Pa Medical Marijuana
By: Jody Gill
Updated: May 4, 2010
HARRISBURG - State Senator Daylin Leach D-Delaware/Montogomery) announced the introduction of legislation to permit medical marijuana in Pennsylvania.
The bill would allow Pennsylvania to join fourteen other states and the District of Columbia in offering doctor-supervised marijuana programs to residents with debilitating medical conditions. New Jersey passed their safe access law earlier this year.
"It's long past time we move beyond the misinformation and ancient wives' tales and allow people to have the medicine that will make them feel better,” Leach said. “Medical Marijuana has been proven repeatedly to help people who are desperately ill. It is nothing more than gratuitous cruelty to deny it to them."
Leach’s bill would allow physicians in Pennsylvania to prescribe medicinal marijuana to eligible patients. According to recent studies, marijuana has been proven to counter the side effects of chemotherapy, control pain and relieve symptoms of glaucoma and other chronic conditions. The bill will mirror H.B. 1393, The Compassionate Use Act, introduced by Rep. Mark Cohen this time last year. That bill is currently under deliberation by the House Health and Human Services Committee.
A poll conducted in 2009 by Quinnipiac University found that 59 percent of Pennsylvania residents support the legalization of medical marijuana for use by eligible patients.
The bill is currently circulating for co-sponsors.
Click Here to read the proposal, "H.B. 1393"
Comments
*#26 Yvette 2010-05-04 17:13
*I sat in Pocono Medical Center for 6
*hours watching my best friend bawl her
*eyes out wondering what she did wrong.
*Her 15 year old son and 14 year old
*nephew were in the ER for overdosing.
*They had smoked weed and then stole
*pills from the nephew's mother.
Sounds like she wasn't doing a very good job as a mother. And if cannabis were legal and regulated, it wouldn't have been as easy for them to get; it's a well-known fact that drug dealers don't card, and kids can get pot easier than cigarettes or booze. Why? Because tobacco and booze are regulated.
*I sat in Pocono Medical Center for 6
*hours watching my best friend bawl her
*eyes out wondering what she did wrong.
*Her 15 year old son and 14 year old
*nephew were in the ER for overdosing.
*They had smoked weed and then stole
*pills from the nephew's mother.
Sounds like she wasn't doing a very good job as a mother. And if cannabis were legal and regulated, it wouldn't have been as easy for them to get; it's a well-known fact that drug dealers don't card, and kids can get pot easier than cigarettes or booze. Why? Because tobacco and booze are regulated.
Phil D.
May 5, 2010 at 2:48 am
*They HAD weed--they didn't stop with it.
*You people see what you want to see and
*nothing more. The obvious is called the
*obvious because that's what it is:
*obvious.
This statement makes absolutely no sense. I have tons of facts from years of research that you just refuse to listen to because some dumb mother didn't raise her kids properly, so you blame an inanimate substance instead of the faulty party: the mother.
*It is IMPOSSIBLE to legalize marijuana
*without sending the message that it's
*okay and acceptable to get stoned.
Is it ok to get drunk? Because booze is legal, 1000s die every year from drunk drivers.
*You people see what you want to see and
*nothing more. The obvious is called the
*obvious because that's what it is:
*obvious.
This statement makes absolutely no sense. I have tons of facts from years of research that you just refuse to listen to because some dumb mother didn't raise her kids properly, so you blame an inanimate substance instead of the faulty party: the mother.
*It is IMPOSSIBLE to legalize marijuana
*without sending the message that it's
*okay and acceptable to get stoned.
Is it ok to get drunk? Because booze is legal, 1000s die every year from drunk drivers.
Phil D.
May 5, 2010 at 2:47 am
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Phil D.
May 5, 2010 at 2:40 am
If you support cannabis (and all) drug prohibitions, you also support the murder of over 22,000 Mexicans who have been murdered in just the last 2 years as a direct result of American drug laws.
We needed a Constitutional amendment to outlaw alcohol, and then another to repeal it. Yet we never had any for cannabis or any other illegal substance. Why? Because Congress added a prohibitive tax on cannabis; if you were caught with cannabis and didn't have the required 'tax stamp' which was required (but Uncle Sam never sold a single one; they never even made any available) you were arrested... for tax evasion.
The 'war on (some) drugs' was racist from the very start, and William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper tycoon, ran horrendous lies in his newspapers about how smoking it would turn you into an insane murderer. (He later changed his tune and claimed that it would make you so passive you'd refuse to defend your country against an invasion.)
