OFF: GANJA:Medical Marijuana, Supreme Court ruling -_-

John Majka jmajka2 at HOME.COM
Tue May 15 10:24:14 EDT 2001


You know, for all practical purposes, Marijuana is already legal as a
medicinal.... pure THC is available in pill form under the name Marinol.
John Majka
jmajka2 at home.com


> DASLUD at AOL.COM writes:
>
> >
> > WASHINGTON (May 14) - The Supreme Court handed medical marijuana users a
> > major defeat Monday, ruling that a federal law classifying the drug as
> > illegal has no exception for ill patients.
> >
> > The 8-0 decision was a major disappointment to many sufferers of AIDS,
> > cancer, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses. They have said the drug
> > helped enormously in combatting the devastating effects of their
diseases.
>
> <...>
> >
> > Voters in Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, Oregon
and
> > Washington also have approved ballot initiatives allowing the use of
medical
> > marijuana. In Hawaii, the legislature passed a similar law and the
governor
> > signed it last year.
>
> You guys really need to get over Prohibition. The joke has gone way too
> far and it's infected the rest of us.
>
> You got rid of alcohol Prohibition by a convocation of States. If there
> are enough states willing to medicalise marijuana then maybe getting the
> 2/3 of states needed to overrule the feds is the way to go. It's not
> like you;re short of lawyers or anything.
>
> FoFP



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