Romney Ducks Man With Muscular Dystrophy On Medical Marijuana Question
By Logan Murphy Monday Oct 08, 2007 1:16pm
At a campaign stop in Dover, Delaware today, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a tough time dealing with a question about medical marijuana from Clayton Holton, a wheelchair-bound man suffering from Muscular Dystrophy. Holton asks Romney if he'd arrest him or his doctors for using medical marijuana and that was all Romney needed to hear -- he cuts and runs, moving on to shake hands with other people in the crowd, ignoring Holton as he presses him on the question.
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"I am completely against legalizing it for everyone, but there is medical purposes for it," Holton told Romney.
Romney pointed out that there is synthetic marijuana as well as other pain medications available.
"It makes me sick. I have tried it, and it makes me throw up," Holton said. "My question for you is will you arrest me or my doctors if I get medical marijuana."
"I am not in favor of medical marijuana being legal in the country," Romney said as he moved on to greet other people.
Holton continued, "Excuse me, will you please answer my question?"
"I think I have. I am not in favor of legalizing medical marijuana," the Massachusetts Republican said. Read more...
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Isn't part of the Romney campaign stump speech his record on healthcare in MA?
Well, at least Mitt's sticking to the script. Not to mention he'll have people screen any audiences before which he's to appear from now on.
BTW: Video for previous story (below) can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjRXn67RQ8Q
And his sons are just as elusive when it comes to serving in the armed forces.
I'm guessing Romney's magic underpants were wisking him away from the wheelchair.
It's against the law for you to gather together that tiny amount of plant material, burn it and inhale the smoke from it!
Prohibition has to be the most stupid fucking legislation ever created.
Romney didn't DUCK the question.
He answered it. It was the wrong answer, but he answered it.
Romney WOULD arrest this man and his doctors if they get medical marijuana.
Compassionate Conservative. Yeah right!!! I'm surprised-tho I shouldn't be-how these people can look themselves in the mirror in the morning. Healthcare is only for the rich not the rest of us peons.
No I don't endorse medical marijuana because I want my butt buddies in big pharma to pull in the big cash making the synthetic marijuana that I am in favor of.
How can you be for the syntheitic and not the natural stuff?
What a hack!!! Romney, "The Hair Helmet has spoken."
I hope when this "man" dies, he dies in complete an utter agony. Screw that prick!!!!
It was great! Here we have a guy who wants to be the head of the United States and a guy sitting in a wheelchair asks him a question that he refuses to answer in detail. Mitt is this your form of tact and diplomacy?
Romney actually looked scared and very uncomfortable. True colors?
Romney could have taken some time to talk with the guy instead of just giving him a one liner and walking away.
Sounds to me like Romney answered the question on medical marijuana. No, he didn't state directly that he would arrest the man or his doctors, but I believe his saying it should be illegal no matter what makes his position clear. (Not that I agree with him, to the contrary, I think marijuana should be legal for nonmedical purposes as well.)
Loonie @ 6:
Not for the prescription drug lobby. You forgot who runs the country.
The guy in the wheelchair was putting a real face on the consequences and reality of not legalizing marijuana and Romney didn't want to stop and look into that face.
I read recently that opioids are unhelpful for fibromyalgia. So what to do, what to do.
Oh yeah--suffer.
Minor correction the confrontation occurred in Dover, New Hampshire. Not Dover, Delaware.
My home town, so seeing Romney getting razzed here is a point of pride for me.
I wonder what made the Mittster more uncomfortable, the question or the questioner? He didn't look too comfortable in his country club skin with a wheelchair bound man in front of him.
Oh come on. Everyone knows a robot is incapable of responding to humans without input from it's operator. The Rom-bot 9000 wasn't programmed to respond to the question. Or any question that comes from outside his gop happy-good-funtime-super-go-all-purpose talking points parameters. In fact being confronted by a human in a completely unscripted way probably almost caused his head to explode.
On a more serious note I find it disturbing that the only response these so called 'candidates' have to any kind of honest questioning is to run away squealing slogans through clenched grins. Are they THAT afraid of other humans? Or is it the direct sunlight they fear? Ok there I go again....
Why would the populace trust a person who can't face a single sick man in a wheelchair and give an honest answer to a straight forward question? Mitt buries the needle on the old Creep-O-Meter.
So the question remains...
