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June 6, 2005
Jail the Sick

The Bush administration was handed a victory today by the Supreme Court in their effort to keep the country safe from sick people.

The Court ruled 6-3 that the federal government can prosecute people who use marijuana on doctor's orders, even if that use is protected by the laws of their state.

The Bush administration argued that it was in the country's best interest to lock up people who are suffering under the effects of chemotherapy or other painful, debilitating conditions. These people hate freedom, and their desire to have relief from their pain, using a substance not even invented by a giant pharmaceutical company, and one on which no one makes a significant profit, threatens our very way of life.

New York Times

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Previous Comments

What we cannot convert we control.

Holy strawman argument, Batman! Of course, didn’t archconservative Clarence Thomas vote with the minority?

Anonymous is apparently not familiar with sarcasm and hyperbole. Better get your ventromedial prefrontal cortex checked (http://slapnose.com/archives/2005/05/24/yeah_thats_really_interesting/).

The Supreme Court ruled here on a matter of law governing interstate commerce. Strictly speaking, they may have been correct. The effect of their ruling, however, and the intention of the administration in bringing the suit, was to limit sick people's freedom to seek relief from pain, demonstrating, once again, their rank hypocrisy and shameful lack of the most basic compassion.

Are you defending this principle? Do you really think these people should be prosecuted?

(Oh, and for those who may be interested in some context here, Anonymous is Fritz.)

Your comments are, at times, balky.

Holy appeal to ridicule, Batman!

I support drug legalization for recreational as well as medicinal purposes as a matter of public policy. However, I'm also against nullification.

Holy hackneyed 70s TV reference, Batman!

Hey, are you ridiculing my comment system? Appeal to ridicule of technological snafus! Foul! Foul!

How did I ridicule? By implying that you have a faulty prefrontal cortex? That wasn't ridicule, it was just a guess.

Snap!
Own3d.

wouldn't proper 1337 speak be "PWNT"?

pwnorzd

By the way, it's a hackneyed 60's TV reference.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059968/

Got me there.