We needed a Constitutional amendment to outlaw alcohol, and then another to repeal it. Yet we never had any for cannabis or any other illegal substance. Why? Because Congress added a prohibitive tax on cannabis; if you were caught with cannabis and didn't have the required 'tax stamp' which was required (but Uncle Sam never sold a single one; they never even made any available) you were arrested... for tax evasion.
The 'war on (some) drugs' was racist from the very start, and William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper tycoon, ran horrendous lies in his newspapers about how smoking it would turn you into an insane murderer. (He later changed his tune and claimed that it would make you so passive you'd refuse to defend your country against an invasion.)
Phil D.
May 5, 2010 at 2:23 am
If you support cannabis prohibition, you have been systematically brainwashed by Uncle Sam. Plain and simple. Naturally occurring drugs were outlawed around the turn of the 20th century to replace outlawed slave labor (1865) with prison labor. In fact, alcohol is the most dangerous drug known to man, because no other drug, legal or not, turns its user into a fat, stumbling, drunken, belligerent moron but alcohol.
Cannabis is 100x safer than alcohol. Harry Anslinger, the 'father of the drug war' used the Mexican Spanish term for it, because if he'd called it by it's English name, cannabis, Congress never would have been duped into outlawing a plant which George Washington himself extolled: "Make the most of indian hemp seed and grow it everywhere!"
Cannabis is 100x safer than alcohol. Harry Anslinger, the 'father of the drug war' used the Mexican Spanish term for it, because if he'd called it by it's English name, cannabis, Congress never would have been duped into outlawing a plant which George Washington himself extolled: "Make the most of indian hemp seed and grow it everywhere!"
Phil D.
May 5, 2010 at 2:22 am
So educate yourself: read tinyurl.com/1mn tinyurl.com/potconviction tinyurl.com/waronminorities and tinyurl.com/gov74
I researched the history of the 'war on (some) drugs' after I very nearly got myself killed with alcohol, w/6 month coma.
I researched the history of the 'war on (some) drugs' after I very nearly got myself killed with alcohol, w/6 month coma.
Phil D.
May 5, 2010 at 2:20 am
All im saying is their should be freedom of choice in america. We should be able to choose whats best for us and our families. And our neighbors should mind their own. People in america are always tryin to keep up with the "Jones's". If someone wants to put a chemical in thier own body who am I to say no. "FREEDOM"
Bob B.
May 4, 2010 at 10:17 pm
[quote name="Yvette"][quote name="Hillary"]ROFL. lol at you Yvette[/quote]
Aren't you supposed to be doing two guys at once and then letting them film it and download it to youtube?
You're dumb enough to let men define your worth and who you are, but you're laughing at me? Work. Sleep. Eat. Watch TV. Get drunk. Get high. Go to bed and start it all over again tomorrow. Whose life is empty? Why are you here? Your parents had you just so you could get high?
My grandparents were married for 65 years. You'll never have that. That's a pipe dream now, and YOU people are the ones who changed all that. Life is pointless.[/quote]
I dont know who your talkin about. I've been with my husband 7 years and he took my virginity. With a name like Yvette its prolly you doin all those things you just listed!
Aren't you supposed to be doing two guys at once and then letting them film it and download it to youtube?
You're dumb enough to let men define your worth and who you are, but you're laughing at me? Work. Sleep. Eat. Watch TV. Get drunk. Get high. Go to bed and start it all over again tomorrow. Whose life is empty? Why are you here? Your parents had you just so you could get high?
My grandparents were married for 65 years. You'll never have that. That's a pipe dream now, and YOU people are the ones who changed all that. Life is pointless.[/quote]
I dont know who your talkin about. I've been with my husband 7 years and he took my virginity. With a name like Yvette its prolly you doin all those things you just listed!
Hillary H.
May 4, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Yvette is reduced to nothing but ad hominem attacks because her arguments carry no water. Of course I don't expect much more from somebody who has decided to place their faith with a god created by a murdering pedophile like Muhammed.
If life is so pointless, please do us all a favor......
If life is so pointless, please do us all a favor......
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 9:50 pm
[quote name="Hillary"]ROFL. lol at you Yvette[/quote]
Aren't you supposed to be doing two guys at once and then letting them film it and download it to youtube?
You're dumb enough to let men define your worth and who you are, but you're laughing at me? Work. Sleep. Eat. Watch TV. Get drunk. Get high. Go to bed and start it all over again tomorrow. Whose life is empty? Why are you here? Your parents had you just so you could get high?
My grandparents were married for 65 years. You'll never have that. That's a pipe dream now, and YOU people are the ones who changed all that. Life is pointless.
Aren't you supposed to be doing two guys at once and then letting them film it and download it to youtube?
You're dumb enough to let men define your worth and who you are, but you're laughing at me? Work. Sleep. Eat. Watch TV. Get drunk. Get high. Go to bed and start it all over again tomorrow. Whose life is empty? Why are you here? Your parents had you just so you could get high?
My grandparents were married for 65 years. You'll never have that. That's a pipe dream now, and YOU people are the ones who changed all that. Life is pointless.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:42 pm
[quote name="Hillary"]ROFL. lol at you Yvette[/quote]
Thats what im sayin.
Thats what im sayin.
Bob B.
May 4, 2010 at 9:41 pm
ROFL. lol at you Yvette
Hillary H.
May 4, 2010 at 9:37 pm
[quote name="Bob"]It must really suck to be one of the sheep jus following the shepard. Dont you have a mind of your own. You jus assume alcohol is ok cause its legal, but weed is the devil cause its illegal. Marijuana's main use is for appitite. Ina couple years when your dieing of cancer and cant even look at food with out puking jus smoke a joint and youll eat eberything in sight. Vicodin and percocet aint gonna do that. Yvette[/quote]
Old wives tales my eye--see? Smoking pot does kill brain cells. Illiterate. In other words, american.
Old wives tales my eye--see? Smoking pot does kill brain cells. Illiterate. In other words, american.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Sure it's okay to get stoned. Every time some worthless student out here dies from drinking or gets killed trying to drive their car high, I order pizza. That's cause for celebration.
Considering my very limited resources and inability to escape this 'moral toilet bowl,' I have my own plans to escape--it's called an exit bag. I bought the wrong tank though. Anyone into paintball need a nitrogen tank? I have a couple of helium tanks that will do the trick. I can't stand this land of zombies, whores, and addicts any more.
Considering my very limited resources and inability to escape this 'moral toilet bowl,' I have my own plans to escape--it's called an exit bag. I bought the wrong tank though. Anyone into paintball need a nitrogen tank? I have a couple of helium tanks that will do the trick. I can't stand this land of zombies, whores, and addicts any more.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:24 pm
It must really suck to be one of the sheep jus following the shepard. Dont you have a mind of your own. You jus assume alcohol is ok cause its legal, but weed is the devil cause its illegal. Marijuana's main use is for appitite. Ina couple years when your dieing of cancer and cant even look at food with out puking jus smoke a joint and youll eat eberything in sight. Vicodin and percocet aint gonna do that. Yvette
Bob B.
May 4, 2010 at 9:23 pm
I just have to quote someone else commenting the nyc bomber:
This country is a moral toilet bowl.
The muslims are waging a war against immorality and greed. God love them all.
This country is a moral toilet bowl.
The muslims are waging a war against immorality and greed. God love them all.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:21 pm
It is ok and acceptable to get stoned. Its ok to get drunk why not stoned?
Bob B.
May 4, 2010 at 9:14 pm
I sat in Pocono Medical Center for 6 hours watching my best friend bawl her eyes out wondering what she did wrong. Her 15 year old son and 14 year old nephew were in the ER for overdosing. They had smoked weed and then stole pills from the nephew's mother.
They HAD weed--they didn't stop with it. You people see what you want to see and nothing more. The obvious is called the obvious because that's what it is: obvious.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to legalize marijuana without sending the message that it's okay and acceptable to get stoned.
They HAD weed--they didn't stop with it. You people see what you want to see and nothing more. The obvious is called the obvious because that's what it is: obvious.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to legalize marijuana without sending the message that it's okay and acceptable to get stoned.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:13 pm
[quote name="albert"]No thanks Yvette. I've read enough Christian, Muslim and other scripture to know I don't need any invisible magic man in the sky to guide my ways. But hey, if you need that particular crutch, go for it. Just know that when your practice begins to get in the way of my rights to do as I please, you'll have a fight on your hands.[/quote]
It's not your right to do as you please. Common american trash misconception. Btw, it's not anyone's right to smoke drugs in front of me, in front of my kids, or in front of anyone's kids. You're not alone on this planet, moron.
W Durant "can think of no moral code that survived the death of its gods, and no society that survived the death of its moral code."
That means humans seem to need a fear of hell's fires to act decently.
It's not your right to do as you please. Common american trash misconception. Btw, it's not anyone's right to smoke drugs in front of me, in front of my kids, or in front of anyone's kids. You're not alone on this planet, moron.
W Durant "can think of no moral code that survived the death of its gods, and no society that survived the death of its moral code."
That means humans seem to need a fear of hell's fires to act decently.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Its about time pennsylvania gets with the times. The whole "gate way drug theory" has been disproven many times. Pennsylvanians are still livin in the past clinging to their guns and religion. lol at you!
Bob B.
May 4, 2010 at 9:10 pm
No thanks Yvette. I've read enough Christian, Muslim and other scripture to know I don't need any invisible magic man in the sky to guide my ways. But hey, if you need that particular crutch, go for it. Just know that when your practice begins to get in the way of my rights to do as I please, you'll have a fight on your hands.
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Keep going with this filth and druggie garbage in this country. You rouse support for the muslims. Be surprised as even more Jihad Joes and Jihad Janes come cropping up faster than your pot plants.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:05 pm
[quote name="albert"]Whatever Yvette. Now face Mecca, bow and chant Allah Akbar![/quote]
Oh. You want scripture. Ok. I'll quote Al-A'raf: The Elevated Places, verses 1:8-9
"And the judging on that day will be just; so as for those whose good deeds are heavy, they are the successful. And as for those whose good deeds are light, those are they who ruined their souls because they disbelieved."
I don't have enough money to escape this garbage pit of whores, drunks, and druggies, but I did have enough to buy a Qu'ran at Barnes and Noble. Would you like to hear more? That verse covers morality.
Oh. You want scripture. Ok. I'll quote Al-A'raf: The Elevated Places, verses 1:8-9
"And the judging on that day will be just; so as for those whose good deeds are heavy, they are the successful. And as for those whose good deeds are light, those are they who ruined their souls because they disbelieved."
I don't have enough money to escape this garbage pit of whores, drunks, and druggies, but I did have enough to buy a Qu'ran at Barnes and Noble. Would you like to hear more? That verse covers morality.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Whatever Yvette. Now face Mecca, bow and chant Allah Akbar!
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:59 pm
[quote name="albert"]So, you allow your kid to hang with pot smoking losers and threaten people with violence? Yeah, your a FINE example of excellent parenting![/quote]
I guess I'd have to since we live in this country and that's all americans do.
I guess I'd have to since we live in this country and that's all americans do.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:58 pm
[quote name="albert"]Oh, and poor white trash besides! LMAO! Get a job and stop posting, you only display your ignorance.[/quote]
Who's making assumptions? I have a job.
Be a typical american. Get drunk. Screw around. Get high. Get on your computer and download child [censored].
Been nice playing with you.
Paying attention out there, people? These are the kind of people watching, waiting, and hoping you decide to let them get high and they don't have to go to jail. THIS bill comes first. Then the one that's in CA right now--everybody gets stoned. This country is worthless. I don't blindly salute a flag. I support the side fighting for the noble cause. That's not us.
Who's making assumptions? I have a job.
Be a typical american. Get drunk. Screw around. Get high. Get on your computer and download child [censored].
Been nice playing with you.
Paying attention out there, people? These are the kind of people watching, waiting, and hoping you decide to let them get high and they don't have to go to jail. THIS bill comes first. Then the one that's in CA right now--everybody gets stoned. This country is worthless. I don't blindly salute a flag. I support the side fighting for the noble cause. That's not us.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:57 pm
So, you allow your kid to hang with pot smoking losers and threaten people with violence? Yeah, your a FINE example of excellent parenting!
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Oh, and poor white trash besides! LMAO! Get a job and stop posting, you only display your ignorance.
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:54 pm
[quote name="albert"]You ARE sanctimoniuos. I'll bet your kids laugh behind your back at a what a backward hick you are.[/quote]
Proof I'm arguing with a spoiled child who just wants to get stoned. Typical arrogant american. I'm no hick--I'm Italian, and my son doesn't drink, smoke, or use any drugs. I know that from my friend's son who said my son threatened to beat the crap out of him if her son ever smoked pot around him again. There are no good people in this country. It's a cancer. That's why the rest of the world hates us. Arrogance, immorality, filth. We're a cancer.
Proof I'm arguing with a spoiled child who just wants to get stoned. Typical arrogant american. I'm no hick--I'm Italian, and my son doesn't drink, smoke, or use any drugs. I know that from my friend's son who said my son threatened to beat the crap out of him if her son ever smoked pot around him again. There are no good people in this country. It's a cancer. That's why the rest of the world hates us. Arrogance, immorality, filth. We're a cancer.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Cool, I hope they start with your house if they do.
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:53 pm
You drink and use drugs yourself or you'd never defend legalizing them. I don't swallow lies.
And everyone who desperately wants to leave this garbage country doesn't have the money to do so. I support the muslims and their side in this war. They're in a war against immorality and greed. This is a garbage country with a garbage culture. I hope they turn us into a parking lot, the infestation that we are.
