Lawmakers Discusses Making Marijuana Legal

[Cobalt Violet]

Lawmakers Discusses Making Marijuana Legal

Mike Hellgren

http://wjz.com/local/local_story_065185014.html

WJZ) ANNAPOLIS, Md. Lawmakers are discussing making marijuana legal.

If the drug becomes legal it would decriminalize its use for those with medical conditions including cancer, HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis C, and Glaucoma and it would be restrictions on who could get the drug.

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Irvin Rosenfeld says, "This is normal medicine it's like a diabetic injecting insulin." Rosenfeld says it relaxes his muscles and releases pain from a debilitating medical condition. "I had bone tumors throughout my body" adds Rosenfeld.

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Employees who use the drug, would be prevented from job and employment discrimination.

[SemperEadem]

1. well done. I hope this passes without the usual hysteria

[porphyrian]

2. If it's still illegal federally, though, you'll have the same problems as California. - n/t

[Cobalt Violet]

6. True.

But more and more states are joining.

[porphyrian]

8. I want to see it legalized federally. I guess state by state is a start. - n/t

[Cobalt Violet]

9. Me too. In my lifetime someday.

I can't believe it still isn't. I think most of the people in power now have smoked it. There is no excuse for criminalizing so many people for what they themselves have done.

[porphyrian]

10. There's a lot of money being made by the "prison industrial complex," unfortunately.

And that will complicate matters, especially with the trend towards privatizing prisons (making them for-profit) and using prisoners as slave labor for corporate interests.

[Cobalt Violet]

11. They are making a lot of money now.

I don't think they have factored in the diseases that can take them down.

[w4rma]

12. Probably won't be that hard to pass it federally, as long it is allowed to be voted upon.

I think a surprising number of Republicans would cross the isle to counteract any blue dogs that balk at such a bill. Of course we need a President who would actually sign the bill ...

[Cobalt Violet]

7. dupe.

[jaysunb]

3. This is all well and good, but

how bout we just cut the crap and return canabis to it's rightful herbal, non-drug status where it belongs. Enough is enough !

[Cobalt Violet]

4. But if it's curative it is a drug.

A drug and a herb. It should stop being demonized.

[Bronyraurus]

5. Amen to that.

I'll agree with the above when alcohol is only used by sufferers of serious diseases.

[sammythecat]

13. The country's too whacked out now

too accept anyone getting a pleasurable high, although getting crazy drunk and then passing out is almost a necessary rite of passage.

[Cobalt Violet]

14. We can't have pleasure.

At least no pleasure that will not make some right-wing corporation very wealthy.
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