Maine Candidates on medicinal marijuana

This is the 2nd part in a Maine Web News gubernatorial series. The candidates focus on the issue of medicinal marijuana with host Jarrod LeBlanc.

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[MIB205]

i could kiss you and also thats not to say that after we legalize it then we can study it better and upon finding out it is severely dangerous make it illegal again. not that i think its dangerous you just never know because right now were not aloud to know.

[HollaAtYoBoyz]

Plain and simple is we need 100% constituional state and fed governments where we the people decide and we arent taxed to death and everything is not regulated!!!! Its time we have choice over our lives and not have some bureaucrat corporate controlled scum dictating what's best for us while we pay the fees attached. in the medicinal marijuana case its big pharma with big cash to lose here on all the crap they pump people full of. Its time for the people's voice to be heard!!!!

[psmadme]

Shawn Moody: If you go too slow, you never get there in time.

For once, I agree with Paul LePage. The law was clearly stated by the people. The Legislature have no business messing with it until it has been parcticed for at least a year or two.

Kevin Scott: If marijuana is legalized openly like cigarettes, then tax it. If it is to be used as medicine, then it should NOT be taxed. If you want to get criminals out of the drug business, stop making drugs illegal.

[topdeeni]

Shawn Moody... FAIL on MMJ IMHO, he stumbles to much. Also LEO should not be invited to discuss medicine unless they wanna pay my health insurance.

LePage...At least he is aware of what happened at the Capital after we voted on it.

Kevin Scott.All he did was talk about the bill, the symposium, Inclusion of LEO's ( Again R these guys doctors? At least he has said he will look at the legalization of hemp, to bad all he did was talk about the drug aspect of it. He forgot about its other uses.

[awake04101]

Food and medicine should never be taxed in a humane society. What's next to tax vwgtiron? The air we breathe? Do you support the carbon tax scam, calling for a tax on the life giving fuel that plants breathe? Silly

I agree with Kevin Scott. We should look at legalizing it to control it. The war on drugs is a money wasting failure by any standard of measure. But I disagree with taxing marijuana or any other medicine. Especially in these tough times. People need a break not more taxes.

[vwgtiron]

Cynthia this is nothing new. You should know that in the U.S. we tax anything at the point of sale and since you can make a profit off of what you sell, yes you should be taxed.

[cynthiajoyrosen]

More medicinal foods: Allicin is the smelly part of garlic when you crush it. There are numerous patents that have been filed testifying of health benefits. How long until they begin taxing this? Maine already taxes seeds. SEEDS! That which we NEED to grow the food and herbs we NEED to sustain our very lives!

[cynthiajoyrosen]

Taxing marijuana will a direct path to taxing other raw herbs and foods. Aspirin came from willow bark and believe it or not some folks still use willow and not aspirin. The herb, Valerian and the drug Valium both affect benzodiazepine receptors. I use Valerian for my bouts of insomnia as opposed to getting a prescription for Valium because it works and its natural.