Dont let Omalley get away with dumping the blame on someone else and ruining their reputation. "Newly appointed DHMH Secretary Joshua Sharfstein" answers directly to OMalley.

The new change is useless and still infringes upon the citizens right to fredom of choice and privacy in their own homes. Impeach Omalley and replace him with someone that understands the term "representative of the people". EVERY National poll shows the citizens of this country are stringly opposed to the governments war on Americas citizens via their unjust and dangerous marijuana prohibition. Vote them out of office!

here's the article

Call it the drug dealer full employment act of 2011.
Just end the absurd prohibition and allow this to come into the regulated market with alcohol and tobacco.
Our lawmakers in Annapolis have their heads up their . . . .

Wow so a bill that would stop cops from getting between ill patients and their doctors fails because some nanny state two-bit government bureaucrat says he's not in favor of it. What is wrong with this state? Why is this Shafstein person some kind of authority on the benefits of marijuana for seriously ill patients?

It's not just the 2 bit ones, JAS. Certain cavemen like Elijah Cummings think cancer patients who use pot should be put in JAIL! Absoloutely no compassion for the sick.

This push to legalize pot is the epitome of the hypocrisy of this Liberal state. On the one hand this jerk offs want to ban smoking everywhere, including your own home and car if kids are around, but hey, let's open a backdoor so you can smoke cannibis. The Liberals of this state need to be rounded up and shipped to a border town of Mexico, where they can get gunned down in the drug cartels wars.

New study: Young marijuana smokers at higher risk for psychoses

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-02/health/teen.marijuana.risks_1_cannabis-marijuana-psychosis?_s=PM:HEALTH

LEgalize it already, we cant affford not to. The State & City are broke as is. Why not reap the benefits, and allocate our police resources on real crime. Its safer then alcohol, & kills less then tobacco every year. The truth is there are too many pocket liners of those in Annapolis that stand to lose too much. The alcohol industry would be crapping their pants if it was every legalized. Lets not pretend the state actually cares about us and our freedoms.

Cannabis Inhalation Associated With Spontaneous Tumor Regression, Study Says

Advance cancer research ... legalize it!

This is ALL ABOUT MONEY...the money that attorneys will lose from not having 22,000 minor possession cases to defend per year. That's why it won't happen. Just think of the police and DEA jobs and jail expenses that could be saved when drug dealers don't have anything to fight. I bet the state could balance it's budget by legalizing marijuana.

Oh wow, man, like I was going to post a really cool comment, but I forgot what it was.

Cannabis is used by Millions of Americans for recreation, we can either continue the failed war on drugs wasting billions of taxpayer's dollars trying to prohibit it, and we can continue to funnel money to the deadly drug cartels further destabilizing our neighbors to the South,,,,,OR,, we can allow Adults to use Cannabis, sold and regulated by the State .Time to
Open your Eyes,
Realize the Lies,
Stop the Lies,
Legalize.

It's really small minded to believe that the people in favor of ending the idiocy of prohibition are all liberals. But this isn't even about legalizing recreational use, it's about the government getting between patients and doctors. I thought I've heard a few complain about something they call Obamacare with one of their major talking points being just that, the government in between the patient and doctor.

The biggest hypocrites on this issue are the teabaggers. You people complain about the so called nanny State and big government until you get to the issue of something you want to ban. I'm not sure you'll find many in favor ever supporting an absolute prohibition on any substance in the numbers who support the re-legalization of recreational use. We've seen first hand what such stupidity has wrought on society. Darned if I wouldn't have sworn that I heard that William F Buckley and Milton Friedman were on the conservative side. Are you sure they were both liberals?

BTW I'm 50 and I've never voted for a Democrat in my life...and I've voted in every election since 1980.

"New study: Young marijuana smokers at higher risk for psychoses"

This nonsense is so easy to disprove it's mind boggling that they have the nerve to publish such claptrap.

There are 100 million Americans who have enjoyed cannabis and 22 million who do so regularly. Were cannabis a causal factor in psychoses we'd have gibbering lunatics standing on every street corner in the country.

They've kept track of the rates of psychoses to the general population for 100 years, and it's been consistent with a small downward slope. In the 1960s the rate of those who enjoy cannabis skyrocketed by over 1000%. One does not increase the causal factor of a thing by 1000% and not see an increase in the thing allegedly caused.

Brought to you by the same people who brought us man teats, monkey brains and axe murders. You might want to check to see if something is even remotely believable before you start linking to it. For those interested in the other side of the fraudulent schizophrenia/cannabis link here's a doctor that takes the other side.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february212011/marijuana-schizophrenia-pl.php

It would really be refreshing to see a few journalists who could manage to use the proper word,,,,,it's CANNABIS, if you cannot master that simple word maybe you should go back to school.

first of all, their has been no record that marijuana has ever killed a single person. a lso marijuana has NEVER caused cancer in anybody. second marijuana CAN actually STOP the formation of lung cancer and can also destroy tumers in the brain. third, marijuana actually stimulates brain cell growth, forth marijuana changes people in A GOOD WAY by making people less violent and makes people more piece full. fifth you can use marijuana in other ways by cooking or vaporizing it. sixth the only reason marijuana is illegal because in the 1930's a guy named william randolf hurst ran a racest campain to protect his business in wood because hemp was being used for paper and he was losing money, seventh the constitution of the united states is written on hemp paper.... LEGALIZE TODAY!

Here's the thing: I lost an eye due to congenital glaucoma 50 years ago, and the only medicine that has relieved the constant pain AND (with medical records to backup my claim), have succeeded in significant inneroccular pressure is one that I must obtain through a very scary black market here in Baltimore. 

"Why don't you grow your own?" I asked myself, and proceeded then to produce ONE MEASLY PLANT A YEAR FOR PERSONAL USE, never selling or gifting my harvest to anyone, ever. 

The reward for my self determination, need for a less frightening procurment process and the embrace of the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" has now lead me to face felony charges of "Manufacturing and Distribution" here due to the current laws archaic and unjust wording. 

Do I support change of ANY kind to the present law? The answer would have to be a  D'UH!