Question: if Washington D.C. already voted in medical marijuana, why do they have to vote it in again after the one thing blocking its implementation was Bob Barr's amendment, which has now been proven in a court of law to be unconstitutional? In fact, they will vote it in again, but that is not the point. The law was already passed. The people had spoken, and now, simply because one jerk in Congress decided to throw up an unconstitutional roadblock, the people's vote still does not count? This makes no sense in a supposedly democratic republic. The people have already spoken. The fact that elected officials who were not voted on by the people of Washington D.C. placed unconstitutional obstacles in the way of enacting that law should not stand in the way of that law's implementation now that their obstacles have been declared unconstitutional in a federal court.

Does this make sense to anyone else?

When that Paul Lewis, the Chairman of the board of Progressive Corporation, was on Charlie Rose he said 23 states allowed for a ballot initiative process and that there would be iniatives in Florida, Ohio, and I think Michigan, although possible Wisconsin and that the Governors of these states were putting up severe opposition.

Europe will have legalized cannabis by the time Congress retreats to a Schedule 2 position. And what makes them think that a Schedule 2 classification when the UK first reduces cannabis to a Class C offense and then says its legal if you let us tax you to pay for all our past mistakes. Get your cannabis growing permit for only 400 British pounds per user per household.

Today…CONDITION YELLOW

My apologies to the readers here. I try my best to tie my ramblings to cannabis somehow and the recent terror alert challenge sponsored by dddd sent me into a slathering frenzy of laughter over the whole absurdity of Terrometerism. I lost sight of the issue of cannabis prohibition and the article at hand.

I understand the military concept of DEFCON that this new HSAS TERROMETER is based upon. DEFCON makes sense because you can see the tanks and missiles and planes coming from a distance and raise your readiness as they approach. But how do you see or stop a suicide bomber in advance? I mean really? Unless the identification can be done at birth by some special detector of DNA coding or gene sequencing bio-anatomy weirdness? Oh hey, look at this one, IT has the propensity for alcoholism, and THIS one likes to masturbate while THAT one is pre-disposed to strap TNT on his/her ass and blow up a bunch of innocent people!

To quote dddd… I mean,,gimme a freekin' break!..If someone claimed they could predict terror,,they would be laughed out of town,,or at the very least,,be asked how they know what the "level of terror alertness" ,should be.??..??

I am still laughing dddd. It's gonna be a long laugh as it slowly sinks into the rest of this country. That's okay though I like laughing a lot. I don't need to smoke cannabis to laugh at this shit. But somehow cannabis smoking has this weird side effect that produces even more laughter? When cannabis is legal again it will be nice to see the garden so green. Hey Green is Low Risk of Terror Attack! Another good reason to show why cannabis use is not to be feared. It illustrates to the masses how these freak prohibitionists only want the control and the profit of all drugs including the power to lock up anyone that uses a herb called cannabis solely because it does not put money in their already overstuffed pockets. Exercising your GOD given control over yourself is now unpatriotic and terroristic! Smoke a joint and see if your terror beeper doesn't move toward Green. Bob Bar opens his mouth will move the meter back to Terror Condition BLUE. When the whole planet is stoned at once, we all will be on TERROR ALERT GREEN!!! Heil Ridge!

My question is what actually makes the meter move in either direction? Is it some bureaucrat rolling one of those 5-sided dice that came with my Dungeons and Dragons game 20 years ago? Officially, this foolishness meter is called the Homeland Security Advisory System HSAS. Gubmint just loves to use the acronyms. It won't be long and they will devise a satellite terror indicator update network with our tax dollars. You know the type of system where you wear the indicator on your belt like a cell phone so that you can obtain instant updates on your terror condition beeper. It would provide security levels depending on your global position system coordinates. For example, if you are hiking out in Death Valley you can watch the meter change like a mood ring from CONdition Yellow to the color Green. Then when you hop a flight to Baghdad for some lamb soup with Hussein you can watch it begin to glow from Yellow To Red as you fly over some place like Israel.

If the sick and dying request to use marijuana, kill them forthright. No crime, no arrest, no trial, no prison, just kill them dead for just requesting to use medical marijuana to alleviate the pain. Put them out of their misery. Anybody caught near a marijuana or even a hemp plant, shoot them promptly. Was it the Govenor of Colorado that had a pot plant growing in his back yard? He wasn't culpaple, but he was near one, so kill him. Just like Darryl Gates said, let's do it. Insane

How many cannabis users on the planet? 100 million? Killing them all would be a just a blip on the timeline. An estimated 75 million people died during the bubonic plague, and that was just a blip, a slight dip, in comparison to the the total population. In 2000 BC, China had a population of 300 million. The earth can carry and sustain us all, but that doesn't matter, globally thinking. The Pol Pot regime managed to exterminate 1.7 million people in the 1970's, not too long ago.

Thought I'd clear that up.

This article points out like so many other articles these days that…Surely, there must be more pressing matters than to deny patients suffering from cancer, AIDS and other serious diseases this doctor- approved medical treatment.

Yes there are! Building more prisons, financing new high-tech detection toys, developing new urine and hair follicle testing tools, imprisoning ¾ of a million cannabis smokers to justify the need for the first three items.

It doesn't matter what we vote for anymore. The election is either rigged or some court will declare the popular vote unconstitutional or the federal government will send their jack booted goon squads in to trample states rights anyway.