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Doctors Call for Legalised Cannabis!
Posted by FoM on June 21, 1999 at 00:50:26 PT
By Gillian Harris - Scotland Correspondent!
Source: Changing Times
A GROUP of leading doctors have become the first medical professionals to call for cannabis to be legalised for recreational use.
The doctors, from the British Medical Association's Scottish committee on public health medicine, believe that a change in the law would help to control the spread of hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine. They will put forward a motion at the BMA's annual conference in Belfast next month asking for the organisation's support in their campaign to have the drug legalised for "medical and recreational use". The doctors claim that a refusal to legalise cannabis encourages people to view the drug in the same category as heroin or cocaine, leading to the assumption that taking hard drugs is no more harmful than smoking a joint. "I think more than half the population would support legislation if you laid out the evidence," George Venters, the committee chairman, said in an interview printed in Scottish editions of the Mail on Sunday. A spokesman for the BMA said:"This is only one committee of the BMA.It is not the policy of the BMA as a whole." 
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Comment #5 posted by observer on February 14, 2001 at 11:33:52 PT
Prescription
It shold be persribed by a doctor and given at a pharmacy like normal. That would be a step in the right direction, in the direction of returning to citizens the traditional freedoms that they all once shared.Here's some background on the prescription laws. The AMA, organized in New York City in 1848, advanced two seemingly innocent propositions in its early days: that all doctors should have a "suitable education" and that a "uniform elevated standard of requirements for the degree of MD should be adopted by all medical schools in the US." These were part of the AMA's real program, which was openly discussed at its conventions and in the medical journals: to secure a government-enforced medical monopoly and high incomes for mainstream doctors. . . . . . . With its monopoly, the AMA sought to fix prices. Early on, the AMA had come to the conclusion that it was "unethical" for the consumer to have any say over what he paid. Common prices were transmuted into professional "fees," and the AMA sought to make them uniform across the profession. Lowering fees and advertising them were the worst violations of medical ethics and were made illegal. When fees were raised across the board, as they frequently could be with decreased competition, it was done in secret.Then there was the problem of pharmacists selling drugs without a doctor's prescription. This was denounced as "therapeutic nihilism" and the American Pharmaceutical Association, controlled by the AMA, tried to stamp out this low-cost, in-demand practice. In nearly every state, the AMA secured laws that made it illegal for patients to seek treatment from a pharmacist. But still common were pharmacists who refilled prescriptions at customer request. The AMA lobbied to make this illegal, too, but most state legislatures wouldn't go along with this because of constituent pressure. The AMA got its way through the federal government, of course.Subsidizing Sickness: Medicine and the Stateby Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/sickness.html So, it seems that, like the laws against cannabis, the laws that jail people for using certain substances without a "prescription" didn't come from God, either.Prescriptions -- mandated by statist laws -- should be abolished. If this were done, the price of drugs would drop dramatically.Morally, you have a right to buy any drug (or anything else) you wish, as long as you can find a willing seller and as long as you have the money to make the purchase. A "right" means: you may act without seeking the permission of others. A law requiring that you get a prescription in order to purchase a drug is a violation of your rights, since you must seek permission from the legally designated controller (your physician) of the drug before making the purchase. . . .Those whose minds have been infected by statism will cry: "If drugs aren’t prescribed, some people will misuse them and suffer, even die, as a consequence."  Well, it is true some will misuse these drugs and some will suffer serious consequences, including death, as a result of being foolish enough to use a drug without checking with their physician. But the point is this: in a free society, you are responsible for your actions and you must pay for the consequences, for better or for worse, of those actions.In a free society, you are not permitted to force others to pay for your mistakes and bad judgment. In a free society, you pay the price (suffer the consequences) for the drugs you use, the food you eat, the booze you drink, the cigarettes you smoke and for anything else you do (or don’t do, such as not exercising or controlling your weight) in your life. It is not the proper function of government to protect you from your own ignorance and/or bad judgment. And it most certainly is not the function of government to use its power of force to make you pay for the mistakes (or the needs) of others.The best prescription for the so-called prescription drug problem is: no prescriptions.Fulton Huxtable October 2, 2000Rx: REPEAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG LAWShttp://www.fatalblindness.com/FREEDOM001002.htm
What is a 'statist' ?
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Comment #4 posted by mib on February 14, 2001 at 10:16:18 PT
only from phramacy
cannibis should bd legal, but only for medical purpes.It shold be persribed by a doctor and given at a pharmacy like normal. 
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Comment #3 posted by Bunton Joey on June 21, 1999 at 15:44:00 PT:
request of informations
Dear Mr, Mrs,As a student, I'm trying to get some information to write a short memoire about why cannabis shouldn't be illegal due to the fact that it can have positive effects on health and all its positive sides. I would be very pleased if you could send me very promptly information.           Sincerely.
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Comment #2 posted by FoM on June 21, 1999 at 12:14:59 PT:
Here's My Side!
I believe that the medical marijuana movement will be the door to decriminalization. Maybe not legalization, because of the way the word sounds. It is a very intimidating word to the general public. I've seen it time and again if you mention legalization people go, Oh No! but you ask them then, How about compassionate use for the sick? Then they say Yes! That's how I see it happening. It could change but as of now that's how I believe it will happen.
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Comment #1 posted by Angelia Brown on June 21, 1999 at 10:02:41 PT:
There is Another Side To This
I agree 100% with the comments here but there is another flase idea that is derrived from keeping cannabis illegal. Most of the people that I have talked to as an activist or have heard from look at it like this: since it is illegal, it must be AS BAD as the other hard drugs and continue to classify it as such. It is true that some people think that hard drugs are as safe as smoking a joint but the people that we are fighting think the oppisite. There has to be a way to counteract all of the flase information and negative propraganda used by our government to keep getting their way in the drug war on marijuana. Any ideas? We are fighting lies that the "majority" believe. Would the government lie? YES! In a heartbeat if they think that they will benifit. It is an interesting fact that the Mexican people see the drug problem as being strictly American. Think about it!
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