Supreme Court outlaws medical marijuana

There was a time in the U.S. when there was talk about legalizing pot. Times have sure changed.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/06/scotus.medical.marijuana.ap/index.html

.

 

You know, its pretty silly to outlaw medical pot when the government could make a PROFIT from it:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=38168

$1.1 million surplus-whats wrong with that?!?!

 

dont you just love this country?

*sigh*.. too bad the majority of people are sheep, for even our forefathers would call for a revolution right now.

 

Technically, the court didn't "outlaw" medical marijuana; it simply upheld the existing federal ban. This is still a travesty, though. The framers of the Constitution would never have dreamed that growing pot for personal use could somehow be deemed "interstate commerce" and subject to federal regulation!

 

I read a news article last year about a man in the U.S. who was using pot personally for medical reasons. The federal government bothered him so much that he movied to Canada. The feds even followed him to Canada and started bothering him up there. They argued he was growing it in Canada and selling it back to the U.S., although they didn't give any evidence for that.

.

 

Alcohol & Tobbacco companies have a very powerful lobby, and they more than anything else are the reason Marijuana is illegal.

NORML, as well intentioned as they may be, are not a respectable lobby group.

They need to clean up their image and present themselves as more professional and serious, because right now NORML just comes off as a bunch of college kids kicking around hackey-sacks and throwing frisbees around campus.

 

I think if too many more things are thrown in our faces by the govt., there will be a revolution. This federal ban on use of medical marijuana is truly a travesty (to borrow your word, Huck!). The government angles itself more and more in the lives of Americans....soon there will not even be a remnant of a democracy, just a dictatorship, or a theocracy. It all just scares me. Yep, a lot of people in this country are sheep, but if the govt. keeps moving more and more toward control of the people and what we do, prob. more folks will start stepping out and resisting. I can only hope so.

 

I don't think this is going to change things much, i mean the reason they stopped busting old people smoking pot is that it looks bad to have a bunch of photographs of Federal Agents pointing guns at wheel-chair bound old ladies....

 

I really love how Scalia talks about States Rights then pulls this bullshit.

 

I am too angry for words. Are they going to put desperatly ill people in jail? Or will they just be happy to see these people suffer needlessly?

 

at least we'll be paying for their treatment instead of them........

{dreadfully sarcastic, but also feeling for the people}

 

Smile, your government loves you.

 

I'm a medical marijuana card holder.I am disapointed in the ruling,but hardly surprised.I am back to feeling like a criminal now.It's okay that the VA can give me drugs I'm allergic to and came close to killing me just last year.It's okay for the VA to try to turn me into a hardcore drug addict.You should see them give me dirty looks when I tell them I won't take their drugs,and I prefer to smoke weed.For me it just works better,with no side effects.I grew my own,didn't cost the govt a dime,,,but I'm a criminal.I cannot,,,,and will not stop because of thier misguided ruling.I will not leave this country either.I will fight.Thier are many of us,peace loving as we are,that will fight to the end to resolve this injustice.

 

My only hope is that if they do start coming down heavy on patients, it will create a public backlash, which might pressure Congress to finally rein in the DEA.

 

I hope that happens. The Medical benefits of Cannabis have been known for a very long time. The problem is that even politicians on the Left don't want to be seen as "soft on drugs" so the draconian laws, which benefit no one, except big drug companies and street drug dealers, continue.

 

I think there will be a sea change in public drug policy after the baby boomers finally fill the ranks of AARP, which now consists primarily of people who never even tried pot and believe its comparable to heroin. It's pretty ironic, considering that this same generation generally thought tobacco was harmless!

 

That will teach all those people for getting cancer and glacoma!

 

It doesn't even benefit big drug companies. Imagine the profit they could make by selling a dried plant as a pharmaceutical! It only helps street dealers. Even allowing people to carry pot cards is unacceptable, IMO. These patients deserve a pure and consistent product, which is hard to find on the street.

 

The party that was the defense in the case is taking it to congress soon.

 

Let me first off state what wasteful, horrific bullshit it is to deprive sick people of much needed Medicine.

I don't support the war on drugs at all, but an intresting part of this case is, that they technically didn't outlaw medical marijuana, they just made federal prosecution of it stay legitimate even if it was prescribed.

So it's really a reafirmation of an existing law, even though its a really bad one. It's nothing that shouldn't have been seen comming months ago... doctors will continue to prescribe medical marijuana.