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Michigan Medical Marijuana Forum
is a gathering place of information and a place to meet like minded
individuals centered around one simple thought.
"It
should be up to a patient and their doctor, to assess the benefits and weigh
the risks concerning the use of medical marijuana, without fear of
prosecution".
Our goal is to provide new ideas and viewpoints on an ever growing
issue. I hope that those in the know and those that want to know can find a
common ground on an issue that can have such a impact on medical
patients in the State of Michigan.
I absolutely support protecting Michigan’s medical marijuana patients
from arrest and jail for using their doctor-recommended
medicine.
There are legitimate patients all around our Michigan, with many
different forms of debilitating ailments. AID'S, MS, Cancer and such.
The diagnosis of which rarely ever includes a cure. Symptoms like
chronic pain, nausea, wrenching muscle spasms and the like make these
afflictions just a little less than your own private hell. The
medications available to alleviate these symptoms each comes with it's
own price. Addiction, severe intestinal disorders, risk of stroke and
possibly even death, all that and with the high price of medications to
boot! None are as effective or as benign as cannabis.
I myself have Degenerative
Disc disease and have had 3 of my lower vertebrae fused together. I live
with chronic pain and severe spasms and no end in sight. My Doctor told
me I have the back of a 90 year old man who has done a hundred sit-ups
every day of his life. I am not that old, although I do feel like that
90 year old man. I watched my mother ate up from the same thing until
eventually her head slipped unto her chest. That didn't kill her,
eventually the cancer she fought for the better part of 20 years won
out. I watched her go through addiction to pain killers and the side
effects thereof, she almost died from the methadone prescribed to her,
twice. It was not a pretty end to her life. There was a better way. A
more dignified way. I myself have been offered Opiate therapy and Oxy-Cotin,
both I refused because of the high addiction rates and the side effects.
It's trading one bad thing for another.
I have been on the "legal"
alternatives. With them I have experienced addiction, the withdrawals
thereof, chronic constipation, nausea, hypersensitivity, the relief is
only temporary and the amount of chemicals you have to keep in your body
is frightening. I have used these nerve pills ( Neurotin) designed for
seizures, those didn't do anything and they come with the risk of
causing seizures ! Yay. Something new to deal with. No thanks!
"If Marijuana was discovered
tomorrow in some remote jungle it would be touted as a miracle cure."
Medical organizations largely agree. The American Nurses
Society, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the American Public
Health Association, and the AIDS Action Council, among many
others, all support protecting patients from arrest. And earlier
this year, the American College of Physicians – the second
largest physician group in the U.S. – released a position paper
which cites “marijuana’s proven efficacy at treating certain
symptoms and its relative low toxicity” and “strongly urges
protection from criminal and civil penalties for patients who
use medical marijuana as permitted under state laws.”
"The
most damaging effect of using medical marijuana is prison"
I personally would like the
freedom to pursue relief from my condition in my own way, without fear
of prosecution. I believe it is my right as a human and a patient.
Nobody except I and my family know what I go through, nor do they know
what they would do in a like situation. I relate my situation to being
adrift in an ocean, and you come upon a island and it's covered with no
trespassing signs. What would you do?
Read about the initiative at The Michigan Coalition
for Compassionate Care (
http://stoparrestingpatients.org ) and see for
yourself it's not designed as a self-serving platform
for legalization.
Most everyone
knows or has known someone who has such a life altering
ailment. For that person, take the time to inform yourself
on such an important issue as legalizing Marijuana for
Medical use.
Mike
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Who I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet open minded people. People of conviction. People who
stand up for what they believe in. Medical patients. Those who want
information and those with information. I would like to meet the Trailer
Park Boy's (he he). I would like to meet Remo!. I would like to meet anyone
who advocates passing The Michigan Marijuana Initiative in November
2008. Willie Nelson would be cool. I would like to have met Johnny Cash and
other people that don't think they have to change to fit in.
Check out this video of
Drew Carey
on the issue of medical marijuana, worth the watch.
Here's how we do some
things.
The Michigan Marijuana Forum has a few
criteria we look at when accepting comments. We do like the funny stuff but
feel our cause is better illustrated by posting events and articles of
support. I do look at the funny's don't stop sending them!
NEWS...Hey peoples, The Michigan Marijuana Forum is still active and seeking new members. We are in the process of building a new house so I have limited access to the internet. We do plan to resume fully before November. Please send your friends and remember to register to vote!
Mike from the hive.
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