and here we have this libtard Khon "journalist" proposing the question of weed as a human rights issue

https://www.khon2.com/top-stories/is-access-to-cannabis-a-human-rights-issue-khon2-com-talks-story-with-dr-clifton-otto/

It’s a big issue. Lots of money is on the line for many parties involved. Whether it’s law enforcement who will see a cut in funding if cannabis becomes recreationally legal or the black market which would see a decline in power and status, the stakes involved with making cannabis legal are pretty high.

But then, there are the humans involved. Cancer patients, military veterans with PTSD, children with epilepsy, the list can go on for pages and pages of the types of people who use medical cannabis successfully to treat their conditions.

It is these humans that this article is about. In Hawaiʻi, we cannot simply drive to another county. We have to take an airplane which is federally regulated. This means that when you travel to another island, you are in federal territory.

While medical marijuana has been legal in Hawaiʻi for more than two decades, there continue to be roadblocks to accessing this medication. One of those roadblocks is travel. When you have a severe medical condition that requires cannabis as a treatment, you cannot take your lifesaving and life supporting medications with you.

Dr. Otto believes that access to medical cannabis is a human rights issue and that Hawaiʻi has a bit to do in order to truly protect patients’ rights in the realm of cannabis.



Humans involved...really? She smoking da weed while writing?

People today seem to enjoy coming up with more and more "human rights" which never existed before.

There's a reason fundamental values are important.  If those are properly defined, the rest just falls into place.

As for pot smoking, the problem isn't that someone in government decided pot is a problem that needs to be eradicated (though there used to be a push publicly to convince everyone it was the Devil's drug).

The problem is the government refuses to remove it from the list of Schedule I Drugs.  Pot's characteristics do not conform to the traits required to be on that list -- most obvious being the fact it does have an accepted medical use in the US:

This is the list of Schedule I controlled substances as defined by the
United States Controlled Substances Act.[1] The following findings
are required for substances to be placed in this schedule:[2]

1.  The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
2.  The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use
in treatment in the United States.
3.  There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other
substance under medical supervision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Schedule_I_controlled_substances_(U.S.)

As for #3, I've never heard of anyone OD-ing on marijuana, but "safe" drugs like opioids?

Forty-five (45) states out of 50 + DC recognize and allow medicinal use of marijuana.  A few (7) limit medicinal use to CDB oil only, not the complete plant or leaves.

If that much of the nation recognizes the "currently accepted medical use" of pot, and by deductive reasoning believe there is an "accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision," then it should have been removed from the Schedule I Drugs list long, long ago.

Making the argument that pot is a human right may be what gets the issue more attention, but it can also muddy the waters by turning this into an argument that distracts from the facts.  And the issue should be decided on facts.

Saying pot is a human right is not much different than saying it belongs on the Schedule I list.  It needs to be de-classified, not re-classified.

Oh, and as far as addictiveness goes, if Pot belongs on the list for that reason alone, then so should tobacco and coffee.

Then there's the magic words that make your 4th amendment rights evaporate. Not going to miss those.