MT lawmaker says ND lawmakers should deal with medical marijuana, not voters
August 18, 2012 at 7:01 pm in Grand Forks Herald
In 2004, Montana passed a medical marijuana initiative through a general election which was hard to regulate, said Montana State Sen. Donald Steinbeisser, R-Sidney. “The problem we had in Montana, before the last session, over half of the people that were using medical marijuana cards were 20- to 30-year-olds,” he said. “You know dog-gone well there’s something wrong with that.” Continue Reading
What a ridiculous article. It’s nothing but the opinions of some ignorant old fools.
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The laws prohibiting cannabis are more harmful to people than the cannabis itself. Anyone who is informed knows that cannabis is harmless and the laws prohibiting it do nothing but persecute innocent people.
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I wouldn’t disagree that the legislature should be dealing with it but that’s the problem, they don’t, just like the Montana legislature didn’t.
Then the people do your job and you complain they didn’t get it right the first time.
Seems to me the legislature is constantly fixing on laws they passed too.
So what it boils down to is ego, I’m so smart and the people are so dumb.
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No marv, I disagree. The whole point is that legalizing mary jane isn’t so simple. I wouldn’t mind a vote by the people stating legalizaation of marijauna has to happen by the legislation and than go back to the people for approval. That would be a productive process that would make sure the industry was regulated and not abused.
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I disagree with the legalization of marijuana and that it is a harmless drug. Once mixed with other outside factors it is just as dangerous as any othe controled substance on the market. However I would not oppose regulation if it passed a proposition vote followed by a regulating proposal.
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Nothing in the initiated measure says either that marijuana is harmless nor that it shouldn’t be regulated. Goodness most of the chemotherapy agents for cancer are quite harmful, radiation is quite harmful and so on. What we are talking is people in serious medical conditions who in some cases are helped by medical marijuana.
Nothing in the measure says the legislature, who will be meeting shortly after the vote, can’t add additional safeguards.
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Legalization activist keep bringing up the “patients”. They need it, it won’t bee abused. What happens is the 20 year olds go to a quack doctor and get a script and abuse the system! I state I do not support this system.
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Yeah, kind of like the current quack doctors who unnecessarily give out opiates and other pharms.
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The ND legislature has done more than enough damage.
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Weather you like it or not it is proven scientifically that the human body is wired with cannabis receptors that use the plant for healing the cells in your body.( See Run From The Cure ) It fights cancer in it own God given way. It was used as medicine the world over for thousands of years until a bunch of profiteers did not want to compete with hemp,( big oil, pharmaceutical, lumber ) and came up with these ridiculous reasons to outlaw it. You are more likely to die from a aspirin than pot . George Washington
Washington routinely smoked marijuana to alleviate the pain from his ailing teeth. Washington’s diary recounts his efforts to better cultivate and enhance his crops of marijuana.
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson grew cannabis on his plantation and smuggled Chinese hemp seeds to America. He also is believed to have given special smoking blends out as personal gifts which is why he makes the list.
James Madison
Madison once remarked that hemp gave him insight to create a new and democratic nation
Franklin Pierce
Continuing a popular theme of the era, Pierce also smoked with his troops as a general in the Mexican-American War. In a letter to his family, he says cannabis is “about the only good thing” in the war.
John F. Kennedy
Close acquaintances say Kennedy used cannabis regularly to control his back pain (even during his term) and actually planned on legalizing marijuana during his second term.
Come on people, get real, the prohibition is what is ruining lives, not the plant
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