Patient Power

420: Your right to use marijuana, medical or otherwise

Yes, drug prohibition is part of health care policy. Marijuana has proven medical benefits, but politicians and government thugs insist on imprisoning people for the peaceful act of growing a plant, or smoking its leaves, or selling it.  So what if it has many medical benefits, or regardless of that, people have the right to do what they want with their own bodies? (As I’ve written here).

Since it is April 20 (”4-20″), here’s Drew Carey on medical marijuana for Reason.TV

For more resources from Reason on this issue, see here.  Cato scholar Will Wilkinson’s “I spoke pot, and I like it” is also worth reading.

Also see John Stossel’s recent segment on the subject:

By the way, heroin and cocaine have been legal in Portugal, and a new study by  constitutional lawyer and Salon.com writer Glenn Greenwald writes that “judged by virtually every metric, the Portuguese decriminalization framework has been a resounding success.”

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