Comments on: New Evidence That Marijuana is Safe, Effective http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/ Marijuana Policy Project Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:43:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mikey http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12511 Mikey Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:27:27 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12511 The Arizona bill isn't ANY MORE restrictive than the pending New Jersey bill. Yet no one has jumped all over New Jersey NORML's efforts to get medical marijuana legislation. No one has tried to derail the New jersey legislation. In New jersey you couldn't grow PERIOD. Not a peep about that. The critics of the Arizona initiative are perfectly fine with the political football game going on in New Jersey. In all fairness the New Jersey bill is going through the New Jersey legislation and therefor a bill had to be crafted that the New Jersey legislation and the Governor would go along with. The Arizona bill is going directly to the people but the same politics are at play, only on a larger scale. So the same considerations had to be made. That's the reality of politics. The Arizona bill isn’t ANY MORE restrictive than the pending New Jersey bill. Yet no one has jumped all over New Jersey NORML’s efforts to get medical marijuana legislation. No one has tried to derail the New jersey legislation. In New jersey you couldn’t grow PERIOD. Not a peep about that. The critics of the Arizona initiative are perfectly fine with the political football game going on in New Jersey. In all fairness the New Jersey bill is going through the New Jersey legislation and therefor a bill had to be crafted that the New Jersey legislation and the Governor would go along with. The Arizona bill is going directly to the people but the same politics are at play, only on a larger scale. So the same considerations had to be made. That’s the reality of politics.

]]> By: End the Hypocrisy! http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12509 End the Hypocrisy! Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:46:38 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12509 It is cruel and unusual punishment to withhold medicine from the people of the United States, or any other nation on earth. No where in the Constitution does it state that the Federal Government has the right to deem what is considered "medicine." It is cruel and unusual punishment to withhold medicine from the people of the United States, or any other nation on earth. No where in the Constitution does it state that the Federal Government has the right to deem what is considered “medicine.”

]]> By: Mikey http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12497 Mikey Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:49:49 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12497 I suggest people not put too much weight into what Bruce Cain has to say. You can feel the ego seeping through the monitor when you visit his page. He talks a lot about himself and spends plenty of time disparaging the attempts for law reform by other groups (as well as complaining about how they won't give him money for his efforts); but there's very little in the way of realistic ideas or controbutions to the cannabis reform movement. Most of his energy is directed at trying to discredit actual functioning cannabis law reform groups like MPP and NORML. The MRRP system is completely unworkable and definitively WILL NOT garner much support from those on the fence about legalization. And his time frame laughably unrealistic. This guy and his "organization" is a joke and I'm dissappointed to see how many folks out there are actually buying into it. Do you honestly think Arizona Conservatives were fine with the concept of people growing their own crop and the MPP just arbitrarily removed it? It would have been a point of contention for the initiative. We have to play the political game, get our foot in the door and show Arizona the world isn't going to end. Then we can perfect the law. How is pointing fingers at the MPP and shooting down the initiative going to help anything? If this initiative fails it will be because of forces in our own movement. Don't be foolish. Pass the initiative and THEN work on the details I suggest people not put too much weight into what Bruce Cain has to say. You can feel the ego seeping through the monitor when you visit his page. He talks a lot about himself and spends plenty of time disparaging the attempts for law reform by other groups (as well as complaining about how they won’t give him money for his efforts); but there’s very little in the way of realistic ideas or controbutions to the cannabis reform movement. Most of his energy is directed at trying to discredit actual functioning cannabis law reform groups like MPP and NORML. The MRRP system is completely unworkable and definitively WILL NOT garner much support from those on the fence about legalization. And his time frame laughably unrealistic. This guy and his “organization” is a joke and I’m dissappointed to see how many folks out there are actually buying into it.

