Politics > Politics-USA > Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die...
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06 Jun 2005 03:20:30 PM |
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Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
How about an emergency piece of legislation like the Terry Schiavo
bill to save her life?
Supreme Court - (06/06/05)-- Angel Raich says it's pretty simple: if
she stops using marijuana, she'll die.
The California woman says she has no choice but to keep smoking pot to
ease several medical problems including cancer, despite a Supreme
Court ruling against users. The high court says laws in ten states
that allow marijuana to be used to treat various illnesses don't
protect users from federal prosecution.
Raich was one of two women who sued then-Attorney General John
Ashcroft for the right to use the pot without fear of federal action.
etc. etc. --snip
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 04:16:39 PM |
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"JOE" <JOE@no-mail.com> wrote in message
news:bub9a1l6bo6de6f3ilgaia1greqse9un2k@4ax.com...
How about an emergency piece of legislation like the Terry Schiavo
bill to save her life?
Supreme Court - (06/06/05)-- Angel Raich says it's pretty simple: if
she stops using marijuana, she'll die.
Got anyone with a medical degree backing that up. Didn't think so.
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| User: "Smirks" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 04:51:20 PM |
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Billy posted:
"JOE" <JOE@no-mail.com> wrote in message
news:bub9a1l6bo6de6f3ilgaia1greqse9un2k@4ax.com...
How about an emergency piece of legislation like the Terry Schiavo
bill to save her life?
Supreme Court - (06/06/05)-- Angel Raich says it's pretty simple: if
she stops using marijuana, she'll die.
Got anyone with a medical degree backing that up. Didn't think so.
did you ask that of frist duing the schiavo situation? didn't think so.
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 07:54:56 PM |
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"<Smirks>" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Billy posted:
"JOE" <JOE@no-mail.com> wrote in message
news:bub9a1l6bo6de6f3ilgaia1greqse9un2k@4ax.com...
How about an emergency piece of legislation like the Terry Schiavo
bill to save her life?
Supreme Court - (06/06/05)-- Angel Raich says it's pretty simple: if
she stops using marijuana, she'll die.
Got anyone with a medical degree backing that up. Didn't think so.
did you ask that of frist duing the schiavo situation? didn't think so.
Did you have to ask a doctor if never receiving food and water would kill
you?
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| User: "Smirks" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 09:45:56 PM |
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Billy posted:
Supreme Court - (06/06/05)-- Angel Raich says it's pretty simple:
if she stops using marijuana, she'll die.
Got anyone with a medical degree backing that up. Didn't think so.
did you ask that of frist duing the schiavo situation? didn't think
so.
Did you have to ask a doctor if never receiving food and water would
kill you?
simpleton.
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 09:47:19 PM |
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"<Smirks>" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Billy posted:
Supreme Court - (06/06/05)-- Angel Raich says it's pretty simple:
if she stops using marijuana, she'll die.
Got anyone with a medical degree backing that up. Didn't think so.
did you ask that of frist duing the schiavo situation? didn't think
so.
Did you have to ask a doctor if never receiving food and water would
kill you?
simpleton.
You don't know people need food and water to survive and you call me a
simpleton BAHAHAHABAHAHAHA
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| User: "Smirks" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 09:56:42 PM |
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Billy posted:
you call me a simpleton
yep. observe:
BAHAHAHABAHAHAHA
and there it is.
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 10:03:53 PM |
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"<Smirks>" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Billy posted:
you call me a simpleton
yep. observe:
BAHAHAHABAHAHAHA
and there it is.
Had to snip to keep from looking like a fool. Didn't work
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| User: "Smirks" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 10:12:46 PM |
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Billy posted:
Didn't work
it's amazing how fast 100 days goes by.
<re-plonk>
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 11:19:22 PM |
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"<Smirks>" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Billy posted:
Didn't work
it's amazing how fast 100 days goes by.
<re-plonk>
Can't beat them, plonk them
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 04:41:41 PM |
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Billy wrote:
"JOE" <JOE@no-mail.com> wrote in message
news:bub9a1l6bo6de6f3ilgaia1greqse9un2k@4ax.com...
