Another CA Poll Shows Overwhelming Medical Marijuana Support
Last week, I posted the results of the MPP-commissioned poll showing that despite outrageous claims being made by local officials, there is wide support for medical marijuana among Los Angeles County voters. A new poll now shows that support for medical marijuana access isn’t confined to Los Angeles.
A poll released Wednesday in San Diego found super-majority support
for medical marijuana in that city. The poll — commissioned by
addiction recovery Web site keepcomingback.com
— found 77% agreement that “officials must make sure that San Diego’s
medical marijuana patients have convenient access to their medicine in
the city.” 70% support regulating the city’s medical marijuana
collectives in some way, while only 9.5% support banning them (3% said
they didn’t need any regulations). The poll also collected other
interesting information about how San Diegans view medical marijuana
sales. Read more about it here.
This poll should send a firm message to San Diego County District
Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, who just last month ordered a series of shocking raids on local medical marijuana patients and suppliers.
Another CA Poll Shows Overwhelming Medical Marijuana Support
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Beware
When someone tells you they're going to scam you, it's best to pay attention! Those at the helm of legalization published the info, but in publications only druggies read.
Originally, pot was to be for terminal and severely ill people.
The druggie's nose under the tent, they've gotten their way and the ramifications (HIGHER THC content) is beginning to show - emergency room visits for put use are astronimical and mental disease as well.
Tens of thousands of scientific studies are ignored and claimed to be "conspiracies" - exactly what a paranoid would say!
- josiahe
October 31, 2009 9:50AM
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Be aware: let's stop ignoring the studies!
There have indeed been many studies and authoritative findings.
The most famous study was the one commissioned by President Richard Nixon. When his commission recommended legalizing marijuana , Nixon instead declared the beginning of the "War on Drugs".
Drugpolicy.org lists studies debunking the following fear and ignorance driven marijuana myths:
Marijuana Can Cause Permanent Mental Illness
Marijuana Is Highly Addictive
Marijuana Is More Potent Today Than In The Past
Marijuana Offenses Are Not Severely Punished
Marijuana Is More Damaging to the Lungs Than Tobacco
Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value
Marijuana Is a Gateway Drug
Marijuana's Harms Have Been Proved Scientifically
Marijuana Causes an Amotivational Syndrome
Marijuana Policy in the Netherlands is a Failure
Marijuana Kills Brain Cells
Marijuana Impairs Memory and Cognition
Marijuana Causes Crime
Marijuana Interferes With Male and Female Sex Hormones
Marijuana Use During Pregnancy Damages the Fetus
Marijuana Use Impairs the Immune System
Marijuana's Active Ingredient, THC, Gets Trapped in Body Fat
Marijuana Use is a Major Cause Of Highway Accidents
Marijuana Related Hospital Emergencies Are Increasing, Particularly Among Youth
Marijuana Use Can Be Prevented
All the above myths are refuted by science .
Scientific studies are indeed our best defense against ignorance and fear. Let's pay attention to them and make up our minds based on fact.
Be aware!
- imvho
November 1, 2009 2:21AM
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Medicine
Marijuana has been a medicine for centuries. There were over 150 medicines sold with marijuana in them in 1937 when the first tax act was introduced,only none said "marijuana" on their ingredients,they were listed under their scientific names,and most of the doctors and people of the time never realized what substance the tax act was even about.
That "doctors" are prescribing marijuana as a medicine for other than grave or deadly illness's is what is going to happen,because marijuana is one of the most medicinal plants on earth.
Our government has spent billions of dollars on false studies,skewed statistics and maintains a complete organization of anti-marijuana industries,all under the office of the ONDCP.
If you checked the records,I will guarantee you that ONDCP has spent over 1/2 their entire budget interdicting and providing any information or studies needed to keep marijuana illegal ,and they are continuiong the spending right now.
AS marijuana becomes legal ,you willl see marijuana in more and more medicines,for many illnesses.
http://www.druglibrary.org/crl /
Above is a link where some of the medical uses for marijuana have been documented,with medical and scientific studies.
It will give you a good idea of how many medicines big pharmacy will become obsolete or competed with when marijuana is legalized
for any use.
And you can grow it in your yard. That is exactly why it remains illegal,that and because the ONDCP will do nothing that reduces it's 40 billion dollar a year budget.
- Clay
November 1, 2009 11:37AM
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