Why are they f***ing with people who use "medicinal" marijuana?

[maveric]

I dint get it. The states say its OK and now they can be charged with a crime on the federal level?
It takes away some folks pain and helps those with AIDS and cancer with appetite SO THEY CAN EAT AND PROLONG THEIR LIVES!
What is the fucking agenda here?
I just dint get it!

[walldude]

1. Two Words

Liquor Lobby... Ok 2 more, Pharmaceutical Lobby... pot is illegal because someone is making money off it being illegal.

[KaliTracy]

2. pharmaceuticals. My Uncle had colon cancer 5 yrs ago, and they prescribed

him THC so he would want to eat during the extensive Chemo. Pills (Marinol). That's what this is all about, though they'll go to their grave saying this is about the war on drugs. yeah, right.

edit: spelling and name of "legitimate" THC

[ooglymoogly]

3. they are democrats

criminalizing marijuana is a win win for the gop

[AlienGirl]

4. Because desperately ill people are usually too sick to fight. n/t

[marmar]

5. The U.S.A.

has become a Puritanical hell.

:smoke:

[jaxx]

7. All those born agains with sins up the wazoo, can now act holier

than thou and try to ban everything they ever did. Freakin hypocrites.

[wookie294]

6. It's a constitutional issue

The commerce clause of the constitution gives Congress and the president supremacy over state laws. If Congress outlaws medical marijuana and a state legalizes it, Congress wins. The same concept was used to outlaw racial discrimination in the states back in the 1960s. I think pot should be legalized, but I agreed with the Court's decision today. The funny thing is that Clarence Thomas dissented and voted in favor of allowing states to ignore federal law. He wants the states to have the power to ignore federal laws so that states can ban abortion and legalize discrimination outlawed at the federal level.

[maveric]

9. Why do you agree with the decision?

:shrug:

[wookie294]

11. Today's decision thwarts the "states rights" lunatics on the right

Many right wingers want the states to have more power than the federal government so the states can ignore long-standing laws passed in Washington, DC, including civil rights laws and abortion laws. If the Supreme Court agreed to allow states to run wild and pass laws that contravene laws passed in Washington, DC, then civil rights laws would never have been passed and the Republican South would have more power today. I'm glad the Supreme Court's decision today disagreed with Clarence Thomas. It will help thwart attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade and civil rights legislation.

[Warpy]

8. it's the way the damnable drug laws are written

and there is no exception in them for sick people to get comfort using Schedule 1 drugs like pot or heroin.

What the six who handed down this appalling decision down should have done was shame Satan by finally telling the truth, that ALL Federal drug laws are unconstitutional and the whole rotten edifice is based on a serious misreading of TAX LAW.

I don't know if Congress will pass exceptions to those stupid laws so that sick people lucky enough to live in the 10 states with the law and a distribution network can continue to get their medication. Drug laws are just too damned popular with suburban parents. Not until blonde suburban BAY BEES get thrown into prison for life sentences for pot possession will those people finally wake the hell up.

As usual, anything punitive that results in a loss of civil liberty is WRONG, and UNWORKABLE and UNENFORCEABLE. It's time to end the sham. The USSC had a golden opportunity to do so and they BLEW IT.

I never thought I'd be on the side of Thomas and Rehnquist in anything, but they did the right thing for the wrong reason this time.

[Fovea]

10. Because conservative compassion

does not extend past the date of birth.
After that, if you are not a millionaire,
they *want* you to die in misery, as a slave to big pharma.

[Floogeldy]

12. Because Hippies smoked marijuana and it is a symbol of . . .

. . . freedom, anti-establishment, rebellion, free love, peace, social revolution, the 60's Renaissance and everything antithetical to corporate and religious rule over our lives.

BTW, I WAS a long-haired hippie back in the 70's.

It looks like today's Supreme Court ruling was mostly law based, rather than morally based, but all of the right wing freaks supporting the decision are simply stupid fucking reactionaries.