Tim Lynch discusses legalizing medical marijuana on CNN

[smoketown1992]

they act weed is crack or sum... they are two different drigs... it's noting wrong wit weed....

[IFlick]

Barry Mcaffery is a stupid bitch.

[TlGBC]

hahah i love the fox-style cut off of general mcaffrey or whatever. only now its cnn's, the liberals' turn.

[PlanetofChaos]

WHHHHHAAAAATTT!! I have not seen ONE Med Clinic being run by Mexicans in LA.. I know they're there but not in abundance!

[cyfuse]

The bottom line is the AMA hasn't supported the use of marijuana? Tee hee.

[dtpheif]

@cyfuse the AMA is the same group that gives out riddiline like candy, and pays psychologists to perscribe drugs causing tons of mis diagnosis's.

[HarrisonCountyStudio]

Gen. Mc , with all due respect, congress should not even deal with this... this is another state issue. .... and to promote maranol (a pharma drug) of a natural plant? Listen to the police officers point of view.

[wgraves4786]

peter is the man. former po, who says regulation+taxation is the idea+ the way to go, period.

[megatroll]

When will these conservative nazis finally stop playing hitler and give the people their freedom!? Marijuana is the most wonderful plant and medicine god has given to us! And people who want to use it, will do it anyway...

LEGALIZE IT!!!

[thomas242007]

cnn isnt a conservative station first off conservatives arent nazis, im a conservative and im very much pro medical marijuana legalization it is a grea plant never thought id say this but the cop has the right idea, remember cnn is the same station that was defending that terrorist of ft hood, LEGALIZE$ IT!!! i hole heartadly agree

[v3ck1n]

One battle at a time, we will win this silly 'war'. YES WE CANNABIS!

[lostdandconfusd]

That was awesome at the end, now they will start thinking about regulating all drugs!

[midinerd]

Legalizing -smoking- marijuana is just a fun idea, not a smart one.

There are plenty of methods, including chewing the fucking plant and swallowing it, that don't buy into the media-based hype of bringing a yellow joint, blunt, bong, or aristocratically-guised glass pipe. Smoking marijuana has immediate effects, whereas eating it takes several tens of minutes to take effect, and it lasts. Those wanting to smoke legally are impulsive, irresponsible, and dare I reiterate: lazy.

[000razo000]

fuck you

[midinerd]

by the way - I smoke, "bro," why don't you chill the fuck out and come up with something good to say.

I think that's your way of saying "I have no argument to what you're saying, as it's true that marijuana doesn't need to be smoked for someone to still enjoy its effects and get medical use out of it." This swisher's to you, lil beeeitch

[000razo000]

Not all who smoke are impulsive, irresponsible, or lazy. Many people get high responsibly and even function normally when high. Your last comment irritated me because you put everyone who inhales under a label. Sorry about overreacting

[midinerd]

I smoke. Every time I've come here, I've had a blunt ready. I comment before as not to be pacified.

I have one sitting in front of me.

But - I have a close friend who tries to say she has "state-dependent learning" and needs to be high to both store or study information, and also to recall that information for exams. A complete joke imho.

True, most aren't aware that those who smoke all of the time are actually the least effected due to tolerance. No one discusses tolerance, it's vital.

[midinerd]

But please defend the NEED to smoke it vs. the other methods of intake. Vaporization, eating, and any others that might exist: pill-form. People just like the effects of how it is when you smoke it. Shit, I do.

But for a nation-wide change? I'm not interested in tobacco's contribution to cancer - why should we legalize smoking marijuana? Given the DUI-related propaganda about it, it would be easier to legalize vaporizing (which implies patience, slow rate of hits, and home-use). try me.

[drskippycoltrane]

blunt = tobacco = enjoy cancer

[midinerd]

A potential thought process one who is against legalizing marijuana (popularly smoked) would take, yes. fucking brilliant.

[wgraves4786]

is this guy serious. Havent you been listening you dumb idiot? 450,000 tobacco, 0!!!!! MJ you dumb idiot

[MutantKush]

too bad 75% of america thinks it should be legalized, and ITS NEVER HURT ANYONE and has been PROVEN to grow cancer-killing brain cells. wtf ar e YOU smoking midinerd?

[MutantKush]

*medically legalized

[midinerd]

Oh, Bob Marley and Tricky would surely tell us all to always smoke, if Marley were alive and Tricky's vocal chords were resonant enough to believably say so.

I like marijuana, and I'd be happy with it being legalized. Yall are missing the point - if we had it legalized in ways that make sense (as marinol does exist already) it would legalize vaporizing and other safe methods, which is a fucking gateway to getting smoking legalized.

You're angry that I'm actually putting thought into this.

[midinerd]

and please remember that we were talking about -smoking- (I used dashes around it and it was my thesis that you responded to).

Those are nice statistics, without any references, making it a shot in the dark. If you want to argue with me that taking something way the fuck away from what our body likes for homeostasis, putting it in there over and over, coating lungs with a resinous, long-term irritant won't cause cancer. Denial. I smoke it but am irritated by federal requests for unhealthiness

[v3ck1n]

So you're saying that because someone wants immediate effects, that makes them impulsive and lazy? Let me ask you a question. Have you ever used a microwave oven? If so, why? Most likely because it is quicker and easier. If this were true, using your own logic, you yourself are impulsive, irresponsible, and lazy. Perhaps we should outlaw microwave ovens, and only allow conventional ovens?

~V

[midinerd]

Knowing that you can get medical substances in pill-form, do you still seek out its plant derivative and cure it, smoke it? Knowing you can avoid the inherent carcinogenic effects assocaited solely with SMOKE (please enlighten me what 'healthy smoking' is and why I haven't heard of it yet, and vaporizing is sublimated thc vapor - not smoke).

