FUCK THE LAW, SMOKE IT ANYWAY

FUCK THE LAW, SMOKE IT ANYWAY!
My 2005 campaigne slogan is "F-the law"

This is bascically what I'm saying in the below article.

THE TRENTONIAN

RULING DOESN’T QUELL DEBATE

By CHARLIE WEBSTER

Trenton, NJ – Some cheer, the others jeer, but nothing has changed for anyone on either side of the debate concerning the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes in NEW JERSEY.

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed what everyone has known all along – marijuana use violates federal law.

“It does just reconfirm the status quo,” said David Evans, executive director of the Drug Free Schools Coalition. “They didn’t overrule state law. You won’t get busted by state law enforcement in places like California, but you can get busted by federal authorities.”

The ruling does not strike down medical marijuana laws already in place in ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, HAWAII, MAINE, MONTANA, NEVADA, OREGON, VERMONT or WASHINGTON STATE. State and local authorities in most of those states said they have no interest in arresting people who smoke pot for medical reasons.

The ruling also does not prevent additional states from allowing the use of medical marijuana in the future.

“They reaffirmed something we already knew,” said Assemblyman REED GUSCIORA, D-Princeton, who has been working on getting legislation to permit the use of marijuana for medical reasons.

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<>“I’m disappointed – especially with the more centrist members of the court – who are making note that it is up to TOM DELAY and the congress to rule on marijuana laws rather than leave it to the state laboratories that Sandra day O’Conner speaks of”.

Justice O’Conner said in dissenting with the opinion that it was Congress’ place to clarify the issue, but that states had a right to become the laboratories of medical marijuana use if they choose to do so.

Supporters of total legalization of marijuana use downplayed the Supreme Court opinion as more evidence of a activist court at work.

“The Supreme Court has issued a political decision – it has nothing to do with law,” Ed “WEEDMAN” Forchion. “It has nothing to do with marijuana. It’s a state rights case and all the states just lost.”

Forchion argues that the state’s have a right to determine for themselves what constitutes a medicinal drug, and sides with the state’s that have allowed the use of marijuana. He points out that statistics have shown that state authorities prosecute 99 in 100 marijuana cases prosecuted in the United States.

“Its not going to matter to the vast majority of people who get busted,” Forchion said. “It just doesn’t matter because it only affects a tiny number of people. You probably can’t even find statistics showing how many <>people in New Jersey get busted by the federal government for marijuana.”

Gusciora says that if New Jersey allows medical marijuana, state law enforcement would not pursue medical users – that would be the job of federal officials.

“We don’t want to make a criminal out of someone who is terminally ill,” Gusciora said. Evans argues that medical marijuana is not a proven treatment and has not been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. He says all medical marijuana does is provide a excuse for people who want to get stoned under the guise of medical treatment.

Supporters obviously disagree. “Marijuana laws do more harm to society then marijuana does,” Forchion said. My position is that marijuana should be legalized no matter what.”