the process of planning a rally at my college under the banner of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy. One huge problem is that people rarely become outspoken activists until they have been busted. It may be useful to start a coalition of people who have been busted so when more people get busted, are angry and want to do something we will have a process for them to enter to help our common cause. Also, my idea with the Common Sense Coalition is to create a symbol, which doesn't have marijuana in the title, with a flag that also does not have a pot leaf, that can be touted publicly to show support for marijuana regulation without seeming like a stereotypical pothead. | |
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| most of them care, but few actually feel like doing anything about it.
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Another problem is spreading the word, they recently had to fight a court battle to even allow paid ads to be put in subway and bus stops in isolated areas, and newspapers and other private publications often refuse to allow the same. It's not that people aren't trying to say what needs to be said and haven't been for years, they just aren't being repeated much. That's why we need solid LTE campaigns and such, got to work on the minds of those running these places so we can get into the public eye. Quote:
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Past that there's bunches of other sites such as the Drug Truth Network and others of the sort that do multiple shows a week trying to reach us, and there's the archives at the DRCNet Schaffer Drug Library which link to more groups I didn't mention at the top of that. Most of the great new ideas people have aren't really new, though they may be great. We've spent decades twidlling our thumbs and doing little, the groups are already out there for about any approach you'd care to name. So are the tools, the information, and the methods. They'll tell you how to write a good LTE or OP-Ed for the local newspaper, how to contact reps and write letters, how to organize locally, and so on. Heck, even the old womens anti prohibition group from back in the 20's and 30's has been ressurected again at W.O.N.P.R. We don't need to invent the wheel yet again, we need to support those who have already been doing it for years and see what they've already learned, then expand on that. We're already split among dozens of seperate groups pulling in multiple directions and we aren't getting very far for it, we need to pull together more instead I'd think. That's how groups that finally did get somewhere did it. Most of what people say we need is already out there, but we invent it yet again rather than discover and support what we've already got.
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| Walters has sucked, does suck and probably always will suck. We have a problem with activism as many of us are growers or at least posessers of cannabis and wish very little attention drawn to ourselves. I currently give money to three activist orgs, but I would like to see them all unified so their limited resources could be combined. I think that each state they would take on for med cannabis would be more doable if they were unified. Who knows, Walters might be heard saying, "I think we have lost the war on smoked marijuana as medicine". Dream on I suppose. I will keep giving to the big names like norml and mpp anyway. I have stopped growing and am getting my possession amount down so if I can do something for the cause and go to far, I hope not to go to jail. |
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