Let me start off by saying, if this offends anyone in any manner, DEAL WITH IT! Here in the great state of Georgia (Ha Ha!), we have some of the strictest laws on Marijuana in these little "hick" towns. Some places, you can go to jail and ruin your record for no less than seven years on possession of a marijuana roach. I don't know about you, but I am tired of these laws. I am tired of "Bubba Jenkins" who's a sheriff's deputy making a couple extra grand a month off of the safe trip of marijuana into the county. Come on politicians. I'm in no way asking for legalization but my God give the people something we NEED. Marijuana has been researched to death and is still undergoing rigorous studies for medicinal purposes. What more proof do you need? I myself, suffer from Degenerative Disc Disease. I have a bad lower back. For over 1 year I was addicted to narcotic pain relievers and anti-depressants. I dropped every pharmaceutical drug cold turkey and picked up cannabis for medicinal purposes ONLY, not recreational use. Ever since then, I am fine. No need for any kind of pharmaceutical drug with serious side effects. I am aware of what I am putting into my body, and the LESSER side effects of it. Now, if that isn't a good example, here's one. My wife was diagnosed with Chron's Disease and IBS when she was 11 years old. Now 24, I go with her to every doctors appointment and every medical infusion. Before she researched cannabis for medicinal purposes, she had never touched it. She was on more than 16 different kind of medications daily to help cope with a disease that doctors are still figuring out. Today, (3/25/2010) was the final straw for me. After seeing her puke her guts out and flushing of the face, because of a allergic reaction to her Imflaxib (Remicaide), I decided it's time to get what patients need in this state. Amongst the 15 states that have enacted a medical marijuana law, on every ailment requirement list Chron's Disease is in the top five. Now, after going to these GI doctors and seeing the patients there, my wife is somewhat out of place. They are mostly 50 and up year old citizens. I know most of them could careless about Marijuana, because back in the 1930's the Goverment made it out to be this horrible, horrible thing, they got scared and do not believe and want no part of it. Well, my wife being of a younger, newer generation where the truths are being found, has found the one thing that helps her the most with the cards God has dealt her. By enacting some kind of Medical Marijuana law in the state, would not only care to the patients who really need the medication, but could also add some profit to the economy. There are people in this state like me and my wife who rely on Cannabis to ease our medical conditions. I could bore you with statistics and research findings, but I'm not going to. You can google just like I did. You can educate yourself just like I did. And no one can argue that it is a sin to smoke,ingest or whatever you choose to do with marijuana.
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so." And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (Gen. 1:29-31)
(Jesus:) "Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." (Matt. 15:11)
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,...speaking lies in hypocrisy..., and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." (1 Timothy 4:1-3)
There's some verses. Come on guys, why must you be so blind? Why can't you decide to do this? Why not hire a team of your own researchers to find material to educate yourself and see for yourself. Marijuana is the safest medication for me. God created every living thing, and a plant is living the last time I checked.
Sincerely,
Mr. New Green Thumb
