Montel Williams' Tax Bill: $1 Million Owed in Back Taxes

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Yeah. I'd listen to Montel.

Good for him.

But all natural state agricultural products should be legal by default... regardless of what medical attributes they may also have.

As to actual medicines... not least being the 2 or 3 pharmaceutical compounds that cause so much concern... these should be returned to the control of medical professionals: Doctors and Pharmacists.

Common sense might eventually be adopted. Will it be soon enough?

HarlanR, what in the world makes you think getting a bill for back taxes means anything about his opinion concerning medical cannabis? In 2009 I practically dropped dead when I opened a bill from the IRS for a 1/4 of a million dollars. My CPA had neglected to include the documents that made the items deductible and without those deductions I would have indeed owed that much money.

Regardless, your opinion is a straw man fallacy. How many doctors in the US get tax bills for even more than that? It sure doesn't make the simple minded conclusion that they don't know anything about medicine valid.

I know, I know, you Know Nothing prohibitionists have nothing but bald faced lies, half truths and hysterical rhetoric to support the idiocy of the epic failure of public policy which we like to call the war on (some) drugs.

Montel uses medical marijuana for pain? I saw on his own Living Well With Montel infomercial that his special juicer has cured him of his medical problems.. Now I know what he is putting in it! Also, I think it is a conflict of interest here.. He shills for that short-term loan company Money Mutual.. Where do you think people will go to if they need money for their prescription to be filled?

Very well said, Duncan20903...

I have glaucoma and it has been proven that smoking pot temporarily reduces the ocular pressure inside your eye. High ocular fluid pressure is what causes this disease. It is important to know that smoking pot will not cure glaucoma or prevent you from getting it.
I have had to quit however because I need to find a job and pass a drug screen test. I do not think a medicinal marijuana law will filter down to industry accepting it. My take?? screen me if my actions on the job warrant it, but let me live my life how I want to when I get home as long as my job does not involve being responsible for public safety such as a pilot.
Society seems fine with letting me buy a fith of liquor and drinking myself into a stupor, but I cannot smoke a little bit of weed to suppliment the eye drops I need to take....how hypocritical.
In closing I would like to say please get your eyes examined if you have not done so in awhile, glaucoma has no symptoms and by the time you start to notice your are banging into doorways most of your vision has been irretreivably lost.

This is not about Montel Williams this is about helping people with serious medical problems. There is no doubt that marijuana eases nausea and helps stir the appetite of those who suffer from cancer. This is such a no brainer. I say to those who are against this treatment don't use it. Just say no. But do not stop others who are ill from getting the benifits of Marijuana treatment.

You guys are right, my mistake...

Crazy as recreational cannabis prohibition is, medicinal cannabis prohibition is far crazier. It's downright grotesque.

One would think the DEA and ONDCP has doctors or scientists on staff.
Sadly this is not so - we would like to see that changed and believe it is a step to change.

Please sign the letter petition to appoint a doctor or scientist to the DEA and ONDCP.

http://criminaljustice.change.org/petitions/view/appoint_a_doctor_or_scientist_to_the_dea_and_ondcp

Thank you!

Why should a substance that is far SAFER than aspirin ONLY be legal for those that have a serious ailment? Why should people be forced to use FDA approved poisons instead of a far safer more effective natural plant? Why should a plant that is SAFER than potatoes be regulated and taxed as if it was as dangerous as alcohol? Eating a couple of raw potatoes can give you a toxic reaction but marijuana is nontoxic. Why should people have their kids taken away from them when nontoxic marijuana is found in their home while tobacco is legal and if a baby was to eat even one tobacco cigarette the nicotine in that 1 cigarette could be fatal?

Marijuana does not cause aggressive behavior. Marijuana does not cause dangerous driving. Marijuana does not cause cancer, brain damage or any serious health problems. Marijuana prohibition does not keep kids away from marijuana, illegal dealers don’t ask for ID. Marijuana is not a “gateway drug”, there is absolutely NOTHING about marijuana that causes people to use other drugs. Marijuana is not addictive. In fact marijuana is one of the safest substances known! Marijuana is SAFER than many foods we consume and give to our kids all the time! Exactly what good is this prohibition doing and who is benefiting from it?

When was the last time you heard of the cops being called to break up a fight at a marijuana party? NEVER! When was the last time you heard about a marijuana consumer beating his wife? NEVER! The cops and the politicians know marijuana is no threat to society but they keep screaming their fear mongering marijuana lies at every opportunity. Did you ever wonder why?

THE LAWS PROHIBITING MARIJUANA ARE NOT A RESULT OF ANY HARM FROM MARIJUANA. THEY ARE THE RESULT OF LIES, GREED AND RACISM. Read the well documented proof of that and a lot more marijuana TRUTH in these two articles: “MARIJUANA AND HEMP THE UNTOLD STORY, Thomas J. Bouril” and “WHY IS MARIJUANA ILLEGAL, Pete Guither”, click the links to those articles on this webpage:
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No matter which side of this issue you’re on PLEASE read the two articles linked above. It’s almost certain you’ll learn things about marijuana and marijuana prohibition that you never knew before.

LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND REGULATE IT LIKE POTATOES, TOMATOES, CORN OR ANY OTHER SAFE NATURAL PLANT/CROP! NO NEW TAXES!

Legalize marijuana and stop funding criminals, gangsters, illegal aliens and terrorists with hundreds of Billions in tax free $ every year. “When you fund something you get more of it” (Ron Paul). Does anyone really think we need more criminals, gangsters, illegal aliens and terrorists?

Cannabis has been proved to slow or stop cancer. But the big drug makers don't wont it be used. So lets get behind Montel and make it legal.

Marijuana should be legal for medicinal purposes. I'm 19 years of age and I have been diagnosed with bipolar/manic depression since I could remember, being that way I've always been a hot head and when I use marijuana things that would aggravate me being untreated do not apply to me when I consume marijuana, I feel more complete as a person and more accepted in today society when I'm consume marijuana as to how I feel when I'm untreated which during that time I feel like society doesn't accept my mental disabilities.