Fucking judicial activism...

[exstatic]

Feds overrule local laws... (http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/06/scotus.medical.marijuana/index.html)

[travis2]

I agree.

[smackdaddy11]

It would help if you knew what "judicial activism" actually is.


http://www.detnews.com/2005/politics/0506/07/01-205848.htm


The majority opinion wan not condemning medical marijuana use.

Medicinal Pot Loss: The Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities may prosecute individuals who grow or use marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Where: California's medical marijuana law allows people to grow, smoke or obtain marijuana for medical needs with a doctor's recommendation. Nine other states have similar laws.

Reasoning: Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority, said federal drug laws clearly cover marijuana. However, he said Congress is free to change the rules regarding medicinal use of pot.

The Supreme Court follows federal law. This is illegal accorind to federal law UNLESS Congress changes the LAW.

I am for medical marijuana use. I hope a law is passes allowing it. Current law bans it.

This ruling is the complete opposite of judicial activism.

[Ocotillo]

Don't hold your breath waiting for this congress to pass any such law. Now if pulling a doobie out of Terry Schaivo's mouth were involved, maybe......

[The Ressurrected One]

Where's Manny? Surely, he'll defend the Supreme Court upholding the law instead of bowing to emotional issues....

[MannyIsGod]

According to all of the rulings, the Feds have the legal right to have that legislation. I'm not so sure thats true, but if so then this ruling was correct. I don't like it, but the changes should come from legislation.

If someone wants to challenge the legality of the federal governments laws, I wonder where that would go.

[The Ressurrected One]

Hurrah! I knew you'd come through...

Now, if I could just get you to admit the same thing about Gore vs. Bush.

[MannyIsGod]

Hurrah! I knew you'd come through...

Now, if I could just get you to admit the same thing about Gore vs. Bush.
That what the florida court did was wrong? I admited that when it happend. I wish the electoral college would go screw itself, however.

[The Ressurrected One]

That what the florida court did was wrong? I admited that when it happend. I wish the electoral college would go screw itself, however.
Wait a minute...are you actually suggesting that Bush. didn't. steal. the. 2000. Presidential. election?

Could I at least get you to type that?

[MannyIsGod]

I never said he stole it. I think it's a damn shame when someone gets more of the popular vote is actualy the loser, but thats the way our (stupid) system works.

There are discrepencies on both sides, and it pisses me off some of the things that are done to keep people from voting. But I've never been one to believe voter fraud happens only on one side.

So no, I never thought Bush stole the election and I don't know why you associate me with NBADanish thoughts.

[Nbadan]

An excellent column on the medicinal marijuana issue by Will Durst...


In its finite wisdom, the US Supreme Court upheld the
Federal Government’s ban on Medical Marijuana.
Screwing all ten states that legalized it and leaving
a lot of folks in those ten states with superfluous
Glaucoma diagnoses. Now first off, let me clarify: I
don’t smoke pot. I don’t. Makes me paranoid. No, I’m
serious. I am the author of the paranoid trilogy.
“What is it? Who are they? Why me?” I get the
munchies, go in a restaurant, the waitress says “hi”
and I go, “Yes, I am. I’m sorry. Don’t tell my Aunt
Mary.” But you know what, I don’t drink Wild Turkey
any more and yet harbor no desire for that vile liquid
to be made illegal either.

Justice John Paul Stevens said plaintiffs suffering
chronic pain should turn to "the democratic process"
for comfort. He addressed this opinion to the two
plaintiffs who suffer respectively from a brain tumor
and a degenerative spinal disease. I’m a thinking the
85 year old liberal Justice needs to bone up on his
bedside manner a bit. “Take two democratic processes
and call me in the morning.” Wonder if this guy has
consulted for any HMOs lately? Going to have to revise
the new edition of the Physician’s Desk Reference by
inserting “Activist Judges” next to “Cottonmouth”
under possible side effects.

Besides, how can they cite an interstate commerce
jurisdiction over homegrown which according to Justice
Clarence Thomas, “has never been bought or sold, that
has never crossed state lines, and that has had no
demonstrable effect on the national market for
marijuana?" That’s right, I’m quoting Clarence Thomas.
Which means tomorrow all the residents of hell might
want to break out the sleds and earmuffs. Who knows?
Maybe it was a stem of Maui Wowie and not a pubic hair
on that Coke can.

That roar from the red states you hear is the
orchestrated shout out that Conservtives normally toss
whenever we godless heathens have been defeated. And
one of the ironies can be found in the accompanying
sound of millions of brewskies being popped in
celebration. What is wrong with these people? Don’t
they realize that marijuana grows in the ground? They
don’t call it “weed” for nothing you know. Think of
all the different complicated operations you need to
perform in order to make liquor. Its not like you can
walk into your backyard and pluck a pina coloda off
the cocktail tree. Pot- you pick it, dry it and smoke
it. Hope you’re not saying God screwed up here are
you? Its pot. Its not heroin. Its not acid. Its not
even Marlboro Lights. For crum’s sake, you can bake it
into brownies. Brownies! What’s more American than
that?

And another thing, why do politicians always insist on
lumping all drugs together? Even a fourth grader can
tell you that crack is to pot like an Uzi is to a
banana. Crack- kills. Pot- giggles. Say you do run
into a crazed pothead: what’s the worst thing that’s
going to happen to you? Okay, you might get fleas, but
that’s about it. So there’s Twinkie Cream on your
shirt, wipe it off. Can’t get the song, “Stairway to
Heaven” out of your head, deal with it. Potheads don’t
mug, they hug. The same can not be said about the
Supreme Court.
Political Comic Will Durst restricts his illicit drug
activity to mixing Pop Rocks with his Anchor Steam.

Oh yeah, 2 benefits. One at Cobbs for the North Beach
Mural on Sunday afternoon and the other Monday night
at the Punch Line to raise money for Comedy Day. Make
you comedy dollar count!

will durst (http://www.willdurst.com/)

[cqsallie]

Love it!!!! Of course if Pfizer was the first company to come up with a hemp-derivitive which would help terminal cancer patients live with their pain, it would be considered a prescribed substance and cost about $400-an-ounce.
Just because pot's been around since the beginning of the world, for crap's sake, and anybody can grow it and smoke it or eat it, it's a really bad/awful/potentially life-threatening substance that can't be prescribed under any circumstances whatsoever.
Truth be told, my downing a 6-pack of beer is probably worse for the community than that joint smoked by anyone - especially the half-blind victim of gloucoma, or the bed-ridden patient dying from some form of cancer. At least these people aren't going to get behind the wheel of an auto and go careening onto our city's streets.
It really makes me sick and angry! If the big pharmaceutical companies aren't making money off of it, it's illegal - not even legal when prescribed by a doctor. If you ever need to ask yourself why it costs so much for medicine in the US - compared with every other country in the world - you know...
And now, they're saying that Viagra may cause blindness... Well, didn't the nuns tell you that too much sex would make you blind? Guess who's having the last laugh now?
LOL