The federal government should rescind their prohibition of medicinal marijuana and allow physicians to decide who should be treated. Under current regulations, seriously ill patients who turn to marijuana and their physicians who recommend it are subject to arrest, criminal prosecution, and incarceration. Caregivers are often forced to enter dangerous drug areas to purchase marijuana for their loved ones, subjecting themselves to prosecution as well. Medical marijuana should be made available to those who need it, to help them undergo treatment for life threatening illnesses, while research goes on. Ailments not justification for pot possession, judge tells Allen Park native with AIDS, cancer.
Medical marijuana gets the high sign.
Evidence up in smoke part of plan confiscated pot would go to sick. Arizona Republic, A31. Legalizing medicinal marijuana. Washington Times, A17. The Pot Prescription.