These marijuana clubs typically buy marijuana and sell it to patients who have registered with them. For patients who would not know how else to obtain marijuana, the club is a welcome alternative to buying on the street. The Cato Institute hosted a policy forum on The Law and Politics of Medical Marijuana, featuring Alan Bock and Kevin Zeese. A video of the forum is available from the Cato Web site. Senior Fellow Doug Bandow writes in his commentary Punishing the Sick that groups ranging from the American Cancer Society to Kaiser Permanente support access to or research on medical marijuana.
Individual doctors agree.
A poll of the British Medical Association yielded similar results. Failed Economic Sanctions President Bush said yesterday he has no immediate plan to remove economic sanctions on Iran or Libya, although a White House task force has raised the possibility of lifting those restrictions as a way of increasing U.S. access to oil, according to The Washington Post . At the same time, I think it's important for the country to review all sanction policies to make sure they are effective. His remarks came after The Washington Post and Reuters reported that an energy task force headed by Vice President Cheney has been working on a draft report calling for the United States to review economic restrictions on Iran, Libya and Iraq. If Bush is looking for effectiveness in his policies, then economic sanctions should be the first to be scrapped.