Reschedule Cannabis

Congress, the FDA, and the DEA are responsible for keeping medicine out of the hands of dying people, while allowing the FDA to let pharmacy companies and the drug companies to sell whatever drugs they want! Even when people die from them! Because we all know, money controls the FDA not the facts.

When there is a big gap between the views of ordinary Americans on a public issue and the voting record of their elected representatives in Congress on that issue, something is wrong. In the national debate over the use of marijuana for medical purposes, the people and their representatives in Congress seem to be living on different planets. In New York, however, the gap has been closed, or nearly so.

Poll after poll show Americans, by a huge majority, want their doctors, not lawmakers, to decide whether or not marijuana should be used as a medicine. Today, however, federal laws prohibit physicians from prescribing marijuana for pain relief even where state and local laws say it is OK to do so. This has not always been the case.

“For most of American history, growing and using marijuana was legal under both federal law and the laws of individual states,” according to a recent report by the Congressional Research Service, an arm of the U.S. Congress. The report goes to say: “From 1850 to the early 1940s, cannabis was included in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia as a recognized medicinal. (But) its decline in medicine was hastened by the development of aspirin, morphine, and other opium-derived drugs, all of which helped to replace marijuana in the treatment of pain.”

Keep in mind, even though marijuana has been prescribed for close to 100 years and is a recognized medicinal, the FDA continues to lie about medical marijuana. Claiming it has no medical value.

Freedom means nothing in America when congress and the FDA, and the DEA keep medicine out of the hands of people dying from painful illness.

In 1999 a Gallup poll asked: “Suppose that on election day this year, you could vote on key issues as well as candidates. Please tell me, would you vote for or against making marijuana legally available for doctors to prescribe in order to reduce pain and suffering?” Response: 73 percent of the American people said they would vote for making marijuana legally available under those conditions.

In both 2003 and 2005, Gallup polls asked: “Would you favor or oppose making marijuana legally available for doctors to prescribe in order to reduce pain and suffering?” In 2003, 75 percent and in 2005, 78 percent of the people said they would favor giving doctors the legal right to decide when marijuana should be prescribed to ease suffering.

Apparently, members of Congress don’t read the polls these days, nor do they care much about state laws. In 12 states — Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — laws already give doctors the power to decide whether or not to use marijuana to treat patients in pain.

In the U.S. House of Representatives on May 4, 2005, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), introduced H.R. 2087, a bill “to provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various states,” and to prohibit the federal government from stopping “an individual from obtaining and using marijuana from a prescription or recommendation by a physician for medical use.” On May 13, the bill was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, where it is stuck.

When will congress really represent The People?

Since a federal bill allowing states to regulate the medical use of marijuana can’t make it to the House floor for an up or down vote, an alternative strategy is to attach a medical marijuana amendment to a spending bill that will reach the House floor. On June 15, 2005, Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY) did just that and offered Amendment 272 to H.R. 2862. The amendment would have prohibited federal agencies from preventing the implementation of state laws that authorize the use of medical marijuana. The amendment was rejected on a 264 to 161 vote.

In other words, while 78 percent of the American people favor letting doctors (and states) decide this issue, only 38 percent of the House members favored a law supporting that policy. Nationally, that’s a whopping 40 percent medical marijuana gap separating what the American people want and what their hard-of-hearing elected representatives deliver.

We need to vote these two-faced flip-flopping liars out of office and put in people who believe in personal liberty over the DEA and FDA lies about medical marijuana.

American democracy calls on lawmakers to be responsive to the common sense wisdom of ordinary citizens. Instead, some members of Congress from New York and elsewhere are standing in the way of existing state laws and the majority of Americans who want their physicians, not politicians, to decide if marijuana should be used to ease suffering in sick patients.

If these officials don’t improve their hearing, voters might consider replacing them this coming November with people who have better listening skills.

Vote these liars out of office.

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Republicans dont think a man should be able to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their own home without having their door kicked in, but they are scared shitless now thinking about having THEIR Congressional doors kicked in by FBI targeting them for their corruption!

House and Senate leaders challenged the constitutionality of an FBI raid on a lawmaker’s office, saying it broke a 219-year precedent and raised concerns about the separation of power between the administration and Congress.

“The actions of the Justice Department in seeking and executing this warrant raise important constitutional issues,’’ House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said in a statement last night. “I expect to seek a means to restore the delicate balance of power among the branches of government that the founders intended.’’

Frist and co are only voicing opposition to raids because they are afraid of having THEIR office searched!

I think, finally Congress understands what its like to be American now. Welcome to the club, congress. You want to kick in doors in the name of the “War on Drugs” well you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

The separation of powers argument seems to be pretty weak to me: The actual scope of Congressional immunity under the speech and debate clause is quite narrow (narrower, oddly, than the judicially-created immunities enjoyed by judges and prosecutors) and certainly doesn’t include immunity from search in a bribery case.

At any rate, members of Congress who are offended by an unannounced late-night raid on an office might profitably be asked what they think about late-night unannounced raids on private homes, which happen all the time as part of the Congressionally-mandated War on Drugs.

These same people want to stop CANCER PATIENTS from using medical marijuana and have mandated a “kick in door” policy against terminal people, to Congress I say you reap what you sow.

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Our founding fathers grew hemp, so why are we arresting people for growing hemp today?

There is major difference between hemp and marijuana, for one, hemp does NOT GET YOU HIGH. Marijuana does. So here you can clearly see citizens being hassled for simply growing a non-intoxicating plant.

A Winsted man arrested for growing marijuana may avoid jail time if he agrees to remove bright green images of marijuana plants he spray-painted on his home.
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Christopher Seekins — who lives on High Street — accepted a plea agreement Thursday in Litchfield Superior Court. He’d receive three years probation on a felony charge of growing marijuana.

Seekins was arrested in October when police discovered about 100 plants in his house. He said they were hemp and part of a research project.

After his arrest, Seekins painted images of the distinctive green leaf on his Victorian-style house, each accompanied by the word hemp. Town officials say they received several complaints because Seekins’ home is visible from Winsted’s main thoroughfare.

Notice how they retreat and try to get this citizen to remove images he painted on his home in protest because they have no case. Part of the agreement is to remove images of hemp plant painted on his house? I wonder why…. because the message it sends is the truth!

There is nothing wrong or illegal about HEMP PLANTS. Marijuana is illegal but hemp does not even produce THC which is what gets you high. Our founding father grew hemp for clothes, and much more. Not only did our founding fathers grow hemp and marijuana, George Washington wrote about growing females (which get you high) and Thomas Jefferson was known to have illegally imported hemp seeds from China into America.

So next time you think it’s a crime to sneak in seeds to this country, realize even Thomas Jefferson did it. Would anyone arrest Thomas Jefferson for sneaking in hemp or marijuana seeds to this country?

When will America wake up and realize not only is the war on drugs hurting this country, but you cannot arrest people for growing “hemp.”

We need 100 more guys like this every month to make a stand and maybe, just maybe we could wake up this country.

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It has come to my attention that articles I have written in the past for various sites have been stolen and published under someone elses name!!

I take a lot of time writing and researching my articles and it is digusting that someone would take my work and copy it to their web site as if they wrote it!

I am going to republish my work here under my name as was intended.

The publications I did the writing for seems to have dropped out of existence but I still retain full copyright for the articles as I never sold them, the work was mine and I let cannabis related sites feature my articles.