cannabisnews.com: Medical Marijuana Case Centers on States' Rights Medical Marijuana Case Centers on States' Rights Posted by CN Staff on December 24, 2004 at 09:53:05 PT Editorial Source: Kalamazoo Gazette The issue of legalizing the medical use of marijuana is now where it belongs -- in the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation should know sometime next year whether states can operate outside federal law by permitting the therapeutic use of marijuana. Last month, both sides presented their arguments before the high court justices. And, at first blush, the marijuana proponents appear to be underdogs in the super-charged case. For example, Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, considered among the court's liberal-moderate wing, seemed skeptical. Souter noted that about 10 percent of Americans use illegal drugs, and that states which now allow marijuana for medical use might not be able to prevent recreational users from taking advantage. It should be noted however, according to provisions of the law in states where it is legal, the use of marijuana of for medical reasons would have to be prescribed by a physician. Breyer remarked, "Everybody will say mine is medical." The issue made its way to the Supreme Court in a lawsuit brought by two California women, Angel Raich and Diane Monsoon, after federal agents confiscated marijuana from Monsoon's yard. Both women are seriously ill. Raich has a brain tumor, and has used marijuana to help ease the pain. Snipped:Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/rights.htmSource: Kalamazoo Gazette (MI)Published: Friday, December 24, 2004Copyright: 2004 Kalamazoo GazetteWebsite: http://kz.mlive.com/Contact: letters kalamazoogazette.comRelated Articles & Web Site:Angel Raich v. Ashcroft Newshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/raich.htmOff The Interstate - Cato Institutehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20057.shtmlCannabis and The Constitutionhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20027.shtmlHigh Court -- High Anxietyhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19935.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #30 posted by FoM on December 27, 2004 at 11:52:16 PT ekim Thank you. I have tried to imagine how many will die from this earthquake until it is all over and it could be so many more that I won't even try to guess. Water how we need fresh water. Food people can live without for a fairly long time but water not long at all. Water is so more precious then oil. We have 4 deep water wells we drilled on our property. I guess living in the country you realize how precious good water is. The EPA in our local town doesn't think the water is safe but people still drink it. I don't understand why the EPA allows the water to be used but it has to be because what's a town to do? [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by ekim on December 27, 2004 at 11:29:46 PT here is another site http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ http://www.leap.cc/events [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by FoM on December 27, 2004 at 09:34:09 PT charmed quark Thank you. I really don't understand these things. I had a childhood friend that I lost contact with years ago but the last place she was living was on their boat in Malaysia. If she still lives there I hope she is ok. I don't know if that area was hurt but the earthquake. [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by charmed quark on December 27, 2004 at 09:26:17 PT fom - Earthquake No - the effect is too small to have any impact on weather or anything one would notice. But the impact is large enough to measure. Just like strong wind patterns can change the earth's rotation to the point that it can be measured.Each year, astronomers add or substract microseconds to the official time to adjust for all these changes. Sometimes, they even add a leap second, but this sort of big change is due to the slowing of the earth's rotation due to the tidal drag of the moon and due to orbital effects from the other planets, mostly Jupiter.Still, the biggest earthquake, I think, in my lifetime.-CQ [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by FoM on December 27, 2004 at 08:28:00 PT mayan I saw on the news that it disturbed the earth's rotation. Will that cause weather shifts or anything? That graph I posted blew me away. I never saw one like that one. [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by mayan on December 27, 2004 at 02:59:07 PT FoM They say that earthquake actually vibrated the whole earth and disturbed it's rotation! Wow!Here is a great site for monitoring natural disasters....Global Disaster Watch: http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by FoM on December 26, 2004 at 21:27:03 PT BGreen It was definitely impressive. I am so used to living like we have to live here that I would be too afraid to go to a party that was that relaxed. Isn't that a sad state of affairs for a free country? [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by BGreen on December 26, 2004 at 21:08:11 PT I've NEVER been to a party like that, either. The entire party cost us 5 euros apiece (less than $7 US) and all of that money went towards a similar party next summer in a wheelchair accessible venue for all of the medical cannabis patients.We got free food, door prizes and Elvis Hashley kept coming around clipping buds off of the SIX different types of dried plants they had.This entire party would have been considered a major criminal enterprise if it occurred in amerika, but Nol openly advertised this party around Haarlem with fliers and even had a projector shining a massive animated billboard on the upper part of a building across the street over an Irish pub. There was nothing secretive about this party.Mrs. Green was thoroughly impressed at the good Reverends' ability to keep up with the locals, especially since most of them mix their miracle plant with tobacco. The Reverend keeps it pure.The place was packed and there were several pounds of miracle plant consumed but NOT A SINGLE ARGUMENT OR FIGHT OR BAD ATTITUDE, PERIOD!The police show up at every gig I play here in amerika and every bar or karaoke club I might go to with friends, occasionally for a noise complaint but usually because of booze induced violence. I've seen so much violence associated with booze and the