Don't Bogart that Arrogance

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
Associated Press

Please! …Walk to the back of the church and sit down.

Sorry folks, not a big user of Mary Jane myself; well, not since the 80’s, but this is unbelievable.

To what greater good could this ruling possibly serve? So, you are dying of cancer and some Fed gets to tell you, your doctor, and your state that you can’t smoke a joint to ease the pain?

It is not lost on me that this is the same Federal Government that is insisting it will Not finance the ‘War on Meth-‘ in states. This is more of a local matter.

Right, the difference is so clear…?

When did the care and comfort of people take a back seat to the “hatched-again” agenda for our lives? Every once in a while, I think that maybe the Bush thing will be ‘OK’ and pretty soon it will be back to a level of tolerance and so on.

BUT, it frightens me…on Not a very small level, that each and every day we slip a bit farther back in time.

Maybe it isn’t the intolerance of the 50’s, but every once in a while you have to wonder?

Maybe in a society where the ‘Top News’ coverage is surrounding Michael Jackson and Paris Hilton, it should be of no real surprise that there is almost an air of ‘nonchalant’ concern.

I get that the Democrats are no better than the Republicans.

In fact, in many ways Carl Rove has worked long and hard to add serious Diversity to the major roles in the Government. Something the Democrats talked about, but never really did.

But, yet I feel nervous.

It might be from living in a town that is full of churches and trucks with “Proud to be a Redneck” stickers under their Confederate flags.

I should be able to sleep better knowing that drug-crazed cancer patients won’t be roaming the streets of our little town working on stem cell research.