Idaho group seeks to legalize medical marijuana | KTVB.COM Boise
BOISE -- Looking ahead to next year, there's a movement underway in Idaho to legalize medical marijuana. States all over the country are talking about this issue and there is an aggressive effort in Idaho to get the issue on the ballot for a citizens' vote next year.
The Treasure Valley - a family community - is where people help their neighbors and compassion is common.
Isaias Valdez hopes to capitalize on Idaho's compassion. He's a volunteer for Compassionate Idaho, a grassroots group working to legalize medical marijuana.
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This article discusses at some length the 'detrimental' influence of legal medical marijuana in Fort Collins, Colorado, things like '... an epidemic of chronic pain amongst [...] 20-40 year old males," and an increase in expulsions from school for buying, selling, or possessing marijuana. There's no mention of any increase in the kinds of crimes that destroy people, families, and societies, like murder or theft or rape or kidnapping, and there's no mention of an increase in the use of the drugs to which marijuana is a supposed gateway. There are only increases in the crime of using marijuana by minors, because people are doing so more openly (meaning the people around them are more aware of what they're using and more able to help them stay within reasonable limits while doing so if the people around them choose to continue to deal with whatever behaviors and consequences their usages or abuses might bring about). The medical marijuana movement (like the medical morphine and amphetamine movements) has become 'a front for recreational use' in this previously 'very nice' community. It doesn't even say all the potheads have let the place go to seed, so I don't know what's no longer nice about it except that instead of people lighting tobacco cigarettes that stink the whole place up (and I say this as a smoker of tobacco) they light far less bothersome joints (even to a non-smoker the smell of pot is far less noxious than that of most tobaccos), or use appliances that minimize second-hand smoke altogether. Their 'kids don't see it as anything that's dangerous,' perhaps because no danger has yet been proven to the satisfaction of a clear majority, including many law enforcement professionals, scientists, and politicians (see references). Also of interest and well-written.
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