Court rules woman can be busted for marijuana – even though it’s keeping her alive

It’s official – the United States is as backwards a nation as you can find. Because when a court decides that a woman can be prosecuted by the Feds for having marijuana - even though a doctor testifies that it’s the only thing keeping her alive – then throw all hope of enlightenment aside and just give the freakin’ country to the nutzoid evangelicals.

Court: Dying can be charged for using marijuana

A California woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive is not immune from federal prosecution on drug charges, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The case was brought by Angel Raich, an Oakland mother of two who suffers from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other ailments. On her doctor’s advice, she eats or smokes marijuana every couple of hours to ease her pain and bolster a nonexistent appetite as conventional drugs did not work.

The Supreme Court ruled against Raich two years ago, saying that medical marijuana users and their suppliers could be prosecuted for breaching federal drug laws even if they lived in a state such as California where medical pot is legal.

Because of that ruling, the issue before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was narrowed to the so-called right to life theory: that marijuana should be allowed if it is the only viable option to keep a patient alive.

Raich, 41, began sobbing when she was told of the decision and said she would continue using the drug.

“I’m sure not going to let them kill me,” she said. “Oh my God.”

Marijuana should be legal. Period.

The moral indignation of the faux righteous in the U.S. is a fucking embarrassment. That a court is willing to allow a woman to suffer to her death is a travesty.

And that the tobacco and alcohol industries chug along because lobbyists grease pockets, while marijuana is illegal because anyone can grow it simply in their backyard is a sign of a grand sickness of the soul. Because that’s all it is – if Pfizer could successfully market Ganja Popsicles, pot would be legal in a heartbeat.

Sure, there are plenty of folks out there whose biggest thrill is sucking the Christ out of their eucharist every Sunday and love nothing better than to push their perverted spirituality on the rest of us, but money talks.

Marijuana is not illegal because it’s a gateway drug or because it’s harmful. It’s illegal because fat, vodka-martini-drinking white dudes can’t make big profits on it.

And that’s just fucking sick.

–WKW