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Past time to resolve conflict
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The conflict over state and federal medical marijuana laws must be resolved.
California and 12 other states now allow the use of medical marijuana, yet the federal government does not.
That means sick people with authorization from their doctors to use marijuana are still in legal jeopardy, that California employers can fire workers who use marijuana recommended by a physician, and that people in need of an organ transplant can be barred from organ-transplant waiting lists.
Too bad there is not a common-sense transplant.
Free Weeds: William F. Buckley, Jr on Legalising Marijuana
June 29, 2004, 12:07 p.m.
Free Weeds
The marijuana debate.
Efficacy of random drug testing programs questioned
Efficacy of random drug testing programs questioned
By Blair Koch
Times-News correspondent
What do the American Academy of Pediatrics, The Association for Addiction Professionals and the National Association of Social Workers have in common?
Each organization opposes the random drug testing of middle and highschool students.
The American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its stance opposing random student drug testing twice in 2007. In March the AAP said, "There is little evidence of the effectiveness of school-based drug testing." In December the AAP concluded, "Physicians should not support drug testing in schools … It has not yet been established that drug testing does not cause harm."
Another fuck-up because of the so called 'drug war'
Canadian Mom Searching for Missing Daughter Denied Entry to US Over 21-Year-Old Drug Conviction
Jessie Foster
from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #489,
6/8/07
Glendene Grant, a 49-year-old resident of Kamloops, British Columbia, never had any interest in visiting the United States. That changed a little more than a year ago, when her daughter, then 21-year-old Jessie Foster went missing in Las Vegas in March 2006. Since then, she has made three trips to the US to talk with investigators and publicize her daughter's case on TV talk shows.
Ending the marijuana monopoly
Medicinal MarijuanaFederal officials should allow competition in growing the drug for needed studies on its medical use.
May 31, 2007
Discussion OF medical marijuana has always been heavy on rhetoric, elisions and grandiose claims. What it has lacked is reliable research that might bring some of the discussion into line with reality. This is because access to the government's monopoly supply of research-grade marijuana is so restricted that the necessary research is effectively impossible.
