Medical Marijuana Hearings Begin

[NVMojo]

Aug 23 - A hearing into a challenge to federal laws prohibiting research and experimentation with marijuana opened today, with the American Civil Liberties Union charging that the Drug Enforcement Agency’s efforts to fight such privately-funded research posed an unnecessary obstruction that could prevent researchers from definitively finding out whether the plant has legitimate medical uses.

The proceedings cap a four-year battle by a University of Massachusetts professor seeking to grow marijuana for research into the prohibited plant’s medicinal uses. Through its Drug Law Reform Project, the ACLU is representing the plant researcher, Lyle E. Craker, in front of a Department of Justice administrative law judge who will make recommendations to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

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[TechBear_Seattle]

1. If it took a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol...

... how can Congress ban cannabis by legislative fiat?

I've never been able to get an answer to this very simple question about the state of the 10th Amendment.

[NVMojo]

2. good point! And Congress should be figuring out how to deal with

meth instead of chasing this one around.

[Sgent]

6. Because

the Supreme Ct. loosened up the definition of interstate commerce.

This was a good thing, otherwise the civil rights act, clean air/water acts, and many others would be at serious risk.

[niallmac]

3. I remember predicting in the '60s

that pot would be legal by 1975. Not even for the sick will the DEA relent. I wasn't aware of just what the big deal was with chemo patients and nausea and nutrition until I started working with them more. There is precious little out there that works as well as pot according to many I have spoken to. For forty five years I have been unable to really figure out why the big federal freak about Marijuana. No research, no discussion, no states rights, no look no touch no no no. Is it like those special shades that let you see the aliens? Those are cool.

[LeighAnn]

5. My Old Prediction: 2004, JFK Jr. Elected President, Weed Legal

That's how I used to see the future, back in the 80's & 90's. Imagine my disappointment.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Good luck fighting the Pharmaceutical Terrorists

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They've got a Trillion Dollar industry at stake

peddling drugs through their dealer, affectionately known as doctors

how many times ya heard a doctor say, right after giving you a prescription

"well, if that doesn't work, we'll try sumthing else"

(that's why doctors have a "practice" - mechanics, welders, plumbers etc. have a "trade" - they fix it - it STAYS fixed (mostly))

I've had doctors try 3 -4 different medications for a single ailment, and had none of them work, but they, and the pharmaceutical companies always get their $$$

no "warranties" in the med biznesss

just sell the stuff until people start deforming/dying whatever,

then sell them sumthing else

they don't want MJ on the market cuz it don't kill no-one - and mostly because,

IT WORKS