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Poll: Majority Supports Medical Marijuana Use
Posted by CN Staff on July 04, 2004 at 09:27:37 PT
By Monique Curet, Staff Writer
Source: Mobile Register 
More than three-quarters of Alabamians think doctors should be allowed to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes, though an even larger percentage oppose outright legalization of the drug, the results of a new Mobile Register-University of South Alabama poll suggest. In last week's statewide survey of 417 people, the majority also expressed indifference about political candidates' stances on medical marijuana, and more than 70 percent said it would not influence their vote if a candidate admitted using marijuana when he or she was young.
The poll, conducted Monday through Thursday, has a 5-percentage-point margin of error. The survey results come in the wake of a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last week to review the question of whether the federal government can prosecute patients who are using marijuana under a doctor's direction. Nine states -- Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington -- have laws that allow the medical use of marijuana if a doctor recommends it. A majority of those polled last week thought that states, not the federal government, should take the lead in passing laws regarding the medical use of marijuana. The issue of legalization also has surfaced in Alabama's U.S. Senate race. Wayne Sowell, a Birmingham Democrat who is challenging three-term U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, said he supports the legalization of medical marijuana and of hemp (a non-narcotic relative of marijuana grown for its fiber) as a cash crop. Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/alabama.htmSource: Mobile Register (AL)Author: Monique Curet, Staff WriterPublished: Sunday, July 04, 2004Copyright: 2004 Mobile RegisterContact: newsroom mobileregister.comWebsite: http://www.al.com/mobileregister/Marijuana Policy Projecthttp://www.mpp.org/Drug Policy Alliancehttp://www.drugpolicy.org/Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmCannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #18 posted by runruff on July 05, 2004 at 18:06:23 PT:
read my comment please
Please read my comment posted on the next news report,
"suicide and state's rights addressed by high courts."
Thank you.
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Comment #17 posted by afterburner on July 05, 2004 at 14:40:32 PT
Let Us Remind Kerry of our Issue When Picking VP
Ad Highlights Presidential Candidates MMJ Position, 
Posted by CN Staff on January 19, 2004 at 10:24:00 PT
Press Release, 
Source: Common Dreams 
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/18/thread18171.shtml
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Comment #16 posted by observer on July 05, 2004 at 11:15:26 PT
The ''L'' Word
MPP's Bruce Mirken: marijuana advocates maintained that the wording of the query can influence the answers received. "Legalization is almost a buzzword that scares people," Mirken said. He added that when that particular phrasing is used, people tend to envision marijuana being sold on convenience store shelves, alongside items such as candy bars.Yes ... the "L" word has been defined by big media in the U.S. as meaning 'sold to kids like candy.' Better, by far, to make prohibitionists defend jailing pot smokers. Don't get caught in the trap of having to defend "Legalization". 
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Comment #15 posted by sukoi on July 05, 2004 at 06:47:11 PT
FOM,
Since things are slow, I thought that you might like to post this article. I don’t know anything about the author but as I understand it he is a prominent conservative. It sure seems that as of late just about everything is going in the right direction with regard to cannabis, especially with all of these conservatives coming out in our favor and a big cannabis leaf on the cover of the National Review!Also, FOX News just announced that Montel will be on the O’Reilly Factor tonight discussing “legalizing marijuana”. JAMES KILPATRICK: SUICIDE AND STATES' RIGHTS ADDRESSED BY HIGH COURT
http://www.southernillinoisan.com/rednews/2004/07/04/build/opinions/OPI002.html
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Comment #14 posted by goneposthole on July 04, 2004 at 23:27:35 PT
I like my freedom
Anyway, I hope it's freedom.  Another day of illegal cannabis being bought and sold in the USA.Another day of legal war in Iraq. All is fair in love and war. Another day of legal drugwar in the US. If it's illegal, it's bad. If it's legal, it's good!Can't argue with that. Hope you're happy with the little bit of freedom that you've got left.Osama is still free, too. Saddam is in the hoosegow about to be tried for war crimes. I'll bet he wishes he were free. He did what he did for a long time. He finally got caught. Had he been growing medical marijuana, he would have been busted by the DEA long, long ago.Happy fourth of July. 
