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Elizabeth Kucinich Visits Young Medical Marijuana Patient in Rest Home

by: Rocketman

Fri Dec 21, 2007 at 17:31:58 PM EST
I published this article in the Huffington Post today, and I really hope New Hampshire Democrats will take a minute to read Clayton Holton's story.

Clayton suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy.  At 22, he is the youngest person ever admitted into a retirement home in New Hampshire.  Elizabeth Kucinich wanted to hear his story, and I hope you will, too.

The experience of writing this article leaves me with one thought: if NH Democrats can't unite in favor of medical marijuana when it is reintroduced in 2009, I will eat my hat.
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Elizabeth Kucinich Visits Young Medical Marijuana Patient in Rest Home | 2 comments
Would you like fries with that? (0.00 / 0)
 It was a great article. But do not look for NH dems to Unite around much of anything.
It's hard enough getting a young Democrats meeting together.
Everyone is busy, there aren't enough hours in the day, Oh Gawd and miss American Idol? What are you crazy.
Plus.... when Arizona passed the Medical Marijuana act of 1996 65% of the voters supported Proposition 200, enacted as the Drug Medicalization, Prevention, and Control Act. It provided that, in the case of medical necessity, marijuana and other drugs (including heroin and LSD) could be used in medical treatment. Two doctors would have to prescribe the use of these drugs. The law also called for probation and treatment rather than incarceration for first- and second-time non-violent drug offenders. The Arizona legislature amended the measure, saying that voters had committed a grave error, and sent it back to the voters. In 1998 Proposition 200 again passed, this time with a 57% majority.

 The black hole  called ignorance rages on....

 If we don't do it who will?
Teach a mind, change a nation!

Personally, (0.00 / 0)
I think the government has no business deciding what people inhale, ingest, inject or excrete from their own bodies.  It may take a formal enactment of a right to privacy to establish that.

It will also take a wider awareness that one can't necessarily eliminate an effect (vehicular deaths, for example) by regulating a proximate cause (alcohol-impaired driving).  Never mind that some people seem to lack the capacity to relate cause and effect at all.

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