Allow Health Care Patients Access to Therapy - Not Time Behind Bars

[forrest]

For thousands of years, marijuana has reduced symptoms for the seriously ill effectively, and has helped improve their quality of life. Dozens of medical and health organizations endorse or allow patients access to medical marijuana with their physicians’ approval. Marijuana has been used therapeutically to control pain, alleviate nausea and vomiting in cancer patients due to chemotherapy, treat wasting due to HIV/AIDS, combat muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis and more.

To date, 12 states have passed medical marijuana laws. While the laws differ from state to state, they all work to protect patients and caregivers from criminal charges associated with their medicine.

The bipartisan Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment to the Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill would stop the U.S. Department of Justice from spending taxpayer money to arrest or prosecute legitimate patients -- and their caregivers -- in states where medical marijuana is legal.

Seriously ill patients have the right to effective therapies. To deny patients access to such a therapy is to deny them dignity and respect as persons.

Urge Congress to pass the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment and allow health care patients the medicine they need!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/106826454?z00m=9446439

[toman]

IMO, the one thing medical marijuana outfits and proponents need to do is ditch any and all affiliation with leftist politics, hippie and other counterculture media, and anything else not directly related to mainstream, socially accepted medicine. Joe Average in this country doesn't believe that marijuana is effective as medicine; he believes it's medical users are simply a bunch of lazy fakers who want to hang out at home getting stoned all day, on the government's tab. I'm not making this up; go search some conservative discussion boards and you'll find this to be the case.

[forrest]

IMO, the one thing medical marijuana outfits and proponents need to do is ditch any and all affiliation with leftist politics, hippie and other counterculture media, and anything else not directly related to mainstream, socially accepted medicine. Joe Average in this country doesn't believe that marijuana is effective as medicine; he believes it's medical users are simply a bunch of lazy fakers who want to hang out at home getting stoned all day, on the government's tab. I'm not making this up; go search some conservative discussion boards and you'll find this to be the case.

Medical marijuana is a healthier alternative than pharmaceutical drugs!

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/graphs/25.htm

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm

http://www.reconsider.org/issues/public_health/estimated_deaths_.htm

http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/charts3.htm

[toman]

Do you really think I have the patience to even click on all the fucking links you post? I swear, you're a bigger net whore than Google. :bawl:

[forrest]

"Patience is a virtue. The ability to wait for something without excessive frustration is a valuable character trait." ;)