McCaffrey's response is, 'We've got to study more,' says Cutler. That's complete bullshit. I hope nobody in his family gets cancer and is retching his guts out. And activists are fond of pointing out that the public is already on their side. Surveys have shown that between 60 and 70 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Bills are also pending in New Hampshire and Minnesota.
There's going to be a gap between when the government catches up with the public on this one. But the government isn't in any particular rush on medical marijuana. That outrages activists. But it seems that every time the government loses a battle in the drug war, it simply changes its argument to justify its policy of full prohibition. Now that it can no longer argue that marijuana has no medical value, it argues that smoking the drug is dangerous.