AMA Calls for Review of Medical Marijuana’s Legal Status

[Bud Spleefman]

Do you just not understand? That crap about them creating alternate delivery methods DOES NOT FUCKING MATTER. The important thing here is them "reviewing the schedule I status of marijuana." Marijuana WILL NOT be legalized or decriminalized on the federal level for a long while now IN MY OPINION; the victory here lays in a federal institution stating as a fact that marijuana does have medicinal value.

This is great news and you'd have to be brain dead to think otherwise.

Pretty strong language. I guess I better go to the Doctor to check to see if I am brain dead!

You may wish to take a class in Reading Comprehension, youself.

You do know this is an Internet Forum where people voice their differing points of view, correct? It wouldn't be much fun if we all agreed with each other, all the time, would it?

 

[saint]

Well said , fatigues.

 

[habeeb]

well, when there "mecca" is on the verge of collapse from all the poison they have created, and by shooting themselves in the foot with greed, they will come to see the greed got them no where, as did banning the substance of "life". until then we wait

 

[sac beh]

I think fatigues said it best. People are worrying a bit too much about this phrase: "the Schedule I status of marijuana be reviewed with the goal of facilitating clinical research and development of cannabinoid-based medicines, and alternate delivery methods."

Because in the end, if these moves lead to re-scheduling cannabis, it doesn't matter what AMA's agenda is or what the Pharmas might gain, re-scheduling is a huge progressive move forward for both recreational and medical cannabis users. As I stated earlier in this thread, because of the unique characteristics of cannabis--e.g., that it is naturally occurring, can be grown in anyone's backyard, etc.--creating divergent regulations for different forms of cannabis will be difficult to pull off legally and politically. Thus, the scenario of a re-scheduling ONLY benefiting doctors and politicians in bed with big Pharma is unlikely, and we should really use AMA's new position (whether you generally like the AMA or not) to push for the re-scheduling and more progressive federal laws.

sacbeh

 

[sac beh]

It also needs to be mentioned that Pharma may be the least of our worries compared to the lobbying efforts of private prison systems and local police departments, some of which literally survive off the fact that cannabis is considered a schedule I narcotic by the federal government. See Skip's post. Possession and small-grow pot busts are easy money and PR points, whereas cleaning the streets of harder drug offenders is almost always a more violent confrontation, something that law enforcement is able to avoid with the scapegoat of marijuana.

 

[hippie_lettuce]

"...It goes on to explain that this position should not be construed as an endorsement of state medical marijuana programs."

I have a problem with this part of it all.

 

[onegreenday]

I'm still sticking with my prediction of sometime in 2012.

Although after reading these articles and knowing that Senator Webb will use this information in his upcoming prison reform legislation, maybe it'll happen sooner. The AMA is really impressing me lately.

Perhaps that Terrence McKenna 2012 Mayan calender thing
is about marijuana; the event predicted.

Kinda fits the bill as far as "earth-shaking" goes.

More heartache around marijuana prohibition to last an eternity......

 

[onegreenday]

Marijuana is an herb. Not a drug.

If scheduling is considered, then the proper schedule should be no more than schedule 5.

It's over .. it's time for mop up now.

they'll never give up the war on marijuana.

It is the foundation of the drug war.

The DEA knows this and would assassinate (using CIA contacts)
anybody (politician or President) that threatens their Worldwide empire.

This just ups the stakes..........

 

[basspirate]

marijuana encourages free thought and a satisfaction with the "little things" (at least in my experience and of most tokers i know) and we just can't have that...we wouldn't live insane materialistic lives and drive ourselves into the ground in the pursuit for said materials if we were all satisfied

"there's no escape for the wage slave"

 

[Grizvok]

Pretty strong language. I guess I better go to the Doctor to check to see if I am brain dead!

You may wish to take a class in Reading Comprehension, youself.

You do know this is an Internet Forum where people voice their differing points of view, correct? It wouldn't be much fun if we all agreed with each other, all the time, would it?