Is he incapable of human contact? Or is he just THAT afraid of talking to someone who hasn't been hand picked by repug lackeys?
Romney never said he would or wouldn't arrest the man or his doctors, so, no, he did not answer the question. He said, “I am not in favor of medical marijuana being legal in the country,” which is the wussy passive/aggressive way of saying, "Fuck you and your problems, I'm not going to commit myself to helping you if you break our anti-compassionate draconian laws."
McCain did the same thing, recently. Oh, yes, such compassionate conservatives. May they all be afflicted with the reasons for having medicinal cannabis; they'd pass the legislation in a heartbeat.
In all fairness, what would the dems say?
Mr.Romney, welcome to your macaca moment. Your presidential run is history. Bye bye.
Excuse me, but this is a problem of both parties. I am not aware of any of the Democratic candidates supporting medical marijuana, or taking any stand on the drug war for that matter.
It's an answer that's a non-answer that deserves an answer-answer. No one can conclusively say "Mitt said he'd have that wheelchair bound man arrested for smoking medical marijuana" but Mitt didn't say that he WOULDN'T let the law prosecute these guys either.
So let's call him out on it, Hannity-Style!(tm) Hound him at every pit stop and photo op until there's a definitive "Yes" or "No" answer to the question. When he speaks in public have people chanting/shouting "Yes or no! Yes or no!" It'd reach a point where the most-righteous on the right will also demand an answer from Mitt, because they'll want the dirty effin' hippies to hear it straight from the lips of their intended Commander in Chief - NO medical marijuana.
It's a story that doesn't have to die if people don't let it die.
Kucinich: I support issuing an executive order allowing marijuana for medical purposes, effectively ending DEA raids on medical marijuana patients and their providers.
What made it so much worse was the others (reporters?) in the video pressing him.
'You're not gong to answer his question Governor?"
"He asked if you were going to arrest him"
"You are just going to ignore a person in a wheelchair?"
G.W.B. war criminal @ 23:
I disagree. Politicians make careers out of not answering questions, and as others have stated Romney gave a lot more specific of an answer -- "I'm not in favor of it being legal" -- than other candidates, regardless of party, would have given.
And you'll note that, despite direct contradiction of his statement that "I spent as much time at Ground Zero as the recovery workers so I'm one of 'em," Giuliani is still in the race. Thompson, despite blowing off every debate before tonight's, is still in the race.
Nobody's going to bow out of this one, at least not until several primaries in. GWB has established the Office of President as a blank check to do whatever you want and get away with it, and voters have demonstrated that they will vote for who yells the loudest, not who's right, so why not keep yelling?
photo-op gone bad
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tw49mm-CmNo
This video was making the rounds online yesterday. How could it have happened today?
Andrew @ 30:
You are right it was from yesterday. I'd say the post was written yesterday, and didn't get put up on the site until today. The video is from last night's "situation room" on CNN.
No matter dem or repub, these folks should be prepared to defend their decisions on issues such as this. They should give reasons for what they believe, even if we don't agree with them. If they feel one way or another about legalizing marijuana be prepared to say what caused you to make that decision. Only little kids can get away with saying, Just 'cuz I do.
isn't that the politicians' game: avoid having to answer direct questions on any controversial issue. their advisors stess that. occasionally they get cornered when least expected and the answer as romney gave is to "let's move on, nothing to see here." and with that they are given a get out of jail pass free. of couse, romney has made some doozies inthe past few month. his boys fighting against terrorism by campaigning in the rv for his election; the dog riding on top of the car and "liking it." and now avoiding confrontation by feigned to answer the question with a blanket statement, i am not in favor of medical marijuana. go to the corner with fred and mccain. the race is over.
While I do not like or agree With Romney on anything, I think he did answer the question. He said he was against legalizing and repeated it. So I do not think he ducked the question.
Having said that...these Right wing politicians make me totally sick. They are disingenous and totally messed up.
hadenuf @ 26:
<blockquote>Kucinich: I support issuing an executive order allowing marijuana for medical purposes, effectively ending DEA raids on medical marijuana patients and their providers.
Thank you for that. Maybe I should've added "except maybe for Kucinich, Gravel and Ron Paul."
You mean he wasn't wrestled to the ground and tazed?
bbwar @ 34:
That wasn't the man's question. He asked if Romney would have him or his doctors arrested.
"Hi how are you hi how are you hi how are you how high are you?"
