Just as a study of 369 men published in the journal Cancer found being a regular pot smoker doubled the risk of developing testicular cancer, one of the most common cancers in younger men, comes word that the Obama administration will order the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to stop raiding California's "medical" marijuana shops.
Thirteen states have legalized the medicinal use of marijuana. California is the only state that allows businesses to dispense marijuana and to advertise their services. Federal law prohibits the possession, distribution or cultivation of marijuana for any reason. The DEA has been raiding California's pot pharmacies ever since they were legalized by state law. Last week DEA agents raided four pot shops in Los Angeles and seized 500 pounds of marijuana.
White House spokesman Nick Shapiro has just released this statement: "The president believes that fderal resources should not be used to circumvent state laws, and as he continues to appoint senior leadership to fill out the ranks of the federal government, he expects them to review their policies with that in mind." Shapiro's statement was in keeping with statements Obama made on the campaign trail. In other words, Obama will tell the DEA to BUG OFF!
California's pot heads and pot shop owners must be jumping up and down with joy. Said Mark Kleinman, a UCLA professor and former Justice Department official, "This message is, this is no longer drug warrior time. We are not on a cultural crusade against pot-smoking." Keinman also put it another way: "It is no longer federal policy to beat up on hippies."
Cultural crudade? Beat up on hippies? What a crock of supreme shit! Kleinman's statements clearly show that he is not talking about medical marijuana. He is talking about LEGITIMIZING THE POT CULTURE. And Obama obviously fails to realize how much California's medical marijuana law has been abused? What may have been a law passed with the best of intentions has turned into a means for pot heads to obtain and use marijuana withouf fear of retribution.
Many medical experts claim that marijuana diminishes the suffering of glaucoma, cancer and AIDS patients. However, other experts dispute that claim or say that other drugs, legal ones, are readily available to help such patients.
What has happened in California is that thousands of healthy pot heads have taken advantage of the law by coming forward with phony symptoms, so that many doctors, knowingly or unwittingly, are writing scrips to satisfy their patients. The scope of the abuse can be seen in last week's 500 pound seizure from just four Los Angeles pot pharmacies.
I have often said, and continue to say, that marijuana is on of our most dangerous drugs because it is held up as a benign drug comparable to alcohol. But marijuana is the GATEWAY DRUG to the use of heroin, cocaine and meth. When its use becomes prosaic, pot users are likely to turn to those more powerful mind altering substances. That is why I am strongly opposed to any legal use of marijuana.
According to Devlin Barrett, an Associated Press writer, "Experts believe it is already clear the Obama admiinstration will change the strategy, if not the law, on medical marijuana." As in California, when that happens it will open up the flood gates for the nationwide use of marijuana and lead to an eventual increase in the use of heroin, cocaine and meth. That makes me wonder - how much pot did President Obama smoke during his formative years?
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Don't Bogart that joint, my friend.
The good news is, what with socialized medicine, tax rebates for those that don't pay taxes, and increased welfare benefits, that the resulting medical and antisocial problems which accompany drug use will be fully subsidised by..........YOU and ME....
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