Michigan poised to become 13th state to approve medical marijuana.....

[marmar]

from Michigan NORML:


http://www.minorml.org/index.html


POLL: MICHIGAN VOTERS LEAN TOWARD APPROVAL OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA, STEM CELL RESEARCH


Detroit News, Thu, 25 Sep 2008

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080925/POLITICS01/809250467/1409/METRO


A majority of Michiganians is inclined to legalize marijuana for sick people, but a second statewide ballot proposal to relax restrictions on stem cell research in Michigan is a closer contest -- and the advertising blitz has just begun on that measure.

The latest Detroit News-WXYZ Action News poll found that the voters, by a 59-37 margin, favor the ballot proposal to allow terminally and seriously ill people to legally use marijuana if a doctor certified the drug could ease their suffering.

The statewide poll was conducted for The News, WXYZ and three outstate television stations from Saturday to Monday by Lansing's EPIC-MRA. It showed that the biggest backers were women ( 63 percent support ), Metro Detroiters ( 60 percent ) and Democrats ( 68 percent ). Among men, the proposal garnered 51 percent support and 49 percent of Republicans favored it.

If Proposal 1 is approved by voters in November, Michigan would become the 13th state to legalize medical marijuana. Supporters estimate that as many as 50,000 Michigan residents would legally qualify for medical marijuana to treat a host of "debilitating" medical problems such as cancer, HIV /AIDS, hepatitis C, Alzheimer's disease, Crohn's disease and chronic diseases or their treatments that produce wasting syndrome, severe pain, sever nausea, seizures or muscle spasms, such as those caused by multiple sclerosis.

"I'm all for it," said poll participant Jeff Bergel, a 52-year-old wholesale representative and father of two from Walled Lake.

"I lost a brother-in-law to brain cancer last year and I think marijuana could have helped make his more comfortable. My dad has glaucoma and I understand it could help him as well." .....snip.......


....." Law enforcement groups are near unanimous in their opposition to medical marijuana, saying it's part of a broader agenda to legalize marijuana for everyone. But there doesn't appear to be any group ready to spend money on an ad campaign to defeat the measure.

Michael Opland, a 64-year-old father of three from Harrison Township, said he supports medical marijuana, although he believes a lot of people would get the marijuana even though their medical conditions wouldn't warrant it.

"A certain number of people would probably take advantage of the law," he said. "But it's worth it to get marijuana to people who really need it." .....snip.........

Copyright: 2008 The Detroit News

[marmar]

1. Kick for sane drug laws.....

:kick:

[sandyj999]

2. It just received two votes from this household per absentee ballots. n/t

[Occulus]

3. My father died of FAP

Familial adenomatous polyposis. It's a nasty, ugly disease that only gets worse and spreads more even with treatment and surgeries. By the time he died, he was on an astonishingly high-calorie, high-cholesterol diet because his food literally went through him too fast for his body to process... because he had so little left in the way of a digestive system.

If he had been allowed to smoke a joint once in a while, it may have made him hungry enough often enough to put weight back on his body. Just the appetite-inducing properties of the drug could well have helped him, especially toward the end, when he was a thin, skeletal man with next to no strength.

[knitter4democracy]

4. We're voting for it.

I first heard about it at church where one of our friends told us all about it and why we should vote for it. :)

[Fumesucker]

5. Law enforcement groups are near unanimous in their opposition to medical marijuana

What a surprise!!

LEO's know which side of their bread is buttered.

The funny thing is when I ask the LEOs in my family which is more dangerous to the arresting officer, a drunk or a stoner, they invariably tell me a drunk is far more difficult to handle.

[pleah]

6. K&R! n/t