Pubdate: Wed, 13 Apr 2011
Source: Hi-Desert Star (Yucca Valley, CA)
Copyright: 2011 Hi Desert Star
Contact:  http://www.hidesertstar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3921
Author: Gerard Van Der Veen

AMERICA NOT AS FREE AS IT SHOULD BE

This isn't democracy, this is becoming dictatorship!

Who gave our government the right to tell someone who is in pain 
24-7, and the only thing that works for them is medicinal marijuana, 
that it's not legal or to make it real hard to get. The reason the 
American Medical Association gave for why it won't condone medical 
marijuana is because it's an inhalant. Well excuse me, aren't cigs an 
inhalant and one of the biggest killers we have? When asked why they 
were legal, she (the AMA rep) said, "Because they are and that's how 
it is." Really? "That's how it is," now that sure was a profound 
answer, wasn't it?

Our government would rather have these people hooked on the "legal 
prescribed" drugs such as oxycodone, morphine, methadone, etc. They 
look and act as if they are zombies but hey, they're not hurting. 
This works for some not all. For those it doesn't work for, and who 
don't want to get hooked on script pills, why deny them what works 
for them? Most of these folks have fought in our wars for our country 
so we can all be free. Really? Free?

Marijuana has been around for thousands of years and has been proven 
to help those hurting from whatever ails them. Also this so-called 
drug war that our government is and has been losing has been costing 
the taxpayers big bucks, and things haven't changed much since they 
started 20 or so years ago.

Legalize and tax it. Our economy wouldn't be as bad as today and our 
jails wouldn't be overcrowded due to petty drug arrests. Most 
druggies are non-violent, peace-loving citizens. They don't need to 
be locked up where they learn worse crimes than what they are in for. 
It's got a lot to do with the fact that every time someone gets 
locked up, you're providing a law enforcer a paycheck. Do the math. Go figure.

Gerard Van Der Veen

Yucca Valley
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