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[fredamae]

29. It is the CO AG who would be responsible for

telling the Feds to Butt the hell out and over-rule federal interference/law that fails to serve CO residents.

I did not watch the series either-I heard about the kerfluffle w/Harborside and in a follow-up interview this person stated his comments were Not aired in full context. It was Not his intent to share the message that the program did. I believe him- We are talking MSM here, basically and they do this crap All the time-it has happened to Me. I have Never met a proponent of MedCanna be against personal use for everyone. It is a common belief that if a person tries Cannabis and returns to use it again, it's because it makes them feel better. That seems to be medical use to me and by Far safer than PHRMA Drugs and Booze when one needs to have a bit of stress relief.

The US Govt has maintaind a series of various patents preserving their rights to an assortment of medical & other applications...
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6113940/description.html

http://www.patentstorm.us/search.html?q=marijuana&s.x=15&s.y=19

The Big Monied List of Opposition is Long and Powerful.
Liquor Industry
Prison Industrial Complex
Law Enforcement
Drug Testing Manufacture
BigPhrma
Drug Treatment Facilities/Industry
Plastics etc (God forbid Hemp "to-go" cartons/cups etc should be created)
Pulp Paper Industry (Think Koch Bros & GP)
The Food Industry
Big Oil
ETC

So yes, any efforts to give civil liberties Back to the people is harnessed by Big Gov Policies.
This is one of the Most revealing decisions ever published and it is by the DEA's Own ALJ in 1988.
One might also consider that since Nixon started the WoD's and Ignored the Shaffer Report (that Nixon himself ordered) that We Americans have been forced to invest more than $1 Trillion Dollars-I believe those dollars would have served us All elsewhere. Thats a Crap Load of Money!
http://www.csdp.org/news/news/nixon.htm

DEA's ALJ Francis L Young:
"3. The most obvious concern when dealing with drug safety is the possibility of lethal effects. Can the drug cause death?

4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented
cannabis-induced fatality.

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5. This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on
marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world.
Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no
credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.

6. By contrast aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50. The LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply
stated, researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.

8. At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as
much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within
about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.

9. In practical terms, marijuana cannot induce a lethal response as a result of drug-related toxicity.

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http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_law1-4.shtml

Of course this Begs the Question: Why Does The Federal Gov Keep Cannabis As a Federal Schedule I "Drug"?
Federal Drug Sched I Definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Schedule_I_controlled_substances

It is up to Us, collectively to Stop this Nonsense, Fiscal Waste and Destruction of Lives and Finally Benefit Society.
This facade is all about Corpoate Money and Control.