PTK,
I don't have an issue with medical MJ as long as it is treated, controlled and prescribed just like oxycontin, morphine, etc. I do have plenty of issues with the medical MJ program here in California. 215 cards have become a joke. That guy in Montana was making the whole process a joke. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't he the dude with the medical MJ caravan where some of the patients only spent 6 or 7 minutes with a doctor? That sort of abuse of a prescription drug is my only beef with medical MJ.
For the rest of the people who want to call me or others like me a statist, anti freedom, etc. the invitation to come out for a tour of Mendocino County or Fort Bragg in particular is still open. During the last thread about medical MJ I threw that invitation out. The offer is still good. Then we can see and talk about pervasive crime, abuse and neglect that is being caused by the MJ culture here. That special on CNBC, Marijuana Nation or whatever it was called, struck me as pro pot propoganda. They should have let me loose with a camera for a couple of hours here or in Garberville to show some of the downsides to pot use.
Missed the part where I talked about my family vacation and our walk down the Venice Beach boardwalk, and its collection of "medical marijuana facilities"?
DESPITE those individuals and businesses which any rational person will clearly agree were taking advantage of CA laws regarding medical MJ in order to indulge stoners with no actual medical conditions, I still maintain that maintaining and expanding legal acceptance of medical marijuana for those who need it is the *BARE MINIMUM* we ought to be doing - and as a matter of principle, I personally believe that you have the moral right, and SHOULD have the legal right, to inhale/inject/injest whatever you so desire (and be held responsible for any actions abusive of others' rights while under the influence, or which were undertaken to GET under the influence). DESPITE those seeking to abuse current MM laws in places like MT and CA.
Note that medicines such as oxycontin, morphine, etc., despite their legal status, are currently abused by some.
So by that reasoning is it MY responsibility as a gun owner/user to go hunt down anyone who misuses a firearm
So the stoners should go vigilante on other stoners...?
That's what I'm getting from C&SD, as well, and Tuco to some extent. I really and truly don't get how they miss the parallel to our position as firearms owners and the victim-disarmament types' efforts to tar US with the acts of those criminals who are not in fact a part of the group "firearms owners".