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Medical marijuana makes sense
6/7/08|The Daily Star| Editorial - Letters


With the introduction of legislation by Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried, New York state is looking to join California, Oregon, Washington and a handful of other states that allow the use of marijuana by medical prescription.

Two local men are among a group of patients and advocates who lobbied the Senate with Gottfried on Tuesday to seek approval of Gottfried's bill. They and others argue that marijuana can alleviate some pain, nausea, anxiety and a host of other symptoms better than any conventional medicine available, and many doctors have echoed these sentiments.

Any time you talk about allowing people access to an illegal substance, questions about health and safety have to be answered first and foremost.

The bill before the Senate would limit marijuana access to patients with serious, life-threatening conditions whose doctors prescribed its use.

Under current laws, highly addictive substances such as morphine and even cocaine can be prescribed by doctors. These substances continue to be used because they can alleviate or prevent pain and suffering.

If marijuana can do the same without the high danger of addiction, don't we owe it to New Yorkers to let them seek the relief they need?

 

Vicki

I hope that includes patients that have Rheumatoid Arthritis too.

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Of course it makes sense! If it works as medicine, it makes sense to legalize it, doesn't it?

And yes, I hope that it includes RA among with many other non-life threatening conditions in which MJ helps (insomnia or glaucoma for example).

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