>>>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/02/27/MN2016651R.DTL
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>>>>During one campaign appearance, Obama recalled that his mother had died of cancer and said he saw no difference between doctor-prescribed morphine and marijuana as pain relievers. He told an interviewer in March that it was "entirely appropriate" for a state to legalize the medical use of marijuana "with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors."
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>>>Official America has this morbid fear of marijuana. What they fear most is that all their scare efforts will prove ineffective. If marijuana is used medically, it can't be that scary.
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>>North American politicians are all required to sit through 'Reefer Madness' at least 15 times, or until they take it seriously; whichever comes first.
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>You'd think that the politicians here actually take that movie seriously. Meanwhile everyone else gets stoned to watch it.

The first time I saw it (a couple hundred years ago), it was on a double bill with 'Sinister Harvest' which was a purported documentary. It was a hoot.

>>>I'm glad for this apparent change.
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>>>Peter