Medical marijuana measure OK'd for Ark. ballot

Thank God! There may be hope for humanity yet...

Hope all the stoners remember what day to vote! Remember the song - "I Got Stoned and I Missed It"? "....and I messed around a bit, and took another hit...."

I can see a person with Alzheimers smoking weed. LOL. "Now where id I put them damned cheetos?" Sorry, just got a chuckle out of that.

One of the wife' ex in-laws used to get pills from some guy that got them from the VA; then she'd sell them. What's the difference as wp points out? You see the drug companies "pushing" on TV all the time; and a slew of side effects. The only side effect I ever had with weed was getting the munchies.

alchemist, what does it matter?? People are growing it illegally as it is. This will just make sure that the people who need it for medicinal purposes have access legally and they won't be branded a criminal...And what about all those people with precriptions for "sleep disorders" "migraines" "anxiety" and "back pain" who sell their prescriptions pills illegally?? Do you think that pot is any worse than that???? Please look at the big picture!

This is one that I will vote "For", people who need it should not have to risk growing their own and being punished, besides - I might even come down with something and need a little too.

Why is this Medicine only limited to certain diseases? People suffer with many different diseases and chronic pain everyday, I think they should have the right to have medical cannabis also. The Federal Gov. needs to Legalize Marijuana, it's been a Medicine for over 3000 years and it's a Herb!

I'm all for it, I think it should be legal for all purposes. Hemp in the eyes of our illustrious leaders is a drug, even though you can't get high from it. Farmers can use it as a rotation crop to prepare the soil for the next season of growth. It can be used as fiber for clothing and paper, used as fuel for our vehicles. Cannabis on the other hand has been proven to have medicinal uses why else would the US Government have a patent on cannabinoids which can only be found in the cannabis plant. As for people using it to get high, yes there will be some who will abuse it, but is that any reason to deny the responsible consumers or those who can benefit medicinally from it to have a safe access or the opportunity to raise what they consume?

Can't believe it made it! Figured someone would say the wording was wrong or whatever lame excuse they come up with when "The People" want to vote on something. Still, way too many ignorant people will vote against it; taken in by the propaganda the Feds have been putting out for years, such as "Reefer Madness". For those of you that consider yourselves Christians, read Genesis 1: 11,12. My wife and I are voting for it. Let's all get with the 21st Century; we've been last or next to last in so many things far too long.

Nope that person who has a car accident while high would not be let off because of his "medicine" just as I wouldn't be let off if I was messed up on my anti-anxiety meds. Medicine is a different factor although because it's legal to drive on prescription medication as long as you can function properly. And where you say what is to stop those who talked a doctor into giving them the medical pot from selling that pot to others.. well hell that's no different than what already happens with people selling their prescription medications. You can't control how the bad people behave with these types of things, but decent people shouldn't be punished and not allowed a medicine that could allow you to bear daily life with a terrible illness such as cancer or fibromyalgia. My mother has fibro (one of the main illnesses marijuana is supposed to help) and life for her is barely tolerable with her pain throughout her whole body.. and that's only when she's drunk as hell from taking all those stupid pain meds that don't really help anything other than make her drunk and sleep all the time. If medical marijuana could help my mother tolerate the pain each day, possibly be happy to wake up for once, and not be out of it like she normally is, I'd much rather her be high than too drunk off pain meds to do anything other than stay in the house each day and bawl her eyes out each day because she either has to try to deal with the unbearable pain, or take her hydro's and sleep all day. I'd much rather worry about her eating too much than have to worry about finding her dead one morning from respiratory failure from taking too many pain meds accidentally. There's so much to consider in cases like these because everyone will think something different.