Sitting right above my microwave, across from the stove, is a toaster oven, and that's what I use to be honest. Sorry to dispel your non-sequitar.

[midinerd]

And by the way, choose something more difficult to argue against other than me using the word 'lazy.' The fact you selected the easiest, emotionally-related item shows you're not using the vigilance to discuss the real issue: 'big tobacco is bad' only because of smoke. So let's legalize smoking more shit, please. No, we can legalize marijuana, and let's not highlight Smoking.

Smoking isn't illegal, weed is, and people are always ready to pit health against desire, so we need a good route.

[midinerd]

Personally: I like marijuana for me, personally, as it keeps me introverted and only makes me hungry or sleepy (good for nighttime), I smoke it which isn't healthy, but I like that it helps me sleep and induces laughter, as well as allows me to not have a rigid fix on the things about other people that disappoint me. Honestly.

Government/medically: Smoked marijuana is a joke. Marinol does exist, I have a friend who says she has "state-dependent learning" and needs to get high. BS. Marinol

[junior420909]

fuck the laws its my body i dont need the government telling me what i can or cannot do who made them the boss of my body only GOD owns u Legalize the WEED

[quietstormprod]

mccafferty is a JOKE. hahaha.

[bradmanz]

Barry McCaffrey couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it. From his lies about his actions in the first Gulf War, to this, lying about his actions as drug czar. The man is a staunch prohibitionist who cares nothing about liberty. Who cares if the FDA hasn't supported it? Of course they haven't. Medical Marijuana competes with the toxic swill pharmaceutical companies make and the FDA exists to protect the profits of the pharmaceutical industry.

[HarrisonCountyStudio]

Shouldn't this be a State's rights issue, not the Federal Government???

[JoseCastilloJrdotcom]

States have rights? You don't say!

[codeman1979]

Yes it should however the Federal goverment is becoming more totalitarian, and states are losing thier rights.

[a4finger]

America's drug policy is horrible

[clochard1]

legalize all drugs - look at Portugal's success story!

[mcgrawtim123]

The general says that Congress passes laws not the DOJ. True, but it is the judicial arm of government's job to decide if the laws Congress passes are Constitutional.

IMHO the Judicial Branch has failed in its mission.

[bradmanz]

DOJ is not part of the Judicial Branch. DOJ is a wing of the Executive Branch.

And yes, the Courts have failed on this miserably.

[DickKefalos]

McCaffrey came across like an old fool beating his senseless war drum, ignoring everything that goes on around him and clinging to the ideas he picked up in his youth. Reality has changed, clearly, since there are now more that 800 dispensaries in L.A. that operate openly But the fool McCaffrey doesn't understand this, he only looks at the inside of his own skull. Please retire already, General, we have deserved it.

[seattle420]

the old general

that has never won any war why does the media go to him any more how much is he paid? he was a loser in vietnam and we paid for it now he is on TV every day and I am sick of him he is a loser

[HBSchool]

If anybody wants to see an open and shut case on Obama being unconstitutional here it is.

Article 2, Section 3: "Take Care Clause"...

[Clyaton]

OMG the former czar is such a racist P.O.S. liar it's sickening

[hayesism]

Aw come on, that interview was unfair. I'm a libertarian and I disagree with McCafferty, but he's at least more intelligent than most of the guys you see Cato going up against in these interviews; but though outnumbered he was cut off to give the last word to the other guy.

[garyworkman]

There is currently a Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiative in Florida collecting signatures on a petition to support a constitutional amendment that gives patients the right to grow, obtain, purchase and possess medical marijuana under a doctor's supervision. For more information or to get the petition google pufmm

[032125]

Oh! Shocking! McCafferty is pro-drug war!

Of course the distributors are dodgy; what kind of normal business owner wants to runf the risk of having their door kicked in?

[sniper6081]

Stupid establishment asshole Barry McCafferty. Could he be anymore of a holier-than-thou government stooge stereotype?

[rockhuddy]

No surprise here, the general is a statist.

[adamthebaddun]

Holy shit, they're even reporting on Nick Griffin on CNN (check out the rolling newsbar around 2:30.

[medicalcannabisjourn]

There are so many diseases that it helps. We need to allow this as medicine on a more widespread level. I don't have either of the big 3 but my life depends on cannabis to live.

[harryogre]

wow

That 'general' blatantly lied.

Tim Lynch called him on it to a degree but Dobbs let him slide with a bold faced lie.

BTW, as soundmoneyfan pointed out, a 6 minute four way talk with one of the party spewing lies is no way to have a public debate on an issue.

[soundmoneyfan]

this was way too short of a discussion. if this is our idea of public debate in this country we are fucking screwed

[obmax1212]

I agree to an extent, but at least Lou put two pro-legalization people on the show and gave them each a good amount of time to state their positions. That is very rare.

[chevydriver1123]

I think Lou is one of the few quasi-pro-drug war guys who isnt all that militant towards cannabis but anyway it was a good discussion.

[soundmoneyfan]

Agreed. The tide is shifting but I wonder how long till it really becomes legal.

[viehe69]

The drug war is unconstitutional, and therefore it should be ended immediately!

[FlailingJunk]

The drug war is immoral, and therefore it should be ended immediately.

[drskippycoltrane]

"the AMA and FDA don't support legalizing something that would cause their sales of dangerous prescription drugs to go down"

- the guy with his dick in your ass

[Pvtjamesryan2]

I love Lou Dobbs!!! =D

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