Medical marijuana

Yeah, I don't get it. There are lots of potentially abused drugs (oxycontin, morphine) that have legitimate uses. I think you hit the nail on the head though - if Eli Lily had a patent on it, it would be legal.

scuba-punk - 2005-06-06 7:55 PM While I wouldn't call marajuana low/no side-effect, you've hit the nail on the head. Big corporations spend lots of money to have the laws turn out in their favor. Your conglomeration of local pot dealers just haven't gotten together in large enough numbers to effectively lobby DC -Frank

Pot/drug dealers have no incentive to lobby for legalization, which would take the profit motive out of dealing. If anything, they would lobby against.

I was thinking the same thing- Vicodin, morphine.  Morphine, isn't that a form of illegal heroin? 

What's scarier to me is the precedent that this sets, namely that Federal officials can supercede State laws.  This ruling basically says that if States aren't going to uphold laws, then the Federal gov't will.

Crap.  Just what I need: more Federal oversight.  *sigh*  Why can't they just leave us alone?

Most (>90%) of the overdoses I deal with (probably 4 or 5 a week resulting in ICU stays) are with prescription medications (Vicodin, Xanax, Soma, etc...) or over the counter stuff. That may be different in other places. Haven't ever had anyone hospitalized for marijuana overdose that I can recall. Alcohol is far more dangerous in my opinion. I guess like anything else it's the politics surrounding the issue and not the issue itself that is creating problems.

What's really amazing is there's a town not far from me where you can go in to a "doctor's" office in a strip mall, and for $90 you can get prescriptions for vicodin, xanax, and soma. There's some sort of mid-level medical person on-site to write the scripts and a doctor who signs off on the records I suppose. THAT'S okay though, as long as someone with a medical degree fills out the appropriate documentation. Crazy.

The scary issue for me is that the federal government thinks it has the right to decide what health care options should be available- shouldn't this be an issue between a doctor and her patient- not the government?

Yikes!