ANOTHER BUSY MONDAY

I don't have a lot of time this afternoon so I'm just going to post a couple of links I've been holding.

The prohibitionists often claim that marijuana is not accepted as a remedy within the medical community. Not true, as evidenced by this report. The American Nurses Association, America's largest nursing group passed a resolution supporting med-pot use and research. According to Mary Lynn Mathre, a now retired nurse who first proposed it:

The ANA's recommendations are that patients should have safe access to therapeutic marijuana, that health care providers should be able to discuss marijuana with patients without threat of prosecution, that patients and med-pot providers not be subject to criminal penalties, and that the US federal government reclassify marijuana to remove it from its place in Schedule One on the controlled substances scale, a designation that places cannabis in the same category as heroin.

"It became obvious that the government's war on medical cannabis users, and on doctors and nurses who facilitated such use, would go on and on," said Mathre, "so I thought it important that we take a strong stand against the drug war policies, because all those policies do is cause pain and suffering to sick and dying people."

The prohibitionists also claim that the reform movement is driven by burned-out hippies who just want to get high. I doubt many of the members of Unitarian Universalists For Drug Policy Reform would fit that description. Their Statement of Conscience has been in the works since June 2000. The recently released final draft makes a compelling argument on ending the failed war on drugs and offers sensible alternatives to the illogical and ineffective prohibitionist policy of interdiction and incarceration. Check it out.

I'll be back with the news after 8:00 tonight.