When the doctors say yes, but the politicians say no, you have to wonder about your health. Who do you trust? The money behind the politicians, or the doctors who are sworn to do no harm?
The Feds are overreaching. As activists, we can expect our a great wave of success after the public backlash for their mistaken efforts. We appreciate them helping us fast track to legalization. In the meantime, hunker down and remember that nothing could be as bad as Nixon and he’s long since buried. Good riddance.
By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
October 15, 2011, 6:01 p.m.
Reporting from Sacramento— The state’s largest doctor group is calling for legalization of marijuana, even as it pronounces cannabis to be of questionable medical value.
Trustees of the California Medical Assn., which represents more than 35,000 physicians statewide, adopted the position at their annual meeting in Anaheim late Friday. It is the first major medical association in the nation to urge legalization of the drug, according to a group spokeswoman, who said the larger membership was notified Saturday.
Dr. Donald Lyman, the Sacramento physician who wrote the group’s new policy, attributed the shift to growing frustration over California’s medical marijuana law, which permits cannabis use with a doctor’s recommendation. That, he said, has created an untenable situation for physicians: deciding whether to give patients a substance that is illegal under federal law.
“It’s an uncomfortable position for doctors,” he said. “It is an open question whether cannabis is useful or not. That question can only be answered once it is legalized and more research is done. Then, and only then, can we know what it is useful for.”
There is a battle being waged against you, me, and human development. Doctors nationwide are begging to study cannabis. They know their patients are using the plant medicinally, as a life enhancer, and yes, also recreationally. Doctors can’t study, and so ignorance prevails. Is that the best use of your tax dollars? Is the war on drugs the best use of your tax dollars? The protests in the streets of major cities around the United States, and now the world, to occupy Wall Street, occupy San Francisco and so on, are all resisting the power of money to influence our political system in ways which to not benefit you as an individual citizen. The war on drugs is a corrupting influence on our political, judicial, and human services systems. Who benefits? Not you. Not me. The time to end the drug war is yesterday.
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