Illinois Legislative Panel Okays Medical Marijuana

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The push to make marijuana into medicine in Illinois has taken a big step forward.

A legislative panel has forwarded the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act to the full Illinois House for a vote.

It is the first time the House will see a plan to let some people legally use marijuana.

Skokie Democrat Lou Lang has shepparded the legislation to this point.

He says the act would give relief to cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis patients who cannot get relief from prescription medicine.

The state would issue the patients a special permit allowing them to have seven marijuana plants and two-ounces of the drug on hand.

Lang says it's a healthcare plan that won't cost the state any real money.

But opponents, including police groups, say legalizing some marijuana is a slippery slope.

The Illinois State Police say they fear a lot of people having access to what a sick person can grow.

Lang calls their arguments a "red herring." The plan now heads for a full vote in the Illinois House, but Lang says it could be a while before he asks for that vote.

He says he has some convincing to do before he'll try to pass the law.

A similar plan in the Illinois Senate came close to passing under the last General Assembly.

Lang says the public supports medical marijuana, and if he can get lawmakers on board with the idea, he thinks he can sell Governor Quinn on it as well.

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I find it funny that the police fear that the general public could gain access to sick peoples medication. What's deterring the access now? The most abused drugs in America today are legaly prescribed.:hairpull:
 
Anyone know if there is something like this going on in idaho. I have done a search. they have a bill but refuse to vote on it last I seen
 
crap. it makes me sad... soo fustrated
the one guy in idaho with the real power to do something"Rep. Tom Trail, R-Moscow ID. was defeated in the election by 4 votes.... still cant find anything on legalizing MMJ.
it was suppose to be in vote 2 months ago....
just wanna cry. i grow for my Brother inlaw,mom,wife. and me..
brother is dying of cancer, mom has MS, wife has insomnia, and i had shoulder reconstruction, and well i just like to kick back and smoke.. especially while fishing
 
How many states are there now in USA where medical marijuana is active?
 
something like 30.. well over half. 13 in the west
 
FruityBud said:
Lang says the public supports medical marijuana, and if he can get lawmakers on board with the idea, he thinks he can sell Governor Quinn on it as well.

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ok, so the people want it...yet the officials are saying no...

Can someone define democracy for me again, I must have fallen asleep and woken up in friggin N. Korea...

...AGAIN...

...or is this China?
 
i cant wait until i fail my next drug test at work, i wouldnt lose my job, but when people ask me in a frightful voice, "Gulp, did you, did you fail for doing marijuana, the devils drug?" and i will gleefully say, yep!

effen gee, you didnt wake up, this is democracy, at its finest, and proof why democracy is an utter failure. Freedom? Democracy has little to do with freedom, and is still controlled by government. Sad part is, Democracy works about as good as Socialism, Every great government rises and falls, this is one thing we cannot escape, no one is impervious, nor can we hide from it, history has proven time and time again, we are still searching for peaceful existence.
 
Unless our economy is based on natural resources, and profit/gain are no longer driving forces...we will have something other than Capitalisim, which in reality is the ONLY real thing we have.

This is why it seems to be a problem legalizing weed...

Money. Profit. Stock options. Capital Gains. Greedy Investors. Corporate lackeys...

...and a whole lot of people who wan't what they will never get.

Happyness.
 
lgalization of med isnt in there best interest. total legalization is.. farms for hemp and smoke.. creates jobs and when they get big enough canibis futures will be traded in the market..
think we will ever be able to pay our taxxes is hemp again.. lol its whats money is partially made out of.
 
Even a Utopian society would be a failure, there is no perfect government as long as the inherent human desire for greatness is not quelled, there will always be desire to stand out, hitler exemplified this best, and it only takes one man to bring down a society at best, just gotta hope for the best!
 
NorCalHal said:
That is what gets me. 7 plants but only 2 oz?? If I got 2 oz from 7 plants, I wouldn't be growing anynore.
yeah MI law is 12 plants @ any stage 2.5 zips.....what the......!!!!!!!!!
 
