Anti-Pot Message Needs To Be Louder |
Posted by CN Staff on April 04, 2007 at 05:56:40 PT Opinion Source: Foster's Daily Democrat NH -- The New Hampshire House acted wisely last week in turning back an attempt to legalize the use of medical marijuana. Unfortunately, the narrow margin by which HB 774 was defeated has given enough hope to supporters that the bill is certain to return. Backers achieved their near-victory by marketing HB 774 as one of compassion. "This is sensible, compassionate legislation that protects our most vulnerable citizens," said Stuart Cooper of the New Hampshire Marijuana Policy Initiative in a press release after the vote. During the debate pro-pot advocates offered anecdotal tales of those whose "debilitating medical conditions" have been eased by smoking marijuana. What was muddled by emotion during the debate, however, was made clear by comments like those of Rep. Joseph Miller, D-Durham. "Marijuana is not a real medicine which is disease specific, nor is it a pure substance," explained the retired physician who noted that it is often contaminated with pesticides and microbes. It is also worth noting that despite the 1996 legalization of medicinal marijuana in California, proponents have not been able to produce convincing scientific evidence of their claims — evidence that by now should be widely accepted by the medical community if it existed. California has also had to struggle with the criminal element drawn to areas surrounding cannabis clubs. In November, San Francisco adopted strick guidelines "to curb street crime around its roughly 30 dispensaries and prevent sales to nonpatients," according to the Associated Press. Elsewhere, local jurisdictions where clubs were once legal have changed their minds. Then there's the even darker side of support for cannabis clubs — the one that advocates the complete legalization marijuana. "Make no mistake," said Calvina Fay, executive director of Drug Free American Foundation, the issue of medical marijuana "is a Trojan horse for legalizing the drug itself and for making it available without regard to medical science." This was the same point made in a recent letter to the editor, which read, in part, HB 774 "is a small and important step in the right direction for our state and country. " He went on to punctuate his message by saying, "we should go one step further and just say no to drug prohibition." Clearly, that is the wrong message for the residents of New Hampshire who have come to understand that Nancy Reagan was right when she launched the "Just Say No" antidrug campaign in the mid-1980s. It is a message the New Hampshire Legislature needs to keep repeating until the likes of New Hampshire Marijuana Policy Initiative packs up and leaves the Granite State. Source: Foster's Daily Democrat (NH) Related Article: Medical Marijuana Measure Rejected CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archives Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
Comment #31 posted by FoM on April 06, 2007 at 08:53:53 PT |
I feel we aren't important because back when my son needed to go to the hospital because he was a part time student and he didn't have insurance and the only hospital was Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills the experience was an eye opener. I will never forget this very tall doctor looking down at me and said we are looking to transport your son to a city hospital when he stablizes because this isn't a charity hospital. I've never believed that they care since then. All the hosptials were jammed because of the earthquake and my son didn't stablize so he stayed at that hosptial. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #30 posted by rchandar on April 06, 2007 at 08:42:24 PT:
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WHY are we NOT IMPORTANT? Are we unimportant simply because we can't be force-fed a bunch of half-cooked ideas without scrutinizing and evaluating them, critically? No, I'm a teacher who's learned the hard way what you're saying is true. But naturally, right now I'm not accepting it very well. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #29 posted by FoM on April 06, 2007 at 08:32:23 PT |
This is a battle that shouldn't be a battle. Cannabis shouldn't be treated like it is. As we get older it makes many of us know that we aren't important and I am ok with that. I have seen enough to know that they don't care but I don't care about them either. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #28 posted by rchandar on April 06, 2007 at 08:17:16 PT:
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And I'm glad to hear from you. No, things aren't exactly good, but why would it be different? Supporting legalization has deprived me of friends, and that's sorely needed these days. At an older age, it becomes much more difficult: life doesn't give you many second chances, you're expendable--completely, expendable, disposable. No one tells you anything, so you can't exactly even "follow orders". Make no mistake about it, though: the people on the "drug-free" side are decidedly NOT my friends and they are out to DESTROY me and my family. Time, and luck, hopefully will be on my side. And I hope it's on yours: age and experience and perspective never make us immune, do they. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #27 posted by FoM on April 06, 2007 at 07:14:44 PT |
It's really good to see you. I was hoping everything was ok. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #26 posted by rchandar on April 06, 2007 at 07:05:08 PT:
