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

[Doug Pearson]

On Tue, 15 May 2001 09:24:14 -0500, John Majka <jmajka2 at HOME.COM> wrote:
>You know, for all practical purposes, Marijuana is already legal as a
>medicinal.... pure THC is available in pill form under the name Marinol.

That is true.  However, one of the main medical uses of cannabis is as an
anti-nauseant for people undergoing chemotherapy for cancer or AIDS who are
unable to swallow anything - even a Marinol pill - without puking it back
up.  Sorta defeats the purpose (although the pill form would certainly be
viable for glaucoma patients, one of the other main medical uses).

[and FoFP wrote:]
>> You guys really need to get over Prohibition. The joke has gone way too
>> far and it's infected the rest of us.

Agreed, although prohibitive legislation hardly originated in this country
(but it doesn't help that some of the original settlers were folks who left
England after the pro-prohibition Cromwell government got what was coming
to it).  Of course, you're correct that (praise Allah!) states like Saudi
Arabia aren't exactly trying to push THEIR laws down the throats of Western
European and South American nations, unlike this neighborhood bully ...

>> 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.

That's a Constitutional Ammendment.  The catch is that one of those has to
be approved by congress before it can be ratified by the 2/3 of the states
required to bring the ammendment into effect.  It doesn't do anything if
2/3 of the states act on their own (although if the states' congressional
representatives are doing their jobs, they would approve the ammendment in
congress to reflect the will of the states' voters, but that is clearly
currently not the case: California's two senators, for instance, both (neo-
)"liberal" Democrats, are hardcore WOsD (War On some Drugs) supporters,
DESPITE the state's voters having passed both medical marijuana AND
treatment-over-incarceration ballot initiatives).

Of course, it pretty much took the Great Depression to get that ammendment
passed.  So maybe the Bush (p)residency isn't such a bad thing, after
all ...

    -Doug (damn proud of his hometown CBC for fighting the good fight!)
     jasret at mindspring.com