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Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I can just see all the Mormons dodging second-hand smoke like it was the plague.
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Some people are such idiots, and I'm not talking about Mormons. I'm talking about anybody gullible enough to believe some of the nonsense that is disseminated about Mormonism. Hey, but that's just me, a Mormon, talking to you, a Satanist, even though I'm supposedly not allowed to.
I'm not concerned with people who have an objection to a proposal. I am concerned about those who want to overturn the will of the people by claiming a religious objection which is what happens in a theocracy.Yes, there is an official statement from the LDS Church. Thanks for asking. I can't say I am in agreement with it, but at least now we've got the reasons behind the Church's objections -- for those like you, who actually seem to want the facts.
No. It's the cucumber farmers. They know that quite a few folks substitute cucumber for tomato. It's a bonus for them tp kill tomatoes.Well, there is evidence which is irrefutable.
I have difficulty just getting a good tomato crop.
A conspiracy of the Ragu cartel?
Worse yet trying to use the courts to do so. That is extremely ironic to me considering the full implications of the First Amendment.I'm not concerned with people who have an objection to a proposal. I am concerned about those who want to overturn the will of the people by claiming a religious objection which is what happens in a theocracy.
Because the Mormon Church has a history of political action, trying to force non-Mormons to do things their way.Why is the Mormon Church to blame in Utah but not everywhere else?
I'm for the legalization of medical marijuana, just so we have that cleared up. But what on earth does greed have to do with the issue?
Since I'll be in a legal state, I am entirely and utterly done with psychotropic meds, and leaving most of the others behind. Of course cannabis can't replace everything, but it helps with my IBS (which itself has many symptoms and cannabis is the only thing I've found that offers relief for one symptom while aggravating others), it helps me sleep (though in larger quantities or certain strains), and with just a couple pinches of "show room quality" green (Indiana mostly gets what's left over and usable after the trimming), the edge of anxiety and depression is lifted and I feel motivated and uplifted, and I'm far from being stoned.Alcohol is legal and so is tobacco, but both of these are costing the health systems in many countries billions of dollars. Cannabis OTOH is a "natural" product that can be used as an effective medicine in many conditions....
Reefer Madness was put together by a church. And, back then, it wasn't big pharma so much as it was "big timber," and also blatant racism from the likes of Senator Anslinger.then drug companies will have to explain why they demonized this plant 70 odd years ago by painting it as a drug that would make you go crazy. Watch the "Reefer Madness" propaganda films designed to make people believe that is was the most dangerous drug ever!
I'm not sorry I asked. I'm just sorry I misunderstood your original statement. As I said to fantome profane, "It was my opinion that Deeje's statement concerned the LDS Church's stance on medical marijuana."You might be sorry you asked....
That's what I was asking, but I thought you were referring to greed on the part of the LDS Church, which it appears was not the case after all.Are you seriously asking me what greed has to do with the legalization of medicinal cannabis?
Reefer Madness was put together by a church. And, back then, it wasn't big pharma so much as it was "big timber," and also blatant racism from the likes of Senator Anslinger.
You also have to remember Reefer Madness was made during a time when we still medically used things such as cocaine and heroine, and it was before lithium and chlorpromazine. While RM does play into what would linger on and evolve into big pharma rhetoric against it, it's inaccurate to say big pharma was behind RM. And, economically, in the later years of the Depression, the Right-Winged Reagan/Milton/Rand/Chicago economic styles that today allow big pharma to thrive were then frowned upon, and it was still before the post-WWII Capitalist boom.Reefer Madness played right into the hands of "big pharma" however.....and the rest as they say...is history.
You also have to remember Reefer Madness was made during a time when we still medically used things such as cocaine and heroine, and it was before lithium and chlorpromazine. While RM does play into what would linger on and evolve into big pharma rhetoric against it, it's inaccurate to say big pharma was behind RM. And, economically, in the later years of the Depression, the Right-Winged Reagan/Milton/Rand/Chicago economic styles that today allow big pharma to thrive were then frowned upon, and it was still before the post-WWII Capitalist boom.
There is no denying that the American health care system is a mess, and immoral by nearly all standards. But the entire thing cannot be dismissed as a scam because there are doctors who care, there are treatments that work, and their are medications that improve the quality of life for those suffering with various ailments and conditions, and a bug bite and scratch isn't as likely to kill us to boot. Any provider has to navigate the money making pitfalls and traps laid out by insurance, but that does't make it a scam. There are fraudulent practices and biased studies published, but today we laugh at and shrug off diseases that were once a death sentence for even our recent (and some still living) ancestors. There isn't a cure for HIV/AIDs yet, but do consider how far treatment has advanced over the past 30 years since the emergence of the virus.The American Health System is broken and no one it seems, wants to fix it. Too busy making $$$$
25 Facts That Show The U.S. Health Care Industry Is One Giant Money Making Scam
Why is the Mormon Church to blame in Utah but not everywhere else?
I realize that, but it's not a rational explanation for a situation that exists throughout the United States. Utah was one of the first states, I believe, to restrict smoking in public places for the simple reason that second-hand smoke is a health hazard. Everybody who was upset about it blamed the LDS Church for trying to impose its beliefs on society as a whole. It was not long, though, before such laws existed in every state. People had to find someone else to blame in the other 49 states. I mean, if there's a correlation, fine; call people's attention to it, but don't invent one.As it is seen as an enclave or bastion of LDS. Just as many will blame Evangelicals or Baptists in the South for X.
It's nice to see someone who knows the history of marijuana prohibition.Reefer Madness was put together by a church. And, back then, it wasn't big pharma so much as it was "big timber," and also blatant racism from the likes of Senator Anslinger.
I'm only slightly surprised by this story. But only slightly. Opening the door to discrimination even a little bit inevitably results in a flood of ever more extreme efforts to discriminate based on religion.
Utah’s medical marijuana ballot measure would violate Mormons’ religious beliefs, opponents say in new court filing, which initiative supporters call a ‘Hail Mary’