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Make MMJ available for all not just some MMJ patients
It is interesting that Lewis is not going through MPP on this one. Is this because of political disagreements or because of Rob Kampia's personal actions? #Whatever the case I hope that the bill includes dispensaries, regulation of those dispensaries and a way of all patients to get medical marijuana. I am sick and tired of those bills which specify conditions and CUT OUT legitimate patients who do not have the "right disease" because they think they need to cut people out to get right wing support. I myself have hypertension and several Medical marijuana states do not include that condition as a qualifying condition. In those states I am just as much denied my medicine as I am denied my medicine in non-medical marijuana states. What we need is a bill just like prop. 215 in California with the exception that the dispensaries should be run as for profit companies not non-profits.
I can't believe that we are still playing this song and dance.
It's 2011 and I can't believe that we are still playing this song and dance. If I don't need a doctor's recommendation to obtain alcohol (which certainly has medicinal value, according to research studies) why should I need it for marijuana, a safer substance.
federal rescheduling
There should be something in the initiative that forces the state to protect its users from the federal government. Upon passage of the initiative the state should be required to tell the DEA that marijuana has medical use in the United States and that the DEA needs to reschedule. Ohio will make 16 states and DC and therefor does not meet the federal schedule I criteria of no medical use in the United States. Once the feds reschedule it will make actual studies on marijuana for medical use much easier and all the states that follow federal rescheduling will be forced to reschedule also.
In reply to federal rescheduling by Jeff Brown (not verified)
There is no reason to schedule marijuana at all
Why should we compromise on the reality of this plant and treat at as a substance that deserves any more special government treatment than alcohol or aspirin? If you support rescheduling, that means you believe it should be scheduled, thereby justifying the federal crackdowns on patients. There have been enough studies - 20,000 of them. Marijuana is most studied plant on earth, so what more do we need to know?
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