cannabisnews.com: Allow Ill To Use Marijuana Allow Ill To Use Marijuana Posted by CN Staff on May 31, 2007 at 20:53:43 PT Editorial Source: Hartford Courant Connecticut -- Rhode Island's yearlong experiment with legalizing medical marijuana has been a success. Connecticut should join its neighbor and 13 other states in letting seriously ill people have marijuana to ease their pain.So many of the 257 individuals in the Rhode Island medical-marijuana program have praised it that legislators in the Ocean State have voted overwhelmingly to make the law permanent. But Connecticut critics would impose such restrictions on a similar bill that recently passed the House of Representatives that they would put relief out of the reach of many who suffer greatly.For example, Gov. M. Jodi Rell's insistence on limiting the law only to the terminally ill could shut out those with debilitating chronic diseases.Under the bill, patients with certain medical conditions such as AIDS and with doctors' prescriptions could register with the state to grow up to four 4-foot plants. (Rhode Island's more liberal law allows 12 plants.) Some Connecticut legislators fear that doctors won't cooperate for fear of breaking federal drug laws, although they'd be immune from state prosecution. Such fears haven't stopped many Rhode Island doctors from participating in the program. And the vast majority of drug arrests are made by local and state police, not federal agents.Registration isn't a ticket to abuse, of course. A Rhode Island man who was registered to have medical marijuana was arrested for using the drug on MySpace to lure teenage girls.Abuse is rare, however, and outweighed by the compassionate relief that the medical-marijuana program could bring to hundreds of suffering patients. Source: Hartford Courant (CT)Published: June 1, 2007 Copyright: 2007 The Hartford CourantContact: letters courant.comWebsite: http://www.ctnow.com/Related Articles:Lives Won't Go Up In Smoke If Marijuana Used http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread23021.shtmlHouse OKs Medical Marijuana Usehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread23004.shtmlConnecticut House Votes To Legalize Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22999.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #5 posted by FoM on June 01, 2007 at 12:43:25 PT Sam Yes it could be summer things. I know we have been really busy. I know Hope is away for a week or so. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by Sam Adams on June 01, 2007 at 12:20:01 PT posting Is there any reason no to post here, did I miss something? Probably just busy with summer stuff. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by FoM on June 01, 2007 at 11:10:17 PT Sam I know that I think we are at a crossroad. I don't know which way it will go. People aren't posting and I don't blame them. Fear controls. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by sam Adams on June 01, 2007 at 08:37:06 PT courant Of course this is a great editorial, I still find the headline disturbing. "Allow ill to use marijuana". The media ALWAYS perpetuates the all-powerful paternal state. Citizens are merely cowering serfs before Father Government.Men and women are not children to be rule by someone else. One's true potential for greatness cannot be realized without free choice and independence.If one man is allowed to rule over other - even for his own good - the weaknesses of human greed and ego-lust will come into play eventually, every time. You'd have to blind to history to not realize that.Think I'm crazy? Then why, at a time of unprecedented government control over health and health care, are we fatter and sicker than ever before?I worry that these modest medical MJ reforms are mere bumps in the road to complete tyranny over the individual. In a age where people feel justified in telling their neighbors what color to paint their house, what object they can put on their lawn, etc, how long can freedom last? [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by potpal on June 01, 2007 at 05:16:55 PT ot jack is back Freedom fighter set free...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6708041.stm Get up, stand up...don't give up the fight.Vape. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment