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Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!)
#14234188 - 04/03/11 11:47 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110403/OPINION02/104030470/Fahey-Protect-our-children-from-marijuana-clinic?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinions|s
The Meridian Township board just rezoned a day care center across from Okemos' Chippewa Middle School for a medical marijuana clinic. The clinic's owner is the same doctor who operates medical marijuana clinics on East Michigan Avenue and North Grand River Avenue in Lansing, serving approximately 23,000 mid-Michigan patients. The township board thinks the location across the street from our seventh and eighth grade school is just the right place for this new major medical marijuana facility.
How did Michigan's medical marijuana law go this wrong so fast? In November 2008, millions of compassionate people, two-thirds of our state's voters, approved medical marijuana to aid the suffering of patients with chronic pain. When I voted for the law in 2008, I imagined that a few hundred sick and suffering patients would qualify to use medical marijuana.
Perhaps I was naïve, but I never dreamed my compassion would abet substance abuse, profiteering and serious crime. In less than two years under the new law, the state has received 111,451 medical marijuana applications.
A handful of doctors who write patients marijuana recommendations have collected more than $10 million for that service.
Marijuana growers and suppliers have earned many millions more. Medical marijuana facilities are blighting our urban and suburban landscape, with more local locations than Starbucks, and are powerful magnets for violent crime.
Regardless of where you stand on the medical marijuana debate, no marijuana facility belongs across the street from our middle school.
Marijuana is still an illegal drug under both state and federal law. It is still a gateway to the use of more dangerous drugs. It is still a major source of crime and violence. Marijuana doesn't need to be held on prominent display for our children.
The Federal Safe and Drug-Free Schools Act recognizes "drug-free school zones" within 1,000 feet of school property. The purpose of these zones is to provide children a place where they can study and play and be safe from drugs. The proposed Meridian medical marijuana clinic encroaches on that zone. Hundreds of children will have to walk right past this medical marijuana clinic every day, to and from school, and play in its dark shadow.
Parents and citizens of Meridian Township can do something about this medical marijuana clinic. We can circulate a petition in the township to allow all township voters to decide whether the clinic should be permitted across from the school.
We must collect 2,900 signatures by April 5 to preserve our right to vote.
Our vote can reject the medical marijuana clinic and protect our children from drug abuse and crime.
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: 5-HT2A]
#14234321 - 04/04/11 12:31 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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i wonder if they'd react this way if a pharmacy was across the street instead
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: bigmike7104] 1
#14234380 - 04/04/11 12:54 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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bigmike7104 said: i wonder if they'd react this way if a pharmacy was across the street instead
a pharmacy across the street would be a good thing. that way the parents don't have to drive far to get their kids on spirit crushing add meds
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: frisky_]
#14234429 - 04/04/11 01:06 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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lol good point
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iamnotadream
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: bigmike7104]
#14234519 - 04/04/11 01:40 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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This article is caked with bullshit, and the writer is so brainwashed it hurts just thinking that there are people like this out there.
However, building a clinic across a MIDDLE school is BEGGING for trouble. Everything that could ever go wrong with a marijuana dispensary will go wrong if it's built across that school. Medical marijuana is too damn controversial. It's a huge pill for the uneducated public to swallow. It's too much trouble right now. Not to mention the punkass kids that would conspire to break in the store or tackle a patient for his/her stash. So maybe, doc, building a ganja store across a school isn't such a good idea after all. Especially if there are strains like "grape ape" and "lemon haze" and "strawberry cough" and "blueberry". What the hell do parents think when you're selling marijuana that has those names across a fucking school?
Or, how about this: Drop the fucking "medical marijuana" laws and just make it legal. Make it available to responsible individuals and suffering patients alike. Sell them in stores behind a counter that requires an ID. Reserving pot just for people inches from death is crap.
Edited by iamnotadream (04/04/11 02:04 AM)
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: iamnotadream]
#14234934 - 04/04/11 06:27 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I agree. While it is legal to put it there, it's astonishingly stupid.
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#14235143 - 04/04/11 08:27 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nice article with no proof to back it up. Medical marijuana clinics are hot zones for violent crimes? Make it legal and you won't have this problem. When everyone is growing marijuana, there won't be crimes related to it. Every damn step of the way they give excuses: Gateway Effect: Well, everyone has proven that the gateway effect is because of it being illegal. Drive the supply underground and bam you have a criminal market that doesn't ask for your ID and will try to get you to try harder drugs that turn more of a profit. Crime: Criminal activity related to the sale of marijuana is fueled by prohibition. Growing marijuana won't be as profitable and wouldn't be underground if it were legal.
But I agree, building this in front of a school is a stupid idea and they probably planned it this way just to get public attention, but it's a bad message.
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: Darklight203]
#14235279 - 04/04/11 09:11 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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what is with all the ridiculous anti-drug propaganda i have been seeing on this site lately? It is infuriating that people are still this stupid.
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iamnotadream
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Re: Fahey: Protect our children from marijuana clinic (Bullshit Alert!) [Re: Bom_Tombadil]
#14235926 - 04/04/11 12:27 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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With all that's been going on with pot in the past few years, it really doesn't surprise me.
Society as a whole is starting to (slowly) accept marijuana as a benign substance much less harmful than alcohol or cigarettes. So naturally the prohibitionist aren't going to be quiet about this. Can't have good without bad
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