So…WHY exactly are 4 politicians who will eventually be voted out of office trampling all over individual rights by voting to curtail the inherent rights of medicinal cannabis health businesses and those who may need its medicine? Do these elected officials actually have the audacity to think that they have the power and moral authority to decide what mans rights are in this matter? I think not. Individual rights and liberty are not a matter of votes or majority rule. Yet again, Whitefish disappoints.

Oh, cool your jets Roark…. it’s just temporary.  It’s not like there is a line at city hall to apply for licenses.  I don’t blame them for being cautious and I serously doubt that ANYONE has or will be denied any rights as the result of this action.  Now, if, as you say, these politicians have trampled otherwise, then yeah, by all means, let’s vote them out.  But not for this.

The picture of the Marajuana in the article is not what will be for sale in Whitefish. What the picture depicts is a low grade Mexican field weed gone to seed. The patients won’t need the Mexican Weed when the can buy locally grown state of the art medicine.

Any photo of cannabis would have been considered morally reprehensible to the majority of Beacon readers.  The injustice being served here is that of persona non grata, a condition applied to entire cultures or races based on ignorance, intolerance, and avarice—one we Americans are still attempting to crawl out from underneath.  The denigration of cannabis was effected as part of a doctrine of racial intolerance, as the name “marijuana” still implies.  For the most part, the plant has served humanity well and faithfully, and it is only within the last century that we have seen it as something less than beneficial.

If the name “medical marijuana dispensary” was replaced with something as common as “drug store”, there would have been no issue.  The continued federal criminalization maintains the current negative stereotyping.  The town of Whitefish, always being careful of its standing within the plutocracy of American wealth-havens, doesn’t want to invite any stain upon its gilded streets.  There are those of us who still remember the effect of desegregation upon public schools, and the town leaders cannot abide the thought of negative media coverage on their well managed community, such as might be created by a DEA drug raid. 

Although Jefferson considered cannabis a choice crop, 20th century sentiment has always cast cannabis in with the poor; it represents them.  This reason was perhaps too subtle to affect the outcome chosen by the Whitefish council, but it does little to endear the local citizenry to the town representatives who pander only to those with big money.  This vote shows exactly who runs Whitefish, and buries the ideal of “mature, free-thinking, progressive” under modern superstitions.  In the context of the greater debate about the legitimacy of cannabis as an acceptable entity within Montana society, Whitefish voted out of fear.

One thing the authorities may not like is the tendancy of the pot head to relax when he shoud have his sorry buttox out there making some tax dollars. You are required to be a contributing member of society.
Society being defined as a people living in housing cells and available for work. They must pay for rent, utilities,  transportation, health insurance and all associated, taxes, taxes, taxes, loan payments, interest, fees etc. etc. etc. as determined by authorities. Those are the low class members. They have names for them.
You are supposed to be a contributing member also, to the executive society, like Leona Helmsley. Otherwise how would they live. So get back in line, park the weed and do your job. You’ll get you reward.
Enjoy your BigMak and fries. FootBalls on tonight, get some Bud and we’ll order from PizzaHous.
Another option is to join a tribe third world cannibipasinos and live on the fringe of society in a loose knit family of hunters and gathers.
You could wear BigFoot suits when you go to town.

Billy, what a completely narrow-minded individual you seem to be (at least on the topic). I am a patient and caregiver and not only do I work my butt off to do what I do well, I honestly can say that each and every one of my patients (15 or so) are hard working contributing members of society from professors at the university to nurses, businessmen, architects, librarians, and construction workers. I know they bust their butts in what they do and for most of them, it’s nice to relax after a hard day of work just like you do with a beer. A bud’s a bud hombre.
I think if you knew what to look for, you’d be shocked to see how many people you see in a given day that have smoked and are working just as hard (if not harder) than you. This “lower class” mentality definitely is not without merit; it generally comes from the typical stoner label of a lazy, good for nothing, lowlife that spends all of his money on weed and barely has enough to feed himself. The laziness is really usually do to indica dominant herb that makes one lazy, but since it’s been getting easier and easier to produce sativa dominant strains that have an “up”, productive high, this “stoner” stereotype is looking to be simply not accurate!

As for the mentality sort of thing, the person that would be stoned all of the time would probably drunk all of the time without herb.. it’s a personality thing, not an issue with the drug itself.

Please do a little research, don’t take my word for it.
Z

Z; I appreciate your enthusiastic response. I really like to hear a good perspective from a fellow natures medicine herbalist. It was really a knock on Leona Helmsley’s perspective about the low life working class, and how they pay all the taxes. I’m with all for the hemp revolution. I just hate to see people wasting their life away working for the dollar so Leona can leave her cat five million dollars.

Ah, sorry, I’m unfamiliar with that person, and didn’t know it was tongue in cheek

Oh wait.. she’s the “taxes are for little people” lady that left her dog 12 million dollars and didn’t give a cent to her kids.

Oh jeez.. just read your post again.. totally tongue in cheek.. I’m sorry! Now who’s the stupid stoner?

No problem; If we are going to win the war on drugs we’ve got to inform the propagandized by keeping the subject in their face. Until they realize they’ve been duped since the sixties and have spent a fortune locking up and destroying families, and the big banks are still laundering the drug smuggling profits. Thanks for your input Z.

Quantummonkeybutt Reply:
January 15th, 2010 at 7:41 am

Awakemama, I Have Posted Before To My Disappointment After Seeing That The Information I Have Conveyed Fell On Deaf Ears…

The Most Important Thing You Need To Know Is That, As Crazy As It Sounds, Mother ‘Mary Jane’ May Mean The Difference Between Life, And Death.

Cannabis Hemp Seeds Have Been Discovered To Be The Highest Single Quality Food Source (Complete Protein) For Human Beings (Next To Breast Milk, Which I Also Highly Recommend Whenever Possible

Cannabis Makes Fuel, It Makes Fiber, It Is The Best Food…We Have Known For Quite A While That “Hemp Can Save The Planet”!!!

I Recommend You Grow It, I Recommend You Eat It, And If You Live In A State Where They Won’t Let You, Move.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn-xBsmT-Hk (WHAT ABOUT HEMP RIGHTS?)

QMB
exercising my rights
as a free american