I heard that a couple of years ago, the voters in California voted during an election to allow medical doctors to prescribe pot to patients that had certain types of pain induced medical problems. It passed, but the federal government then told the doctors that anyone who writes a prescription for pot for a patient, for any reason and they would revoke his medical license. California doctors were afraid to lose their licenses, so they didn't do it.
The voters in Arizona also put this on the ballots and they voted for it, but when it passed, the federal government also told the State of Arizona that if medical doctors wrote prescriptions for their patients they would cut off all federal funding for highways, the State of Arizona said fine and to this day, medical doctors in the State of Arizona can and do write prescriptions for their patients to use medicinal pot to deal with their pain.
Is this true?
And if it is true, can you please clarify it for me?
Thank you in advance
2007-07-23 09:41:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Firemedic sure thinks he knows someone, especially someone he has never met, he just naturally assumes that because someone asks a question like this, then by god they must be doing it, when in reality, I asked this because my wife has a brain tumor and needs to find something to relieve the severe pain from the migrains, prescribed medicine doesn't do it, her tumor can not be operated on, he should get his facts straight before he engages his mouth and makes false accusations, look before you leap, firemedic! How many people have entered your vehicle to be treated and you have already passed judgement upon them without getting all the facts ahead of time? Isn't it swell there are professional healthcare workers like you out there to assist those in need, I feel so reassured!
2007-07-23 10:50:36 · update #1
Federal legislators have more power than states. They apparently draw the erroneous conclusion that they are smarter or more correct as well. They aren't, of course, but power has always corrupted those who wield it.
2007-07-23 09:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok pot head here's the reason... the people who decide to do an indecent or wrong thing even when in the majority are still wrong. The federal government is trying to stop the wonderful people of California and Arizona from doing the wrong thing. The bills put forward in both these states were combined with other bills which included needful things to pass. The federal and state gov. always does this....just because some thing passes does not make it law.
M.J. is a drug. Its effects are 3X worse as that of tobacco. It’s wrong. It kills people. It wrecks people’s lives. That is the reason. pot heads like your self trying to argue with reason while utilizing these drugs is an exercise in futility...the whole world might make since to you but it is just your neurons malfunctioning under the effects of the drugs.
One of the reasons M. J. is considered not in the same category as "hard drugs" (by users) is that the THC stays in your system for months after utilizing the drug. This allows the body to come down from the high over a period of days. The drug is fat soluble which means all efforts that you make to flush with H2O will come to no avail. In all reality if the drug was not stored in your fat cells you would experience the same withdrawals as cocaine.
.If you think that people can not tell who is a pot head by talking and interacting with you.... you’re a silly person indeed. People who have been around druggies can tell... you all have that "stinking thinking" and other tell tail signs. It’s not scientific but I usually can tell the moment some one steps in to my ambulance whether they use and some times even which drugs they abuse. Your body and spirit tattle on you!
moral of the story.... don't use drugs... it was wrong yesterday, its wrong now and it will be wrong tomorrow too...and if you do use... count on being caught one way or another.... .
2007-07-23 17:06:34 · answer #2 · answered by Firemedic 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is still against federal law. Until the federal law is changed, changing state laws does very little to change anything.
2007-07-23 16:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Federal law trumps state law.
2007-07-23 16:48:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