Pubdate: Tue, 03 Jan 2012
Source: Bay City Times, The (MI)
Copyright: 2012 The Bay City Times
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Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n732/a05.html
Author: Stan White

CANNABIS PROHIBITION CREATED MEDICAL MARIJUANA MESS

It's commendable that citizens (Medical marijuana In Michigan is an 
utter mess, Dec. 23) voted for people with serious health issues to 
use the plant cannabis (marijuana) medicinally. The "mess" isn't due 
to sick or in-pain citizens wishing to use the God-given plant; it's 
due to cannabis prohibition and the governments which perpetuate one 
of America's worst policy failures in history.

Many citizens with "chronic pain" (for example) are able to choose 
using or already have been using significantly more dangerous and 
extremely addictive narcotics with many side effects (including 
possible death) that leave them feeling like zombies and unable to 
function or work.

Cannabis has historically also been used for muscle spasms, nausea 
and many other ailments with far less side effects than 
pharmaceutical drugs. Citizens deserve the option to use the natural 
and safer 100 percent pure plant for those medical conditions.

And does Goldie Wood think Vicodin, Percocet, Oxycontin and other 
narcotics are better in the hands of those "children?"

Stan White, Dillon, Colo.
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