Mitt Romney - Soulless, heartless, gutless bucket of bile.
hadenuf @ 22:
Kunich would say, legalize medical usage, would be my expecation?
Hillary would probably run faster then Mitt did.
Marijuana, medical or recreational, will never be legalized in America for a simple reason...
There's way too much money in keeping it illegal.
i.e....
Follow The Money...
On the one side, the 750,000+ arrests a year over it feed a lot of revenue into the criminal justice system.
And on the other, since it is illegal, the street price is kept artificially, insanely, high.
And on yet another, there are a lot of billion dollar blockbuster Big Pharm drugs out there that would be completely threatened were it to become legal for medical use for sick people.
Here's the economics of it:
A quick check of Craigslist urban delivery services and other online sources puts the current street retail price at about $400.00 to $600.00 an ounce, very near the price, not too long ago, of the price of an ounce of gold.
By way of comparison I buy my tobacco in bulk these days and I pay $20.00 a pound for it.
Marijuana, by contrast retails for anywhere from $4,500.00 to almost $10K a pound.
$4.5K to $10K is one hell of a mark-up over $20.00 a pound for a plant that grows in the ground much more easily than tobacco does.
If I was a Drug Warrior, Pharmaceutical Company, or grower and distributor, there is no way in hell I would want this revenue stream to ever dry up and would go out of my way to ensure that it keeps its illegal status.
The above is what I consider to be the most compelling argument against it ever becoming legal, this is America, and there's just too much damn money on the table for that to ever happen.
And I don't buy the "legalize and tax it" argument either, because there is:
a) no way that you could tax it at the levels the Black, illicit market currently commands
and
b) if it was legal, and you could simply grow it yourself or get it from friends and acquaintances that grew it, then why on earth would you pay an exorbitant retail tax on it?
All that being said, when they write the history of this time and place I have no doubt that they are going to shake their heads sadly at the ways our Government used this innocuous and harmless plant, which we humans have had a natural affinity for, for centuries, as first a means to erode and destroy our Civil Liberties, and then to make out-right War on its own people.
Especially the sick and dying ones.
~nwa
G.W.B. war criminal @ 23:
Hardly. The base agrees with him, no damage what-so-over!
Over in Red State ville it's:
Round up them dirty hippies and throw them in jail...Right after I pour myself another Scotch and Soda!
You can blame big pharma for keeping pot illegal to a point, but the reason it was made illegal in the first place was pure racism. It is was something used by Mexicans and blacks and the state and federal governments wanted something to arrest and deport the Mexicans. That racism still exists.
Doesn't Mitt's wife suffer from some affliction?
What is wrong with marijuana for medical purposes? The government allows codene and morphine for medical purposes. Both are more addictive than marijuana. My congressman, Maurice Hinchey supports it as does Ron Paul, the longshot for the Republican presidential nomination. He was a doctor.
Milo Tindle @ 24:
Ron Paul and Mike Gravel
They are the only candidates who support the legalisation of marijuana, for general as well as medicinal use.
http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org/BiosInd/Paul.htm
http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/80242/Most_Marijuana_Friendly_Candida...
If anyone knows how to post this video to YOUTUBE, please do so! This Romney bird needs to be exposed as the arrogant piece of shit he really is! I'm originally from Massachusetts and have interacted with this creep and believe me, he thinks he's better than everyone else and would rule this country like a king...yes, perhaps even more arrogantly than even Bush! Not kidding!
Hey, why doesn't somebody ask him if he beats his wife.
Peace
I guess the politicians feel that if they legalize marijuana for medical purposes, the old and sick hippies will have won the war on drugs.
"How can you be for the syntheitic and not the natural stuff?"
Reason #1: there's a drug to be sold, and marijuana arrests are easy and now that the person's assets are seized, quite profitable for the state.
Reason #2: the synthetic stuff doesn't cause "euphoria" like the natural stuff does. God forbid people who are ill and in pain should experience a little euphoria.
Darth_Romney, that's the way he appears to me. Thanks for confirming what I thought.
Let's see, which is more humane. Allowing a very ill person to lay in bed experiencing horrible pain or allowing them to not feel the pain but instead think just about everything is funny and yearn for the biggest chocolate bar ever made.
"For gosh sakes, I'm RICH!...
I dont talk to people in wheelchairs!"
