Let me start out by saying the federal government, particularly the Justice Department and the current administration, are a bunch of fucking assholes. The pot laws in this country are backwards and have been written by men who cram bottles of whiskey into their fat, white stomachs. Why am I so upset? Because a woman who is dying from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and “other ailments” has just been told by a federal appeals court that she is not immune from prosecution.
Meet Angel Raich, a 41-year-old mother of two from Oakland, California. She is in such bad shape that she needs to smoke pot every couple of hours to ease her pain and encourage her to eat. Her doctor prescribed the marijuana because conventional drugs did not work in “legal” attempts to increase her appetite. Without pot, her appetite was “nonexistent.” Her doctor claims that if she does not smoke pot, she will die.
Raich filed the case because she lives in a state where medical marijuana is legal and she believes that pot “should be allowed if it is the only viable option to keep a patient alive.” Also, her name is ANGEL. How much more fucking obvious does it need to get?
The government claimed it “could not guarantee” that dying people would not be prosecuted for smoking pot. Our government has declared that marijuana has no medical value, even though these guys called “doctors” say the opposite. Eleven states allow medical marijuana for patients with a doctor’s recommendation. The attorney general launched a war against marijuana after Bush took office, conducting raids against suppliers who have state licenses and even locking up Tommy Chong.
When Raich heard the decision she began sobbing. She said she would not stop smoking pot.”I’m sure not going to let them kill me,” she said. “Oh my God.”
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