I am going to say someone full of hot air because I ask who has been collecting statistics for 5000 years?

In addition there are other deaths and injuries associated with drug use than toxicity. Driving why intoxicated for instance. You also have negligent parents who are too high to properly care for themselves much less their children.

And they would rather have you “juiced up” or “healed up” on some sort of synthetic poppy or NSAID(meds that kill and injure daily, even when used correctly)than use an Ancient Herbal that has never killed.

Morphine and cocaine-based drugs, are ABSOLUTE MEDICAL MIRACLES for so many patients and so many medical situations, like surgery and post surgery, for instance.

BUT, for many people and for many medical situations, MARIJUANA IS MORE EFFECTIVE AND MUCH SAFER.

Politicians, like the three Repugs I mentioned above, are true bottom-dwellers: keeping safe medication from sick people to further their warped agenda. Sick sh*t.

Conventional medications kill approx. 100,000 people a year — from properly prescribed and properly taken meds — (this figure doesn’t even begin to touch on the deaths caused by improperly taken, improperly prescribed, illegally taken, etc…)

Approx. 100,000 people die each year from FOLLOWING DOCTORS’ RECOMMENDATIONS!!! (JAMA study that looked at all the hospital deaths sometime in the early 90s.).

Death by medication or by prescription is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. (JAMA info).

According to DEA Judge Francis Young, in his conclusion to years and years of court battles about rescheduling marijuana — to allow it to be prescribed, like morphine and cocaine:

“Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis cannabis can be safely used with a supervised routine of medical care…There are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming cannabis has caused a single death.”

No frickin’ deaths from marijuana toxicity in 5,000 years; but for some reason (hmm?), Docs are shoveling potentially deadly meds down patients’ gullets by the tonnage.

Even the DEA Judges are asking their attack dogs to stop torturing medical marijuana patients; but $ makes the world go around…

Patients suffer and die daily, because of this illogical and irrational war on patients; and despite the FACTS, people perpetuate the kakati/Reefer Madness a million times a day (frickin’ zombies).

It is interesting. Most nurses and med techs that I’ve met know the real story on medical marijuana — usually they know more than the docs here — though most of them did have to do a little additional homework (in addition to their “pot is bad” curriculum), to uncover the truth.

Can’t stop learning, just cuz ya got the piece of paper.

*Interesting tidbit for the conspiracy theorists, romneya (noun) is a shrub akin to the poppy. (Plastic-Poppy-Pushers from Pluto?).

I like Ron Paul more when I hear this kind of stuff.

Presidential candidate Ron Paul receives endorsement from Nevada brothel owner.

“Bad policy” … “‘contributing’ to the anger”??

I’ll grant you that bad policy, particularly the results of the Frank Church committee that hamstrung our intelligence contributed to the problems we’re having today. But our policy made them mad at us?

Did our isolationist policy of the early 20th century keep us out of WWI or WWII? By that logic, it did.

But thinking that we made them mad at us, so they attacked us? Yeah, that’s nuts.

You see, bad people are, well, bad people. Not paying attention to them doesn’t make them good people. Not paying attention to bad people makes you vulnerable.

You don’t have to like that, but it’s true, like it or not.

Really: and if so, why does it matter? The very question implies that you take your credo from the trough, and don’t have the guts to think beyond guilt-by-association.

The corollary to guilt-by-association, of course, is anointment-by-association; and therefore your tastes are dictated by the opinions of others: the opinions of opinion-makers, as a matter of fact.

Cognitive autonomy dictates that you judge Ron Paul by issues before association; otherwise, you’re languishing in the me-tooism of playground politics.