Love,
Mitt
RayC @ 42:
One of the really insane ramifications of this, is the prohibition of the development of an entirely new class of drugs- Cannabinoids- cannot be done. Real research is illegal.
when did presidents and presidential candidates get the green-light to start arresting people?
I can't believe anyone though that Mitt cared about any of the voters. That guy suffers? Why should Mitt care? It isn't as if it were Mitt that suffered, is it?
Mitt shows signs of being a sociopath.
"...Hi, how are you, good to see you..."
Repeat 11, 483 times...
Will someone PLEASE tell this cheeseface to shut the F--- Up !
Ahhh, Authoritarian America. Romney doesn't even have the courage of his convictions. He can't just answer, "Yes, I would arrest you and your doctors, and have you thrown in jail." He's knows how heartless it is, how wrong it is, but there's just something about Authoriterica -- it just has to have laws against things.
It reminds me of this video, in which several abortion protesters are stumped by the question, "What should be the punishment for women who have illegal abortions?" A number of them admit never to have thought about it.
Perhaps laws are just symbolic to Authoritericans -- just expressions of sentiment, not real codes of behavior.
------Everyone is entitled to the pursuit of happiness! Wasn't that once self evident? Restore the Revolution!
andrew @ 56:
<blockquote>"...Hi, how are you, good to see you..."
Repeat 11, 483 times...
Will someone PLEASE tell this cheeseface to shut the F--- Up !</blockquote>
LOL! I agree 100%! Mitt Romney...the Stepford Candidate!
Don't smoke grass
Smoke duck.
George_Metetsky @ 53:
That's not exactly true. There is plenty of research being done on cannabinoids. The problem is that the synthetic cannabinoids are just not as effective as the plant. There have been several different types of studies from inhalable to suppository, but they have been unable to replicate the full effect of the natural drug including not only pain control, but decreased nausea and increased appetite.
pissed off patricia @ 43:
Yes, marriage.
pissed off patricia @ 43:
Too, too easy!
Maybe if we got Hostess Snack Cakes to take on Big Pharma we'd have our weed.
As bad as the Democrats are at least some have a little bit of compassion in their hearts. As much as I despise Hillary - even she has pledged the stop the federal government from sticking their nose in states who legalize medical marijuana. The republicans don't give a damn if you are sick and dying they have no hearts.
This whole medical marijuana debate makes me a little upset though ...
Why can't someone ask why marijuana isn't legal across the board. You should be able to buy it at the corner store. It's much less dangerous than alcohol or cigs.
In fact, I may light a bowl right now ....
ysbaddaden @ 63:
In conjunction with the pizza dleivery boy union local #420
George_Metetsky @ 53:
Also, check out Ibogaine.
Legal almost everywhere, except for the USA and two or three other countries, it has a better than 50% success rate, in helping those addicted to methadone, heroin, cocaine, speed, nicotine and a host of other addictions, unlike Drug Rehab which has a 90% fail rate, and Twelve Step Programs which have, over time, a 25% success rate, at best.
Ibogaine has psychedelic properties which makes it a Schedule I drug, hence its domestic illegality, which of course blocks any research in the USA.
So we'd prefer the scourge and ravishment of our own American peoples addictions, with all the destruction that ensues with that to satisfy some BS "moral" ideal?
What's wrong with this picture?
Other than Ibogaine is a one-time treatment which means it would seriously undermine the business model of revolving door rehabs.
If someone you care about is afflicted and tried other approaches, and found them wanting, more information is here.
~nwa
PS: Not to spread a rumor, but it's been talked about that the only way Rush Limbaugh was able to maintain his sobriety from one of the most addictive drugs on earth, was to, well, I'm not going to say...
Besides, I thought all of these Republicans were for State's rights. Why would they want the Feds to be able to interfere in a state law?
hadenuf @ 22:
Who knows and who cares. The question was posed to ROMNEY, and ROMNEY only.
It's my understanding that the Controlled Narcotic List was the result of a popular leading man in the movies of the 1920's, Marion Reed, dropped dead on the sidewalk from his narcotic of choice.
Since then there's been rumors that other drugs like cocaine, opium and marijuana were added be get rid of certain immigrants. Although I've always heard it was the alcohol and tobacco interests that got marijuana added to the list.
