BREAKING NEWS — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept 28, 2010 The Glaucoma Foundation warns patients of dangers of using marijuana. In their newsletter released late on Sept 27, 2010, the Glaucoma Foundation warned patients with glaucoma not to use marijuana. They specifically criticized efforts by pro-marijuana forces to use incomplete evidence in their quest to make [...]
Editor’s note: This story is the third in a series explaining the 10 propositions that will appear on the Nov. 2 general-election ballot. PROPOSITION 203: Arizona Medical Marijuana Act Proposition 203 would legalize marijuana for medicinal use. Licensed physicians would be able to recommend medical marijuana to patients with debilitating medical conditions, which include cancer, [...]
Pro-marijuana groups are playing on fears about government, hinting that the FDA is captive to special interests and doesn’t care about regular people. But it’s not just the FDA that says marijuana isn’t medicine. The American Cancer Society, The American Glaucoma Society and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society all say there is little evidence of benefit [...]
I am not against the medical use of cannabis; I am against Proposition 203. It’s a back door route to legalization, which would do far more harm than good. Colorado is changing their law to put pot docs out of business, but Prop 203 will allow them here. And in Arizona, once a referendum is [...]
Prop 203 protects pot-smokers in ways we’d never tolerate for people who abused alcohol or prescription drugs. Prop 203 says marijuana cardholders can’t be prosecuted for DUI based solely on “the presence of metabolites or components of marijuana that appear in insufficient concentration to cause impairment.” An employer can’t discipline an employee or send him [...]
Prop 203 will increase crime, not decrease it as its supporters claim. Here’s why: Nearly all addictive drugs cause crime and violence, including alcohol, and almost all the crime in this country is drug- and alcohol-related. Most of this crime, approximately 60 percent, is simply because people who are drunk or high do stupid, violent [...]
Proposition 203 is basically dishonest. The ballot says it’s for “terminally or seriously ill patients,” but in other states that passed similar laws, anyone can get pot, and hardly any goes to the seriously ill. In Montana fewer than 3 percent of the medical marijuana patients have cancer, AIDS or glaucoma–the serious diseases the marijuana [...]
This week I’ve heard both Democratic and Republican candidates say that even if you’re in favor of medical marijuana, Proposition 203 is a really bad law. Briefly, here’s why, and the links document every fact: Prop 203 is written to protect pot-smokers, not the rest of us. It allows marijuana users to drive under the [...]
Legal Memorandum
The article on “medical pot” in the Sept. 22 Explorer failed to inform its readers of several key provisions of Prop 203. Although Prop 203 ...
From their website: Prop 203: Medical marijuana (No) This is the only citizen-backed initiative on the ballot. And while we’re not insensitive to the needs ...