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yes, I agree. I've never killed anyone, broken into any pharmacies, raped anyone. That's all true. I don't know. It looks to me like it's very easy to be a "drug-free" person. It requires no thinking since drugs are illegal. If you look at society this becomes obvious: it's easy to say you support the government. It's easy to memorize and speak loudly all those lame platitudes about "being tough," "being an individual," "america is the greatest country." Nothing un-justifies you in supporting the mainstream view, and since you've no reason to think you won't go on, you go on. It's much tougher to believe in something outlawed. And the penalties--and the officiation--are all unfair. Murderers get parole; sex offenders get to remarry. The pot smoker is always pursued by a crowd of shame, hatred, recrimination. Sometimes people in my complex yell at me things like "drugs are ignorant!" "you're stupid!" Our society is constantly war-hawking its social demands. And there's no one to stop them: drugs are illegal. You can't even think that they could be wrong: basically it's forbidden since the person who agrees with you usually becomes a source. Go into life, into a bar, a grocery store, a nightclub: it's UNTHINKABLE that drugs could have ANY value. Burroughs wrote about the apocalypse that was coming: the hysteria, the egotistical suicides that make men men, the endless games of comparison and intrigue which defy any real moral perspective. Now it's obvious: the apocalypse has come, it's firmly in place, and it's out to sacrifice all unbelievers. Many people benefit from pot; I wish I could give some to my dad: he's suffering from lung cancer and maybe he would eat. I may not have done much in my life, but I'll be damned if I'm ever going to say that pot deserves to be criminal. --rchandar [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #25 posted by whig on April 05, 2007 at 20:34:23 PT |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Gwz-2qB7o [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #24 posted by whig on April 05, 2007 at 17:59:27 PT |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLzw8ZxT_kU [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #23 posted by whig on April 05, 2007 at 17:54:42 PT |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8 [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #22 posted by whig on April 05, 2007 at 17:48:45 PT |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5hBkQT3-C8 [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #21 posted by whig on April 05, 2007 at 17:47:49 PT |
One by one. Each of them, their memories must be restored to us. One by one. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #20 posted by whig on April 05, 2007 at 17:46:48 PT |
It is not for him alone but for all the victims that I do this, and it is easy to focus the jurors minds on one person than to take in the whole enormity at once. There will be one murder investigated first, if this is a murder investigation. This does not mean there cannot be other charges, but murder seems like it should be the easiest for ordinary people to grasp. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #19 posted by whig on April 05, 2007 at 17:43:09 PT |
I have. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #18 posted by mayan on April 05, 2007 at 17:28:37 PT |
He is but one who died because of 9/11. The number is in the hundreds of thousands around the world now. If you want to open a murder investigation for him go ahead. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #17 posted by whig on April 04, 2007 at 22:30:34 PT |
Ask people. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #16 posted by whig on April 04, 2007 at 22:25:53 PT |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychal_F._Judge [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #15 posted by whig on April 04, 2007 at 22:23:35 PT |
Please open a murder investigation in the name of victim Mychal F. Judge. The first casualty of 9/11. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #14 posted by whig on April 04, 2007 at 18:44:31 PT |
We have found no harm in it. We have found great help from it. It heals the sick, and makes the dying to live again. Michael. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #13 posted by Toker00 on April 04, 2007 at 18:32:30 PT |
It was hard to hear what he said because of the LOUD message I keep hearing over and over that CANNABIS IS GOOD. I believe the sender of that message has made sure that it will never be forgotten. In fact, that message embraces the entire Christian Bible from the First page, all the way around to Last, even though the "Church" Prohibits it. How many Priests have covered their naked bodies with Hempen robes in the past, and how many now stand Naked, though fully clothed, because they refuse to wear the robe of Truth? John and Jesus were the same. All who seek Truth are the same. All Truth seekers were represented on the Cross that held Christ, and all our names were written on the Bullet of Death that killed John. Truth is Peace. Deception is War. Seek the Truth and be deceived no more. Toke. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #12 posted by mayan on April 04, 2007 at 18:14:29 PT |
This piece must be the work of the drug-testing industry. As usual, very easily debunked. Yawn. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #11 posted by Richard Zuckerman on April 04, 2007 at 15:12:09 PT:
