SentLTE-Digest Thursday, September 3 2015 Volume 15 : Number 026
001 LTE: Re: LET ME HAVE THE FREEDOM TO ENJOY MARIJUANA IN MY OWN HOME'
From: Kirk Muse <>
002 LTE: Chronic pain treatment
From: John Chase <>
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Subj: 001 LTE: Re: LET ME HAVE THE FREEDOM TO ENJOY MARIJUANA IN MY OWN HOME'
From: Kirk Muse <>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:24:10 -0700
To the Editor of The Arizona Republic:
Thanks for publishing Mike Meyers' thoughtful letter: "Let me have
freedom to enjoy
marijuana in my home" (8-25-15). I'd like to add that the marijuana
legalization issue
is all about freedom--the freedom of choice for adults.
Arizona adults have the freedom of choice whether or not to use alcohol.
Shouldn't we have
the same freedom of choice regarding cannabis?
Kirk Muse
1741 S. Clearview Ave.
Mesa, AZ 85209
(480) 396-3399
Thank you for considering this letter for publication.
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Subj: 002 LTE: Chronic pain treatment
From: John Chase <>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 03:13:35 -0700
Sent online to the Tampa Bay Times.
In recent opinion pieces, Darryl Paulson and Lester Unger described the
life of a chronic pain patient in America today. Our collective fear of
addiction has frozen us in place. Rather than look for alternatives, we
clamp down on everybody, in the belief that clamping down will stop
addiction. The Swiss, less attuned to such magical thinking, ended an
AIDS epidemic by massively increasing the availability of methadone, and
allowing hardcore addicts to have clean heroin. That so-called
heroin-assisted-treatment is now part of the Swiss Health Service. Swiss
pain patients who do become addicted -- a very small number -- can now
get help, and pain killers are freely available to patients like Paulson
and Unger. Closer to home, American researchers recently discovered that
opioid overdose deaths dropped by 31% when states set up marijuana
dispensaries. But just yesterday, for instance, the Pasco County
Commission voted for a 12 month moratorium on marijuana dispensaries.
American pain management has been frozen in place by the drug war. That
needs to change. Marijuana and painkillers should be freely available,
and help provided for the few who need help.
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