Medical Marijuana for Oklahoma

[inactive]

Hell why don't we put gov't tax on psuedo, coffee filters, camp fuel, etc...all the stuff used to make meth. I mean I may need a quick pick me up while at work.....let's make it legal.

Actually, your doctor can prescribe methamphetamine to you if he thinks you would benefit. Same with cocaine, heroin and other opiates.

The things that are most controlled are because they purportedly have no medical benefit and are highly addictive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_I_drugs_(US)

This of course is debatable. But marijuana is included, as well as peyote, 'shrooms (Psilocybin), licking toads (Bufotenine). You know, things that cannot be easily controlled and sold by chemical companies for a profit.



The 9 our of 10 started with pot argument is weak though, because 100% of the sample you see as an LEO are in trouble with drugs (if they weren't they wouldn't be talking to police). There are vast numbers of illegal users that are responsibly living their lives.

I work in insurance, and 100% of the vehicles I deal with on a daily basis are involved in vehicular accidents. My sampling shows that vehicles are destructive and dangerous. Should be regulate and prohibit vehicles? I admit, this is a bit absurd, but I use it as an example to show that anecdotal experiences are poor ways to express an aggregate.


I like ya Mojo, but I have to disagree with you on this topic.

 

[inactive]

Medical Methamphetamine for Oklahoma!

 

[Walrus]

And you're right. Libertarian ideas don't work for fascists of either stripe who want to tell us what, how and why we should be living our lives.

 

[338Shooter]

Opium is a CII.

So is methamphetamine.

 

[inactive]

Opium is a CII.

Medical Opiates for Oklahoma!

Medical Meth for Oklahoma!

Medical Cocaine for Oklahoma!

 

[kd5rjz]

Medical Methamphetamine for Oklahoma!

It's already here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

 

[inactive]

It's already here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

I mentioned that in the immediately preceding post. I was being provocative.

 

[Werewolf]

I voted no.

Not because I think marijuana should be illegal, because I don't.

Because medical marijuana is just a half ass end around or a 1st step or what ever you want to call it.

Make it legal. Full decriminalization. It's no worse than alcohol and society is still truckin' right along with that being legal.

 

[Walrus]

Actually, how does one define the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? If getting high makes one happy, then the Declaration of Independence certainly endorses the concept. The Constitution, wisely enough, is silent, as it is and was intended to be a minimalist document protecting sovereign citizens against the power of an ever-encroaching state. If the document didn't give particular powers to an entity, those powers do not legitimately exist. And where the Constitution is silent, so should we be.

 

[nofearfactor]

It was an appeals court, not the SCOTUS. And the Court couldn't "reclassify" because the DEA could show that the classification was not entirely arbitrary.

You are correct. Federal Appeals panel.

The ruling:
In a deferential and unsurprising ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said it was bound by the DEA’s determination about what types of studies constitute “adequate and well-controlled.” But as the court explains, this decision represents courts’ extreme hesitance to disturb the determinations that agencies make, rather than any assessment of the medical benefits of the drug.
Nonetheless, it signifies the intractable battle to remove one of the major hurdles in reforming federal marijuana law. The classification of marijuana as a drug with no medical value appears increasingly at odds with the opinions of many doctors who attest to the medical benefits of the drug, and of patients, who take advantage of dispensaries in the 18 states where they are now legal.
A number of highly addictive and potent drugs, such as cocaine, opium poppy, morphine and codeine, are listed as Schedule II, designated for those drugs that have a high potential for abuse and dependence, but which have “a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.” And the synthetic version of THC, known as dronabinol, is listed as Schedule III, even though THC is the ingredient in cannabis that causes psychoactive effects.