amerikan gestapo perpetrating the war on cannabis KNOW they're lying through their teeth every time they disparage this miracle plant.Mrs. Green and I left before the strippers. That really doesn't appeal to me but the reason we left was because we had to take the last bus of the night back to our apartment in Amsterdam.I'll never forget my Haarlem experience.The Reverend Bud GreenP.S. I've got great news about Colin Davies. Check out these urls to refresh your memory about Colin and Nol van Shaik.High Hopes at the Cannabis Caf? http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/13/thread13377.shtmlFive on Trial Over Dutch-Style Coffee Shop http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/14/thread14109.shtmlOwner Of British Cannabis Cafe Sentenced http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/14/thread14351.shtml [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by FoM on December 26, 2004 at 20:49:16 PT Off Topic: Earthquake I never saw anything like this and I thought others might want to look at this too.http://psn.quake.net/cgi-dos/makegif.exe?/quakes/0412/041226.005800.dw1.psn [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by FoM on December 26, 2004 at 19:02:24 PT Hope I've been watching the program on the History Channel and didn't check in. I'm not sure I understand but I don't understand many things. It was a good show and now the one on Nostradamus. [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by Hope on December 26, 2004 at 18:03:19 PT I don't think I've been clear and I don't know if I'm making much sense. I'm so tired. If I drank some rum I might want to go to sleep and I'm trying to get the floor mopped. I've become, at least for today dependent on sugar power.I'll never do this again.Then in a few hours...life changes. [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by Hope on December 26, 2004 at 18:00:31 PT He tasted death for us.There is no more sacrifice for our sins. It's done, once and for all. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by Hope on December 26, 2004 at 17:58:28 PT That none should boast No, not one.He made himself a little lower than the angels. [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by Hope on December 26, 2004 at 17:57:10 PT Except a humble heart. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by Hope on December 26, 2004 at 17:56:00 PT "Why" we always ask ourselves There is no reason, I think. If we did think there was a reason, I think...we might have to start throwing people off mountains or something...I'm thankful to believe in a God who hates sacrifices. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by Hope on December 26, 2004 at 17:53:06 PT I'm thinking about putting a shot of C.Morgan coconut flavored rum into some of this stuff before I drink it all up.Oh dang. This is one of those hard times...where things are "unpleasant"..."unpleasantt" at in "Death and Detruction" trailed by disease and horrors upon horrors upon horrors.. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by hope on December 26, 2004 at 17:43:33 PT sigh and smile I can hear it easily in my mind I listened to it so often.We had beer parties where we danced and laughed and talked alot. Active, sometimes loud parties. We loved music and playing games in the yard. Well...the olden days, and occasionally someone or more would get drunk and strip down to their underwear and dance the dirty and hugmongous reputations were made, completely unearned, usually. We didn't have to pay them though...and they were, normally rather well behaved nice people. A sort of crazy guy, at a pot smoking thing among friends once streaked through the living room in a pair of panty hose. I don't believe anyone ever stood on their heads about three quarters of the way through the evening and incited other people to try to stand on their heads. Music was great always...always. (Usually)Trying to ease down from a serious sugar episode by having a cup of eggnog.sighHope for a blessing.Yes, an awful thing happened last night. I am devastated, but I have studiously avoided news of it...I can't bear to think about it and I must have a bit of peace. Is that wrong, when I'm sure at the moment that it would be better if I stayed out of the way and prayed? [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by FoM on December 26, 2004 at 14:47:31 PT Hope Hi Hope,I have only been to a few what I would call pot parties and they were in the 70s. This is how the parties were that I went too. Totally different now a days. We saw a very good show last night on the History Channel. I believe it was called the History of God. It showed how in the beginning how different religions were formed. They explained Islam in a way that I understood it. Tonight at 8 on the History Channel they will have a show called Countdown to Armageddon. Then a show about Nostradamus. I like shows like these. They make me think. We had a nice Christmas and I hope you all did too.Poems, Prayers and Promises:I have to say it now it's been good life all in all, it's really fine to have a chance to hang around. and lie there by the fire and watch the evening tire, while all my friends and my old lady sit and pass a pipe around and talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in, how sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday what about tomorrow and what about our dreams and all the memories we share.http://www.risa.co.uk/sla/index/14/14024.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Hope on December 26, 2004 at 12:13:42 PT party pics The windmill was super good...but the peace pipe got my vote, too.Thanks BGreen. I was wondering if we were going to hear about the trip. Then I noticed you had posted and I was thinking...in rather a concerned way..."Are we going to hear about Amsterdam? I wonder why he hasn't said any more?" Then I went to your post and it was just such news. I was glad to see you had written about it. I was sorry to hear you hadn't felt like posting. I get that way and it's unpleasant. Glad you're posting and really enjoyed the pics...cept the strippers...I'm not a prude but voyeurism embarrasses me as much as the nakedness of people I don't know doing things I'd rather not watch them do. (Looks all around for the closest exit. Ewwww. (sorry))Thanks though. P.S.: I had a very nice and pleasant and fattening Christmas season. Short lull in the storm for a few minutes and had to look in and see what was going on.Christmas is different now. I'm glad no one killed us. I do wish they'd take the narc money and spend it on protection from people who would like to wipe us off the face of the earth. That concerns me. They did change our lives.Nothing stays the same though. We know that. I'm not crazy about change and changes, or even learning new ways of doing things, but if society, culture, life and the earth didn't change we couldn't grow or advance. We'd have no future. Everything would stay the same. