New York judge admits to medical marijuana use and endorses legalization
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Without Prejudice
Without Prejudice
I'm just trying to pass along useful news for the IC group.
Lets be respectful in our comments so we can keep this thread going. So far theres been many good comments. Thanks guys.
You guys should look up hegels dialectic problem, reaction, solution,
Link:What is the Hegelian Dialect (Brief Summary)
[URL="]http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm[/URL]
TPTB would like us to fight amongst ourselves thus dividing the movement even further off course. I would try and unite everyone by focusing on the plant itself in this situation.
All arguments aside we will continue to grow the cannabis plant and be a success at growing this plant. Its that simple!
Without Prejudice
I'm just trying to pass along useful news for the IC group.
Lets be respectful in our comments so we can keep this thread going. So far theres been many good comments. Thanks guys.
You guys should look up hegels dialectic problem, reaction, solution,
Link:What is the Hegelian Dialect (Brief Summary)
[URL="]http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm[/URL]
TPTB would like us to fight amongst ourselves thus dividing the movement even further off course. I would try and unite everyone by focusing on the plant itself in this situation.
All arguments aside we will continue to grow the cannabis plant and be a success at growing this plant. Its that simple!
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BjornFrieze
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Wow. I'd vote for binning this thread. Everybody needs a puff and a time out to cool off.
Well I will agree I need a puff right now as it's already past 4:20 and I haven't had any yet today.
jesus christ chumlee whats the problem?
this guy has cancer and has tried marijuana and found it helps with his symptoms and now he wants to help change the fucked up laws.
he is in power and has a louder voice than the rest of us. what is the problem?
you think he was just sitting around smoking weed his whole life and throwing people in jail and now that he has cancer he is trying to milk it for all it's worth by claiming he supports legalization...for what? a bid for president of heaven?
take a chill pill or two and calm waaaaay the fuck down. people change. even former KKK members can realize the error of their ways and reform.
this guy has cancer and has tried marijuana and found it helps with his symptoms and now he wants to help change the fucked up laws.
he is in power and has a louder voice than the rest of us. what is the problem?
you think he was just sitting around smoking weed his whole life and throwing people in jail and now that he has cancer he is trying to milk it for all it's worth by claiming he supports legalization...for what? a bid for president of heaven?
take a chill pill or two and calm waaaaay the fuck down. people change. even former KKK members can realize the error of their ways and reform.
This discussion is only counter-productive. If acceptance and legalization is to happen, as I'm sure everyone here wants, we all must just stop the stupid finger pointing and blame games. There are plenty of bitter pills to be swallowed. The wrongness and stupidity of individual actions don't need to be pointed out anymore at this point. What's the upside to that? It just seems to detract anymore and seems to me that positive change will occur faster by blasting positivity, not dwelling on the past. There will be plenty of time to pick up the pieces and right individual wrongs after the war is over. Pointing out one misstep is silly.
a judge, uh, judges the law. it's the law that's wrong, not the judge. props to him for speaking out that the law is wrong, eh? just some more anecdotal evidence. eventually it moves the curve.
donny darko
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The judges might not wright the laws and may not make arrests but they sure as hell have a lot of sway where the general public does not and who if where obeyed the politicians would follow the majority of Americans wishes and would do away with prohibition, but they don't listen and ignore because of the money involved in making arrest and seizing income produced on a inflated illegal market and putting people in the system where they all make money. the judges, the gov, the cops, the lawyers. Because of these people and their lobbyist and associations putting pressure and money into keep the current system going. So yes this man and his cohorts other judges(lawyers) the lawyers ( defense and prostitution and both there associations) and cop associations do write the laws. So fuck this man and the rest of them. he did not have the balls to stand up before it affected him in a negative way. But i do agree that it is good for our cause and awareness especially in this time of back push in most medical states by the above hate groups and associations in these states and the feds
For all of you that fight our good fight every day. day in and out and are really subject to real arrest I applaud you !!!!
If this guy had balls he would have spoke up years ago. hell any time back near 1980 when NY put in place a medical law but off course these associations and the politicians keep it form being enacted and and putting the person in charge of rewiring applications.
johnnybravo
Member
i'm with chum!
and if obama comes out tomorrow for the legalization of weed you all will say fuck obama and he is doing too little too late and not get behind supporting legalization then i take it?
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puffinpass
lol, damn dude, u seriously need to get over urself. what is the point in thinking so negatively. u really need to blaze and reread this thread. u really sound like u had a bad day or something bro. ANY JUDGE PROMOTING LEGALIZATION OF ANY SORT IS A GOOD THING!
LittleAmsterdam
Member
There's also a retired Judge from Southern California; Honorable Jim Gray that has been very public about why our Drug Laws have failed.
A video with some quotes from the judge about how he uses
Cannabis.
You Tube Video:http://youtu.be/je5UU7J46q8
Cannabis.
You Tube Video:http://youtu.be/je5UU7J46q8
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swisscheese
It's a good thing to hear.
I looked up Judge Gray he has a website.
