system: You are Harold Blackmon, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Norml message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Howard Conaway about "Re: Norml News 09/19/ 01/".

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HC>=> While poring over Re: Norml News 09/19/96   (3), James Prior said to L
HC> JP> One question about this allowing people to grow Mary-Jane for medical
HC> JP> purposes....seems to me that there is already a way for those medical
HC> JP> patients who really are prescribed the smoke to get it, legally.
HC> JP> old Uncle Sam grows the stuff for patients in Military and VA
HC> JP> hospitals.
HC> We could REALLY  use some more info on this program!  All the public
HC> knows about is the IND - Compassionate Use program, which is limited to
HC> eight (8) recipients.
HC> And if it is a prescription for pain and suffering, anyone
HC> JP> can get it....and no hassle once they proove that the prescription is
HC> JP> for them, and not stolen or copied from soneone elses.
HC> This is ALSO news to me - could you tell us more?  I'm aware that
HC> Marinol is available to those with certain dehibilitating illnesses, but,
HC> "smokable" marijuana?
HC> JP> Fact of the matter is, I am one who has been smoking the stuff for
HC> JP> years until about  a year ago.  It just didn't seem to help any after
HC> JP> awhile, and I gotta be honest, the stuff Uncle Sam grows is top
HC> JP> class a, grade A-1 pot!!.  Now I just stay high on pills....the pain
HC> JP> the head gets so heavy at times my nose, Right eye socket and ears
HC> JP> start to bleed.
HC> From what do you suffer?  How do you know about Uncle's pot?  He, and
HC> the State of Maryland, just put me up for the weekend, in downtown
HC> Baltimore's new Correctional Classification Center, for home
HC> cultivation, possession, & intent to distribute.  After finding my
HC> Tryptophane, they added possession and distribution of COCAINE to
HC> the list!  I told 'em what it was, but, they never listen.
HC> JP> Used to be able to chug a quart of Chevas Regal Scotch and go right
HC> JP> sleep, but with the drugs they got me on now, no drinking unless I
HC> JP> to have my heart freeze up like an overheated engin in the Indy 500.
HC> I can't drink either, know the feeling.
HC> JP> So, when it gets real bad, I get a shot of Sodium Pentathol .05cc
HC> JP> square in the place the sun don't shine and I am sound asleep afore
HC> JP> head hit the pillow....
HC> JP> Sure beat daylights outta smokin dope that take forever to
HC> JP> work....well, ok, 2 or 3 minutes.....
HC> Does it, really?
HC> JP> Now, my view on this thing for people being able to grow pot for
HC> JP> medical reasons, sheeeeesh, you know as well as I do that if they get
HC> JP> to growin that stuff, they not gonna just use it for their own use,
HC> JP> they gonna make a little cash on the side, and then it is no longer
HC> JP> medical purposes.
HC> Well... the State of OHIO just altered their criminal code, in 1995, and
HC> changed cultivation from a Class III felony to a misdemeanor, with $100.
HC> max fine, NO JAILTIME, and NO CRIMINAL RECORD!
HC> I know, I know ->  LET'S ALL MOVE TO OHIO!!
HC> But, to answer your point, if ANYBODY can grow it in their basement,
HC> without fear of retribution from the gov't., it wouldn't command so
HC> steep a price!  Are you aware that marijuana, the SECOND largest cash
HC> crop in the US - Largest in CALIFORNIA & HAWAII - is MORE VALUABLE
HC> THAN GOLD??
HC> JP> Now, If I were to pass on some of the grass Uncle Sam gives me, I
HC> JP> would be dispensing of a medical prescription without a
HC> JP> is federal felony....not a state slap on the wrist like they do now.
HC> Please, tell us about this program!  Baltimore is one of the more
HC> progressive cities in regards to drugs - we're talking about dispensing
HC> cocaine and heroin to our 60,000 addicts (out of a population of 637,000)
HC> and can use all the help we can get!!
HC> JP> Just wanted to let you have my views on the subject of legalizing pot
HC> JP> for people to grow for their own use........I mean, come on now, you
HC> JP> need a shot of codine for pain, they gonna let you grow your won
HC> JP> I think not.
HC> Codeine isn't coke - comes from poppies.
HC> JP> Take care, luck be yours and God bless you and yours til next we
HC> Don't be a stranger!
HC> Howard Conaway
HC> Baltimore Metro NORML

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Mr.Prior is right Howard,the gov't has BEEN growing MJ to study and
prescribe for years. I have a friend who is a VietNam vet,and while
being treated at a V.A. hospital,MJ smoking was allowed in restricted(or
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