‘Medicinal’ cannabis grower given home detention

08 Jul 2011 03:29a.m.

Jillian Galloway wrote:

Even *IF* he did, Gary, so what?? What logical, moral or practical reason could there be for criminalizing cannabis while keeping alcohol legal? Especially considering the fact that we CAN'T stop people smoking cannabis so every dollar spent on it goes straight to criminals which *encourages* them to come into our communities trying to sell their weed to OUR kids?!! Keeping cannabis illegal empowers drug dealers by preventing any form of legal competition to their activities. Instead of protecting children from cannabis, the law creates an environment of zero legal supply amidst massive and unrelenting demand that makes our children LESS safe. This is plain stupid! And the worst part of it all is that WE pay for it! We're paying to make our lives LESS safe!! That is ridiculous.

07 Jul 2011 07:36p.m.

Kevin Owen wrote:

Many drugs do suppress pain [Pain killers]. To call them medicine is a con job. Drug Addiction In the absence of workable psychotherapy wide drug addiction is inevitable. When a person is depressed or in pain and where he finds no physical relief from treatment, he will eventually discover for himself that drugs, remove his symptoms. In almost all cases of, psychosomatic pain, malaise or discomfort the person has sought some cure for the upset

07 Jul 2011 05:35p.m.

Medullo wrote:

I find it comical to read the posts stating that 'he is just using it as an excuse to get high' and most people use alcohol for that. Most of the modern pharmacueticals have serious side effects in the long term and only go through a couple of years testing before going to the public sector. Cannabis has been tested for thousands of years and has very few side effects and none that are lethal. An example are the anti-cholesteral drugs that are very damaging to the liver in the long term but are given to anyone exibiting high bad levels regardless of age. Why are so many people against letting sick people try a possible remedy? A tumor on the putuitary gland is very serious.....why not try canabis as a relief? It's not hurting anyone else for someone with MS to utilize the posible treatment. We are not talking about giving it to children as an after school snack nor is anyone suggesting that it should be sold at the local dairy right next to the cigarettes and beer. Doctors proscribe opiates, barbituates and caine dirivitives daily and they are far more dangerous.....why do so many have a problem with him proscribing canabis as well?

07 Jul 2011 03:13p.m.

Matt Riley wrote:

Oh Braam, lol... Can you please provide links to this research? And to all the people who think medicinal marijuana use is an excuse for getting stoned I would like to make 2 points. 1; Until 1937 when prohibition was introduced, cannabis and cannabis extracts were listed as the primary medication for the treatment of over 100 different illnesses and medical conditions in the USA Pharmacopoeia. This is a fact, check it out. 2; Cannabis use and even abuse has relatively few harmful effects on people. Cannabis use does not cause any brain damage or heart disease and it has been proven to have numerous benefits. The anti-tumor qualities of cannabis actually reduce the risk of lung cancer and many other cancers. Not a single person has ever died as a direct result of cannabis use ever, in the whole world. Not one. Can you say the same about alcohol, coffee or aspirin? No, they will all kill you if you take too much. So why does society have such a negative view of cannabis? Simple, people are ignorant of the facts. Governments have lied to us to protect commercial interests of a few powerful corporations. The Presidential Bush Family has 60% of its wealth tied into pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Beyer. Legalising cannabis would hurt the Bush Family financially in a direct manner. These companies also spend billions of dollars on anti cannabis lobbying. Why is the group called "People For A Drug Free America" funded by pharmaceutical and alcohol companies? Do your own research, it's all there for anyone who wants to know the facts. Or would you prefer to stay ignorant?

07 Jul 2011 07:28a.m.

Jillian Galloway wrote:

On June 17, 1971, President Nixon told Congress that "if we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will surely destroy us." After forty years of trying to destroy "the drug menace in America" we still *haven't* been able to destroy it and it still *hasn't* destroyed us. Four decades is long enough to realize that on this important issue, President Nixon was wrong! All actions taken as a result of his invalid and paranoid assumptions (e.g. the federal marijuana prohibition) should be ended immediately! It makes no sense for taxpayers to fund the federal marijuana prohibition when it *doesn't* prevent people from using marijuana and it *does* make criminals incredibly wealthy and incite the Mexican drug cartels to murder thousands of people every year. We need legal adult marijuana sales in supermarkets, gas stations and pharmacies for exactly the same reason that we need legal alcohol and tobacco sales - to keep unscrupulous black-market criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children. Marijuana must be made legal to sell to adults everywhere that alcohol and tobacco are sold. "There's something extraordinarily perverse when we're so concerned about preventing addicts from having access to drugs that we destroy the lives of many times more people, either through untreated pain or other drug war damage".

06 Jul 2011 06:14p.m.

jap47 wrote:

Alien and Braam I agree. To those who think there is nothing wrong with decriminilizing drugs....i guess you have not had a family member who has battled drug addiction, and the hell they and their families go through to get off the evil stuff. Legal or not, the effects on the body and mind of the user are horrendous. Why cant this guy use the so-called legal highs that have been in the news alot lately - oh yes, thats right, they too are proving very harmful also. Any government who makes drug use legal, will never get my vote....ever.

06 Jul 2011 05:41p.m.

Charlie wrote:

What research is that? I would be very interested to read that article. perhaps you could post a link to somewhere i could review their data.

06 Jul 2011 04:57p.m.

Clarke wrote:

Research also shows that the type of person that drinks alcohol is a bad person and often subject to majr addiction issue Braam... so you point exactly is what?. With normal medications prescribed by a doctor you have many medications where death is a real side effect, even for things as simple of penicillin, at least marijuana doesnt have that side effect. And if the guy turned himself in, praising the police for making an example of him is just ridiculous, what a waste of tax payer funds. If the government was consistent it would ban all bad substances including alcohol. Aspartemine is a chemical used in diet sodas it turns into formaldehyde one of the most toxic substances known to man and really good at causing cancer when injested in the stomach. I mean come on, we are poisoning ourselves on a daily basis, if the government jas a pproblem with the effects of this, when it most certainly knows the effects of aspartemine, Fat, Alcohol it just seems a little hypocritical.

06 Jul 2011 04:53p.m.

Gary wrote:

Medicinal user, my arse! He smokes it to get stoned!!! All this bullshit about medicinal use is a tired old worn out excuse.

06 Jul 2011 04:49p.m.

Mbossa wrote:

@Braam: Care to share some of that "research" with the rest of us?