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Originally Posted by Beachbum65
I believe people suffering from PN shouldn't be made a criminal for pain. Is this still the Stone Age or what?
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I couldn't agree more. The facts &
history behind the prohibition would (IMO) blow most peoples' minds.
The Times They Are A-Changin', albeit too slowly, but even well-known conservatives are rethinking the issue and changing their positions,
based on facts rather than fictions.
The War on Drugs is Lost
Why I Changed My Mind on Weed by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent
conservatives who support medical marijuana
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if that makes me a criminal so be it.
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You would be in good company.
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I had smoked marijuana maybe ten times in college during the seventies. I even inhaled. I stopped because I found that I didn't like smoke, or being high, or the conversation of pot-heads. I turned to it again when I got cancer because marijuana gives healthy people an appetite and prevents people who are nauseated from throwing up. None of my doctors or nurses at New York University Medical Center or Memorial Sloan-Kettering discouraged me from doing this. They had all had patients who had used marijuana to fight nausea and who had reported good results. I had good results too. Because of the marijuana, my last two courses of chemotherapy were almost nausea-free.
There was only one problem; I had to become a criminal to do this.
—National Review Senior Editor Richard Brookhiser's Congressional Testimony (1996)
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Emphasis mine.
Doc