Medical Marijuana

Medical Marijuana

Medical marijuana seems to have become a sanctuary for youngsters who want to get high. Prior to this year, the average age of medical marijuana users in Colorado was in the 40’s but nearly over-night the average age has dropped into the 20’s mostly as a result of an enormous number of new users er… patients. According to the following article 2,000 new registered users have been approved by doctors in the last month - just in Boulder Colorado. Another 6,000 or so are expected to be added to the roles by year end.

http://www.marijuana.com/drug-war-headline-news/126942-co-medical-marijuana-dispensaries-thrive-colo.html

While doctors are busy approving thousands of young, new patients, the Federal Government retains authority to raid the care-givers whenever the mood strikes them.

While these conflicting forces are at odds, the current Obama Administration seems dubious about the matter. In 2007 Senator Obama seemed sympathetic to legalizing the use of the drug when used as a pain killer and prescribed by a doctor

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/25/479649.aspx

but, this year at a town hall meeting, he pulled a political stunt and avoided answering the question as the end of this video reveals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etYrAZxCAKU&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Meanwhile the feds hover.

Regardless of where any particular individual stands on the topic, we cannot deny that the society is paying more attention to all aspects of legalizing the plant in one form or another: as a medicine, as an intoxicant and in hemp form for various products. This Google search of related blogs

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?client=news&um=1&hl=en&q=medical+marijuana

revealed so many interesting articles I ran out of time to read them.

All of this leads me to two questions for my readers:

1) In this time of high medical insurance, would you want your Health Insurance Company to pay for Medical Marijuana treatments of all these “registered” and approved users, and then pass the costs along to you, just as they do for treatments of alcoholics or cancer patients?

2) Would you support legalizing the drug if it was taxed heavily?

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