Judge Jim Gray Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed
He wrote a book. Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It. Link:http://www.judgejimgray.com/
Pro-Medical Marijuana Brooklyn Judge Dies From Cancer
Pro-Medical Marijuana Brooklyn Judge Dies From Cancer
http://gothamist.com/2012/07/15/pro-medical_marijuana_brooklyn_judg.php
Two months ago, Brooklyn judge Gustin Reichbach wrote an op-ed for the NY Times, expressing his support for medical marijuana and detailing his three-and-a-half year struggle with stage 3 pancreatic cancer, "My survival has demanded an enormous price, including months of chemotherapy, radiation hell and brutal surgery... Inhaled marijuana is the only medicine that gives me some relief from nausea, stimulates my appetite, and makes it easier to fall asleep." Yesterday, Reichbach passed away in his Brooklyn home.
The Daily News calls Reichbach "a colorful, courageous and controversial presence on the bench for 21 years." Barry Sheck, head of the Innocence Project (and O.J. Simpson defense team lawyer), was at his deathbed and said, "I’ll remember the creativity and insight that he had. He was a remarkable guy."
Reichbach attended SUNY Buffalo and then Columbia Law School (George Pataki was in his class; Bruce Ratner was his roommate). The News reports, "Reichbach became an antiwar advocate and member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society — a move that led the state bar’s Committee on Character and Fitness to delay his admission, Scheck recalled. Among Reichbach’s many clients during two decades as an attorney was infamous radical Abbie Hoffman... Reichbach made headlines early in his career [as a judge] by handing out condoms to hookers in an effort to stop transmission of the AIDS virus."
In his Times op-ed, Reichbach calls medical marijuana "not a law-and-order issue; it is a medical and a human rights issue."
Being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I am receiving the absolute gold standard of medical care. But doctors cannot be expected to do what the law prohibits, even when they know it is in the best interests of their patients. When palliative care is understood as a fundamental human and medical right, marijuana for medical use should be beyond controversy...
Given my position as a sitting judge still hearing cases, well-meaning friends question the wisdom of my coming out on this issue. But I recognize that fellow cancer sufferers may be unable, for a host of reasons, to give voice to our plight. It is another heartbreaking aporia in the world of cancer that the one drug that gives relief without deleterious side effects remains classified as a narcotic with no medicinal value.
Because criminalizing an effective medical technique affects the fair administration of justice, I feel obliged to speak out as both a judge and a cancer patient suffering with a fatal disease. I implore the governor and the Legislature of New York, always considered a leader among states, to join the forward and humane thinking of 16 other states and pass the medical marijuana bill this year. Medical science has not yet found a cure, but it is barbaric to deny us access to one substance that has proved to ameliorate our suffering.
Reichbach, whose daughter died last year, had hoped Albany would pass a medical marijuana bill but politicians couldn't get it together. Reichbach was never disciplined by the judicial conduct commission for admitting he was using marijuana.
Pro-Medical Marijuana Brooklyn Judge Dies From Cancer
http://gothamist.com/2012/07/15/pro-medical_marijuana_brooklyn_judg.php
Two months ago, Brooklyn judge Gustin Reichbach wrote an op-ed for the NY Times, expressing his support for medical marijuana and detailing his three-and-a-half year struggle with stage 3 pancreatic cancer, "My survival has demanded an enormous price, including months of chemotherapy, radiation hell and brutal surgery... Inhaled marijuana is the only medicine that gives me some relief from nausea, stimulates my appetite, and makes it easier to fall asleep." Yesterday, Reichbach passed away in his Brooklyn home.
The Daily News calls Reichbach "a colorful, courageous and controversial presence on the bench for 21 years." Barry Sheck, head of the Innocence Project (and O.J. Simpson defense team lawyer), was at his deathbed and said, "I’ll remember the creativity and insight that he had. He was a remarkable guy."
Reichbach attended SUNY Buffalo and then Columbia Law School (George Pataki was in his class; Bruce Ratner was his roommate). The News reports, "Reichbach became an antiwar advocate and member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society — a move that led the state bar’s Committee on Character and Fitness to delay his admission, Scheck recalled. Among Reichbach’s many clients during two decades as an attorney was infamous radical Abbie Hoffman... Reichbach made headlines early in his career [as a judge] by handing out condoms to hookers in an effort to stop transmission of the AIDS virus."
In his Times op-ed, Reichbach calls medical marijuana "not a law-and-order issue; it is a medical and a human rights issue."
Being treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I am receiving the absolute gold standard of medical care. But doctors cannot be expected to do what the law prohibits, even when they know it is in the best interests of their patients. When palliative care is understood as a fundamental human and medical right, marijuana for medical use should be beyond controversy...
Given my position as a sitting judge still hearing cases, well-meaning friends question the wisdom of my coming out on this issue. But I recognize that fellow cancer sufferers may be unable, for a host of reasons, to give voice to our plight. It is another heartbreaking aporia in the world of cancer that the one drug that gives relief without deleterious side effects remains classified as a narcotic with no medicinal value.
Because criminalizing an effective medical technique affects the fair administration of justice, I feel obliged to speak out as both a judge and a cancer patient suffering with a fatal disease. I implore the governor and the Legislature of New York, always considered a leader among states, to join the forward and humane thinking of 16 other states and pass the medical marijuana bill this year. Medical science has not yet found a cure, but it is barbaric to deny us access to one substance that has proved to ameliorate our suffering.
Reichbach, whose daughter died last year, had hoped Albany would pass a medical marijuana bill but politicians couldn't get it together. Reichbach was never disciplined by the judicial conduct commission for admitting he was using marijuana.
sad news.
