Ala. Joins Calif. on Medical Marijuana

[Thurston Howell IV]

Alabama, which has some of the nation's toughest drug laws, has become an unlikely ally of California on medical marijuana use.

In a legal brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard arguments Monday on California's medical marijuana law, Alabama Attorney General Troy King said states, not the federal government, should have the right to decide drug-control policies.

"I could not disagree more with the public policy that underlies the California law. I think it's flawed. I think it's bad public policy," King said in an interview. "But if somebody can go in and tell California you can't regulate drugs the way you want to regulate them in California, the next step is they could come to Alabama and tell us we can't do it."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20041204/ap_on_go_su_co/medical_marijuana

[uhhuh]

1. Yeah!

And the next thing you know, they might tell us that we can't continue to codify racial discrimination!!

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. You caught that in the air, too.

This is why politics makes for strange bedfellows.

[Charlie Brown]

3. A pity they don't feel the same way about gay relationships

[Hekate]

4. State by state by state, this stupid drug war will be declared over

Pot never should have been put on the banned drugs list in the first place. Like alcohol and tobacco, society would be so much better off if if pot were simply regulated and taxed by the government. If it were treated legally like alcohol and tobacco, individuals would be able to grow a small amount for private use, but buying and selling would take place in licensed establishments.

I never understood "states' rights" to be anything more than a cover for Jim Crow laws, until I voted to legalize medical marijuana and realized that my state was not the first to do so. That's when I realized that one by one the individual states were telling the federal government to wake up and get real. So yes, politics certainly does make strange bedfellows.

Hekate

[amandabeech]

5. States are looking for increased tax revenues.

Why not move to grab some of that street action?

However, I think that we will be forced to come up with a quick test for driving under the influence of marijuana, just like we have for alcohol.

[steely]

6. Maybe like: driving too slow, munchies in the front seat,

Pink floyd CD turned way up, honkin' smile on the face of the driver?

ha ha - jus' kiddin'