Do you honestly think Arizona Conservatives were fine with the concept of people growing their own crop and the MPP just arbitrarily removed it? It would have been a point of contention for the initiative. We have to play the political game, get our foot in the door and show Arizona the world isn’t going to end. Then we can perfect the law. How is pointing fingers at the MPP and shooting down the initiative going to help anything? If this initiative fails it will be because of forces in our own movement. Don’t be foolish. Pass the initiative and THEN work on the details

]]> By: FreeTheWeed http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12314 FreeTheWeed Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:55:46 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12314 Pot legalization gains momentum in California. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091008/ap_on_re_us/us_marijuana_legalization;_ylt=AiT5v5gkQuOWUt4In2iuYgCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNicjZtYWM4BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMDA4L3VzX21hcmlqdWFuYV9sZWdhbGl6YXRpb24EY3BvcwM3BHBvcwM0BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDbWFyaWp1YW5hbGVn Pot legalization gains momentum in California.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091008/ap_on_re_us/us_marijuana_legalization;_ylt=AiT5v5gkQuOWUt4In2iuYgCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNicjZtYWM4BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMDA4L3VzX21hcmlqdWFuYV9sZWdhbGl6YXRpb24EY3BvcwM3BHBvcwM0BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDbWFyaWp1YW5hbGVn

]]> By: Bud from KY http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12313 Bud from KY Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:38:29 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12313 Bruce, I hope you didn't take my question wrong about who forced MPP to add the grow ban wording. I just want to know if I'm doing the right thing by sending what little I can afford to help support them. I know they have been fighting for our rights for a long time, but this sounds like they are getting crawfishy if you know the old cajun term referring to backing up from the fight. I don't mean any harm to MPP if they had no choice, as I understand backing off to fight another day. Bruce,

I hope you didn’t take my question wrong about who forced MPP to add the grow ban wording. I just want to know if I’m doing the right thing by sending what little I can afford to help support them. I know they have been fighting for our rights for a long time, but this sounds like they are getting crawfishy if you know the old cajun term referring to backing up from the fight. I don’t mean any harm to MPP if they had no choice, as I understand backing off to fight another day.

]]> By: Bud from KY http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12312 Bud from KY Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:23:36 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12312 I wonder how Jack Herer is doing today. I know he is in for a very long battle. I hope he pulls through. He could use all of our thoughts. I wonder how Jack Herer is doing today. I know he is in for a very long battle. I hope he pulls through. He could use all of our thoughts.

]]> By: Bud from KY http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12311 Bud from KY Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:19:42 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12311 I'm sick with some bug and haven't slept in two days, so I am a little on edge. The bug probably would not have been so evil if I wasn't taking so many Meds that my system is weekened. If I could have Medical Marijuana I could reduce the amount of "Legal Drugs" I have to take now. I’m sick with some bug and haven’t slept in two days, so I am a little on edge. The bug probably would not have been so evil if I wasn’t taking so many Meds that my system is weekened. If I could have Medical Marijuana I could reduce the amount of “Legal Drugs” I have to take now.

]]> By: Bud from KY http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12310 Bud from KY Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:12:03 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12310 I'm sorry that was rude. I’m sorry that was rude.

]]> By: Bud from KY http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12309 Bud from KY Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:11:21 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12309 Hello Conservative Christian, If you can't afford to buy a weeks supply of Medical Marijuana from the dispensaries, how would you suggest buying the license needed to start your own clinic? I feel like I've missed something along the way, could you help me see the light? Hello Conservative Christian,

If you can’t afford to buy a weeks supply of Medical Marijuana from the dispensaries, how would you suggest buying the license needed to start your own clinic? I feel like I’ve missed something along the way, could you help me see the light?

]]> By: Bobby 50 Cent http://blog.mpp.org/research/new-evidence-that-marijuana-is-safe-effective/10052009/comment-page-2/#comment-12306 Bobby 50 Cent Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:14:55 +0000 http://blog.mpp.org/?p=1507#comment-12306 You must be careful with back pain as the consequences can be dangerous so findrxonline indicated in an article on the subject, I suffer from chronic fibromyalgia for a few years ago I had a tug on my lower back and has gotten worse over time, I have visited many doctors and to ease my pain I was prescribed narcotic opioid drug that is like vicodin, oxycontin, lortab that help curb these terrible back pain. You must be careful with back pain as the consequences can be dangerous so findrxonline indicated in an article on the subject, I suffer from chronic fibromyalgia for a few years ago I had a tug on my lower back and has gotten worse over time, I have visited many doctors and to ease my pain I was prescribed narcotic opioid drug that is like vicodin, oxycontin, lortab that help curb these terrible back pain.

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