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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (207068)	11/5/2012 9:14:27 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541978

No. It's not. It's large to you, but for most people other issues are much more important. It's important to be able to separate wishful thinking, from reality. And it will help you decide who to vote for, if you want your vote to count. But hey, there are plenty of people out there voting based on belief, rather than reality. You won't be alone if you choose to go that route.

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (207068)	11/6/2012 5:47:10 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 541978

And I use cannabis as a chemotherapy for my bladder cancer. The cancer puts some things in perspective. Both of these jokers want me in jail for my CHEMOTHERAPY medicine. I don't think that's quite true. I use marijuana as part of my treatment for advanced metastatic colon cancer, and I have no fear of arrest. The President has been a disappointment in busting, or threatening to bust, medical marijuana dispensaries, yes. Romney is obviously a man who can't be trusted on this issue, either. But neither Obama nor any other candidate is interested in breaking down my door or yours. They haven't arrested any MM-consuming patients as far as I'm aware. There has been widespread abuse of the MM laws here in California, with dispensaries opening up on ocean boardwalks and other high-traffic tourist areas, offering the documentation for $30 or $35, and attracting a lot of healthy people who just want to get high. Not that I can blame them, and I don't see what harm marijuana does to people, especially when compared with other drugs which are legal. But that's not what the medical marijuana laws were passed for. One big problem is that you've got states trying to legalize pot, while it's still illegal on a federal level. Constitutionally, they're not allowed to to that. It's a mess, no doubt about it. But I'm not going to vote against Obama because of this one issue. I think we stand a much better chance of seeing some reasonable changes to drug policy under him that we could possibly have with Romney. So I would do nothing, at this point, to pull votes from Obama to Johnson, as it isn't productive to do so.