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MEDICINAL POT NOT ABOUT GETTING HIGH
By Hempology | June 9, 2005
To the Editor,
As the coordinator of The Mid-Island Compassion Club, I watch events closely as they relate to patient access to medical marijuana.
I’ve noticed the alarming frequency with which patients have had to defend their choice of pain relief medications.
People who suffer through the nausea and vomiting caused by the agonizing pain that doesn’t go away, brought on by whatever disease that afflicts them, are not potheads, period.
Not only do they suffer from their symptoms, they also suffer the indignity of explaining that it’s not about getting high.
It’s not about smoking “doobies” it’s only about medicine.
Doctors were told by the college of physicians not to discuss marijuana with their patients. Thank God some of them didn’t listen to their orders.
I applaud those medical professionals who can see beyond the reefer madness mentality of the past.
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