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Comment #13 posted by Virgil on July 04, 2004 at 22:23:09 PT
NarcoNews says Chavez victory is certain
The recall vote on August 15th will not remove Chavez from office according to this Al Giordano piece- http://www.narconews.com/Issue33/article1004.htmlThe Bolivian vote on the course of the petrochemical resources is July 18th. International energy companies are already plundering Bolivian resources and this vote will not undo the robbing that keeps the mostly indiginous people of Bolivia in 3rd world poverty.I see the drug warriors as having an army of drummers. They beat on their drums and people think they are a mighty defense. There is no offence as they rely on a stonewall defense of everything. The campaign announced by the ONDCP will backfire just like the massive campaign this year. They want to take a few kernels of truth and apply tautology logic to make it seem sensible. The present course will never be sensible and it is a global war to free cannabis. The Brits will have a protest with people smoking on the 17th- http://www.marijuana.com/420/showthread.php?t=31012 The laws are unjust and people that see that reality are not going to accept anything less than Free Cannabis. It is my belief that Ireland is not a signatory to any UN conventions and they could easily declare that cannabis should be free for ever more. They have had an increase in per capita drinking that is shocking in the last few years and Free Cannabis is the first major step in reducing the harms of substance abuse.Then there is Berlin.In the US it is like the law enforcement is the army for the  prohibitionist and the laws the navy that have us trapped. The media is the Air Force and they are being shot out of the sky left and right. Michael Moore's film crossed the $50 million mark and there are other films like "The Corporation" and something about Orwel rolling over in his grave that will see the end of an effective Air Force by the election on November 2. There was a good article at Marijuana.com where a reformer let the media have it and is a tale that will be repeated until the problem of diversion, division, and deception ends- http://www.marijuana.com/420/showthread.php?t=31013The prohibitionist have a nice drum corps, but they are unarmed and defending tyranny, injustice, and treason will not bring the service of good men and women to their cause. There is only one Logical Conclusion and even the prohibitionist leaders know it. Free Cannabis For Everyone.
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Comment #12 posted by FoM on July 04, 2004 at 21:20:18 PT
Just a Comment
I hope everyone had a nice 4th of July. We had corn on the cob and it was really good. We watched the Macy
s Fireworks in New York. I wish they would have played better music though. Something with a bit of fire but they didn't. It's like they were trying to keep everything calm and controlled. I want to see a Firworks display with Neil Young singing Rockin' in The Free World. I would have really enjoyed the fireworks then. Soon the news will pick up. I don't know when but I know it will. I still have a wide eyed optimism that good things will happen for all of us. We've come so far in such a short time. We must be in the home stretch. I'm keeping my fingers crossed too.
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Comment #11 posted by Virgil on July 04, 2004 at 21:12:47 PT
siege
Carter was President in 1978. The first wave of state laws for medical cannabis came in the 70s. That is what makes it all so strange now for the drug warriors to chant "Marijuana has no medical value." The key word in the schedule of narcotics is "recognized" medical use of course. It does not matter if states or countries recognize medical value, because it is interpreted to mean that the corrupt DEA does not recognize any medical use. Those bastards are so self-centered and self-serving.
