horny old men can get viagra, but sick folks can't smoke marijuana

[mopaul]

without being arrested. fuck the supreme court and all anti marijuana laws and advocates.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Pedophiles can get freaking viagra.

[libertypirate]

8. paid for by the government

[Booster]

2. AND have it paid for by Medicare. This country is really screwed.

[disgruntled_goat]

3. makes me want to bloody vomit

n/t

[elare]

4. It's true

The inmates really ARE running the asylum!

[jbnow]

5. What is the deal with that now?

State rights should be one issue...

But we have had a couple baby boomer presidents and if anything they are getting stricter. For instance hemp is now outlawed in any food product, even chap-stick, since it goes on your lips. That is despite the nutritional benefits of the oil (perfect balance of EFA's) and the fact you can't get high from it.

Nixon's commission way back when found that marijuana should be decriminalized, but the feds haven't backed off at all. Overriding state rights, ignoring the majority of the population who favor it for medical reasons, busting the doctors and patients? I guess the court had to look at the law (though the fact it was not commerce was a valid point).

We are officially nuts.

[bahrbearian]

6. Viagra , has been tested and proven to work by the FDA,

Marijuana hasn't been proven to do anything medical in 4,000 years, I trust the FDA, they've given us all kinds of deadly medicine.

[mopaul]

9. it WAS tested, but everybody just got hungry and left the project undone

[CrispyQ]

15. Love it!!!

:rofl:

[JimmyJazz]

12. like Vioxx, Baycol and Paxil....

:eyes:

[bahrbearian]

18. Phen Phen, Thorizen,,,,, and the list goes on...

[DemExpat]

7. It is truly fucked, mopaul,

I agree,

:wtf:

DemEx

[JimmyJazz]

10. That's ridiculous. I don't understand the people who make these stupid

laws and who can't appreciate legitimate medical reason for having access to marijuana. Fuckin' gin swilling assholes.

[gollygee]

11. No Cheap Drugs!

We must pay for expensive prescriptions! The pharm. companies have profits to make! Put them on a more dangerous and addictive pain killer instead!

I am convinced this is all about the pharm. companies not making money off this cheap, easy to grow drug.

[DemInDistress]

13. I'm smoking weed 40 yrs. now

and the only detriment I experienced during those decades was getting arrested 4 times.Shame on my government for the pathetic attempt to regard weed as a class 1 drug ...drugs like tuinals,secondals,amphetimes,valium,percocet,vicadin,the list is long.
Still these drugs are classified,class2..Not to forget Ritalin an upper prescribed to hundreds of thousands children across the country for attention deficit disorder.
High Times magazine estimates 30,000,000 americans currently smoke weed.I would definitely March on Washington along with a million other citizens who should demand `Marijuana be decriminalized and made available to all-comers of legal age..
I could go on..


:smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :hi: :dem: :thumbsup:

[Selteri]

17. I smoked

Casually when I was in college, it was ok...

I smoked Medicinally at age 28 when I was losing up to 20 pounds a month and it lowered the weight loss then stopped it.

Marijuana saved my life - Screw you feds, I will go to jail before I let you kill me when a medicine is within my reach!

[LisaLynne]

21. Welcome to DU, DemInDistress! :) nt

[DemInDistress]

44. Thanks Lisa for the welcome...

I love this forum..many bright minds here

Lisa,this bud's for you..:toast:

[eleonora]

14. marijuana is cheap, you see

and if it were legal, people would rather smoke it than to buy those expensive meds they get in the mail monthly with their 'senior discount card'.

And nononononono...we can't have that can't we? Even those in California are getting f*cked with the new federal law.

[Selteri]

16. On the DEA's own website they state

The side affects include hunger AKA The Munchies

Which is the same thing the cancer and HIV sufferers are having problems with... I don't see how they can argue against something they warn against.

[redqueen]

19. Ain't it the truth?

Just goes to highlight the real reason they won't let these sick folks use the treatment their states have elected to let them use ... BIG PHARMA!

[IChing]

20. This hit me personally this week with a neighbor / friend

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3798065&mesg_id=3798065

[Karenina]

24. To date W.R.Hearst, DuPont

and these clowns have "ruled" on marijuana:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1526577

THEIR "interests" include neither yours nor mine:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3783153

[bennywhale]

22. Not all who use Viagra should be

referred to as disparagingly as "horny old men", many are unable to perform acts of love with their lifelong partners and are being helped, you are insinuating they are all dirty and seedy, which may be offensive to some.

