"Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.
... She was a high-profile campaigner for the Montana Medical Marijuana Act, and like others, she was dismayed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that drug agents could still arrest sick people using marijuana, even in states that legalized its use.
... Prosser suffered from an autoimmune disease that gave her allergic and dangerous reactions to most pharmaceutical painkillers. So she turned to marijuana. When that was no longer available she had no where else to turn.
“She just said she couldn't take it all anymore,” Byard said.
In her guest opinion, Prosser wrote that: “I'm 50 years old, low-income and sick. I spend most days in my apartment in bed, with no air conditioning, unable to go outside because I can't tolerate the sun.”
http://missoulian.com/articles/20
2007-10-27 12:48:41 · 9 answers · asked by stevemxusa 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I doubt that any Presidential candidate with a prayer of getting elected will take a stand against the insane war on drugs.
It will take the building of a very vocal movement, led not by a candidate, but perhaps by high-profile politicians, some celebrities, and a budget to get informational ads on TV.
This can be done. I wouldn't look to professional politicians to do it for you; it's still too risky.
As the tide shifts, this will change.
And it is shifting a bit. A growing percentage of young voters are in favor of lifting criminal charges against people caught with small amounts of marijuana for personal use.
The way to work on it is for people--not politicians--to express their opinions on this injustice, loud and clear. To say, we are against locking people up, destroying their lives, and removing them permanently from the electorate, because they've chosen to do something to themselves that hurts no one else.
In small quantities, marijuana is about as harmful as excessive coffee, as long as you don't combine it with alcohol, or drive. Its proper use should be openly taught, and people should be allowed to make their own decisions on the matter.
I don't indulge, but I am against criminalization of drugs, because it's costing this country billions of dollars, and it's not improving anything. It has, however, resulted in locking up thousands of people, mainly young black males, damaging them, and preventing them from voting.
2007-10-27 12:55:30 · answer #1 · answered by Silver 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The war on drugs is a losing battle, like trying to win a horse race on a merry go round. At some point the Government needs to recognize the fact that they will never win it. However, part of the government's problem is the underground economy that it creates, big cartel dealers buy high ticket items, even street level dealers spend money in the mainstream economy that would be lost if were legalized, that is the dilema.
2007-10-27 12:57:07 · answer #2 · answered by deejayspop 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like many drugs, mary jane is mind-altering, and I believe it is usually permanent. The few people I've known who used it changed into cocky self-absorbed know-it-alls.
That being said, I can see someone in real pain grasping at any straw for anything that can help their pain. I'm sort of in the middle on this one. My problem is most likely that I don't have enough data. But I do know that many people will see things like this as just another way of a druggie wanting to justify the use of it. I'll have to admit to being a bit that way myself, but then again, I'm here....and you're there.
2007-10-27 13:12:37 · answer #3 · answered by merlin_steele 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a Dr Paul fan mainly due to his reckless belief in isolationism but, as a Libertarian, he would be against the war on drugs whether or not he has stated this publically.
2007-10-27 15:06:34 · answer #4 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the Marijuana Lobby spends as much in the halls of Congress as the Alcohol Lobby does, you might see some change...
2007-10-27 17:04:42 · answer #5 · answered by Bye for now... 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know. I would like to hear someone actually get tougher on drug sentences. There should be a minimum sentence of 20 to 25 years for dealing drugs. If you put these guys away for a couple of decades, it will put them out of circulation.
You drug advocates say that the War on Drugs will never be won so we should stop trying. The war on hunger will never be won either, but should we stop giving food to hungry people?
2007-10-27 13:18:04 · answer #6 · answered by Dude 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the Banks who truly profit from the drug trade would crucify anyone who dared speak on behalf of the inanity of drug laws. They like the war also
2007-10-27 13:30:55 · answer #7 · answered by curious115 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Another pot-head trying to justify his drug habbit.
Give it up. Your garbage will never be legalized.
2007-10-27 12:57:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
moraly she is right legally she was wrong...........
2007-10-27 12:55:43 · answer #9 · answered by likeablerabbit_loose 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