Medical marijuana focuses on right to life

[NVMojo]

Hey, fundies, you hear that? "right to life" issue!

March 28, 2006

California - A lawyer for an ill woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive asked an appeals court to prevent federal drug agents from ever arresting her.

The case, focusing on whether the gravely ill have a right to marijuana to keep them alive when legal drugs fail, is likely to reach the US Supreme Court soon.

Yet each time the high court has ruled on medical marijuana it has come down against allowing the sick and dying to use the drug to ease their symptoms and possibly prolong life.

The latest legal wrangling once again highlights the tension between the federal government, which declares marijuana an illegal controlled substance with no medical value, and the 11 US states allowing medical marijuana for patients with a doctor's recommendation.

more...

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=22&art_id=qw1143527402458R131

[mdmc]

1. thanks for the link

[rfranklin]

2. It was the only thing that kept me alive through high school...

They gotta say its okay!

[Demit]

6. >snicker

[apnu]

3. I wonder where all those 'states rights' Repukes are?

Eating a healthy dose of hypocrisy pie I bet. How come the Terminator hasn't stepped in and stood up for his voters?

:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

4. If Oxyconton is legal despite Rush Limbaugh...

then why can't marijuana be used for legitimate medical purposes?

From what I understand, you get a bigger high from Oxycontin than from pot, for example.

And I never heard of someone robbing a drug store to get pot.

[SHRED]

5. The war on grass...

...reaches new levels of absurdity.
:mad:

[Ezlivin]

7. Fetus emerges with munchies, mother arrested

Why is that baby's eyes so red?

And what the hell is on the doctor's head?

Too much Nickelback....

[John Q. Citizen]

8. In '04 in Montana our MMJ initiative passed with about 65% of the

vote (2 to 1.) i don't understand why the Dems don't use this issue as there own wedge issue and charge the Repos with disregard for ill people and government intrusion on the privacy rights of sick people.

They don't have to fix it. They just have to generally support states rights and the right of privacy.

Instead they are afraid of looking soft on drug use.

But 2 to 1? Only the the anti-gay-marrage initiative got more votes of any on the ballot, including all the candidates who ran.

They should be saying "Support States rights and support sick peoples right to privacy. Support the will of the voters."

[NashVegas]

9. I Don't Like This Argument They're Using

SCOTUS is wrong, anyway, but that's besides the point.

[MrPrax]

10. SCOTUS will trash this one too...

The Supremes in a unanimous decision will avoid all of the legal 'args', including states' rights, and simply say that the medical evidence that 'pot' saved her life is lacking and inconclusive
...and a couple like Scalia and Alito will have their 'interns' doodle some shit about the lower courts being out of line, activist, politically motiviated, etc
...which will give MSM it's frame to report the decision.