[mopaul]

23. to the virtuous horny old men i may have offended, i apologize

[oblivious]

34. Virtuous or not, who are you to judge people who use it?

I can't understand people putting down elderly men for wanting to have a sex life.

Your marajuana laws are ridiculous, but this contrast is unfair.

[mopaul]

40. putting down elderly men? when did i do that?

this halloween, i'll be 54, so i can crack jokes about old folks.
and all i said was 'horny old men', is this an insult? that's what viagra is for, i didn't insult anyone. or did i? hell, i guess i can't tell anymore

[oblivious]

42. I'm not sure why I wrote that mopaul. The title seemed a bit surprising.

Like you thought it unfair that horny old men should be allowed to get help if chemo sufferers weren't.

So I thought I'd write a quick comment to point out the contrast seemed unfair.

I'm not there yet either, but I certainly hope to be a horny old man, and don't see anything wrong with getting help at some point.

Anyway, sorry I criticised.

[Catfight]

25. How come marijuana can't be put in a pill form? Why does it have to be

smoked? It seems to me if they could make a pill out of it, they could then prescribe it to people who benefit from it. I just don't understand why it has to be smoked.

[mopaul]

26. been done

many years ago, thc tablets. don't know much abou them, other than i tried it years ago, but can't remember the results, if that's any help.

daddybush used to use thc eyedrops to treat some malady. i swear. and he also took halcyon, whatever that is.

i wonder why the big pharms don't jump on it? think of the money they'd make. or big tobacco. i don't get it.

[Lady Effingbroke]

33. Marinol (THC pills).

From what I have read, it works, but it is more effective to smoke marijuana than take Marinol tablets, especially for people who are suffering side effects (nausea) of chemotherapy, etc.

http://www.marinol.com

[Arugula Latte]

27. Meanwhile, in many cases birth control pills aren't covered

and Viagara is. What is "up" with that? -- pun intended.

[mopaul]

28. and we have to go to tiajuana and canada for our meds

my folks spend about 800 a month on meds.

[Arugula Latte]

31. $800 a month -- that is just ridiculous.

So, when does the revolution happen, man? :hippie:

[Beaverhausen]

29. A good friend is on chemo and radiation- this pisses me off

how dare they keep something that helps people who are DYING feel a little more comfortable in their last days!

No wonder Rehnquist and O'Conner dissented. They know.

[ismnotwasm]

30. The whole thing is ridiculous

I haven't smoked weed, or whatever they call it these days for many years, but it certaintly should have been legal years ago. If used properly, it can do a lot of good. And for you "improper" users--keep the fridge full. ( A couple of my kids came home a few years ago, and tried to convince me that redhot cheetoes and maoynoise sandwhiches were NOT MUNCHIE FOOD. I still give them shit about that.)

[sweetheart]

32. Its a good thing the supreme court is irrelevant

What a bunch of criminal assholes, as if Mafia decisions are at all
relevant to decent people. The purpose of criminalization and the
war on cannabis is 100% to jail and disenfranchise liberal voters, and
hence, why the democratic party should seek to legallize cannabis
straight on.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=339554

As much as those puffed up traitors can claim to know the law, what they
really are is just an advanced guard for the nazi takeover, and should
be resisted on all fronts. Nobody, in historical retrospect, considers
the german supreme court decisions under the nazis relevant, and as well
we should totally disregard the supreme court in their bunker waging
aggressive war on all the people of the world.

[mopaul]

35. and it's a good thing that things don't have to make sense no more

or something like that

[mopaul]

36. hawaii says it will keep issuing pot permits

and several other states say that it'll be business as usual.

[sweetheart]

38. Thats what i figured

The Feds are gonna have to exert a HUGE money thing, and send their
SS police force in to every state to enforce their silly law, that as
much as this is a decision by the scum court, on the ground, they
are bankrupt.. and gettting more bankrupt from their silly wars every
single day.

[valis]

37. Pure sadism... If marijuana reduces the pain, why not? Here is why:

Because there are super-expensive drugs with more side-effects that can do the same job. Don't mess with the pharma market, OK?

[oblivious]

43. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[B Calm]

39. Employers have the right to a drug free workplace.. but not a drug

free worker. God I hate drug tests.

[mopaul]

41. this morning on cspan, medical marijuana