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Lennonite Priest
Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA
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I am glad she isn't giving up and that she is willing to take a stand, perhaps this will force the issue and the people's voices will have to be heard.
I do see this hurting the GOP in some red states, namely Colorado and Alaska. I also find it amazing that Bush supporters who claim to be for states rights again show hypocracy by not coming out against this blatant thumbing of the nose at states rights and the voters. Then again, this is the ruling the Religious Right and Bush wanted to see, IMHO for the very reason it takes rights away from the states and the people.
(edit I forgot to add the article..... LINK:
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Marijuana Plaintiff to Defy Court Ruling By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 19 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the lead plaintiffs in the medical marijuana case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday says she'll defy the ruling and continue to smoke pot.
"I'm going to have to be prepared to be arrested," said Diane Monson, who smokes marijuana several times a day to relieve back pain.
The Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities may arrest and prosecute people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain, concluding that state laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
The Bush administration had argued that states, even the 10 states with medical marijuana laws, could not defy the federal Controlled Substances Act, which declares marijuana to be not only illegal, but of no medical value.
Justice John Paul Stevens, writing the 6-3 decision, said that Congress could change the law to allow medical use of marijuana.
Monson, 48, of Oroville, was prescribed marijuana by her doctor in 1997, after standard prescription drugs didn't work or made her sleepy. She is battling degenerative spine disease.
"I'm way disappointed. There are so many people that need cannabis," Monson said.
Fifty-six percent of California voters approved the nation's first so-called medical marijuana law in 1996, allowing patients to smoke and grow marijuana with a doctor's recommendation.
In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled against pot clubs that distributed medical marijuana, saying they cannot do so based on the "medical necessity" of the patient. The ruling forced the Oakland supplier of Angel Raich, the other plaintiff, to close.
Raich suffers from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other problems.
Many other cannabis clubs still operate openly in California and other states, but have taken measures — such as not keeping client lists — to protect their customers from arrest.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, often working over the objections of local law enforcement, has periodically raided medical marijuana operations and their clients' pot supplies.
Raich and Monson sued Attorney General John Ashcroft because they feared their supplies of medical marijuana might dry up.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
Last edited by pan6467; 06-06-2005 at 11:30 AM..
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