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Posted by admin on July 25th, 2008 at 06:16am

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Medical Marijuana and minors
Reason TV has a story about Owen Beck, a 17-year-old high school kid from California who got bone cancer and had to get his leg amputated. The medicine Owen was taking was making him very sick and and lost a lot of weight, so his parents decided to try medical marijuana. The marijuana greatly helped Owen, easing his pain and nausea. The owner of the dispensary, Charlie Lynch, often gave the marijuana to Owen without charging his parents. But the local Sheriff (who doesn’t like the fact that medical marijuana is legal in his town and the state of California) called the DEA. They raided the dispensary and arrested Lynch. He’s now under house arrest, attached to an extension cord for 2 hours a day, and is facing 100 years in prison. Owen’s parents knew the idea of giving medical marijuana to a 17-year-old strikes many people as scandalous. Local Sheriff Pat Hedges even asserts that allowing medical marijuana is “not in the best interest of a community that prides itself on providing a healthy, family environmen

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I just got an email…
The alleged author of the email is a CPT Jeffery S. Porter. According to Cpt. Porter, Obama blew off the troops there and didn’t take the time to thank any of them for their service. The text of the email is below the fold.

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Jeffrey Sachs, The World?s Sustainable Economist
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