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Comment #10 posted by afterburner on July 04, 2004 at 21:07:15 PT
It Was Carter, not Ford
"The government, however, already has experience growing marijuana for legal use. The National Institute on Drug Abuse set up a compassionate use program in 1978 under an investigational new drug permit to settle a lawsuit against the government. Physicians who received such an IND could provide marijuana to their patients. The program ended in 1992 but the NIDA has continued to supply medical marijuana to a handful of patients grandfathered in under that program." --Analysis: Medical Marijuana Debate Renews, 
Posted by CN Staff on June 29, 2004 at 07:24:10 PT
By Ellen Beck, United Press International 
Source: United Press International 
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/19/thread19090.shtml"1978: Sadat in US for Mid East talks
Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat has arrived in Washington DC to discuss the Middle East peace process with US President Jimmy Carter." --On This Day 3 February 1978 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/3/newsid_2525000/2525341.stm US President Gerald R. Ford http://www.homeofheroes.com/presidents/38_ford.html
' Gerald Rudolph Ford Thirty-Eighth US President. August 9, 1974 - January 20,
1977. VICE PRESIDENT Nelson A. Rockefeller. FIRST LADY Elizabeth "Betty" Ford. ... ' http://www.homeofheroes.com/presidents/38_ford.htmlHappy Independence Day, may we really feel it next year! Independence from tyranny, not from cannabis-wisdom.
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Comment #9 posted by E_Johnson on July 04, 2004 at 20:51:18 PT
Thanks to everyone who has sacrificed
Happy Fourth everyone!Thanks to everyone who has sacrificed for freedom.
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Comment #8 posted by siege on July 04, 2004 at 20:46:29 PT
Virgil 
it was FORD 1978
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Comment #7 posted by Virgil on July 04, 2004 at 17:58:19 PT
I don't think Nixon did anything for MMJ
The Timothy Leary case that lead to the Supreme Court striking down the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 because of unconstitutionality would have happened under Nixon in 1969. The experimental program that still provides 7 or so people with federally approved pot from Mississipi did not come from Nixon. I think it was Reagan, but could have been Carter. You could look it up at Drug Sense."The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time." --- Richard Nixon
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Comment #6 posted by siege on July 04, 2004 at 15:24:32 PT
Virgil 
    
This is the bible belt of the south the counsel of churches meet in Nashville, Tn. about 3 weeks ago and called for change in the marijuana laws sound good in the media
I have not heard any thing at the  (( pulpit )) and this is where it starts if your going to change anything at the church.
you have to wake up your congregation. And let them spread the GOOD news!!
OOPS BAD ME  we cannot teach about marijuana because it is against the govt.I would like to find where tricky dickey wrote the law to give marijuana to the sick people. siege.
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Comment #5 posted by Virgil on July 04, 2004 at 15:05:51 PT
This article says
From http://cgi.citizen-times.com/cgi-bin/story/letters/57369 Hemp is legal to grow in Canada, Germany, England, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, China, Thailand, Hungary and Romania.In America, bills have passed to allow hemp cultivation in North Dakota, Hawaii, Minnesota, Illinois, Maryland and West Virginia, with resolutions passing in Alaska, California, Kentucky, Montana, Virginia and Vermont, and with legislation in process in South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon and Tennessee.
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Comment #4 posted by Virgil on July 04, 2004 at 12:16:54 PT
Why does Alabama get a poll
From the snipped portion- Nadelmann said if the question was phrased differently -- so that those polled were asked whether they support treating marijuana like alcohol by regulating and taxing it -- he believes 25 percent of Alabamians would respond favorably, compared to the 13 percent who said they favored legalization. It is good to hear any poll numbers. It would be nice to have the numbers for Alaska, California, and New York from my wonky position. It makes you wonder why Alabama comes up with a poll when no other state can get any interested party to sponsor a poll. I don't mean to go all conspiracy theory on you, but do you think someone picked the unenlightenedness of Alabama to generate a 13% number in approval of legalization? They called 413 people, which is something any one individual could do with this long holiday weekend. But even using telephones is not the best way. Someone should get approval at gas station and while people are people are pumping gas walk up to them and ask them a question with the wording of their choice.One of these days I am liable to start calling people in the phone book to see what the locals think. Well, maybe to see if they think at all.You all down there in Alabama don't do enough thinking. Have a beer and be blissful.I wonder what the numbers would be for those incarcerated in the state prisons.
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on July 04, 2004 at 12:13:09 PT
EJ You're Welcome
A Malibu! Woo! Yes those were the days. When I met my husband he had a 65 Mercury Comet Cyclone. It sure was fast and made a lot of noise! The music was out of this world.
