🚀 go-pugleaf

I said that I warrant support to marijuana's use medically because it
is said to help a lot of people in situations where other drugs dfell
short or failed alltogether, not because people defended its use for
that purpose or criticized it, I also said that legalizing marijuana
would ease strain on prison overcrowding

On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:55:15 -0500, Craig Smith
<70004.4120@compuserve.com> wrote:

>Glenn Gehring wrote:
>
>> The thread title is "...Americans overwhelmingly favor allowing
>> doctors to prescribe marijuana."  It isn't about space or science literacy.
>> Consequently, your post is a little ludicrous.  I suppose your point is that
>> Americans are stupid and must be told what to think on issues such as this by
>> educated elite.  I strongly disagree with you on both points.
>
>I'm not the one who you are responding to, but I can't help but make a
>comment
>here. The point he was trying to make is simply this: Just because
>Americans
>overwhelmingly favor allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana doesn't
>make them
>correct. Americans also overwhelmingly favor denying gays the right to
>legally
>marry. Does that make them right? Americans also overwhelming favor
>limiting
>abortions. Does that make them right?
>
>The attempt of the initial post was to garner support for medically
>prescribed marijuana, because a majority supports it. The argument
>doesn't
>hold much water.