January 26, 2007

• I defy anyone bent double over a toilet, head spinning from the effects of chemotherapy, to turn down relief when offered in any form. People should be alarmed at much of the world's continued prohibition towards a plant whose effects have proven many times to be less harmful than those of alcohol, especially when said plant can do literally miraculous things for those whose paths have been darkened by cancer or many of a host of other illnesses. I have sat alongside a suffering friend as he was transformed by a single puff, able to speak, eat, and be a human being again. Illegality in this case only fuels a huge uncontrolled, underground market while denying aid to those too honest, law-abiding, unconnected or ill to procure it on their own.
• What kinnakeet said. Also, it's gooooovy, man...
• thanks for stating that so well kinnakeet. medical marijuana is also of great benefit to those suffering from otherwise untreatable forms of severe depression, and glaucoma. to deny people this therapeutic relief is one of the most uncompassionate things I know.
• I'm also in the what kinnakeet said camp. I'm not going to add to those words...
• *puts up her tent in kinnakeet's camp too*
• You people are a buncha ungodly sex-crazed hippies with no respect for the law of this Yew Nited Stats and ya's need to get out and get a job and get yer hair cut and putona shirt and some shoes and get some respect, dammit. *exhales, giggles with her hand in the chips bowl *sings another round of the Kinnakeet song
• Amen.
• Hippies.
• I had a pal who had Hodgkin's disease. If it weren't for the weed plant there, he wouldn't have been able to eat during his treatment.
• The Great California Weed Rush. How medical marijuana is turning L.A. pot dealers into semilegit businessmen - no beeper required Via. See also.
• Lawsuit Challenges Gov't to 'Stop Making False Statements' About Pot
• Calif. appeals court rules against dying woman in medical marijuana case
• Prosecutor Mess Shows Sick Priorities of Bush Justice Department: Jailing Physicians, Pot Dealers and Bong-Makers
• New Mexico makes twelve. Rah rah Richardson!
• Cannabis Has "Clear Medical Benefits" For HIV Patients, Study Says
• New Mexico Law Requires State to Produce Marijuana But I'm sure the Republicans will support the state's rights.
• In Pot We Trust
• The conversations just boggle my mind. Yer goin' ta jail, ya stinkin' pothead. Na, I'm dyin' of cancer, man.
• Medical Marijuana: What's the Point?
• On the Blue: An excellent example of the consequences of the Supreme Court's Gonzales v. Raich decision: today the United States House of Representatives voted down a bill which would have prohibited the DEA from targeting State-authorized medical marijuana dispensaries. Almost simultaneously, the DEA raided 10 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles.
• San Francisco Orders Medical Marijuana Dispensaries to Sell Fatter Bags
• Ed Rosenthal: Big Man of Buds
• Medical marijuana advocate kills herself
• Drew Carey defends medical marijuana
• Feds go after wildly successful medical pot sellers
• Cannabis Compound May Stop Metastatic Breast Cancer
• War on Drugs has unlikely foe
• Medical marijuana user who was denied liver transplant dies