Kevin Simms @ 68:
No, that's a good point. The dems have got to be put on the spot with this issue and the debates haven't talked about it. I know Richardson allowed medical marijuana in New Mexico. Hillary is so tightly controlled who knows where she really stands on anything, but she said she would stop the federal raids at marijuana compassion clubs in CA, Dennis and Mike want it legalized 100% - not sure about the others.
RayC @ 42:
True that, but through trial and error the Drug War managed to morph into its present form.
One thing I've found curious and take an overhead schematic view of an American County Jail, where they stack prisoners in bunks 3 persons high, and compare it to what an African Slave ship looked like, they're practically identical in appearance.
~nwa420
"If I asked you for money for my campaign, & for your vote, would you laugh in my face?", Mitt Romney
"I don't believe in voting for Reichwing, Neocon, Religious Zealots", Progressive voter
budda @ 70:
My point was that this thread is about Romney, no one else.
Kevin Simms @ 73:
Well you said "who knows and who cares"
I'm saying a lot of people care what the dems think and so should you
Hey. Romney. You're a dick. A real dick. Dronabinal is not the same as marijuana.
I don't see you fucks all concerned about the mega high from morphine-WTF is up with that? We know you don't want people to enjoy the pot high, why is the monster high from opiates ok?
What's your scientific reason for hating the pot, mofo? You're just hanging on to the outrageous bullshit spun by that insane liar Harry Anslinger, 70 years ago.
Shut up. You can't even drink coffee.
Will you arrest me for using it, Mitt? Just tap your foot twice for yes and thrice for no.
miss_kitty @ 75:
BWAHAHAHAH! Can't even drink coffee. I almost wet myself!
Gee I've never seen a ball-less man before.
Mormons have what they call The Word of Wisdom which are dietary requirements forbiding coffee or any caffeinated drink, smoking or any other tobacco use, and no multiple meat dishes at any single meal.
Romney would find a way to make it the state crop of MA or UT if one of his sons needed it for pain management. I think it was in the documentary "In Pot We trust" that showed a medical marijuana user that worked in Congress. He is able to function effectively specifically because he can go out on the Capitol steps 2 or 3 times a day and legally light up a joint to alleviate his otherwise severely crippling symptoms. He says the Congress is well aware of his case but have chosen to end the exemption with him. So here are politicians that know for a fact the beneficial uses of this drug yet for the sake of appearance, will let countless others suffer.
This pretty much says it all in regards to the rational and compassionate nature of DC politicians.
Yes, this is the kind of president I want: a weeny who is afraid to talk to someone bound to a wheelchair. These republicans are real men!!!!
But yes, in all fairness, the Dems would probably duck the question too. Almost all of the candidates are ball-free.
Well, no one could expect a different answer. I love it though, that anyone is confronting any of the candidates on issues that affect real Americans. Not the phony Americans running for public office who are willing to look the other way while Bushco imposes a fascist state on America.
Like - all of them.
*
ysbaddaden@69:
I believe the Hollywood star was named Wallace Reid, who had a truly nasty heroin addiction. After he died, his wife pulled the old grieving wronged widow shtick, even tho it was rumored that she dabbled as much as her husband, and she got all the sympathy of the righteous right and the Christian moralists, who went on a rampage to make nearly everything pleasurable a crime - including sex, since this is part of the reason for the beginning of the Hayes Code and the Breen office of decency in motion pictures. But I think marijuana was made illegal due to the efforts of an ambitious FBI agent by the name of Harry Anslinger (I think that was name). Since marijuana was perfectly legal, Anslinger did his damndest to put its horrors in the national spotlight, and eventually the Marijuana Tax Act was passed. And race had much to do with the bans on recreation drugs, because it was all right for society matrons and stockbrokers to shoot morphine and snort cocaine and smoke marijuana, but heaven knows we wouldn't want to be around a bunch of marauding Negroes or Mexicans after they toke on a doobie, now would we?
You're right, it was Wallace Reid, even when I typed Marion I was thinking, "Isn't that John Wayne's real name?"
pissed off patricia @ 43:
Yeah she does, its called Mitt. The diagnosis includes a chronic inability to look past anything that doesn't feed your personal hunger for power and an acute lack of compassion.
Sounds about right...if the pharmasutical companies can't make millions off of a specific drug or cure then nobody should have access to it. Don't expect any Republicans or many Democrats who will support the sick and needy in America.
pissed off patricia @ 43:
Yeah Mitt
Chuck Lynn @ 86:
Sorry I stepped on you with that It was so fucking obvious though
Looking back on the last forty years of American history, I just can't fathom how the plastic people are still running this place. They are a collective black comedy: reptiles with money. What gives? We better figure it out before they find a may to make money turning the rest of us into humanol.
