News and Politics | October 28, 2007 | 10 comments

Medical marijuana advocate kills herself

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Vierotchka
Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.

After her earlier attempt failed, Prosser wound up in even more trouble after investigating police found marijuana in her home. She used the marijuana to help cope with pain.

That marijuana charge was eventually dropped in an agreement with the city of Missoula, and Prosser had reason to rejoice in 2004 when Montanans passed a law allowing medical use of the drug.
She was a high-profile campaigner for the Montana Medical Marijuana Act, and like others, she was dismayed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that drug agents could still arrest sick people using marijuana, even in states that legalized its use.

The ruling came to haunt Prosser in late March, when DEA agents seized less than a half ounce of marijuana sent to her by her registered caregiver in Flathead County.

At the time, the DEA special agent in charge of the Rocky Mountain Field Division said federal agents were ?protecting people from their own state laws? by seizing such shipments.

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I cannot understand this legislation against cannabis, especially as it was originally created by corporations to protect their timber/paper, oil, and car-making industries.
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  • Amaterasu
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      Amaterasu  
    • Vierotchka,

      It might interest you to know that the Terra Papers were written BEFORE Star Wars, that George Lukas was highly influenced by his friend, Joseph Campbell, and that Joseph Campbell spent his life researching myths globally and spent a lot of time with the Hopi.

      Be that as it may, you are welcome to your opinions. I have done a great deal of reading from translated Sumerian texts, as well as many other sources, and found nothing to suggest the Papers are false.

      But you stay in that box they have put us in. No skin off my nose.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Amaterasu:

      Loads of science-fiction books were written before these Papers were written. The author must have taken his peyote-induced visions for reality, yet his imagination is quite limited and very repetitive. They are full of inconsistencies. The fact that Joseph Campbell spent a lot of time with the Hopis has no bearing on these papers, associating his name with these Papers proves nothing since he is not connected with them. These Papers are a mish-mash, and the etymology of words in various languages prove nothing either, especially as the author has obviously no knowledge of etymology and mixes up things. That many languages have similar sounding words with similar meanings is perfectly understandable, since all the languages he cites have Indo-European origins and are directly linked to Sanskrit. I have an excellent inbuilt bullshit meter which has never betrayed me, and it waved flags and rang bells when I read that ludicrous text.

      The fact that you've done a great deal of reading translated Sumerian texts and others has no bearing on this - the author has made a fruit-salad borrowing myths from all over the place and tried to connect non-existent dots, and did both in a very clumsy manner.

      You are entitled to believe this nonsense, of course, but it certainly doesn't fool me.

      Oh, and I am unboxable, nobody has yet managed to put me in any box whatsoever - even when I was a toddler the efforts of adults to put me in boxes systematically failed.

      You, however....

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Amaterasu:

      Furthermore, I resent your posting such unrelated nonsense as a comment to my post, completely off-topic. You remind me of religion pushers, trying to force their beliefs and invading people's lives and privacy in that effort. I'd rather you deleted your posts from this thread - if you have any decency at all, you will have the courtesy of doing so, and of abstaining from posting off-topic nonsense to any of my posts. TIA.

    • 3 years ago
  • Amaterasu
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      Amaterasu  
    • Amaterasu:

      The fact that this most benign and holy of plants is persistently vilified for no reason doesn't make you ask WHY?

      If you don't want to accept the reason WHY, I don't care. But I would ask that you refrain from adhom and uneducated insults (very rude behavior) against me and the author.

      Have a nice life.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Amaterasu:

      I know exactly why this plant is persistently vilivied, and it has nothing to do with the cockamamy story you linked to. I wrote no adn himinems nor did I insult you - as for the author of that ludicrous Paper, I merely expressed my opinion. If anybody here is rude, it is you since you refuse to remove a post that is totally unrelated to the subject at hand. My life is quite wonderful, especially as I happen to live in a civilized country in which people don't get arrested for smoking pot. I even grow my own on my windowsill for all to see - it is allowed.

    • 3 years ago
  • resin_lungs420
  • Amaterasu
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • resin_lungs420:

      Amaterasu - that's a hilarious and badly written piece of LSD-induced fiction! David Ikke, whose brain has been permanently damaged by numerous overdoses of LSD, would love it! The author has read too many science fiction books, has little or no knowledge of etymology, astrophysics, physics and history. It is a psychotic mish-mash which is not worth the paper it was typed on.

    • 3 years ago
  • Amaterasu
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      Amaterasu  
    • Citizen Jane has much to say about why corporations in the pharmaceutical industry, the oil industry, the paper-forest industry, other industries, and agencies of the government that use the black market to generate untraceable funds for their black ops want to keep the status quo against all the evidence.

      Is it righteous to harass and lock up our citizens to keep profits up?

    • 4 years ago
  • urkovs
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