Wednesday, May 23, 2012

US Govt Gives Marijuana to Old Lady

In Eugene Oregon a state trooper pulled over a passenger and found marijuana. This did not surprise anyone, not even the troopers. However, the shocking news was when the 72 year old woman stated that she was not guilty of anything because the weed was completely legal and was given to her by the United States Federal Government.

The trooper was intrigued and decided to look into what was being said. He completed a series of phone calls along with his supervisor to the US Government. They discovered that the lady was telling the truth. More specifically they found that the United States Government grows and provides marijuana to a select few people in the U.S.

In addition to the marijuana that the Government grew for the 72 year old lady above, the US has bee providing marijuana as part of a program stemming from a 1976 court settlement which created the country's first medicinal marijuana patient. The program, at one time, provided 14 patients with marijuana but they are down to 4 patients as of now.

With the war on drugs and the increased pressure on medical marijuana establishments in San Jose and the Bay Area is a glaring contradiction to what the US government is doing themselves. However, Government officials counter by stating that the program is no longer accepting any new patients to the program because authorities concluded that there was no scientific value to the program, Steven Gust of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse explained to The Associated Press. The US government has only continued to supply the marijuana "for compassionate reasons," Gust said.

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