Interesting...

Now that I think about it for a minuite it makes PERFECT sense to limit the amount you can have vs. the amount you can grow.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to get less than 2 oz off 7 plants, unless you grow them in shot glasses or are blind and have no arms...or brain..

Think about this for a second...

What do we do with our "Extra Medicine" here in california?

We sell it...

S T I M U L A T E the economy...from basically NOTHING!!

Like how we used to just print more money...backed by nothing, just paper really...BOOM!
We suddenly have more capital out of thin air...

Folks may be broke here...but there's ALWAYS money to spend on some good C. flowers.

Here's where it gets a little interesting, and where my attention span in school did not betray me:

When something like pot, a scarce resource suddenly becomes not-so-scarce it drives the value WAAAAAAY down, also opening the door for tighter competition from entities that provide this item.

When you do the same with money you call it inflation. but it's quite a bit more complicated than just making more that drives monitary inflation (95% over the last 78 yrs).

Things have been exploding in california for years now...

Gold
IT
Real Estate
Gay's
Hippies.
Jerks...

Marijuana.

Right now things are just plain CRAZY here. Every documentry I see on the medical or otherwise scene does it no justice. LA is a chaotic mess, SF. Bay Area is just getting settled in..

...and EVERYONE is growing. Mostly to put some extra money in their pockets..
This is driving the price to almost insane low's. We have simply THE BEST weather for growing, biggest infastructure for supply (I can get ANYTHING I need for growing from at least three different places all within 5 miles from my house). Relaxed pot laws since forever...A general "liberal" feel. And the crappy california attitude.

I am just waiting for this marijana bubble to swell, stabilize..then explode just like everything else does here. Hopefully I will be long gone before then.

Right now, trying to sell medical marijuana is like trying to sell ice to eskimo's.

Everybody has weed here, everybody has somebody to go to, everybody knows somebody who grows. Everybody is making money on this thing...

..and Politicians/Corporations are reaping the benefits. Now other states want to cash in.

Legalization or something of this degree is on the way, just think how long it took whatever this "stimulus" thing...is. They know it will make "Money"...

DUH!!

They have been making money off drugs for YEARS...If it was as bad as they say it is there would be NO drugs.
Know how hard it is to get weed in china?

Extremely...
 
cubby said:
I find it funny that the police fear that the general public could gain access to sick peoples medication. What's deterring the access now? The most abused drugs in America today are legaly prescribed.:hairpull:
I know what you're trying to say, and i agree not much if anything is limiting the access to drugs, but what law enforcement could argue is that making it illegal limits access (even though its not true), but saying that legal meds are the most abused (even though it's true), seems like it supports their argument.
 
ross said:
I know what you're trying to say, and i agree not much if anything is limiting the access to drugs, but what law enforcement could argue is that making it illegal limits access (even though its not true), but saying that legal meds are the most abused (even though it's true), seems like it supports their argument.



Maybe I conveyed a ciurcular argument, sorry, that was not my intent.
The point of my post was that the argument of legality vs. availability/access is not one in tandem. People will always acquire substances they desire, regardless of the hurdles put forth by law, cost, or public oppinion.
Use of substances should be sepperated from abuse of substances. It dose'nt matter if the substance is MJ or cupcakes. The argument should be use vs. abuse.Too much of anything is destructive.
I love to cook, especially B.B.Q., but if thats all I ate I'd be the size of a house and have multiple health concerns. I can't immagine the cops showing up at my house and wrestling the B.B.Q. tongs from my hands. Just as, if I'm sitting in my house smoking a bowl and not bothering anyone thats an innane act of use. But if I'm constantly stoned, unemployed, behind on my bills, and neglectful to my family and responsabilities, then that's an abuse. In time the law of natural consiquences will balance things out. I would end up broke, homeless, and disowned by my family. Arresting me would accomplish nothing more than make small-minded people feel morally superior.
I hope I have conveyed my thoughts better thru this post, Being wanting of linguistic mastery I often hit a black hole between thought and expression.:eek:
 

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