Cannabis prohibition is abomination in the first place. To withhold its medical benefits from the ill is atrocity.

This Ann Arbor native hopes to fly home, secure in the knowledge that Michigan retroactively respects physician-certification from California, in the very near future!

Yes on 1!

Let’s see.. they care that we don’t get: “Carcinogens, pollutants, fungus, pesticides,” etc. But these are perfectly okay when someone smokes a cigarette:

http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/599ingredients.html

For every reason he gives, alcohol and tobacco should be outlawed. There is no logic behind them, so I must conclude that these people are simply insane.

There is a pretty big effort to block it, and the reasoning they are using is that it will cost the state money. I get the strange feeling that the people who don’t want it don’t actually care about the money and are just religious wingnuts.

You’d be more or less right on that one, Ross. While ads opposing Prop 2 focus on lack of oversight and cost to the state, there’s nothing actually in the proposal (ballot language or otherwise) that would allocate government funds to stem cell research. The “2 Goes 2 Far” campaign is spearheaded by the chair of the MI Taxpayer’s Alliance, who’s a small-government guy until embryos are involved. Of course, the pro-2 side is headed by the same woman who tried to push the Reform MI Government Now through.

(Sorry for the threadjack!)

I believe I know how this usually turns out. Some very high profile politician gets cancer and has to change his mind on MMJ. No laws get changed, but we get to see nature’s irony as he vomits his stomache lining up while in handcuffs.

With that out of the way, can anyone really explain to me what the real (I mean REAL) reason is why the US Government doesn’t want to allow medical MJ?

Quote that comes to mind “…it’s like outlawing steak because babies can’t chew it.”

*No, MJ is not Michael Jordan.

Would that even be a problem? That’s how bad their arguments are.

http://www.aclupa.org/downloads/HerbSettlementRelease.pdf

Too bad that 19 grand didn’t come out of the assets of the arresting officer. Someone who definitely should be fired and spend a week in the stocks getting pelted with rotten food.

The first thing that needs to be done is to repeal that law allowing federal agents to interfere in local elections.

Actually, it there is no law that allows it; in fact, the Hatch Act at both Federal and State levels is supposed to prevent precisely that kind of thing from happening. But it is explicitly written into the ONDCP’s charter that they may act to try to counter ‘legalization’ oriented legislation and referenda.

Obviously, that is an indirect violation of the Hatch act, as Ron Paul made plain in his correspondence with both the GAO and the ONDCP, but (IMHO) because of the overly politicized nature of the present Administration, the GAO begged off from its’ duties as a government ‘watchdog’ and lamely stated that the ONDCP was acting within its’ charter.

Keep in mind ONDCP was used extensively by Karl Rove’s operatives in the White House as a vehicle for assisting Republicans in States where the election prospects for them were poor.

If anything was a Hatch Act violation, that was. Hence my statement that they were overly politicized. Walters has become so much of a party hack that he’s sticking his nose in foreign affairs (of which he is anything but an expert) such as the tiff between Venezuela and the US.

There’s not even the vestige of supposed bureaucratic neutrality as befits a civil servant; he’s pimped himself to the Republican apparatus, body and soul. If Karl Rove had told him to get on all fours and bark like a dog, ol’ Johnny would probably have gone a step further, and bought his own leash. He’s owned, as simple as that.

And he’s supposed to be a ‘public servant’. Looks like the only part of the public he’s serving is the part drawing paychecks for carrying out this execrable DrugWar…

The campaign commercials around here make the choices easy. The FOP runs ads for/against several issues and several of the AG and judicial candidates tout their endorsements by police groups.

When the people running around shooting kids are making political statements “for the children,” I know which way I’m voting.

don’t they ever wonder wth their doing? if they cared about kids so much, why did they seek out jobs with guns?

I just read this today in our local newspaper:

“Father James Edward O’C***** and Michael D***** were arrested in South Charleston on Sunday, Sept. 29, about 10:35 p.m. after a police officer traveling behind them smelled the drug wafting from their vehicle.”
I starred out the names to protect the innocent.

This guy is a local priest in the Catholic Church

WTF is wafting anyway

There is a pretty big effort to block it, and the reasoning they are using is that it will cost the state money. I get the strange feeling that the people who don’t want it don’t actually care about the money and are just religious wingnuts.

Next, repeal Biden’s anti-Rave law that is deliberately used to disrupt 1st Amendment activities related to the War on Drugs/America. We need to bring back stocks in the public square specifically for law enforcement that choose to violate civil rights based on subject matter, and that’s after losing their badges with a lifetime ban on any career related to law enforcement. Pull this crap, forget about being a PI or a security guard, or a prison guard, forget about being eligible for sheriff or dogcatcher — lifetime ban means exactly that.

Next, rewrite the laws to ensure that all civil forfeiture proceeds regardless of venue go to public hospitals, public literacy programs, anywhere but back to the pockets of cops. “Conflict of Interest” doesn’t even begin to describe the incest occurring here.

And make it clear to all law enforcement, all levels, all agencies, if you want to be a cop, expect 24/7 tracking and surveillance of their persons. Undercover? Tough shit. You are public servants, not slave overseers. Get over it.

Finally, get rid of government propaganda organizations like DARE and the Partnership For A Truth-Free America. The kids already know you’re lying, so stop wasting time and money on this crap.

How sick a scumbag do you have to be to say something like that out loud? Effing asshole.

Shorter John Waters: People should (painfully) die, so that others can’t – maybe – get high.