All Posts Tagged With: "medical marijuana"
California Medical Pot Shops Booming
From the Washington Times: SEBASTOPOL, Calif. | The medical marijuana dispensary in this California wine country town is in a former auto dealership and has more registered patients than the town has residents. Los Angeles has more pot shops than Starbucks or schools.The surge in medical marijuana in California has left many communities scrambling to [...]
6Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedLegalize All Drugs
Reading the New York Post‘s popular Page Six gossip page recently, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: “ABC’S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. The crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs.” I had attended a Marijuana [...]
1Oct2008 | John Stossel | 7 comments | ContinuedFreedom, Drugs, and the Workplace
Imagine that you work for an employer whom you respect, and you like your job. Then you find out that your employer uses marijuana for a medical condition. On further inquiry, you learn that he uses it completely legally and, as far as you can tell, it doesn’t affect his performance as an employer. Should [...]
1Jul2008 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | ContinuedBenjamin Rush and "Medical Marijuana"
Last November the U.S. Supreme Court considered the appeal in Ashcroft v. Raich, regarding approval for so-called medical marijuana, that is, for marijuana by prescription. Hearing the case, Justice Stephen Breyer stated: “Medicine by regulation is better than medicine by referendum.” This is a Hobson’s choice: in either case, the individual is denied free access [...]
1Mar2005 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | ContinuedPlain Vanilla Liberty
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Her Web site is www.karenselick.com. Copyright 2000. The Ontario Court of Appeal made headlines, and rightly so, when it decided recently that epileptic Terry Parker has a constitutional right to use marijuana as medicine. While this was a big step forward [...]
1May2001 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedMedicine for the Sick
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The Drug War: seldom has so much harm been done to so many for so little purpose. Among the most tragic victims [...]
1Oct1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedShake-Down: How the Government Screws You From A to Z
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Item: A federal program routinely subsidizes welfare families living in oceanfront apartments in upscale La Jolla, California. Item: The Food and Drug Administration refuses to approve a machine that gives CPR to [...]
1Apr1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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