LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Posted on 20 February 2014 by LeslieM

RE: “Medical” marijuana

Dear Editor:

The “people” are asking to legalize MEDICAL marijuana at this time and not asking to legalize it as in Colorado and Washington.

To the publisher: I truly see your plight with your workers and with your business.

However, when it comes to medical marijuana:

1) When it is used for people who are having seizures, especially children who have up to 300 a day, the pill they take is a purified Cannabidol.

( www.medicaldaily.com/fda-approves-marijuanabased-epilepsy-drug-usekids-clinical-trials-261998)

It has NO THC in it. It does not get the patient “high.” Children who have taken it end up seizure-free.

2) As for medical marijuana in a rolled form, let me tell you that one of the biggest attorneys in the U.S., name withheld, smokes up to 10 cigarettes of marijuana a day. His disease is then under control and he functions normally without pain or distress. He is not lounging under some palm tree, high as a kite!

Regarding cancer and emphysema, they have tested but four men, who also smoked tobacco and claim it MAY have helped cause, but was not the only cause it. Same went for lung cancer. However, studies cannot be done properly, as marijuana is an illegal substance. Therefore, it is hard to test.

(Statistics www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Causes_of_Death#sthash.pbJretph.dpbs)

Besides seizures, glaucoma and epilepsy, someone’s mother, sister, father, daughter etc. is suffering from cancer.

They receive chemo and lose weight. The more weight lost, the weaker they become and the less the drugs and chemo will work.

MEDICAL marijuana (a different grade, which is watched closely by the government) not only helps these victims of cancer by easing their pain, but helps them with their appetites, which chemo takes away and affords them the chance to GAIN weight, making the chemo and drugs more effective, thus SAVING lives.

This is a medical marijuana issue and NOT one of legalizing it to all.

I urge people to do your research before fighting against it. Your vote could save a human life.

Dana Wade

Deerfield Beach

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