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...tennis has gone to pot," he said. "I've reached that horrible age where you wonder if you should start to play golf...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "So many people have said, 'Why do you want to get in that mess [politics]? It can't be fixed. America's already gone to pot.' And I say...'For heaven's sake, if everybody thought like you, we might as well zip it up and go home...
...that he tried and wanted to inhale marijuana, but couldn't because he had asthma, and then goes to a debate four years later claiming, "I hate drugs," kids are left thinking that as long as we say we don't like drugs it's okay if we smoke pot a little around the edges...
...This is an attempt to bring medicine to people who are needlessly suffering for lack of it," says Bill Zimmerman of Californians for Medical Rights, which sponsors the proposition. Many patients say pot eases the nausea of chemotherapy. It may also stimulate the appetite to counter the wasting effects of AIDS and reduce eye pressure caused by glaucoma. As a substitute the Food and Drug Administration has approved Marinol, a synthetic pill version of THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. But patients often report it doesn't alleviate nausea. Daly tried it without success before turning to pot...
...which complaints that would cover. As a picture of things to come, the opponents point to the Cannabis Buyers' Club in San Francisco, founded in 1991, which at one time claimed 12,000 members. Until Aug. 4, when state narcotics agents raided and closed down the club, it sold pot to anyone who was desperately ill. And maybe to other people. Police say that during a two-year investigation, undercover agents made purchases of several pounds at a time. They also say that teens and people with forged doctors' notes were making buys...