Medical Marijuana

A few days ago I hear that Uncle Barack isn't interested in prosecuting the distributors of marijuana. Ok, so it's the medical marijuana clinics he was talking about, but in my opinion they are still criminals. The only difference with these folks is that they are doing it out in the open and have the blessings of the state government.

Quite a while ago the federal government decided to criminalize marijuana. Today it is still listed as a schedule 1 drug on a scale of 1-5 with schedule 1 narcotics having no medicinal value. Over the years the medicinal vale of marijuana has been a matter of much debate. Some claim that it helps people with certain diseases to increase appetite and/or to reduce pain. I will admit that this issue needs to be re-examined. That means to see if this particular drug does have a positive effect in the treatment of patients not to just decriminalize it so the government can start peddling dope.

It seems to me that several years ago a pill form of marijuana, called Marinol, was being experimented with. Synthetic THC was produced and put into pill form and given to patients receiving chemotherapy and also AIDS patients. Go to uddoj.gov/marinol for more information on the study. The study showed that smoking marijuana was a poor way to deliver the THC because it could not be regulated. Plus the other harmful side effects of the associated with smoking marijuana are listed, such as a joint having four times the tar as a regular cigarette and the other 400 chemicals found in marijuana smoke.

So with the Marinol pill available by prescription for patients that need it and the FDA stating that smoking marijuana is not a viable way to deliver the drug, why the hell hasn't the federal government gone after the sellers of the illegal form of the drug? Why aren't the Feds putting their foot down and cutting off federal money to the states that have legalized marijuana in some form or another? Are they making money off of the sales? I doubt it, because that would be news worthy, at least on FOX anyway.

13 states with Washington and Oregon leading the way have already legalized medicinal marijuana. 14 others have pending legislation. What is this? If these 14 states also have medicinal marijuana laws then over half the states will thumbed their noses at the federal government on this issue? What's next?

In Washington and Oregon a person is allowed to have 24 ounces of marijuana for personal medicinal use. A pound and half? The only two words for that are in-sane. Who needs that much weed? I know, dealers. If you think that these folks aren't selling some on the side then you must be high.

Look, all I know is that if the Feds say that something is illegal, then the states cannot make laws that make it legal. In our system of government a state cannot make any laws that are more lenient than the feds. Period. All of the states that have decriminalized marijuana in any form have actually made no law at all because of the federal statute. The department of justice should have gone after the first state to try this.

I'm not just busting the chops of Uncle Barack on this one. He is just the latest president to do nothing about this. George Bush didn't do anything, neither did Bill Clinton. Well, no surprise about Slick Willy. Who believes he didn't inhale?

Eric Holder and the DOJ must put an end to this. If we are to have laws, then they must be enforced.

Especially the ones concerning illegal drugs.