Via Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070630/...ical_marijuana.

I've heard that marijuana is actually quite beneficial for treating cachexia associated with AIDS or chemotherapy. I'm just wondering how NM plans to keep the weed for medical use only, given that it would probably be grown on large plots.

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Yeah, it looks like a bit of a conflict, doesn't it? This will be interesting!

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I don't know. That's why I'm asking--Noclevername

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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Here in California medical marijuana is legal. Doesn't seem to be too much of a conflict though, the Feds just bust everyone as if our laws didn't exist and the state doesn't do anything about it.

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Figures!

Let's see how this NM law fares.

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Intelligence may not be clearly defined, but you know stupid when you see it--Noclevername

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge--Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Especially given the New Mexico governor's current Presidential run...

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Well, federal law always takes precedence over state law, so it seems kind of stupid to have it legalized by the state to me...

The drug laws have always confused me... somehow we managed to hold civilization together for the first 150 years without such draconian laws. Now certainly there was room for improvement, but perhaps a bit of regulation and consumer protection might have been a better course...

Yes, but then there wouldn't have been a percieved threat to demonize, and rabble-rousing demagogues wouldn't have been able to frighten their followers into voting them more power.

Plus, they never would have made classic propaganda films like Reefer Madness!

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Whilst I will admit that Reefer Madness! in many ways represents some the best the American Cinema has ever produced, I am not sure it was worth what we gave up.

Yup... I think that such things as the severity of the drug laws represents a rather sad failure of our culture to let people live as they wish...

Never forget, our country was first settled by Puritans, and in some ways we've never gotten over it.

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Yes. Our ancestors were kicked out of every decent European country.

There's a Roswell joke somewhere in all of this.

Luckily, we have immigrants from non-European countries!

Yeah... where'd we be without 'em.

Do I detect a hint of racism? From a "real" American maybe?

I'm agin the war on drugs for a lot of reason, mainly my libertarian philosophy of course, but the main thing is something this is the latest example of:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

Feds can seize half a house. Now, somehow I doubt the wife here would make out as well if she tries to "divorce" the feds.

Anyway this run-amok asset seizure is something that really sticks in my craw. State and local governments do it to. It's absolute greed. Now, they've managed to get assest seizure in the "civil" category. The way it works is you have to prove the govt. wrongly seized your assets to get them back. They have to prove nothing.

-Richard

May I humbly ask we not get into this immigration debate and end up calling each other racists. This is gasoline and a lit match now. It will get nothing but hatred going.

-Richard

Right. My lips are sealed! (on this topic)

No actually... I was responding to the idea that the European contingent had been thrown out of every decent country in Europe. It was meant to be ironic... maybe the immigrants from other countries will balance out the those thrown out of "decent European countries". Sorta loses its irony when it's spelled out like that...

Actually, I left off an additional comment out of concern that it might be stepping a bit too close to politics. I find additional irony in the fact that that when Europeans began settling here no one really cared much about the native americans. During the formative years of our country, our ancestors, including many of our revered founding fathers, had little or no concern about forcing native americans off their lands. However, today many in this country are very concerned about immigration and keeping out "those who don't belong".

There was a story just the other day in which a woman ran for local office. She won but in doing so it was discovered that she was not born in this country, but brought here at the age of 1 year. She never knew, but now faces deportation even though she has lived here all her life and all of ther children and their families are considered citizens.

racism?? Only against fat, dumb, smug Americans who seem to think they have some sort of entittlement to this land, its riches and its freedoms.