Yeah, what a douche romney is for saying he wouldnt legalize it (even though he'd be a a little too high of a pay grade to actually arrest anyone) he totally dodged that question. What an ass. He should have had some backbone, and told that man that he didnt know what he was talking about and framed the question wrong. IF the wheelchair guy persisted, he should have accused him of being a scripted plant. Thats what candidates with real balls do. They make unfounded ad-hominem attacks, then, if anyone calls them on it, they send hacks on TV to play the woman.. er, Mormon card.
Wow, Mr. Witherspoon with the withering, and witty, commentary. Get over yourself, dude.
mitt is learning. as long as you do not take a position on an issue, you can never be accused of flip flopping sometime down the road. romney is one more example of repubes desire for "all the sizzle without the steak" candidates. repubes want white men that look good, act presidential and be a tool to conservative beliefs.
I'm sorry, but marijuana is marijuana. And marijuana is illegal. Plain and simple.
Dom @ 84:
Q) Why is marijuana illegal?
The liquor lobby? No. The tobacco lobby? No. The "big pharma" lobby? No. All of these interests would potentially have a new revenue stream with the legalization of marijuana.
Law enforcement/private corrections neeed the money? No. They have more "business" than they can handle, without locking up potheads.
The short answer:
A) The petroleum and chemical industries want marijuana to be illegal because that keeps HEMP illegal. They could give a rat's fat ass about marijuana. Making and keeping marijuana illegal is simply an expeditious way to keep it's one true replacement off the market. HEMP! Item for item, use for use, application for application, everything you can make out of oil, you can make cheaper, and better, out of HEMP! Lubricants, solvents, fuels, textiles, plastics, you name it. It is a renewable resource, and it grows any/everywhere,
If it were to be used to replace oil, on a global scale, the US would lose it's stranglehold on the world economies, and would find itself on a level playing field with practically every nation in the world.
As it is, treaties and trade agreements typically stipulate that other countries observe our drug laws for the privilege of being taken advantage of by our multi-national corporations. So if you want your Coca-Cola and Burger King, no "oil independence through hemp" for you!!
An excerpt from the Foreword at Occupied America: A Chronology of Nazi Infiltration and the War On Some Drugs
"...Hemp, the plant that humans have used for several millenia, and the
industry that provided the best in cloth, rope and oil, was on hard times.
Hemp, though growing luxuriously throughout America's farmland, was
extremely labor-intensive. Until the availability of the Decorticator, Hemp
had to be harvested in large part by hand. American industry needed more
than Hemp could produce in this way.
The Decorticator came on the scene in 1935. Hemp was on its way once again.
That is, until those in the petroleum industry saw a problem: Fuel could be
made from Hemp that would burn cleaner, much more effieciently, and with a
greater supply than crude petroleum oil. Rudolph Diesel had built his
famous engine intending it to burn vegetable oil, mainly Hemp. Hemp was
already well known for it's lubricating ability, which was of importance to
the young aviation industry. Hemp oil in an aircraft engine doesn't break
apart chemically at high altitudes like petroleum did. Now with the
Decoricator a reality, Hemp was on its way...again.
Hemp, as I'm sure you know, is in the same family as Marijuana...the flower
tops and leaves of other species of Cannabis Savita L. It was smoked
freely, in the form of Hashish, in many fairs. Hash dens were popular in
America's bigger cities. But Blacks and Hispanics were known to smoke the
dried flowers and leaves. Jazz musicians of the period were known smokers
of "Reefer." The Big Oil folks and their cronies found an excuse to drive
Hemp away: Claim all sorts of bad things about Marijuana; don't make a
distinction between Hemp and Marijuana so the average person won't know
what they had grown up with would be taken away. Do this by playing on
White America's racism. Scare them by claiming Marijuana would drive you
insane or lead you to more insidious drugs like Heroin and Cocaine. By
1936, "Reefer Madness" was well played. Well played enough to cause
Congress to pass the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Hemp was crippled. Big oil
was safe..."
Cuz he's abig f--kin' asshole. "Don't ask me anything that doesn't make me look good, or smell great." (Besides he's rich and arrogant.)