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Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on July 04, 2004 at 12:03:17 PT
Thanks FoM
Almost Cut My Hair -- that song reminds me of a lot of times gone by.My boyfriend had long hair, but what really got those police cars in his rear view mirror wasn't his hair, it was his car. A customized 65 Malibu that was just a classic macho go fast car of the day.I suppose today recreational driving is a pretty big sin. We were hooked on it. But then there were terrible costs. Being hunched over a four barrel carburetor at 5am, trying to get all the little springs and pieces back together at the same time, those moments were sheer hell.Oops sorry! Went a bit off topic there.We had a lot of fun back then despite the fact that Nixon was President.The music really helped take the edge off the situation. The car was just a really cool place to listen to the music, in a way.The politics was terrible but the music was really sublime.
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on July 04, 2004 at 10:12:11 PT
News Article from Snipped Source
CS&N Responds To 'Politically Charged' TimesSunday, July 04, 2004Crosby, Stills & NashWHERE: Clio Area Amphitheater, 301 Rogers Lodge Drive, Clio WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday TICKETS: $48 bleachers; $63 reserved at the box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and by phone, (248) 645-6666 DETAILS: (810) 687-7611. www.clioamp.org 
 
Crosby, Stills & Nash never have shied away from social commentary. They're not about to change now. The trio's 46-date summer tour, which culminates a four-date Michigan run Friday at the Clio Area Amphitheater, will highlight hits, new songs and, as David Crosby noted in a recent interview, "every politically charged song we've got." That's a pretty substantial group of anthems, like "Almost Cut My Hair," "Ohio" and "Find the Cost of Freedom," some cataloguing both the sunny idealism and the sense of injustice that often colored their soaring harmonies and folk-inspired music in the turbulent Vietnam era of the late 1960s and early '70s. Why haul that stuff out now? Because the songs are applicable to the times, which Crosby likens to the upheaval of the period in which many of them originally were crafted. "We are sorely pissed," noted the 62-year-old, speaking by phone as his 9-year-old son, Django, horses around on the band's tour bus by taping his mouth shut. Dad laughs, but it's a fitting metaphor for the country's deep polarization, when speaking out against the prevailing sentiment can get you branded as un-American. The Dixie Chicks felt that sting last year when the popular Texas trio criticized President Bush as his administration prepared to go to war with Iraq. Their CDs were burned and radio stations, including the 1,200-station Clear Channel Radio group pulled their music off the air. Crosby dismissed the radio conglomerate's action as "de facto censorship." Crosby and Graham Nash, an English native and naturalized American citizen, recorded a version of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" for their forthcoming album, "Crosby-Nash," in honor of the Dixie Chicks. Today's rocky political and social times remind Crosby of the era that birthed the band, which rose from the ashes of the Byrds (Crosby), Hollies (Nash) and Buffalo Springfield (Stephen Stills). "One of the things they used to do to us in Vietnam times was the administration in power would wrap itself in the flag. If you disagreed or didn't think that war was the way to solve things, you were called un-American, which these guys (the Bush administration) are doing again," Crosby asserted. "That really ticks me off. I am a staunch believer in the United States of America. The Bill of Rights and the Constitution are the best defense of freedom that have ever taken place. I believe in this country, and it offends the hell out of me." The frustration he and the others feel during this election year is palpable on "Crosby-Nash," the fourth studio album recorded by the old friends, and their first in 26 years. The long wait between albums is reflected in is heft - 20 songs spread out over two CDs - which will hit stores Aug. 10 on Sanctuary Records. The trio, augmented by two members of Crosby's other group, CPR (including his 39-year-old son, James Raymond), will include some of those new songs on CS&N's summer tour, including "They Want It All," an anti-greed rant inspired by the Enron scandal that Crosby's been singing at CS&N and Crosby, Stills, Nash & (Neil) Young concerts for the last few years. *** Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/features-1/1088938532151930.xml
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