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.
Legalize it for all of Idaho For Medicinal use
Comment By Shane, 11-08-07dont legalize it just decriminalize it. so what if some one wants to grow and smoke it in the privacy of there own home. is catching a smaller buzz than alcohol really a crime?
Comment By Keith Richard Radford Jr, 11-08-07I am fortunate enough that now my [second wife] works or quite likely we wold be homeless now. Through her insurance i get Marinol which is necessary to my survival. I have a weird toxic build up from the medications I must take to stay alive. I have had these bouts as often as three times a month. It starts with a headache at my left temple which hurts all the time and to make a long story short I spend three days puking my guts out and after only a few hours of this there is nothing but a strange metallic tasting bial clear liquid coming out. I have been to many Doctors who tell me I am just fine. Anyway Three days laying with the toilet as a cool pillow while your head is pounding while on fire, and your whole body shakes like your a dog passing peach pits is a bad scene. So I thank God that my wife cares enough to help me with this pain.
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.
I thin it should be legalized because really it isn't hurting anyone
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
nah dont legalize it just decriminalize it.. theyll try and tax it like they do with cigs. unless of course they were selling for way less than we are already buying for.
Comment By dik, 11-23-07thats bull shit that they didnt pass the law in stores if they passed the law that you can smoke in your house then y the fuck wouldnt u just legalize it in stores because if theyre sayin that its just nothing to worry about with the cops then y cant they just legalize in stores when u can grow it!
Comment By D, 2-07-08fuck pot and the dumass people that smoke it and then act like fucking retards i bet all the black people was running to vote on it get a job welfare bums
Comment By Keith Richard Radford Jr, 2-08-08It is how they deal with the pain inflicted by difficult mindless hurtful people. People who feel they need to remove the right to the person and the right to live free giving themselves to other mens will because they think pot will make the go mad/have bad teeth/or just make them not like them are cowards. The need for use of the gifts given to use on this planet for good is not limited to regulatory officials. Look at the poppy. They want to burn the fields but JOE on the battle field or MOM on the delivery table use it to save lives.
Comment By gareth, 9-24-08I can only say that perhaps this is the best thing to do, I was against marijuana legalization but now I realized that this would reduce many legal and social problems.
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