Fuck medical marijuana. Legalize pot for all. The War On Drugs is an abject failure and money rathole. Billions wasted that could be spent on real social issues.
Christ, hand the pot concession to Philip Morris and this issue will go away pronto.
Romney did indeed answer the young man's question. Romney's answer was, "Fuck off and die, cripple."
Nyc W. Alberts @ 40:
Yeah, that's totally why I grow my own tomatoes, slaughter my own cows, mill my own lumber, and produce my own electricity with my own personal nuclear reactor.
If you were to factory farm marijuana the price drop from the industrial efficiency would more than compensate for even the most draconian taxation measures.
And for the record high yield THC pot is much more expensive and difficult to grow than tobacco.
jimbo92107 @ 98:
That's not in the original German.
Hey America, do you think that pot is one of your bigger problems? Idiots. And no I do not smoke dope, or drink, or smoke cigarettes, or overeat for that matter.
JohnnyBravo @ 94:
Well it shouldn't be.
AbbeyHoffmansGhost @ 102:
agreed...what people do in their own homes is nobodies biz...and if a person need marijuana as a medicine....they should be able to medicate where ever they are....as for Romney....Now there's a Compassionate Conservative......I don't understand what the big deal is with marijuana...it's not like it's hard liquor.
pissed off patricia @ 43:
Yes, I believe it is Multiple Sclerosis.
Citizens should vote for Romney because he knows how to say "Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?","Hi, how are you?".
Why would we need to legalize medical marijuana?
I believe in ending the failed war on drugs. But it's not like this guy can't get pot on almost any street corner in America!
If you need marijuana? Trust me, you can get it EASILY!
Sinto @ 106:
Yeah, but will it be organic, as well as the strain he needs, or will it be chemical nutrient laced hydroponic? Do you really think Delaware has good medical quality herb, or is it coming from Canada. Either way and regardless, Prohibition is a racket that is destroying lives, limiting the medicinal and industrial potential of the plant, and has to go.
Fanon @ 92:
Yes, because making fun of a Mormon for not drinking coffee makes you a winner! I dont know if you realize this, but you were all getting your feathers ruffled the other way about hillary dodging a question, with the 'how could they call her on it, she's a woman!' BS and nowe you turn around and castigate romney for a lesser offense. Im no romney fan, but i know hypocrisy when i see it.
heartless fucking bastards. see how fast most of those cocks would run for a bong if they got some godawful cancer.
Sinto @ 106:
Are you actually making the argument that it really doesn't make any difference if something is legal or illegal, since people can just go ahead and break the law? So, um, it probably doesn't matter that people can't afford the prescription drugs they need, right? I mean, after all, they can just steal them.
Aside from the various quality control aspects -- what with buying regulated marijuana from one's pharmacy likely a safer option than buying a packet of weed laced with who-knows-what from your local dealer in a dark alley -- how 'bout we remember the disabled fellow's question: Are you going to arrest me and my doctors?
Get it? If it's illegal, a suffering patient who is caught trying to enable life saving treatments will be locked in a cage to die. Get it?
manny @ 109:
With the same velocity they all head for the abortion clinics when their daughter or mistress gets pregnant: In a New York minute.
First they'd try to cover it up. Then, when they were caught, they'd tell us why what they were doing was completely different from what they made illegal. Then they'd publicly embrace Jesus, and make something else they like to do illegal for the rest of us.
Of course, this is the ass who brags about never issuing a pardon, even to war vets.
Romney doesn't have a chance in hell in the first place. lame he wont answer a suffering persons question with an answer we all want to hear. Honestly do you think Clinton or Obama would answer the question differently?
agonystes @ 113:
nope, they would not answer it any differently. However, the candidate who truly walks the walk and talks the talk, Dennis Kucinich DOES answer this differently. He makes decisions based on common sense logic instead of partisan popularity.
This morning I heard Joe Scarborough say that Romney's new hair style makes him look Presidential. That's how American's think and vote (at least the majority).
Everyone thinks Hillary is a lock but I don't think so. The majority of sheep in America base decisions on irrelevant factors and a black man, a small man, or a woman simply can't win a majority vote. Bush's "good ol' boy looks and warm demeaner were deciding factors in the Kerry failure. Bush was more "likeable", even though he was the inferior candidate.