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by goneposthole on December 26, 2004 at 08:34:28 PT It's not easy B(eing) Green Those are quite the party pics. The clipping contest must have been the most enjoyable of all the fun. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by FoM on December 25, 2004 at 21:58:27 PT ekim and tokenitallup4162 ekim I hope you had a good day. Merry Christmas to you.tokenitallup4162 I've started collecting music DVDs. It's nice because they each produce a different mood. I have another James Taylor concert ordered and one from Crosby, Stills and Nash. When I can't take one more moment of the news I put on a music DVD and feel better fairly quickly. Music helps me relax and forget about what is going on in the world today. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by tokenitallup4162 on December 25, 2004 at 21:37:28 PT: thnx FOM thanks FOM, We sat here and watched old classic DVD movies, thnx to good ole wallyworld. what a party revBUD, got a rush looking at pics, LOLS, peacepipe got my vote. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by ekim on December 25, 2004 at 21:14:53 PT Merry Christmas to all and to all a good nite ----- Original Message ----- From: "> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:11 PM Subject: LTE> ( Mission :save the drug courts) > After reading the Dec.20 front page on the drug court funding i hope that a > cost benefit analysis will take place. > Would the Kal. Gazette print the arrest numbers for drug offences and for > what drug for Kal. > Ann Arbor has had a ticket law for small amounts of Cannabis ( marijuana) > for over 33 years. Saving the taxpayers of A.A. hundreds of thousands if not > millions over that time span. Last year it was reported that A.A. gave out > 350 tickets.Say 300x33years=9900. > If that was Kal. how much would that have saved in jail space, time of > Officers, court time, probation time. Most importantly those who receive a > ticket will have no permanent criminal record, the main reason that the > ticket law was voted on in the first place. > Ann Arbor is listed as a Cool city. It is also listed as one of the top ten > cities to live in and raise a family in the US. > In Nov. A.A. voted for Med use of Cannabis by 74 % also Detroit passed a Med > law in Aug. > On January 31 Jim Amos will have a Med Cannabis patient on his live call in > cable access ch 19 show from 7-8 pm. > "The use of medical marijuana applies to many older Americans who may > benefit from cannabis," said Ed Dwyer, an editor at AARP The Magazine, which > will discuss medical marijuana in its March/April issue appearing in late > January. http://www.leap/ccevents [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by FoM on December 25, 2004 at 20:38:16 PT BGreen and tokenitallup4162 I hope you had a wonderful day. We watched The Last Waltz and The Moody Blues Live at Royal Albert Hall and had a really good meal. Way too much food but what the heck it's one day we all eat too much. No guilt today! Tomorrow we will watch Monterey Pop. I even got a Carole King concert just for me. I hope this year will be a good year for all of us.BGreen I never saw anything like the party you posted. I couldn't figure out who you and Mrs. Green were though! LOL! [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by tokenitallup4162 on December 25, 2004 at 20:21:28 PT: MERRY CHRISTMAS MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by BGreen on December 25, 2004 at 18:55:40 PT Merry Christmas to My CNews Family! I haven't felt like writing much but I've still got a bunch to tell you about my trip to the Netherlands.Check out this url for just a taste of what's to come. This is the Harvest Party that was held in Haarlem by Nol van Schaik. Yes, Mrs. Green and I are in one of the pics. I can't tell you which one but suffice to say we had a BLAST!I also met Colin Davies whom you'll see in some of the pictures. He's part of the news I've got to pass on to all of you.I'm off to some friends house for another Christmas get together but wanted to check in.With Love,The Reverend Bud Green Willie Wortel’s Cannabis Harvest Party 2004 [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on December 25, 2004 at 13:51:22 PT Robbie and Mayan Merry Christmas to you too. I'm hoping for a good year to come. One thing we do know about the coming new year is it won't be boring. War changes everything. For those who are too young to have been influenced by Vietnam you will see just like we did. It will be a journey for us all. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by mayan on December 25, 2004 at 12:07:25 PT FoM Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you, also! Here's some unrelated but very interesting news...Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede - Election Challenge likely on Jan 6th: http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/KerryPreparingGroundsToUnconcede.htmMore on the biggest story in the land...Progressive Democrats of America Join January 3rd Columbus Rally! http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/progressive-democrats-of-america-join.htmlRally -- Monday, January 3rd -- Columbus, Ohio: http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/rally-monday-january-3rd-columbus-ohio.htmlRecount Efforts Continue Over Holidays: http://www.votecobb.org/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Robbie on December 25, 2004 at 11:47:52 PT Merry Christmas to you, FoM and to everyone here at CNews.Let's have a great new year. :-) [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on December 25, 2004 at 08:55:50 PT Merry Christmas Everyone I hope everyone is having a great holiday. I'm making a big meal and we are watching The Moody Blues Live from The Royal Albert Hall. Enjoy the day! We are! [ Post Comment ] Post Comment