Michelle Malkin Supports Legal Pot

[angelatc]

. For the past three months, my mother-in-law, Carole, whom I love with all my heart, has battled metastatic melanoma. After a harrowing week of hospitalization and radiation, she’s at home now. A miraculous new combination of oral cancer drugs seems to have helped enormously with pain and possibly contained the disease’s spread. But Carole’s loss of appetite and nausea persist.

A month ago, with encouragement from all of her doctors here in Colorado, she applied for a state-issued medical marijuana card. It still hasn’t come through. As a clerk at Marisol Therapeutics told us, there’s a huge backlog. But thanks to Amendment 64 (http://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Marijuana_Legalization_Initiative,_Amendm ent_64_%282012%29), the marijuana drug legalization act approved by voters in 2012, we were able to legally and safely circumvent the bureaucratic holdup. “A lot of people are in your same situation,” the pot shop staffer told us. “We see it all the time, and we’re glad we can help.”


Our stash included 10 pre-rolled joints, a “vape pen” and two containers of cheddar cheese-flavored marijuana crackers (they were out of brownies). So far, just one cracker a day is yielding health benefits. Carole is eating better than she has in three months. For us, there’s no greater joy than sharing the simple pleasure of gathering in the kitchen for a meal, with Grandma Carole at the head of the table.


Do I worry about the negative costs, abuses and cultural consequences of unbridled recreational pot use? Of course I do. But when you get past all the “Rocky Mountain High” jokes and look past all the cable-news caricatures, the legalized marijuana entrepreneurs here in my adopted home state are just like any other entrepreneurs: securing capital, paying taxes, complying with a thicket of regulations, taking risks and providing goods and services that ordinary people want and need. Including our grateful family.



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[Uriel999]

lol, but who does she want to bomb?

[Cutlerzzz]

lol, but who does she want to bomb?

Or put in concentration camps.

[AngryCanadian]

I think she wants some ratings up. Until an neocon gets in.

[dannno]

lol, but who does she want to bomb?

Maybe she will try one of those cheese crackers and realize how stupid that would be.

[Lucille]

lol, but who does she want to bomb?


Or put in concentration camps.

Since it took an ill family member for her to advocate for med mj, I assume it will take her community being bombed, and the internment of someone in her family, for her to change those stances.

[KCIndy]

Since it took an ill family member for her to advocate for med mj, I assume it will take her community being bombed, and the internment of someone in her family, for her to change those stances.

This, sadly.

I've seen plenty of people "see the light" when the problem they used to rail against hits home in some way. But until that happens, they're absolutely intractable. We can only hope her reconsideration of this issue causes her to take a long, deep, introspective look at the other positions on which she's been a knee-jerk Neocon.

[dannno]

Since it took an ill family member for her to advocate for med mj, I assume it will take her community being bombed, and the internment of someone in her family, for her to change those stances.

Actually she's been a supporter for a while, apparently she just never really spoke up much about it.


some background about my longtime support of medical marijuana: More than 15 years ago in Seattle, while working at The Seattle Times, I met an extraordinary man who changed my mind about the issue. Ralph Seeley was a Navy nuclear submarine officer, pilot, cellist and lawyer suffering from chordoma, a rare form of bone cancer that starts in the spine. He had undergone several surgeries, including removal of one lung and partial removal of the other, and was confined to a wheelchair.

Chronically nauseous from chemotherapy and radiation, weak from a suppressed appetite, and suffering excruciating pain, Seeley turned to marijuana cigarettes for relief.

Contrary to cultural stereotype, Seeley was far from “wasted.” While smoking the drug to reduce his pain, he finished law school — something he couldn’t have done while on far more powerful “mainstream” narcotics, which left him zonked out and vomiting uncontrollably in his hospital bed after chemo. Seeley had the backing of his orthopedic doctor and University of Washington School of Medicine oncologist Dr. Ernest Conrad. He took his plight to the Washington state supreme court, where he asserted a constitutionally protected liberty interest in having his doctor issue a medical pot prescription.

The court rejected Seeley’s case for physician-prescribed marijuana, arguing that the government’s interest in preserving an “interlocking trellis” of costly and ineffective War on Drug laws trumped his right to individual autonomy and physician treatment. After a decade-long battle with cancer, Seeley died in 1998. But his spirit persevered. Seeley bravely paved the way for medical marijuana laws in nearly two dozen states, including Washington’s Initiative 692, approved by voters 10 months after he died, and Colorado’s Amendment 20, passed by popular referendum in 2000.

Support for these ballot measures and similar efforts (like the newly enacted Charlee’s Law in Utah legalizing medical cannabis oil) transcends political lines. Why? Because cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and other chronic and terminal diseases have no partisan affiliations.

[surf]

she spoke at a libertarian dinner in Bellevue many years ago. you could tell she wasn't all-in by any stretch, but I was shocked by the abrupt neocon conversion she adopted when she left this area.

[William Tell]

Or put in concentration camps.

Alex Jones.

[Lucille]

Thanks, dannno. I just saw that mentioned by Claire Wolfe and was coming to post how I was mistaken.


Michelle Malkin writes about “My trip to the pot shop.”

Malkin has been such a neocon about so many things, but she’s been a reliable advocate for medical cannabis (http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2014/03/26/i-am-such-a-wuss-and-other-wednesday-ramblings/#more-16842). And for that she credits one man, now long dead.

[Sola_Fide]

lol, but who does she want to bomb?

We could use tax revenue from marijuana sales to fund new wars.

[Christian Liberty]

We could use tax revenue from marijuana sales to fund new wars.

This is probably her reasoning.

[angelatc]

she spoke at a libertarian dinner in Bellevue many years ago. you could tell she wasn't all-in by any stretch, but I was shocked by the abrupt neocon conversion she adopted when she left this area.

I think she turned on 9/11. She voted for Harry Browne back in the day.

[compromise]

She isn't a neocon any more, she opposed intervention in Libya and Syria and more recently the NSA surveillance. She has been coming over for a while now. These pundits know the way the wind is blowing.

[CCTelander]

Or put in concentration camps.

Or torture.

[angelatc]

She isn't a neocon any more, she opposed intervention in Libya and Syria and more recently the NSA surveillance. She has been coming over for a while now. These pundits know the way the wind is blowing.

Meh - as soon as the GOP is in office she'll be right back to her "we haz to fight terror!" spiel. I think that's the worst part about seeing the GOP take back the House and Senate again.

[NIU Students for Liberty]

She isn't a neocon any more, she opposed intervention in Libya and Syria and more recently the NSA surveillance. She has been coming over for a while now. These pundits know the way the wind is blowing.

Because Team Blue is in the Oval Office. If Romney had won, she'd want to bring back the guillotine for Snowden and strap his decapitated head to a nuclear bomb heading towards Iran.