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Morgy: Legalize Pot RX
Posted by CN Staff on June 16, 2004 at 08:09:34 PT
By Dareh Gregorian
Source: New York Post 
Banning medical reefer is madness, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said yesterday. Morgenthau issued his surprising call to legalize medical marijuana in New York state at a joint press conference with talk-show host Montel Williams, who uses the drug to help cope with pain from his multiple sclerosis. "It should be available to those whose suffering would be eased by the use of marijuana," said Morgenthau, 84, one of the most powerful and influential prosecutors in the country. 
"There is absolutely no reason for not using marijuana for medical purposes. It's another weapon in the arsenal" for doctors trying to combat a patient's pain, he said. Both men said they were supporting a marijuana-legalization bill that was introduced in the Legislature by Assemblyman Richard Gottfried. "Albany should get off the dime and pass the bill this year," Morgenthau said. A passionate Williams, who was diagnosed with MS in 1999, fought back tears as he described the pain he uses the drug to combat, pain that's so intense it wreaks havoc on his entire lower body. "There are days I don't feel like getting out of bed," he said. Williams said he sought out the drug and got prescriptions in Canada and California because "I don't feel like lying in a corner drooling when I can be a useful member of society instead." He said that in addition to MS sufferers, the drug is helpful to people suffering from glaucoma and AIDS and cancer-related therapies. The TV talker said he approached fellow Navy veteran Morgenthau for his support a little more than two weeks ago. Morgenthau said he always believed in the use of medical marijuana "in ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^principle," then started researching the issue — including consulting with his physician daughter. Source: New York Post (NY)Author: Dareh GregorianPublished: June 16, 2004Copyright: 2004 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc.Contact: letters nypost.comWebsite: http://www.nypost.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:Montel Williams Showhttp://www.montelshow.com/Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmProsecutor, Talk Show Host Push Medical Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19010.shtmlMontel Speaks for Medical Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18831.shtmlMontel Williams Pushes Pot -- for Medical Reliefhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18797.shtml 
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Comment #4 posted by ekim on June 16, 2004 at 13:09:24 PT
whats wrong with this picture
Chief said that it use to be they had to prove a person was impaired not so anylonger. 
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Comment #3 posted by ekim on June 16, 2004 at 13:02:15 PT
Chief never says word marijuana 
I hear you Virg . just got the end of a radio interview with a police chief in MI and he was panting quite noticeably as he told of the new drug driving law that took effect in Oct that had gotten over 800 arrests, it use to be hard to get em but now with zero tolerance for all schedule 1 no medical value drugs and cocaine all we have to prove is that its in there body. or make that booty.
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Comment #2 posted by Sam Adams on June 16, 2004 at 11:40:49 PT
Nice Work
I don't know who this "Morgy" character is, but it was enough to get the militant Post to print a favorable article, nice job!
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Comment #1 posted by Virgil on June 16, 2004 at 10:14:20 PT
How will people deal with the betrayal?
The lies that are thrown out to drown reason will come to haunt those that now repeat them so endlessly. The prohibitionists say that reformers want to use medical marijuana to Free Cannabis and then legalize all drugs. In effect, they are saying we have to deny MMJ, so that prohibition might live. Sure it works, but if the oppression and fear that the corrupted powers use has an opening, all reason will walk through it.There are tens of millions of people that use cannabis in this country that know exactly what comes with cannabis use. The harms of use do not come close to the harms from the prohibition. Where there is benefit of use, there is no benefit of prohibition. Do the compassion clubs have warning labels on their cannabis nutraceuticals? No. There is nothing to warn about. Sure laughing grass can make you do funny things and I wish that some provider would actually put this on a package- "Warning- laughing grass can make you do funny things." It would give us some ammunition instead of fighting silence with silence.The obsession with blocking medical marijuana is all telling of the corruption that rules us. The ill-named drug wars are all telling too. It is just that it is not takes a little longer to explain. The prohibitionists do have cause to fear MMJ, mainly because its use would become widespread and open and would prove that we have all been asked to live in a fictitious world that is full of lies everywhere.The rulings out of California by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have a great significance to the rot of prohibition itself. It will be prohibition rotting from outside the US that dooms CP, but this ruling is beyond huge. But let’s say the Supreme Court leaves the path to a completely legal supply of cannabis. It means testimony can come forth of what MMJ can actually do. It means that real research could begin.The prohibitionist use demonization and vilification as if it justifies prohibition and that it does not make any difference if what is said is true or not. The ONDCP is all but forced to recognize that cannabis will one day come to America like GW extracts do to the UK. The current strategy in silence, silence, boo is to make the boo demonize “smoked marijuana.”Here is one of Richard Cowan’s articles that should be bookmarked under MMJ-cancer -  http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=717 - and here is the pertinent paragraph- The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals. In 1974, researchers at the Medical College of Virginia, who had been funded by the National Institutes of Health to find evidence that marijuana damages the immune system, found instead that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice -- lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia. The demonization of smoked cannabis needs to be fought with research on lung cancer. We need to find out what it really does. Dr. Russo has stated that there has never been a case of lung cancer in a cannabis-only user. We know that cannabis does not cause lung cancer nor emphysema, as the smoke stays in the larger pathways of the lungs.
How cruel is it that this question has not yet been answered when in 1974 the Spanish studies indicated cancer-fighting properties in cannabis when the US was three years into a war on cancer initiated by Nixon? But what does it to the prohibitionist when a doctor can honestly recommend cannabis to a smoker with cancer. What does it do when people call into the radio stations and say I smoke laughing grass in hopes of prolonging my life with lung cancer? Most people that have lung cancer do not know it because they do not have insurance to cover the detection and when it shows, the majority of people do not have but weeks to live. All I am really saying is that the situation in America depends on the stance of the Supreme Court in regards to a legal supply within a state because it opens up research, testimony, and conversation. The big stories closing in on total prohibition from the US are the GW extracts and the soon to be clones from countries that have dirt and sunlight and the need for cannabis in people that have AIDS and the promised pills that have not yet been delivered as the US pill companies say money coming out of the public treasury belongs to them.The war on drugs and the war on terror are a farce. Class warfare is the only war and since the country has been taken over for the benefit of the concentrations of wealth they create these illusions to further their cause. Bill Moyers gave another fine speech with the transcript going up today at Alternet- http://www.alternet.org/story/18954
It is titled “A War Worth Fighting” and this is the last paragraph- What we need is a mass movement of people like you. Get mad, yes -- there's plenty to be mad about. Then get organized and get busy. This is the fight of our lives.
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