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Opposition To Medical
Marijuana Makes The Weirdest Bedfellows Yet At The Washington Post
(Marijuananews note: As readers of this site
will have noticed, I have a very low opinion of The Washington Post. However, this really
surprised me. The Post is a Democrat newspaper, generally a supporter of Big Government
and Liberal Democrat causes. Robert Maginnis is a senior policy advisor at the Family
Research Council, Gary Bauer’s religious right pro-Republican hate tank. There is
only one thing that they have in common. Both are prohibitionist. Nonetheless, I still
cannot imagine why the Post got someone from the FRC ( www.frc.org
) to do their dirty work. They could have had anyone from the Administration or from any
of the purely prohibitionist propaganda organizations.
See
The
Washington Post Carries A Balanced Report On The D.C. Medical Marijuana Initiative –
Stop the Presses!
and links
To make matters even worse, the FRC is rabidly homophobic, while the principal backer of
the D.C. medical marijuana initiative, Initiative 59, is the local chapter of Act-Up. This
is really adding insult to injury. As it happens, the Initiative 59 people have taken
great pains to separate themselves from Americans for Medical Rights and even most of the
other people in the marijuana reform movement. All that they are really concerned about is
getting marijuana medically available, primarily to their constituency in the AIDS
community, but to anyone else that needs it. But it doesn’t matter. Maginnis still
says that Initiative 59 is a "Trojan Horse" and "a red herring for
legalizing marijuana." [By the way, the "red herring" business is a
reference to the prohibitionist dogma that in 1979 Keith Stroup, the founder of NORML was
quoted in a college newspaper as saying that medical marijuana is a "red
herring" for legalizing marijuana. This along with my "scam" confession has
become the foundation of the anti-medical marijuana movement.
See
A Reply
To Josiah About The Medical Marijuana "Scam" -- Demanding A Retraction and an
Apology
This is not even a particularly good piece, but it does illustrate
how the CFR works. Occasionally, it rises to the level of half-truth. Even they have their
moderate moments. The CFR is also allied with the people who blocked counting the D.C.
medical marijuana votes, which the Post denounced. Really weird!) See
Congress
Prohibits Counting The D.C. Vote On Medical Marijuana And This Offends Even The Washington
Post
From The Washington Post
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/edit/letters/letterform.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
October 25, 1998
By Robert Maginnis, a senior policy advisor at the Family Research
Council
DC’S TROJAN HORSE INITIATIVE
The medical marijuana initiative on the District’s Nov. 3 ballot embraces bad
medicine, would encourage drug use among teenagers and is a red
herring for legalizing marijuana. It should be rejected.
This proposal, known as Initiative 59, is more radical than pro-drug
laws passed by referendum in 1996 in California and Arizona. It would allow the
use of pot as medicine for almost any illness upon the oral or written recommendation of a
licensed physician from anywhere. Patients would be permitted access to
"sufficient" quantities of marijuana to sustain their treatment and to appoint
as many as four "best friend[s]" to act as "caregiver[s]" to obtain
pot for them.
While proponents of Initiative 59 say that sick people need marijuana as medicine,
effective and superior medicines are available for each condition that pot allegedly
alleviates. Synthetic THC, the main psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, has been
approved by the FDA as an anti-nausea treatment for chemotherapy patients and as an
appetite stimulant for patients with AIDS. Unlike crude marijuana, however, synthetic THC
is a stable, well-defined, pure substance available in quantified dosage form.
See
Perhaps The
Single Most Damning Article On Medical Marijuana Fiasco I Have Ever Read – Without
Intending To Be
and
Anchorage Paper
Endorses Medical Marijuana Initiative -- Alaskan Nurses Association Quoted
Other legal drugs can enhance the appetites of AIDS patients and provide relief for pain
and muscle spasms and for glaucoma.
See
The New Scientist
and The Lancet Report On Pain Relief from Cannabis -- 2 Articles
and
Study Faults Pain
Treatment In Cancer Patients; "Most doctors are not well trained to manage
pain." Just Our Lives
and
Painkillers Put
Millions At Risk Of Ulcers; Hospitalize 76,000 & Kill 7,600 Annually; One That
Doesn’t Kill Is Illegal
A 1997 poll conducted by the Family Research Council found that
55 percent of Americans are less likely to support marijuana as medicine when they
learn that legal and superior therapies are available.
(Marijuananews note: If there are legal and superior
therapies are available, then why would sick people want to use marijuana? Oh, they must
be a part of the conspiracy! Of course, this is one way that the CFR does polls, Tell the
people something that isn’t true and then cite their subsequent opinion as proof of
something. But notice that only 55% would change their opinion. This tells us something
important, but not what Maginnis intended.)
Meanwhile, government surveys show that marijuana use among adolescents is skyrocketing.
According to a Family Research Council’s poll, most teenagers believe that medical
legalization would encourage drug use.
(Marijuananews note: Therefore we must ban the medical use
of opiates and any other drug that might be abused?)
See
Shalala
Says That Parents Are Wrong To Be Relieved
That Their Children Are Using Marijuana Instead Of Heroin!
Survey Results From California Do Not Support Party Line, So They Are Buried.
Since 1981, the District has had a medical pot law. The proposed law would radically
broaden the old statute to permit possession, use, cultivation and distribution of
marijuana and would legalize cannabis buyers’ clubs. Virginia’s decades-old
statute allows doctors to prescribe marijuana but does not permit either its legal
possession or cultivation. Maryland has no medical pot law.
Drug use in the District is already high, but adding legal pot
stores would no doubt make our nation’s capital a center for illicit drug users from
the mid-Atlantic region—including teenagers and felons.
D.C. voters should listen to experience. In February 1997, 85 percent of Arizona voters
polled told the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America that their successful drug
legalizing proposition should be changed. They felt deceived by a campaign that used
misleading and heart-wrenching anecdotes of seriously ill people to sell marijuana’s
alleged therapeutic benefit.
(Marijuananews note: Most people thought that Prop 200, like
Initiative 59, was just about medical marijuana, which they favored. What Maginnis is
saying is that the people favored what he is opposing, but when they were told that it was
something else, they felt deceived.)
See
Arizona Paper
Carries Column by Rhode Island Editor Endorsing Prop 200 – Without Mentioning Medical
Marijuana
and
A Few Facts and
Lots Of Venom About Arizona Proposition 200; Either Way, We Lose – 2 Articles The Arizona
and
Proposition 200 Situation Explained. Sort of…
It’s time for leadership. Public health officials who stamped out Joe Camel
must now join hands with District parents to expose Initiative 59 for what it really is:
bad medicine and a Trojan horse for the legalization of marijuana.
(Marijuananews note: Oh, are sick people being arrested for
having Camels?)
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