Drug Czar Disinformation in Michigan

[User]

Once again, the White House drug czar is on the road spreading disinformation at taxpayers’ expense — this time campaigning against Proposal 1, the Michigan medical marijuana initiative.

In a series of appearances in Lansing and the suburbs of Detroit, John Walters condemned the measure, as described by the Detroit Free Press:

LANSING — A team of top national antidrug officials joined the late-starting campaign to defeat Michigan’s medical marijuana initiative Tuesday, telling reporters Proposal 1 is a dangerous drug legalization scheme that will lead to more addiction and despair.

John Walters, a Michigan native who heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana has no legitimate medical use. Medical marijuana laws simply “make it easier for addicts to stay addicted,” he said.


Walters brought with him — really, I am not making this up — a medical marijuana vending machine seized from a dispensary in Los Angeles earlier this year. It took three military guys to cart the thing around. And of course, Walters simply ignored the fact that Proposal 1 does not permit dispensaries, much less vending machines. Just how much did this exercise in irrelevance cost taxpayers?

Walters also ignored the emphatic statements from major medical organizations demolishing his claim that marijuana has no legitimate medical use. For example, in a detailed position paper issued earlier this year, the American College of Physicians, a 124,000-member organization consisting of oncologists, neurologists, and other internal medicine specialists, stated, “Evidence not only supports the use of medical marijuana in certain conditions but also suggests numerous indications for cannabinoids.”

Finally, a word needs to be said about the claim that medical marijuana laws lead to “more addiction.” In fact, no state with a medical marijuana law has seen an increase in teen marijuana use, and in most cases use has gone down markedly.

And medical marijuana actually allows patients to reduce the use of much more addictive opioid painkillers. Television host Montel Williams described this eloquently in a 2005 newspaper column. And research with animals has shown that cannabinoids in combination with drugs like codeine and morphine can produce equal or greater relief with lower doses of the narcotics while avoiding the development of tolerance, which can lead to addiction. Such combination therapy can even restore pain relief after the narcotics by themselves have lost efficacy due to tolerance.

The lies are coming thick and fast, so this is the time to get involved in the campaign.


Confiscated vending machine




News Hawk: User: http://www.420magazine.com/
Source: Marijuana Policy Project
Author: Bruce Mirken
Copyright: 2008 Marijuana Policy Project Contact: Contact MPP
Website: Drug Czar Disinformation in Michigan

[Soniq420]

John Walters, a Michigan native who heads the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana has no legitimate medical use.

Walters, (hereafter referred to as Bozo the Unicorn hunter), also had no answer as to why Marinol, Sativex, Dronabinol, and recent Federal government patents of the magic plant's compounds were not considered legitimate treatments for medical problems.

I honestly don't wish anyone ill, but if I did want someone to have to experience the suffering that AIDS and cancer patients endur during the wasting phase, Bozo the Unicorn hunter would be tops on my list.

karma's a bitch

[FreakNature]

America has no legitimate use for John Walters.

[User]

Originally Posted by FreakNature

America has no legitimate use for John Walters.

we could make an example of him in the tribunals

[hood1]

More lies, more money wasted, more people put in jail, our rights ignored. I hope Michigan voters pass Proposal 1 with a large majority. Of course the FEDS will still override the will of the people to protect corporate profits. The legal drug pushers will lose 80% to MJ which is a safer choice for many in need.

[FreakNature]

Originally Posted by User

we could make an example of him in the tribunals

Wow. I love this thought. Just imagine a world where that's a reality. Very sweet.