HumphreyBOGART@97:
I agree totally. The "War On Drugs" has been an absolute failure. I live in a very small town in west Tennessee and I doubt that there has been any problem in finding marijuana being sold anywhere in this county - that is how easy it is to come by, because I believe that unlike in the past most of the marijuana is now grown locally, and is a major cash crop here in the south. If you can buy pot just about anywhere in a small town like this, then the numbers the government keeps quoting about marijuana usage are absolute lies; the number of people smoking in this country has to be many times greater than they have stated. Just legalize it, and use our resources to go after true dangers - you know, like poverty, hunger and the other things that you might be able to spend a couple of trillion dollars on. Even the war in Iraq hasn't been as much as a disaster as the War On Drugs, and has probaly had less casualties, too.
If I was allowed to be placed on medicinal marijuana would I be required to listen to the Greatful Dead?
I hate the Greatful Dead.
It's the rank hypocrisy that gets me. The biggest drug smugglers in this country's history have all turned out to be connected to the military/intelligence community, from Burma in the 40s, to the CIA's Air America's exploits in Southeast Asia during the 60s, right up to Iran Contra and the goings on out of Mena, AK... which both Clinton, with all of his "connected" Dixie Mafia thugs swirling around him, and Bush Sr., with all his military/intelligence thugs, were instrumental in covering up.
The politician maggots from both political parties are up to their eyeballs in this corruption. They themselves are involved, at least in the cover ups. Their lawyers are involved. The party’s financiers are involved. Hardly surprising given that the sums of money we are talking about are staggering, reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Money that has a way of finding its way into campaign coffers.
What your average passive consumer of “news” doesn’t understand is that underneath the surface of all of these public scandals like Watergate, Iran Contra, and Whitewater are much uglier truths involving the marriage between government and organized crime in drugs and weapons smuggling. What the public sees for the most part, by design, are limited hangouts meant to obfuscate the depth of the corruption.
Despite the pretense otherwise, this country is run like a banana republic. The rule of law is for the little people.
Heck, there is even a government involved in drug smuggling aspect to the whole 9/11 scandal. Read the words below of the most gagged person in this country's history, Sibel Edmonds.
"If they were to do real investigations [into 9-11] we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country. And that is something that they are not going to let out. And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up."
--Sibel Edmonds, FBI whistleblower who had top-secret clearance
Sibel Edmonds continues:
"The most important thing is there are individuals who are engaged in acts of treason, okay. People from the State Dept, people from the Pentagon - some of these individuals are already under some quasi-investigations. I mean, we hear things about Douglas Feith, we are hearing things about Richard Perle, but trust me, they are not putting everything that there is out there. Because when you are looking at organizations like the American Turkish Council here, and you see the sister organization is AIPAC. AIPAC helped form the American Turkish Council - look at the board members, look at the people. You will see the same people involved in both fronts, because it is the same operation. And you come across the same individuals over and over again. You know, I don't understand how the case only ended up stopping with Larry Franklin - and I still can't believe that the evidence that they had from the parallel investigation didn't get its way into the court. You need to look at individuals like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Marc Grossman, Dennis Hastert, and others. And documented evidence they have collected on these people. What are they doing with this information?"
"But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money--a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that...has not been mentioned to this day. Because then it starts touching some people in high places."
"The most significant information that we were receiving did not come from counter-terrorism investigations, and I want to emphasize this. It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations.
"You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. In certain points - and they [the intelligence community] are separating those portions from just the terrorist activities. And, as I said, they are citing 'foreign relations' which is not the case, because we are not talking about only governmental levels. And I keep underlining semi-legit organizations [e.g., AIPAC] and following the money. When you do that the picture gets grim. It gets really ugly."
"And then you involve a significant amount of money into this equation. Then things start getting a lot of overlap-- money laundering, and drugs and terrorist activities and their support networks converging in several points. That's what I'm trying to convey without being too specific. And this money travels. And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying. And people don't want to be traced back to this money."
"HiHowAreYa....HiHowAreYa"...over and over. Keep meeting and greeting, Mitt, you're a real used-car salesman aren't ya? "I'd like ta sell you this fine car, it's a creampuff"
Mitt's a fucking empty suit. No substance, no brains, nothing there. Another Dubya in Mormon clothing. I hope someday to meet the assholes that thought this fascist gasbag could ever function as a president. He even sucks as a candidate. I predict he goes down in flames.
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