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"No doubt valid consent to something can often be based on less than full information, but a problem arises when the authority that seeks consent also controls available information. If someone asks my agreement to a course of action and then actively conceals much relevant information that would affect my judgment, my 'consent' is of lessened or no effect." THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO PUBLIC FORUMS: DOES A FAILURE TO REQUIRE THE LEAST RESTRICTIVE ALTERNATIVE RESULT IN A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE?, by Whitney M. Smith, 36 Seton Hall Law Review 627, footnote 4 [2006]. As public school "education" and major media manipulate us by refusal to teach and report about government wrongdoing, e.g., [1] theft of $4.5 Trillion Wanta Plan Settlement funds by U.S. Dept. of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Vice President Dick Cheney, www.worldreports.org, www.idaho-observer.com; [2] drug money laundering in the tune of $600 billion/yr., TAX FREE, which only benefits the world elitists, while the IRS and State of New Jersey tax the poor and middle class; [3] Planned violent chaos, inside jobs, such as the Setember 11, 2001, World Trade Center, 1995 Oklahoma City federal building explosions, Waco, Branch Davidian; it comes as no surprise that this country is so much in debt and the complacent, lazy, Americans accept the fate of losing our country to the "North American Union" and employment outsourcing, continually voting for Republicans and Democrats!! [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #10 posted by cannabliss on April 04, 2007 at 12:11:39 PT |
Apparently, Foster's Daily Democrat comes down squarely on the "Die" side of things. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #9 posted by cannabliss on April 04, 2007 at 12:09:55 PT |
Ah, the Reagan years... Remember when Saddam was our chemical-weapons using buddy? Remember when Osama was our friend in Afghanistan and we helped arm him? Nancy shoulda just said no... [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #8 posted by The GCW on April 04, 2007 at 10:03:20 PT |
"Make no mistake," -Calvina Fay has little thought for the will of Christ God Our Father. -0- The effort to stop caging sick humans for using a God-given plant needs to be louder, and one reason that doesn’t get mentioned is because it’s Biblically correct since Christ God Our Father indicates He created all the seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on literally the very first page (see Genesis 1:11-12 and 29-30). The only Biblical restriction placed on cannabis is that it is to be accepted with thankfulness (see 1 Timothy 4:1-5). And, "But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?" (see: 1 John 3:17). [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #7 posted by FoM on April 04, 2007 at 09:57:07 PT |
Excerpt from Article: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Supervisors to back panel on SFPD pot-offense policing A Board of Supervisors committee will recommend on Thursday the appointment of seven people to sit on a new committee that will ensure that the San Francisco Police Department adheres to legislation adopted late last year making enforcement of marijuana offenses the lowest priority. The so-called Community Oversight Committee Regarding Enforcement of Marijuana Offenses will submit semiannual reports to the board that will include the number of citations police have issued for marijuana offenses. The Rules Committee will make its recommendation on Thursday, at 10 a.m., at City Hall, Room 263. URL: http://tinyurl.com/ytz27r [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #6 posted by dongenero on April 04, 2007 at 09:41:39 PT |
What a ridiculous waste of the english language this article is! Cart out that same old rickety excuse for truth and reason Calvina. Invoke Nancy Reagan!...sheeesh. Someone should send this backward newspaper a copy of the previous editorial post regarding lack of critical thinking in our society. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #5 posted by Hope on April 04, 2007 at 09:05:31 PT |
That's just ridiculous for a professional newspaper. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #4 posted by Hope on April 04, 2007 at 09:01:12 PT |
is pure Drug Free American Foundation propaganda trash. I'm sorry. But when I consider the many victims (or even one) of the drug war....I can't help but think of Calvina and Drug Free American Foundation and all the rest of the prohibitionists as vicious killers. They obviously think all that "collateral" damage and people killed is just alright....as long as it doesn't curtail the acting out of their anti-drug fetishes. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #3 posted by Max Flowers on April 04, 2007 at 08:47:29 PT |
In November, San Francisco adopted strick guidelines "Strick"?! That typo exposes the writer as a young kid or someone seriously lacking in journalistic fiber. But, even before that typo, I could smell the government spin. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #2 posted by potpal on April 04, 2007 at 08:26:47 PT |
Indeed. This guy sounds old, like he saw the original Reefer Madness movie when it first came out! If he can't hear the anti-pot message that 60 of drug war propaganda has dumped out then he ought to get one of those be black funnels used by the hard of hearing. Not disease specific...hmmm...like aspirin! Good for what ails ya... Cannabis prohibition is a crime against humanity. [ Post Comment ] |
Comment #1 posted by FoM on April 04, 2007 at 07:17:29 PT |
Excerpt from the Below Link: But another lawmaker who is also a physician, Rep. William Chase of Westmoreland, said he had seen the positive impact of marijuana on cancer patients he had treated. "It is another tool in the treatment options to improve the quality of life for a patient," said Chase, a Democrat. http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22823.shtml [ Post Comment ] |
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