Thank you for contacting me with your support for H.R.2835, the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to you on this issue.
As you may be aware, marijuana is a Scheduled I substance under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Marijuana was placed in this most restricted category because it was found to have a high potential for abuse, has no currently accepted medical use in the U.S. and lacks accepted safety standards for use.
No, it was placed there because President Richard Nixon was a racist who hated long-haired dope-smoking young people who were burning draft cards and bras, embracing black culture and civil rights, and protesting his illegal wars, and since he couldn’t bust them for free speech, he busted them for their choice of social relaxant. His own scientific commission determined that marijuana should not be criminalized. If I may quote the crook from his White House tapes and memoirs of his Chief of Staff:
“I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, it’s a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.”
“[S]oft-headed psychiatrists who work in places like NIMH (National Institute for Mental Health) favor marijuana because they’re probably all on the stuff themselves.”
“You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.” (about the War on Drugs to Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman, according to Halderman’s diaries)
While I have heard the arguments for using marijuana for medicinal reasons, I am also aware of the availability of other legal drugs that can better treat the symptoms allegedly alleviated by marijuana.
Name one. Explain how it better treats symptoms and then show me its side effects and potential for overdose. I’ll give you one million dollars if you can find a safer alternative.
As the father of three, I believe allowing the medical use of marijuana sends the wrong message to our children that using this drug poses no risk and is harmless. There is no scientific evidence that marijuana is safe and effective to use.
So how are you keeping your kids from overdosing on Oxycontin, or for that matter, cough syrup? Are you tired of those drugs’ legality sending the wrong message of risk and harm to you children?
There are 17,000 peer-reviewed studies and 5,000 years of history showing marijuana is safe and effective to use.
In addition, legalizing marijuana would only make it that much more difficult for our law enforcement to distinguish between medical and recreational users. The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act would prevent federal authorities from prosecuting pharmacies, growers and users of medical marijuana in states that have legalized use for medical reasons.
Uh, Congressman, if marijuana is legalized, there will be no distinction between medical and recreational users for law enforcement to worry about.
Rest assured that while we may disagree on this issue, I will keep your specific thoughts firmly in mind as Congress continues to discuss this important issue.
Again, thank you for contacting me. Should you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Sincerely,
Duncan Hunter
Member of Congress
Hunter is a typical republican christian.They refuse to wakeup , grow up and evolve with the country.They are like children being took to the woodshed for a switch to spank them.(they cry wolf all the way)
Ps. I dont spank my children I try to teach them to be kind to all.I tell them to look at THE FACTS.Study them and make a informed opinion.Kids are smart they will figure it out!Just dont lie to them.Because when they find the truth you will no longer be credable if you have told them a lie.
I just dont get it, they dam well know the War on Drugs isnt working, they dam well know that Cannabis has been used for thousands of years for treatment to many illnesses. They know that state after state is making marijuana reforms, then know we are growing in numbers.
So why are they so stupid when they are asked questions. Why are they not looking into the facts, we send them facts and they still ignore them, why cant they see the truth? Why do they act like they are doing good when they write this crap? How is it that so many of these congressmen and senators are all writting the same dam letters to all of us about Cannabis?
Mitch McCollell, my senator, thinks Hemp would cause criminal issues in my state. Are they really that stupid? They all state that its a schedule one drug, how is that an answer they are just hiding behind this wrongful scheduling that took place years ago.
We just need new senators and congressmen, we have to get these block heads out of theeir seats and start votting for people that truly want sicence and reality to shape laws. We have to vote these Ahols out, we cant get anywhere whit them as they are, so get them out!
Im so sick of them lying and just repeating the same line of crap over and over, even in the face of the truth! Oh I forgot this is the same group that are still saying Obmaa isnt a citizen and has no valid birth certificate, so I guess thats why, they are idiots!