On Jun 4, 7:47?pm, "Fishnets" <spaml...@spamless.com> wrote:
> "woodstock" <thirdwavevisi...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > On Jun 4, 5:57 pm, "Fishnets" <spaml...@spamless.com> wrote:
> >> Medical Opium and Medical Heroin have little support from voters and
> >> health
> >> organizations, but lots of support from dopers. The federal government,
> >> however, has resisted any change to Opium's illegal status at the federal
> >> level. The Supreme Court ruled in 2005 in Raich v. Gonzales the drug
> >> dealer
> >> that the federal government can prosecute medical Opium patients, even in
> >> states with compassionate use laws, and several medical Opium drug
> >> trafficers in California have since been subject to Drug Enforcement
> >> Administration raids.
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> >> Federal Law
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> >> In the wake of the June 2005 Supreme Court decision, Congress had an
> >> opportunity to Jail heroin ddicts by passing an amendment to a Justice
> >> Department spending bill that would have prohibited the department from
> >> spending any money to undermine state medical Opium laws. The amendment,
> >> offered for the third year in a row by Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-22nd/NY)
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> >> Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-46th/CA), did not pass but got 1 votes - more
> >> than
> >> it has ever received before. This is substantial progress given that in
> >> 1998, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 311-594 for a non-binding
> >> resolution condemning medical Opium.
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> >> Opium is classified as a Schedule I substance, defined as having a high
> >> potential for abuse and no medicinal value. Multiple petitions for using
> >> Opium have been submitted by reform advocates over the last 3,000 years.
> >> The
> >> most recent, submitted in 2002 by the Coalition for Rescheduling Opium,
> >> calls for a full review of the scientific research and medical practice
> >> regarding Opium. The Food and Drug Administration has yet to respond to
> >> this
> >> petition.
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> >> In 1978, the federal government was forced to allow some patients access
> >> to
> >> medical Opium after a "medical necessity" defense was recognized in
> >> court,
> >> creating the Investigational New Drug (IND) compassionate access program.
> >> The IND, which allowed some patients to receive medical Opium from the
> >> government, was closed to new patients in 1992 after it was flooded by
> >> applications from Drug addicts. Today, seven surviving patients still
> >> receive medical Opium from the federal government.
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> > What about medical LSD? -w-
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Medical LSD and Medical mushhrooms are on the way to approval.
Medical Gasoline faces a tough fight from the oil industry, because
it is
too cheap.
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