And everyone who desperately wants to leave this garbage country doesn't have the money to do so. I support the muslims and their side in this war. They're in a war against immorality and greed. This is a garbage country with a garbage culture. I hope they turn us into a parking lot, the infestation that we are.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:51 pm
You ARE sanctimoniuos. I'll bet your kids laugh behind your back at a what a backward hick you are.
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:50 pm
If it's such a garbage country, you are FREE to leave you know. Don't let the door hit you where ya sit on the way out. Have fun in those Muslim nations you seem to admire so much.
And again, you make assumptions about whether I drink, smoke, snort or whatever. I merely disagree with the laws and am not blind to the damage the laws do as opposed to the drugs themselves.
And again, you make assumptions about whether I drink, smoke, snort or whatever. I merely disagree with the laws and am not blind to the damage the laws do as opposed to the drugs themselves.
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Passing judgement on indecency is a very decent thing to do. It upholds standards of decency in society. Decent people don't raise bad kids who grow up to be bad adults. Just bad parents who end up with bad kids and then claim to be decent and just don't know what happened. Right.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I know who your parents are by the kind of person you came to be.
Your parents failed you. They failed you bad.
Your parents failed you. They failed you bad.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:46 pm
This is a garbage country. No wonder the muslims are gaining support--they're in war against immorality and greed--two words that define american inside and out.
What is the deal with getting high or drunk? Is your life that empty, pointless, and worthless?
What's the difference between men getting drunk in a bar and a bunch of people doing lines of coke in front of your kids? Don't see a difference there either, do you? There's a difference.
What is the deal with getting high or drunk? Is your life that empty, pointless, and worthless?
What's the difference between men getting drunk in a bar and a bunch of people doing lines of coke in front of your kids? Don't see a difference there either, do you? There's a difference.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Very nice, attack my parents who you don't even know. GFor that matter, you don't know whether I smoke pot or not, just that I disagree with the laws. Rather indecent of you
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Tell me, what IS the difference - other than one is legal and the other illegal simply because some legislative bodies decided to make it so? At one time, marijuana was legal and alcohol illegal. What IS the difference?
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Morality and decency are NOT sanctimonious.
Your parents failed you bad.
Your parents failed you bad.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:40 pm
I can see the difference between drinking and getting stoned, so I'm sanctimonious? This is NOT a legitimate drug. It's been proven over and over and over with all these 'patients' turning dealer all over the place. Once you send the message it's okay to get high, that legitimizes ALL drugs. Cocaine, heroine, acid, crack. What don't you get? Another message CA is sending kids: Drugs are wrong--unless it makes money for the government.
Your parents failed you.
Your parents failed you.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Yvette: Perhaps we should make alcohol illegal as well to keep it from children or to not send the message that alcohol assumption is OK? That worked real well the last time it was tried, right?
ALL drugs can have negative side effects, so why not have one more to chose from when treating symptoms? Vicodin, morphine and percocet may be effective painkillers, but they are NOT without their own problems. Stop being so sanctimonious.
ALL drugs can have negative side effects, so why not have one more to chose from when treating symptoms? Vicodin, morphine and percocet may be effective painkillers, but they are NOT without their own problems. Stop being so sanctimonious.
albert a.
May 4, 2010 at 8:31 pm
CA is about to legalize it for everyone. It is impossible to legalize marijuana without sending the message to kids that it's okay to get high. It's smoked for no other reason.
The market is already flooded--FLOODED--with reputable, effective painkillers. We don't need this. This is a corrosive, cancerous movement and as expected, it's traveled here. I busted my butt to raise a decent sober child. All that's going to be undone.
The market is already flooded--FLOODED--with reputable, effective painkillers. We don't need this. This is a corrosive, cancerous movement and as expected, it's traveled here. I busted my butt to raise a decent sober child. All that's going to be undone.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:20 pm
This is how it started in CA and numerous other states, and these so-called glaucoma and other patients whining for the right to get stoned turned dealer in droves.
This is a bastard drug with no reputable medicinal use. Vicodin isn't enough? Percocet? Morphine? What could these people possibly have that morphine and vicodin aren't effective but this plant that supposedly mild and harmless is effective. It's bs.
Once you send the message getting high is okay, what your kids decide to get high on--is WIDE open.
This is a bastard drug with no reputable medicinal use. Vicodin isn't enough? Percocet? Morphine? What could these people possibly have that morphine and vicodin aren't effective but this plant that supposedly mild and harmless is effective. It's bs.
Once you send the message getting high is okay, what your kids decide to get high on--is WIDE open.
Yvette Y.
May 4, 2010 at 8:18 pm
