Giuliani rejects medical marijuana use

[wicket]

Giuliani is now a doctor? He even manages to get jabs in at Michael Moore & Hillary for the trifecta! :eyes:

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Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that people who want to legalize marijuana for medical purposes really just want to make the drug available to everyone.

"I believe the effort to try and make marijuana available for medical uses is really a way to legalize it. There's no reason for it," the former New York mayor said during a town hall-style meeting at New Hampshire Technical Institute.

He also said there are better alternatives.

"You can accomplish everything you want to accomplish with things other than marijuana, probably better. There are pain medications much superior to marijuana," he said. "We'd be much better off telling people the truth. Marijuana adds nothing to the array of legal medications and prescription medications that are available for pain relief."

After a speech at the first of several stops in the first-primary state, the early front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination fielded questions. None dealt with the unpopular war in Iraq. Instead, voters wanted to know about the failed immigration bill and Giuliani's views on climate change and health care. Giuliani said promises of universal health care are hollow and simply not manageable.

"If you try to do socialized medicine, a la Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama or Michael Moore, you're going to end up with a disaster," he said.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Lies, as usual

I've heard interviews with patients who are given marijuana legally (this was years before any medical marijuana laws were passed) because NOTHING else would help them. They talked of how they were carefully monitored, etc.

[Warpy]

2. May "Rudy Garland" be afflicted with something best treated

with medical marijuana and SOON.

I don't wish ill on people as a general rule, but it's the only way a self absorbed ideologue is ever going to learn anything.

Why to all Republic politicians think they're qualified to practice medicine?

[Jed Dilligan]

15. He already has had cancer, and he probably smoked

marijuana to treat it. He is a big fatheaded hypocrite and I, personally, will enjoy watching his campaign go down in flames.

[High Plains]

3. Why let seriously ill people use marijuana?

When we can prescribe them highly addictive and deadly narcotics?

[wicket]

6. Exactly!

Why let them have something they can grow in their own home or yard, when we can line the pockets of medical industry fat cats? :grr:

[poverlay]

9. As a chronic and sometimes severe pain patient I can tell you unequivocally that

marijuana is a far superior pain-killer. It's on a par with oxycodone, except without the addiction that leaves you shaking and sweating and hurting if you don't take your next dose...

Of course I know all this only through reading about it...

[wicket]

17. same here

:hug:

[shain from kane]

4. for treatment of priapism from Viagra overdose. Says he'd rather be hard, than high.

[cureautismnow]

5. Where's the Alaskan teen?

He needs a new sign - Bong Hits 4 Rudy!

[npincus]

7. and I reject comb-overs!

[Traveling_Home]

8. The only reason Medical Marijuana ........

doesn't work now, even in states that have passed it, is because of the Fedearl Law. Call your Congressperson and get them to change the Federal Law. Then the States can decide it.

Don't care what any other politico running for office says - Call you Senators (Salazar, Allard for me) and your Member in the House. Tell them you want the Feds to stay our of States business and you want them to Sponsor a bill to let the states decide (States issue Medical Licenses)

[goodgd_yall]

10. "There are pain medications much superior to marijuana"

Like the opiates darvocet, percocet, vicodin, oxycotin, etc? He'd rather have people doped up with heroin-related drugs than use marijuana.

I wonder what kickbacks Rudy's getting. He's such a schmuck.

[coco77]

11. and what is wrong with making it legal...

since anyone who wants its gets it anyway. It doesn't make any sense when anyone can grow it just about anywhere,and they can't control it.

[wicket]

12. legalize it & tax the piss out of it

It's the American way! :D

[H2O Man]

13. Too bad.

I'm not sure exactly what ails him, but I think he should at least try it. He might relax a little.

[Alexander]

14. Did Rudy puff as a kid?

He was born in the 40s - coming of age in the radical 60s.

I'd like to know if he toked.

[Jed Dilligan]

16. He probably did when he had ass-cancer.

These fucks want one law for us and another for themselves.

[shain from kane]

18. It was prostate cancer. Keeps your balls tingling, so that you want to screw other women than the

one that supported you through the ordeal.

[wicket]

20. BWAHAHAHAH!

The viagra made him do it!

:rofl:

[eppur_se_muova]

19. So he'll sponsor legislation reserving it for entertainment purposes?

Finally, a Republican talking sensibly.

[johnnie]

21. Of course

They will say and do anything to make sure no money is taken from the pharmaceutical companies.