Is Uncle Sam a Drug Pusher ?

This Man Receives 300 Marijuana Joints a Month From the Federal Government

Everyone knows the U.S. government hates medical marijuana. Still, most people understand that, illegal or not, marijuana is a very beneficial treatment for patients with certain conditions. But few people are aware that the federal government actually supplies marijuana  to some small group of patients, while still claiming that it isn't medicine. These patients receive 300 joints every 25 days and cannot be arrested for possession anywhere in the country.

Needless to say, words can scarcely describe the hypocrisy of growing marijuana for a select few, while arresting patients and caregivers for the same behavior. I've explained previously how the government knows perfectly well that marijuana is medicine, but if there's one single argument that illustrates this fact, it is that the government actually grows and distributes medical marijuana. And while we're on this topic, it might interest some folks to know that the government's marijuana isn't very good. Contrary to the popular urban myth, government pot has very low potency and it's full of seeds and stems. So don't be jealous of Irv Rosenfeld. He may receive huge amounts of free government-grown marijuana that he can smoke wherever he wants. But he also has painful bone tumors, and his free weed sucks.

Uncle Sam a drug pusher? It's true. For the past three decades, a handful of Americans have been getting regular deliveries of marijuana, courtesy of the federal government. It's all part of the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program, a little-known initiative that grew out of a 1976 court decision that created the nation's first legal pot smokers. Of the 14 people who were in the program initially, four are still alive. Keep reading to meet the government-sanctioned marijuana mavens and learn more about the program - including where the government gets the pot in the first place...

The government stopped accepting new patients to its program in 1992 due to a crackdown on crime and public health authorities concluding it had no scientific value. But Uncle Sam has since continued to supply marijuana to the four living patients "for compassionate reasons," according to Steven Gust of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. These patients have been relying on the drug to help with their health problems for decades.

Where does the government's marijuana come from? Mississippi, by way of a lab in North Carolina, where the weed is rolled into cigarettes. And then the steel tins are sent to Florida and Iowa. Packed inside each can is a half-pound of marijuana rolled into 300 perfectly-wrapped joints.

So while States struggle to keep pace Federally, there's no real safe banking available and it's just a cluster of some real information and some just outright misinformation we all have to deal with on a daily basis. In hopes some day, in the not too distant future, Federally we will be on par with every other business in America except for 1 thing. The biggest Tax revenue since gasoline !