RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts

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LookieNoNookie -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/2/2012 4:28:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kalikshama While researching my other ballot thread, I discovered the three ballot questions in my state this year. The links have summaries and arguments. I'll be voting YES on all three. Medical Use of Marijuana A YES VOTE would enact the proposed law eliminating state criminal and civil penalties related to the medical use of marijuana, allowing patients meeting certain conditions to obtain marijuana produced and distributed by new state-regulated centers or, in specific hardship cases, to grow marijuana for their own use. A NO VOTE would make no change in existing laws. Wait a second....a yes vote means what? Just a second here....hold on.....okay....what does that mean again? Hold on....where's my lighter....okay....a no vote means we can stay out after dark right? No wait....a yes vote....hold on....wait a second....a no vote means we don't want people to vote against pot?

kalikshama -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/2/2012 4:32:14 PM)
If you want less government regulation on three issues, vote Yes. -------------- I'm bummed about the "closed, locked facility" dealio. I was totally picturing pot plants next to Mom's asparagus.

slvemike4u -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/2/2012 4:34:37 PM)
Pot has never made me stupid,on the other hand it has allowed me to better tolerate stupid people [:)]

LookieNoNookie -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/2/2012 6:19:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kalikshama If you want less government regulation on three issues, vote Yes. -------------- I'm bummed about the "closed, locked facility" dealio. I was totally picturing pot plants next to Mom's asparagus. Yes means more pot or less? What if I choose "abstain"? Is that more pot?

kdsub -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/2/2012 7:22:19 PM)
quote: limited by financial hardship, It would be safer and easier and less chance of abuse to deliver the prescription free in the above case don't you think? Besides the obvious chance of abuse it takes special equipment to grow weed year around... The equipment is expensive...the quality and quantity of weed can not be measured properly. It would be much less expensive to just give them a measured dose delivered to their door....That is if the purpose of the law is to allow access to a medical use drug only and not a way around the law. Butch

SternSkipper -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/2/2012 10:04:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kdsub quote: to grow marijuana for their own use. This is opening up a can of worms. I am all for medically prescribed as it has been proven smoking the drug is the best delivery system and it is excellent in controlling nausea. But growing your own is unnecessary and will be abused. Butch Butch, just so you're aware... There's some.mitigating factors in play Rhode Island and Massachusetts are very much intertwined, and they (RI) have had Medical MJ on the books for years. And Massachusetts has had decrim for years and no increase of cultivation activity has been reported. I'm more worried about Midwestern cops snorting white powders offf donuts and driving slow, as Ron has warned us of.

dommedification -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/2/2012 11:45:33 PM)
I think the medical marijuana argument kind of misses the bigger point. There is absolutely no good reason for weed to be illegal as long as alcohol and tobacco are legal. Both alcohol and tobacco are far more dangerous and far more addictive than marijuana. In fact, compared to those two, marijuana is about as close to benign as you can get. I once was involved in a softball tournament in which all of the players were drug enforcement officials. I asked ten of them...Why is marijuana illegal when alcohol and tobacco are legal? I have also asked about a dozen cops the same question. To a man, every one of them said: I can't answer that question. Because there is no answer? I sure would like to see some consistency in the law!

tweakabelle -> RE: Medical Use of Marijuana on the ballot in Massachusetts (10/3/2012 2:39:54 AM)
Referenda such as the three outlined in the OP are one of the best features of US style democracy. It is such a sensible way of determining policy and law - let the people decide! That's what democracy is supposed to be all about isn't it? So good luck with your 'Yes" votes kali - I am there with you in spirit. And I'll be doing my best to persuade my fellow Aussies to adopt similar referenda here. It is one feature of US style democracy that is worth exporting universally!

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