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In reply to the discussion: Feds Shut Down Marin Pot Club, (California's) Oldest [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)48. I was trying to explain how you possibly wound up making a common logic error.
"have long claimed that cannabis has no medicinal value whatsoever" Is demonstrably false, (as was demonstrated with your own arguments). I think you may have inadvertently taken bits of one argument (derived) and used them to make a new argument (synthesis).
Here would be a longer, but much more accurate, statement:
"have long claimed that using unregulated marijuana products has no known and accepted medicinal treatment protocols"
See how different that reads, with much more specific qualifiers? It's easy to get from one to the other, but it's also problematic to equate the two statements.
You can take a car apart and make a bicycle out of the parts, but that doesn't make every car a bicycle.
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Once again the Obama administration has succeeded where the Bush Administration has failed
Freddie Stubbs
Dec 2011
#6
C'mon, don't you all feel safer knowing that fewer cancer partients are gonna be able to get high?
abq e streeter
Dec 2011
#7
Obama "silent" on MMJ policy, my eye. Actions speak WAY louder than any words. nt
Romulox
Dec 2011
#9
Obama's Justice Department Should Be Going After Real Criminals....(like gang stalkers)
red dog 1
Dec 2011
#10
The DEA claims just that, and they are part of the executive branch of the government.
Webster Green
Dec 2011
#34
Wow, to say the Feds disrespect and deny the health benifits makes me a "blatant" liar?
Mojeoux
Dec 2011
#43
It is not cheap or easy to produce the quality of product available in the dipensaries.
Webster Green
Dec 2011
#38
It's not about more or less taxes, it's about using our tax dollars effectively.
Shoe Horn
Dec 2011
#13