High Fiving in Idaho
Hailey Votes to Legalize Medical Marijuana
By J. Gelband, 11-07-07
Hailey residents voted on Tuesday to legalize medical marijuana.
Voters had four marijuana-related initiatives on the ballot, three of which passed, including the initiative to allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana to sick and dying patients without fear of arrest or prosecution. Votes were in favor of the measure 687 to 581.
Voters also passed the Hailey hemp initiative, 683 to 565, which allows the city to support the use and cultivation of industrial hemp by farmers.
And they also decided, 637 to 601, that the use of marijuana by adults in the privacy of their homes should be the lowest law enforcement priority of the Hailey Police.
However, voters rejected the Hailey marijuana initiative, which would tax and regulate marijuana, should it be legalized, like alcohol and tobacco are taxed in the City of Hailey. That measure failed 674 to 573.
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What I really want to talk about is how people are so locked out from anything that can help them by government intervention. Through her insurance my Marinol is a $40. dollar Co~Pay. I live in California and I get my prescription filled at Walgreen's. I look at the poor Vet in this country who finds a peaceful place after so much pain by the use of cannabinoids. This is elementary in the healing process. They have to pay for smoke through what ever dispense that has not been closed by government intervention.
This is the rub. Here we have cops making a living chasing pot smokers dispensaries and there patrons who with the prescription to have medical marijuana (THC) are being squeezed if they are Vets or to poor to afford insurance on there own. How can this be?
Everyone old enough to remember the 60's remember when republicans who have a tendency for knee JERK reactions, without any studies or reasonable discussion demonizing Pot. Their fight against reason and regulation of the demon weed felt booze is enough. Medicating on booze is completely out of the question in my case due to my condition, but everyone knows booze is not a viable way to do this, but that is what our Vet's are forced into by means of governmental interventions.
Please do not get my I am not a bash~er of the Federal Gov. because Fed=every single one of us Americans. I will never be a bash~er of anyone but defending myself and others who are destroyed by laws that discriminate unjustly will always be high on my list, since my first wife asked me to have a circumcision and dumped me through governmental interventions.
and if they decriminalize it because thats one step closer to it being legal so why waste presish time when we could be smoking joints and not be worried about getting busted by the police
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