Indeed, sorry for being so "gung ho." I was just trying to get the point across that the important thing here is them reversing on the very very very old theory of cannabis having no medical value. And it really is a HUGE victory!

 

[onegreenday]

Indeed, sorry for being so "gung ho." I was just trying to get the point across that the important thing here is them reversing on the very very very old theory of cannabis having no medical value. And it really is a HUGE victory!

If they remove marijuana from schedule 1;

then maybe they'll have to remove peyote as well.

Now talk about a glorious day........

 

[Open Eyes]

The reclassification of cannabis will help in many ways including the use of the medically necessary defense which has not been allowed too much until now due to conflicting and varying state laws. This is a very BIG step on the road to legalization or at the very least decriminalization and the accepted use of this plant for medicinally sanctioned needs.

Big Pharma will always be there so i am not even thinking about them. Politicians and Doctors have always been getting kick-backs for as long as society has been around so try not to drive yourself crazy thinking about how much influence they, or may not, have.

At the end of the day i am seeing something today i thought i would never see in my lifetime but things have changed dramatically in this last decade. Our cannabis really got moving in the early 90's (i canvassed for 215) but it is this decade and the educated individuals that make up this new society that are changing the way things are being done.

Hopefully we will see the decline of the for-profit private prison and forced labor population in the USA. Incarcerating individuals in many cases for decades for simply supplying cannabis is outrageous and needs to stop now. I remember reading a case not so long ago of a judge who was sentencing youths to unreasonable terms in private prisons all the while taking kick-backs for said sentences. This judge had a vested interest in sending kids to misery and was getting paid for it. This is what the private prison system can promote when you have sick and twisted individuals running things.

 

[Pythagllio]

THE ONLY REASON THEY GIVE A FUCK IS CAUSE THEY SEE SOMETHING IN IT FOR THEMSELVES

Umm, what's your point? You say that as if it's a bad thing for us instead of a good thing. Please explain why you'd rather see the status quo preserved rather than somebody find a way to benefit themselves and helping to change the idiotic reality in which we exist. It's absolutely fantasy that this thing is going to happen without people getting their palms greased. Scream about it being 'wrong' all you like, it doesn't change reality. I'd rather see things change than to stay the same.

 

[fatigues]

I remember reading a case not so long ago of a judge who was sentencing youths to unreasonable terms in private prisons all the while taking kick-backs for said sentences. This judge had a vested interest in sending kids to misery and was getting paid for it. This is what the private prison system can promote when you have sick and twisted individuals running things.

If you have a citation or reliable source for this gravely serious accusation, please post it. If you don't, please don't accuse judges of corruption based upon unsubstantiated rumor.

There is no crime more zealously prosecuted - nor is there any crime more dangerous to the public interest - than corruption of a judicial official.

 

[Grizvok]

If you have a citation or reliable source for this gravely serious accusation, please post it. If you don't, please don't accuse judges of corruption based upon unsubstantiated rumor.

There is no crime more zealously prosecuted - nor is there any crime more dangerous to the public interest - than corruption of a judicial official.

I heard of it as well. The judge in question was in fact receiving kickbacks and bribes for sentencing individuals to long and very unreasonable prison sentences for the sole purpose of being paid.

 

[sac beh]

Its good business.

http://post-gazette.com/pg/09303/1009500-100.stm

 

[fatigues]

Thanks for the link. I missed this story. US District Judge was right: 7 years was not enough. Not nearly enough. They are going to go RICO on these two judges. And as well they should.

This is the sort of thing that those crazy 50 and 60 years sentences are actually for. These two are worse than Madoff, imo.

 

[Pythagllio]

nm

 

[CANNACO-OP]

.....edit.....

 

[danut]

The DEA knows this and would assassinate (using CIA contacts) anybody (politician or President) that threatens their Worldwide empire.

So you think they would assassinate the majority of the US public?

Oh yes .. they have already been fired and just haven't received the memo yet.