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WEDNESDAY MARCH 14 2007 3:00 PM

Tumor V. Pot. Government Picks Tumor.

Submitted by FearTheReaper

Edited by Rahodeb

Tags: marijuana, Bush administration, Angel Raich

Let me start out by saying the federal government, particularly the Justice Department and the current administration, are a bunch of fucking assholes. The pot laws in this country are backwards and have been written by men who cram bottles of whiskey into their fat, white stomachs. Why am I so upset? Because a woman who is dying from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other ailments has just been told by a federal appeals court that she is not immune from prosecution.

Meet Angel Raich, a 41-year-old mother of two from Oakland, California. She is in such bad shape that she needs to smoke pot every couple of hours to ease her pain and encourage her to eat. Her doctor prescribed the marijuana because conventional drugs did not work in legal attempts to increase her appetite. Without pot, her appetite was nonexistent. Her doctor claims that if she does not smoke pot, she will die.

Raich filed the case because she lives in a state where medical marijuana is legal and she believes that pot should be allowed if it is the only viable option to keep a patient alive. Also, her name is ANGEL. How much more fucking obvious does it need to get?

The government claimed it could not guarantee that dying people would not be prosecuted for smoking pot. Our government has declared that marijuana has no medical value, even though these guys called doctors say the opposite. Eleven states allow medical marijuana for patients with a doctor's recommendation. The attorney general launched a war against marijuana after Bush took office, conducting raids against suppliers who have state licenses and even locking up Tommy Chong.

When Raich heard the decision she began sobbing. She said she would not stop smoking pot.

"I'm sure not going to let them kill me," she said. "Oh my God."

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Comments

WADO

Brooklyn, NY

March 2006

MAR 14, 2007 05:29 PM

The thing I have always had trouble with is these conservatives with their POT IS EVIL bizz are religious-folk getting their knickers in a twist over something that grows naturally. If it grows naturally, and you believe in God, but you still say its bad and outlaw it, doesn't that mean you think God made a mistake, and doesn't that mean you have to spend eternity in hell, for doubting God.

I also appreciate the irony of allowing a woman to die by removing the only thing that allows her to eat, but we practically rally the national guard to storm a hospital when the feeding tube of a person who has displayed no conscious presence for 15 years is removed. I mean, this girl can still talk, she says she would rather live, and that sort of indicates her brain hasn't been slowly degrading to half its normal size because she was in fact dead and we were simply animating her corpse right? I mean talking means a person is still alive or did I miss something?

MschfMayhemSoap

Phoenix, AZ

April 2006

MAR 14, 2007 05:31 PM

WADO said:
The thing I have always had trouble with is these conservatives with their POT IS EVIL bizz are religious-folk getting their knickers in a twist over something that grows naturally. If it grows naturally, and you believe in God, but you still say its bad and outlaw it, doesn't that mean you think God made a mistake, and doesn't that mean you have to spend eternity in hell, for doubting God.

Ah Logic.... the Religious Right's natural enemy

ZenTrixter

Portland, OR

October 2002

MAR 14, 2007 05:43 PM

Welcome to my world...

If anyone would like to help Angel, and people like her, I encourage you to go to http://www.safeaccessnow.org/ and learn about cannabis in a new light.

Peace...

Greybeard

Los Angeles, CA

December 2006

MAR 14, 2007 06:01 PM

WishRyder said:
Pot should have been legalized with alcohol at the end of prohibition.

Actually, drug prohibition was instituted around near the end of alcohol prohibition, in 1929. Prior to that, ordinary citizens could buy heroin, cocaine, laudanum (tincture of opium), whatever was in stock at their local pharmacy, over the counter and without a prescription.

The congress basically voted the U.S. Pharmacopoeia list into Federal Law, with taxes, licensing and restrictions according to the "schedule" of a drug. One of the compromises to make it possible was taking tobacco (nicotine) off the list, to bring the southern tobacco states along.

Cannabis wasn't outright banned, originally. It was laden with a grossly disproportionate high tax, and a ponderous license requirement. Then the government simply refused to issue licenses, no matter what.

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA

December 2003

MAR 14, 2007 06:16 PM

Pot cures cancer FYI

James_

United Kingdom

March 2003

MAR 14, 2007 06:17 PM

Right. So this lady (and many others) can't get the medicine she needs to stay alive, but any yahoo who wants can go into a corner shop and buy one of the most addictive and harmful drugs known to man in packs of 20 at any corner shop in any town. In a range of colourful packages and flavours to boot.

Yeah, that makes sense.

It's a plant for fuck's sake. It grows naturally in every part of the world, and has done for centuries.

Fuck prohibition, fuck the racist bullshit that started it and fuck the media hysteria that perpetuates it.

Greybeard

Los Angeles, CA

December 2006

MAR 14, 2007 06:36 PM

StarBelliedBoy said:
Pot cures cancer FYI

Pot doesn't cure cancer, nothing does. Again, the body may fight the illness to a draw, but it's never dead or gone once you've got it.

Pot can offset the debilitating side effects of chemotherapy, strengthening a patient's will to live. As such, it should be recognized as a legitimate part of a possibly effective treatment regimen.