NEWS: Let's Make Your Life Just a Little Bit Worse

CULTURE: Let's Make Your Life Just a Little Bit Worse

Some people have to live their lives in constant pain. Pain relief meds can be addictive, or have unpleasant side effects, or just not be effective. Cannabis would be a suitable treatment for many people, but the UK Court of Appeal has told them that they'll have to continue suffering.

What kind of pain are these people suffering?

Cannabis could be cheap, and it could provide a useful cash crop alternative for people currently growing opium poppies.

But pharmaceutical companies don't see any money from sick people using marijuana, so naturally, it has to be kept illegal.

I'm guessing the reason the pharmaceutical companies prefer opiate painkillers to cannabis is that the opiates are more addictive, and therefore more likely to create life long customers?

Or maybe I'm just another paranoid stoner

That and its political suicide for any politician to be openly supportive of its legalization. So no bills will ever be created or voted upon. The issue almost always dies at the state level.

[Edited on May 30, 2005 by moonchilded]

Sadly, I can't imagine Tony Blair changing the law to allow the use of cannabis in such cases.

Well dont give up hope. Oregon has Medical Mary J. Not that they give you any clue where to sign up for it. So mabey the rest of the world will take a hint. Or just think Oregon is a buncha hippys

Oh and someone correct me if im wrong but isnt it legal in Alaska?

This decision is completely stupid.

I think the state basically took it's Marijuana laws off the book. Basically the feds will still come after you if they get wind of it, but the state it self doesn't care. Though I may be wrong, I've been away from home for a while now.

Realize that even though your state allows medical marijuana, it it still a federal crime to posses it. After California legalized it the feds came out and said they will still prosecute people for it.

While I think that marijuana should be legalized somehow, the judge is correct here. Laws that are written with specific intent, i.e. duress code, should not be tampered with and 'tailored' to fit our own personal sense of morality. The solution is new legislature, federally, that recognizes/legalizes marijuana. The solution is not, lets find a loop hole and run with it.

Hey dont worry about me I dont acctualy smoke the stuff. I just support its legalization. Granted my friends all think I SHOULD. he he he

meh.

they're actually trying to legalize it in Westchester
(I mean, they have a bill and everything)

maybe we don't suck that much. . . . .MAYBE. . .

[Edited on May 31, 2005 by KMFCM]

I didn't think that marijuana was a good pain killer, just that it fought the nausea and loss of appetite caused by most pain killers. . .