Posted on Friday, 3rd September 2010 by Patrick Dorwin
Ahh, the heat has finally broken, just in time for a three day weekend!
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September 3rd, 2010 at 7:39 am
Jay Weber was just talking about this Letter to the Editor in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, so I had to check it out. This has to be some kind of joke:
Sept. 2, 2010 |(16) Comments
MEDICAL MARIJUANA
No wonder folks are leaving
News that a majority of Wisconsinites feel that the state is losing its best and brightest is no surprise in light of the failure of state lawmakers to pass a medical marijuana bill this year, “Poll finds ‘brain drain’ a statewide concern” (Page 1B, Aug. 29).
The failure to pass medical marijuana has fueled an exodus of people and their assets out of our state. Those with the ways and means are leaving for states as close as Michigan where medical marijuana is legal under state law.
Also departing are young people and others who want to work in the thriving medical cannabis industry in the 14 states and Washington, D.C., where it is now legal.
Wisconsin can no longer afford to listen to the special interests whose job security lies in denying medical marijuana to our veterans, seniors, our sick, disabled and dying. State residents are missing out on both medicine and jobs because we keep electing fossils with no new ideas and zero political courage.
The only way to stop the brain drain is to vote out those who want to keep us living both in the past, and for all too many, living in severe pain, when we go to the polls this fall.
Gary Storck
Executive Director
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
Wisconsin chapter
Madison
September 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 am
Just 60 days left until we start to weed out the socialists that have infected this great nation.
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:00 am
One thing became crystal clear during BHO’s Iraq speech: He really doesn’t like, or understand, or fit in with, etc., the role of Commander In Chief. He’s no war-time President. He undoubtably sees the US military as just another tool to keep at bay those forces in the world that he sees as incompatable with his goals for American decline. But he’s no Pat Buchanan-ish cultural isolationist; BHO’s plan is for an America where the productivity of a decreasing segment of the populace is transfered to the increasing dependent segment. And what can’t be provided for by the producers will be borrowed for distribution (som-a-dat Obama stash).
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Court Reinstates Markup Law For Gas
http://www.wisn.com/money/24870575/detail.html?treets=mil&tid=2654056049813&tml=mil_12pm&tmi=mil_12pm_1_11000209032010&ts=H
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
@Glenn D.
Gary Storck submits a lot of editorials across the state. He does stretch points to match the medical marijuana issue. The problem I have is what weak comments Jay made. He said, satirically of course, his pot smoking friends in college are now the best and brightest today. George Bush, Obama and our dear friend Mark Belling all have admitted marijuana use. No success there .
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Without getting into the debate about legalization, I would think it’s pretty safe to say that legalization is rather low on the list of reasons why people might move out of Wisconsin and Storck’s opinion piece is a little more than a stretch on that issue.
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Any press is good press. His job is to get people talking about it. Apparently it is working.
Plus Storck is wrong anyways. “Best and brightest” minds are staying here because of medical marijuana research.
>>…It showed that cannabinoids specifically fight pancreatic tumor cells. I changed her diet and started her on a regimen, and she is now cancer-free. The regimen is being studied at the University of Wisconsin.
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/peoples-pharmacy/article_b7003d47-43d5-5a68-833e-cec6fa454b2b.html
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Lest we forget there are ignorant folks on our side as well as liberals, a photo album on Faceebook named “Teabonics”.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=243484&id=539859514&fbid=463379554514&ref=nf
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:35 pm
@Glenn
What a ridiculous story on legalization. I’m one of the supporters on legalization, but I can say without a doubt that the failure to legalize is NOT the cause of any exodus out of Wisconsin.
For one thing, anyone who wants it can get it at any time. The laws prohibiting marijuana have no effect on the ability to acquire it.
For another, those caught with it more often than not get little more than a slap on the wrist which for all practical purposes ends up amounting to a tax on marijuana.
This story is meant to be a distraction from the real cause of Wisconsin’s brain drain, the the taxt and fee hell the state has become.
If want to watch something amusing though, once marijuana is legalized, and it eventually will be, then watch all the activists who supported its legalization turn 180 degrees and support a ban against it, after corporations decide to use it to make profit. It’ll be good for a laugh.
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:39 pm
@Bubba,
How many of those Teabonics signs are leftists plants?
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/09/naacp-joins-with-dishonest-hacks-at-think-progress-to-smear-tea-party/
Remember, leftists were so proud of their “Crash the Tea Party” initiatives, they just had to advertise them all over the internet so everyone could see how clever they are.
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Jaeson -
I suspect most of the sign writers are MPS graduates, or the local equivalent.
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Medical Marijuana, what a joke. I used to toke in my misguided youth and the best thing I ever did was quit. I regained motivation, determination, confidence and self respect. Life’s been good ever since…
September 5th, 2010 at 3:37 am
But remember, “Crime is down”:
- selected newswatch item -
Man shot on Milwaukee’s south side
By John Diedrich of the Journal Sentinel
Sept. 4, 2010 | A 19-year-old man was shot while he was sitting in a car at about noon Saturday in the 2500 block of S. 6th St., according to Milwaukee police.
The man is expected to survive, according to police. The investigation continues.
September 5th, 2010 at 11:03 am
attempted homicide, one person aims pistol at and shoots the victim, two nights ago
no detectives responded
September 5th, 2010 at 11:36 am
We can’t have our highly trained detectives wasting their time on only attempted homicides, we need to give the thugs the chance to actually kill someone before we lock ‘em up… I feel like I need a shower after typing that.
September 5th, 2010 at 11:49 am
This woman represents all that is wrong with my generation. It does my heart good to read that she failed. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/us/05labor.html#
“For me,” she said, “there’s an urgency to try to make sure we take advantage of having the best president we’ve had in my lifetime to make this country and make the world work best for everyone.”
September 5th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
The headline in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this morning reads: “Palin writer skips town”. He’s going back to his home in Massachusetts (what a shock that he lives there). Probably going to rent a home next to a primary school where he can do “research” on little kids for his next book(ing). http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PALIN_AUTHOR?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
“McGinniss said he didn’t seek out the rental home. During his search for a place to live, he said, the homeowner sought him out. The price was right and it was close to the people he wanted to talk to.”
Yeah, right.