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Medicinal Use of Cannabis is Real
Bonnie Colleen McCool | Central Kentucky News Journal | 09/11/2006

We all agree drug abuse is a problem. Reformers say there is a better way to handle it. Our politicians play on our fears to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources.

Drug abuse, including alcohol, is a medical problem and we'll do a better job of keeping kids drug free and inebriated folks off the road with compassionate policy offering helpful treatment.

War creates a booming economy for some on the suffering of many. Drug warriors are so befuddled by the noble idea of preventing drug abuse, they ignore the lessons of history.

No legitimate business lasts long if it kills its customers or shoots the competition. No legitimate business would sell drugs to children or recruit minors to sell to their peers. This happened during alcohol prohibition and it is happening today. Once again, prohibition triggers more danger to the user and society by increasing violent crime and corruption of public officials.

It is down right sinister, a crime against humanity, for the medicinal use of cannabis to be suppressed!

Patients all over the world testify to cannabis' help in treating chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, gastrointestinal tract disorders and HIV/AIDS. Some scientists speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Studies have shown it to slow the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice - lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia and in another study THC destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats. Most recently, a study has shown it is far more effective than available Alzheimer drugs to halt the disease's progression.

Leaders responsible for current quagmire will one day answer to a higher power for their crimes against humanity. It's time to end the terror by changing our intrusive, big-bully policies, both foreign and domestic. The monetary costs are staggering and the human suffering unconscionable.

Bonnie Colleen McCool

Stephenville, Texas