Should marijuana be available for medical use in Minnesota?

I think that people will get thier marijuana from any where that they can get it. As CA has shown,this is not an easy thing to regulate. As a recovering addict i would hate to get someone addicted all unfer the guise that it is helping them and is medicinal. Thats is what is happening with our prescription pain meds and it is terrible. Trust me.

Former Governor Tim Pawlenty vetoed a medical marijuana proposal in 2009 siting law enforcement concerns.

Mr. Dayton has stated that he would veto any medical marijuana proposals citing law enforcement concerns.

Mr. Pawlenty finances state budget by borrowing from schools and the use of budgeting gimmicks

Mr. Dayton finances state budget by borrowing from schools and the use of budgeting gimmicks.

Anyone see a pattern developing here?

Is it too late for an amendment ?

If I wanted it I’d smoke it regardless of the law. I think that’s how many people see this sillyness.

Simply genetically cross breed cannabis with dandelions so that dandelions produce THC. Good luck stopping dandelions.

Absolutely. If it relieves the pain, anxiety, nausea, tremors, or side effects, or even just helps the patient feel better, it’s well worth it. Make no mistake: the real menace is in prescription drugs……if not for the addictive qualities, then certainly for the fraud, hypocracy and heartache that’s being perpetrated on the entire health-care system in this country.

Marijuana does less damage to the health and lives of users than that of alcohol. So why are there usually six liquor stores within a one mile radius? You don’t read of stories where a husband only smokes marijuana and then goes and commits domestic violence! You can kill yourself from taking to much Advil, drinking too much wine, eating too much salt but all you get from smoking marijuana is happy, hungry and pain free! Use a vaporizer or use edibles to eliminate the smoke and chemicals used in the growing process.

Legalize it to cut down on this “War on Drugs” that is an epic fail and we will save tax payer dollars on jail, court, prison and appointed lawyers costs.

I’ve been to California and Colorado and there is not a bunch of drug crazed people running around? No increase in car accident deaths from pot smokers.

It is NOT a gateway drug. I’ve been using marijuana illegally for twenty years and do not drink alcohol. I’ve never moved on to cocaine, meth, acid, heroin or any other narcotic. I’ve been offered other drugs including pain meds from a doctor and do not use them.

Genesis 1:29

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Besides, the food industry and snack food industry would profit also! – LEGALIZE IT!!!!!

Oh, yea, I forgot. Big Pharma benefits from prohibition, too, because they need to reduce alternatives to their overpriced patent meds.

And as to the idea that ganja is a “gateway drug,” prohibitioin is the only reason it is. Breaking the law in a small way with a relatively harmless activity makes it psychologically easier to break the law in bigger ways. It makes sense to prohibit truly dangerous and highly addictive drugs (e.g., meth), but cannabis is safer than beverage alcohol (except that if you smoke it it’s bad for your lungs).

Yes

In fact, criminalizing the production, selling, and use of marijuana is wrong for several reasons.

Criminalizing its use is expensive compared to the benefit to society. Keeping your neighbor from smoking an illegal joint doesn’t make you significantly safer in comparison to the expense needed to find, arrest, convict, and put him and his supplier in prison. Why do we want to spend all that money if we don’t have a safer society? Education about the effects and consequences would be a better way to spend our tax money. Education has worked for cigarettes and alcohol.

Criminalizing it is hypocritical. Those same cops, lawyers, judges, and prison guards who do their best to keep these criminals off the streets, go home a night and have a beer, a drink, or smoke a cigarette, because they enjoy the effect of those drugs. Why are some drugs legal while the others are not?

Criminalizing its use flies in the face of personal freedom. These laws prevent people from exercising their right to conduct their lives as they please. As long as our actions don’t infringe on the rights of others, we should be able to do whatever we want to do. This is a personal freedom issue. Many of you say you want smaller government, don’t you?

A medical doctor is extremely trained – in the science, technical and ethical aspects of the practice of medicine. Currently, they can legally prescribe drugs that can drop a horse, and have the potential for abuse. To have those that are not medically trained single out this particular therapy, one that is relatively benign compared to alternatives, based on image and perception, not medical science, is a foolish mistake. Sadly, this is just another example of the politicization of science.

The answer to your question in boldface, Wally, is to legalize it entirely, not just for medicinal purposes. That way you’re not asking “stoners” to lie.

Yes. Right now. Yesterday even.

I have 0 interest in the use of Marijuana for myself, but see no reason why it should be illegal. I drink, and have seen drinking destroy lives just as easy as any other addiction. Where should we draw the line? Perhaps video games? Online games have destroyed families and bankrupted more. Perhaps Cigarettes? Maybe Gambling?

Yet, here we are, still holding Marijuana illegal, despite the questionable reasons it was made illegal to begin with.

We have a means to create jobs, revenue and alternative products. We can grow hemp in most regions of the country and use it to save on textiles and trees. But we don’t. We can make more paper with an acre of hemp than 3 acres of trees, and grow it in months rather than decades. Seems obvious to me.

Then there is the medicinal advantages. I don’t even need to fill you screen with that information.

How many of these advantages and products can you get from alcohol, cigarettes, gambling or video games?

Well, finally a question that invites potentially appropriate responses from all the potheads who continually plague this forum.

Oh, and I would approve of some use. And I wonder if there is a way to isolate the active chemicals and manufacture a pill that would provide those chemicals. If you could get the medical benefits of marijuana without getting high, I wonder if that might curb any potential abuse.

probation officer use it judge use it like thenew York judge who confess last week p o use daily so legalize tax it and regulate it

yes. marijuana is no different than alcohol. regulate, tax and move on.

Everyone agrees.

Another expensive boondoggle the massive liberal government forces the taxpayers to finance.

if people want to use it they are going to use it. when i lived in montana in the winter everyday i would smell people using it on the slopes. young and old alike. the cops could crack down on you but never went out of their way and at worst you would get a slap on the wrist. i believe the fact that it is illegal gives it a sort of “mystical power” making kids think, “wow this stuffs illegal so it must be pretty crazy” Getting kids to try to smoke pot that would otherwise never smoke tobacco or drink.(no cancer sticks for me) if it was legal and people didnt make a big deal about it, children would be less inclined to be “rebelious” however most kids i knew in highschool drank way before they tried pot. also the amount of money we spend on the perpetual motion machine that is the drug war.