Even a sickly, soft-spoken woman in a wheelchair gets no pass from him. The other day, at a meeting with voters in New Hampshire, Linda Macia mentioned her use of medical marijuana and politely asked his position on permitting it. Barely were the words out of her mouth before the Arizona senator spun on his heel, stalked away and heaped scorn on the idea.This is how you treat sick people? Yes, Senator, police would and do arrest patients for using marijuana as a medicine. Here's our previous story, showing how much compassion senator McCain has for medical Marijuana patients.
You may be one of the unique cases in America that only medical marijuana can relieve pain from," he said, in a skeptical tone. "Every medical expert I know of, including the AMA (American Medical Association), says there are much more effective and much more, uh, better treatments for pain. He also ridiculed the notion that police would arrest patients for using marijuana as medicine.
McCain should know the truth about medical marijuana
Submitted by Phusion on Sun, 10/07/2007 - 00:41
The Chicago Tribune has yet more proof of senator McCain's complete lack of understanding of medical Marijuana. In his latest blunder, the senator tells off a sickly woman in a wheelchair, telling her there are other options for her pain. Here's a snip:
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Not to defend McCain as he
Even the police thing seems like a good choice of words, since in places where it is legal and you can medically have a prescription, the police probably aren't arresting them, although the DEA and the feds still crack the whip occasionally. If you have a prescription that is valid in the police's jurisdiction, it's true that they wouldn't be arresting you. Of course there are few locations where you can actually be using marijuana medicinally in the eyes of the law so...
I also think it's a little shitty if NORML or whoever is really targeting McCain for these questions, as he claims in the video posted here a week or so ago. McCain is basically a nobody in this election at this point, and whether he's old and prone to saying ornery shit or not, wouldn't it make a lot more sense to organize people to ask the frontrunners these questions? If McCain is still letting them into his events he's probably not as bad as 70% of the other candidates in both parties, and more importantly his opinion is almost completely irrelevant as he isn't really in a position to sway the issue either way.
I think McCain is a senile idiot and I don't agree with almost anything that comes out of his mouth, but I feel like singling him out as some sort of villain of the legalization movement is a little over the top. He might be the only presidential candidate who will address medical marijuana and doesn't support it (to my knowledge only Paul, Kucinich and Gravel are willing to talk much about it), but to me the bigger problem is all the other candidates who are politically relevant but refuse to talk about this issue. We should almost thank McCain for getting this medical marijuana patient's concerns major media attention.