How about an emergency piece of legislation like the Terry Schiavo
bill to save her life?
Supreme Court - (06/06/05)-- Angel Raich says it's pretty simple: if
she stops using marijuana, she'll die.
Got anyone with a medical degree backing that up. Didn't think so.
Yeah, she is just scamming the system to get a legal high.
So you think its OK if she doesn't die, then she should needlessly
suffer? I'm glad your the party of morals and ethics. Didn't think
so.
Disgusting.
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| User: "Smirks" |
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| Title: Re: Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich. If she stops using marijuana, she'll die... |
06 Jun 2005 03:24:13 PM |
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JOE posted:
Tom Delay & Bill Frist: Please save Angel Raich.
How about an emergency piece of legislation like the Terry Schiavo
bill to save her life?
bingo.
not financially viable, tho. you think the religious right will send
donations to save raich?
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BOSTON -- June 2 --In a report released today, Dr. Jeffrey Miron, visiting
professor of economics at Harvard University, estimates that replacing
marijuana prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to
that used for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax
revenues of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year. In response, a
group of more than 500 distinguished economists -- led by Nobel Prize-
winner Dr. Milton Friedman -- released an open letter to President Bush and
other public officials calling for "an open and honest debate about
marijuana prohibition," adding, "We believe such a debate will favor a
regime in which marijuana is legal but taxed and regulated like other
goods."
Using data from a variety of federal and state government sources, Miron's
paper, "The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition," concludes:
**Replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of legal regulation would
save approximately $7.7 billion in government expenditures on prohibition
enforcement-$2.4 billion at the federal level and $5.3 billion at the state
and local levels.
**Revenue from taxation of marijuana sales would range from $2.4 billion
per year if marijuana were taxed like ordinary consumer goods to $6.2
billion if it were taxed like alcohol or tobacco.
These estimates may be conservative. Because available data is incomplete,
assumptions necessary to produce national estimates inevitably allow for
some variation up or down. For example, Miron's report does not include
estimates for certain potential savings -- such as the likelihood of fewer
criminal justice referrals of marijuana offenders to drug treatment and
reduced prison costs stemming from persons on parole or probation being
reincarcerated after positive urine tests for marijuana. In addition, Miron
based his figure for corrections costs stemming from marijuana prohibition
on an estimate that one percent of state prisoners are imprisoned for
marijuana- related offenses. A report released May 18 by the White House
Office of National Drug Control Policy put the figure at 1.6 percent,
acknowledging that tens of thousands of Americans are incarcerated in state
or federal prisons for marijuana offenses.
While Miron notes that many factors beyond costs and tax revenues would
need to be considered in evaluating possible changes in marijuana laws, he
said, "These budgetary impacts should be included in any rational debate
about marijuana policy."
Those impacts are considerable, according to officials of the Marijuana
Policy Project in Washington, D.C. For example, $14 billion in annual
combined annual savings and revenues would cover the securing of all "loose
nukes" in the former Soviet Union (estimated by former Assistant Secretary
of Defense Lawrence Korb at $30 billion) in less than three years. Just one
year's savings would cover the full cost of anti-terrorism port security
measures required by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002. The
Coast Guard has estimated these costs, covering 3,150 port facilities and
9,200 vessels, at $7.3 billion total.
"As Milton Friedman and over 500 economists have now said, it's time for a
serious debate about whether marijuana prohibition makes any sense," said
Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in
Washington, D.C. "We know that prohibition hasn't kept marijuana away from
kids, since year after year 85% of high school seniors tell government
survey-takers that marijuana is 'easy to get.' Conservatives, especially,
are beginning to ask whether we're getting our money's worth or simply
throwing away billions of tax dollars that might be used to protect America
from real threats like those unsecured Soviet-era nukes."
Dr. Miron's full report, the open letter to public officials signed by more
than 500 economists, and the full list of endorsers are available at
http://www.prohibitioncosts.org.
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