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bartender187 · 04-03-2007, 04:45 AM

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - New Mexico doctors are allowed to prescribe marijuana to help some seriously ill patients manage symptoms including pain and nausea under a bill signed into law by Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday.

"This law will provide much-needed relief for New Mexicans suffering from debilitating diseases," Richardson, a Democratic candidate for U.S. president in 2008, said at the signing ceremony. "It is the right thing to do."

The southwestern state is the 12th in the United States to endorse the use of marijuana for medical uses. New Mexico's state legislature is the fourth in the country to enact such a measure.

The law allows marijuana use by patients suffering from several conditions, such as
HIV/
AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, according to Richardson's office.

U.S. states that have backed medical marijuana have, however, come into legal conflict with the 1970 federal Controlled Substances Act barring marijuana. Courts have said federal law trumps state law.

Just last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a California woman with an inoperable brain tumor may not smoke marijuana to ease her pain even though California voters approved its medicinal use in 1996.

In 1978, New Mexico began allowing very limited use of marijuana, or its active ingredient, THC, to help control cancer patients' nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, but only when other nausea-control drugs failed.

The law creates a panel of eight expert physicians and other health care workers to supervise the program. Qualified patients must be under a doctor's care and supervision, the news release said.

"I would like to thank the governor for ... giving me another shot at life," said Essie DeBone, who suffers from advanced complications from HIV/AIDS.

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04-03-2007, 05:02 AM

Way to go New Mexico !!!!!!

Grat3fulh3ad · 04-03-2007, 05:04 AM

Excellent!

04-03-2007, 05:13 AM

I just saw this in the news. Man, it's looking like we are moving forward. Now if we can get more states to do the same. The Fed's wouldn't have a chance. AWESOME, news.
Take care,
BG

04-03-2007, 05:28 AM

Congrats New Mexico and it's occupants.

SEEDYNONO · 04-03-2007, 07:35 AM

yea.. keep this up state's..

eugenegreen · 04-03-2007, 08:49 AM

JAH Blessings for the sick my brethrens... No man, or woman should have to suffer through pain which can be alleviated... I'm glad the states are finally waking up!

Rootstyle · 06-23-2007, 09:18 AM

very nice

reaperz · 06-23-2007, 11:55 AM

every small step counts, soon there will be enouch states with it legalised (medically), to ...over power federal law???

Storm Crow · 06-23-2007, 07:26 PM

There was a New York newspaper poll recently and 96% of the people who responded, said YES to MMJ! Connecticut isn't THAT different than New York. Most polls come in at 80% in favor of MMJ. Next election, she's out!

The price of medicine is outrageous, the population is "graying" (and a lot of them are old hippies) and studies are showing cannabis may prevent Alzheimer's, and help in a lot of diseases- how long do you think the voters will put up with this BS? It is just a matter of time! 12 states = 24% of the US. If we add New York, which seems poised to legalize MMJ, we have a goodly chunk of the population able to toke medically.

Be sure to register to vote as soon as possible! We need to vote these bastards out! And if your state isn't pro-MMJ, then you have a second reason to vote- to get that proposition passed!

04-03-2007, 04:45 AM	#1
bartender187 Bakin in da Sun Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Planet Zeldar Posts: 2,949	New Mexico approves medical use of marijuana ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - New Mexico doctors are allowed to prescribe marijuana to help some seriously ill patients manage symptoms including pain and nausea under a bill signed into law by Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday. "This law will provide much-needed relief for New Mexicans suffering from debilitating diseases," Richardson, a Democratic candidate for U.S. president in 2008, said at the signing ceremony. "It is the right thing to do." The southwestern state is the 12th in the United States to endorse the use of marijuana for medical uses. New Mexico's state legislature is the fourth in the country to enact such a measure. The law allows marijuana use by patients suffering from several conditions, such as HIV/ AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, according to Richardson's office. U.S. states that have backed medical marijuana have, however, come into legal conflict with the 1970 federal Controlled Substances Act barring marijuana. Courts have said federal law trumps state law. Just last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a California woman with an inoperable brain tumor may not smoke marijuana to ease her pain even though California voters approved its medicinal use in 1996. In 1978, New Mexico began allowing very limited use of marijuana, or its active ingredient, THC, to help control cancer patients' nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, but only when other nausea-control drugs failed. The law creates a panel of eight expert physicians and other health care workers to supervise the program. Qualified patients must be under a doctor's care and supervision, the news release said. "I would like to thank the governor for ... giving me another shot at life," said Essie DeBone, who suffers from advanced complications from HIV/AIDS. 12 down : ) __________________ Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestous sea of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
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guest Guest Posts: n/a	Way to go New Mexico !!!!!!
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Grat3fulh3ad The Voice of Reason Join Date: May 2006 Location: Shambhala Posts: 8,461	Excellent! __________________ Plant Nutrition Understanding Inorganic Salts "In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. ... It happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." – Carl Sagan "There is rebirth of character, but no transmigration of a self. Thy thought-forms reappear, but there is no egoentity transferred. The stanza uttered by a teacher is reborn in the scholar who repeats the words. Only through ignorance and delusion do men indulge in the dream that their souls are separate and self-existent entities.""Our thinking is gone, but our thoughts continue. Reasoning ceases, but knowledge remains." – Buddha
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Guest Guest Posts: n/a	I just saw this in the news. Man, it's looking like we are moving forward. Now if we can get more states to do the same. The Fed's wouldn't have a chance. AWESOME, news. Take care, BG
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Guest Guest Posts: n/a	Congrats New Mexico and it's occupants.
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SEEDYNONO Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,388	yea.. keep this up state's.. __________________ -"act real as if you know. cause if you show you don't, you wont. if you show you don't, you won't. what's it all about?"
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04-03-2007, 08:49 AM	#7
eugenegreen herbalist Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: with your hoe, you dig!?!? Posts: 881	JAH Blessings for the sick my brethrens... No man, or woman should have to suffer through pain which can be alleviated... I'm glad the states are finally waking up! __________________ Live Peacefully... SAFETY Peter Bourne, President Carter's Drug Czar ''We did not view marijuana as a significant health problem--as it was not....Nobody dies from marijuana. Marijuana smoking, in fact, if one wants to be honest, is a source of pleasure and amusement to countless millions of people in America, and it continues to be that way.'' Source: PBS's Frontline: ''Drug Wars,'' October 2000 R.I.P. LMN R.I.P. Medjool
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Rootstyle Rootsy Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: CA Posts: 337	very nice
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reaperz Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The last place you'd think to look Posts: 421	every small step counts, soon there will be enouch states with it legalised (medically), to ...over power federal law???
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06-23-2007, 07:26 PM	#10
Storm Crow Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,081	She has committed political suicide! There was a New York newspaper poll recently and 96% of the people who responded, said YES to MMJ! Connecticut isn't THAT different than New York. Most polls come in at 80% in favor of MMJ. Next election, she's out! The price of medicine is outrageous, the population is "graying" (and a lot of them are old hippies) and studies are showing cannabis may prevent Alzheimer's, and help in a lot of diseases- how long do you think the voters will put up with this BS? It is just a matter of time! 12 states = 24% of the US. If we add New York, which seems poised to legalize MMJ, we have a goodly chunk of the population able to toke medically. Be sure to register to vote as soon as possible! We need to vote these bastards out! And if your state isn't pro-MMJ, then you have a second reason to vote- to get that proposition passed!
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