Medical Marijuana Day Coming to State Capitol This Month

[Nik]

A medicinal marijuana bill in the state of Oklahoma?

No chance of passing. This bill will go up in smoke.

I see what you did there.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Dano,
Everybody's gotta have a dream.  Med MJ for Oklahoma is one of those delusional fantasies that we all have from time to time.

Too bad.

It should be taken one step further - decriminalize completely. 

Start using the stuff for what it is proven best of all sources.  Paper.  Feedstock for ethanol production (this would really step on big oils feet).  Natural clothing (if you could get a buzz from cotton, it would be illegal, too).  Even rope.  Feed for livestock (talk about contented cows!)  Medical treatments - oops! that might cause some controversy - even though we routinely use opiates that are much more 'toxic' and dangerous.  Wow - just think - a natural medical treatment with the lowest known adverse side affects available! 

Oh, yeah - to cop the occasional buzz.  Infinitely safer than our two other leading addictive substances; cigarettes and alcohol.  But hey, that would require a national (and state) sanity that can never be achieved.

[shadows]

When  the United States lost the suppler of hemp during WWll the government turned to promoting the production of MJ to replace the loss of our supply of hemp.  Thus in Kansas it became a standard crop.  It became a native plant in the fence rows there and remained so for years.  It was only in the current  generations, where we seek a whipping boy.  The  prime reason not to legalize is that it can be easily grown in back yards or a tin can and there is no way that it could be taxed.  Alcohol contains all of the condition that is attributed to MJ but the production can be controlled and taxed like the cash cow of tobacco which also contains a warning on the package. It is not the effeteness as a drug is in question but is because it cannot be converted to a cash political cow.

[bokworker]

When  the United States lost the suppler of hemp during WWll the government turned to promoting the production of MJ to replace the loss of our supply of hemp.  Thus in Kansas it became a standard crop.  It became a native plant in the fence rows there and remained so for years.  It was only in the current  generations, where we seek a whipping boy.  The  prime reason not to legalize is that it can be easily grown in back yards or a tin can and there is no way that it could be taxed.  Alcohol contains all of the condition that is attributed to MJ but the production can be controlled and taxed like the cash cow of tobacco which also contains a warning on the package. It is not the effeteness as a drug is in question but is because it cannot be converted to a cash political cow.

Is it just me, worn out from a long day and still at the office, or is this not the most lucid post ever by Shadows?

[swake]

Is it just me, worn out from a long day and still at the office, or is this not the most lucid post ever by Shadows?

There was one that was?

[bokworker]

There was one that was?

I am speaking fo Shadows so the bar for lucidity is not that high.... hehehehe, I said high.

[Gaspar]

When  the United States lost the suppler of hemp during WWll the government turned to promoting the production of MJ to replace the loss of our supply of hemp.  Thus in Kansas it became a standard crop.  It became a native plant in the fence rows there and remained so for years.  It was only in the current  generations, where we seek a whipping boy.  The  prime reason not to legalize is that it can be easily grown in back yards or a tin can and there is no way that it could be taxed.  Alcohol contains all of the condition that is attributed to MJ but the production can be controlled and taxed like the cash cow of tobacco which also contains a warning on the package. It is not the effeteness as a drug is in question but is because it cannot be converted to a cash political cow.

Wow!  I agree.

[Red Arrow]

When  the United States lost the suppler of hemp during WWll the government turned to promoting the production of MJ to replace the loss of our supply of hemp.  Thus in Kansas it became a standard crop.  It became a native plant in the fence rows there and remained so for years.  It was only in the current  generations, where we seek a whipping boy.  The  prime reason not to legalize is that it can be easily grown in back yards or a tin can and there is no way that it could be taxed.  Alcohol contains all of the condition that is attributed to MJ but the production can be controlled and taxed like the cash cow of tobacco which also contains a warning on the package. It is not the effeteness as a drug is in question but is because it cannot be converted to a cash political cow.

Can you say Moonshine?

[shadows]

Can you say Moonshine?

I have stood on a porch where there was a 12 foot stock of MJ growing in the back yard and was looking at the front door of the TPD.  There was possibly 20 little bags of MJ lying on the front porch. I have seen half barrels with the MJ plants in it sitting beside the steps of apartment house as decoration.  The attorneys, bail bondsmen  and police make millions of dollars yearly by MJ being a crime when in ones possession.  It is very easy to plant it on a victim.  To decimalize it would take away a large part of their income.

An out-of-state GJ at present is looking at inequities and it will possible take 10 years or more to wind the finding through the courts. 

 Moonshine production can be detected more that a mile away where the odor from MJ is in a short radius but the green/yellow color is easy to detect from the air.       

[patric]

A medicinal marijuana bill in the state of Oklahoma?

No chance of passing. This bill will go up in smoke.

But look what might pass,

HB 1798  by Tibbs  and  David, makes it a felony to burn marijuana if it produces hash, with a possible life sentence.
Spending all that alcohol industry lobby money must be rough on them.