It is, however, reluctantly acknowledged that marijuana can have therapeutic uses, in particular to bring relief to those suffering from radiation or chemotherapy treatments for cancer. It becomes bracingly difficult to hear from anti-drug fundamentalists that they would rather see a patient suffering from cancer vomit in pain than permit him to smoke a marijuana cigarette.
--William F. Buckley, June 1993 (via the cellar 1/2/06)

rkzenrage - did you mean cannabinoid instead of cannoid? I have been way out of the loop on pot for years, and I've never heard that term before.

Well it's a shame about those that are suffering but we can't risk it spilling over to the stupid masses, er...uh...general population. After all, it's for the children.

Why just the other day, my neighbor Fred...you know Fred, he works for that pharmaceutical company,..well anyway, Fred was telling me about how the gorillas in Africa eat marijuana and go crazy.... they eat their children, and everything!
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The plot sickens. Most bars are business as usual because this tricky little law was devised with no idea how to enforce it, no idea who will enforce it, and no idea what the repercussions should be.

My feeling is that if I ever were arrested for smoking a cig, I am not paying the fine; let them take me to jail. I'll take a couple vacay days at work, the taxpayers who saw fit to pass this damn law can pay for me. It's my own civil disobedience.

So many people voted on the issue, then when it was passed they were like "WHAT? I didn't know it would do all that!" Part of it is that people believe the freaking commercials and don't read the letter of the law that is available, and part of it was sneakiness on the part of the cig-nazis.

Two glaring examples: Truck drivers passing through Ohio in a corporate owned truck are not allowed to smoke in their cabs.

Also, I am an auxialiary member of a fraternal organization...private club, right? Not since they defined private club as having NO PAID employees and no one under 18 can ever set foot in the building (they have a lot of parties and receptions in the rented out hall.)

Next beer will be outlawed in bars.

Meanwhile, crack and meth are growing industries. :mad:

You must have missed the memo ... drug use is a disease now, and cigarette smoking is a character flaw punishable by fines and imprisonment.

If nicotine addiction were treated like a disease in the same way that illegal drug addiction is, I'm betting that the smokers would look wistfully back at the "character flaw" days...

Sooner or later all vices will be treated as diseases, and then it'll be clear: diseased is the basic human condition. We all have it, and it is fatal.

are you Bill Hicks?
 

I'll put it this way: I don't listen to Hicks, I study him.

Welcome to the new US attitude.
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