Pubdate: Thu, 20 Dec 2007
Source: Hickory Daily Record (NC)
Copyright: 2007 Hickory Daily Record
Contact:  http://www.hickoryrecord.com/
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Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1466/a09.html
Author: Charles Strout

END INQUISITION THAT CRIMINALIZES MARIJUANA

Medical marijuana is 100 percent completely legal - however, only in a
synthetic form of which there are many versions. Look at the
Controlled Substance Act.

How insane it is that our government imprisons, takes away parents
from their children, and destroys the lives of hard-working every-day
Americans by the hundreds of thousands every year because they utilize
organic marijuana instead of that prescribed by physicians.

According to Barry McCaffrey, the former federal drug czar, organic
marijuana is much healthier for you because of its many natural
beneficial compounds that can help people - especially suffering from
muscular-selector type ailments and arthritic problems.

More than 100,000 people,  according to the U.S. Surgeon General
Statistical Info Reports are on prescribed medication, and not one
person ever died from any form of marijuana in general.

Prestigious medical organizations from MDA, American Arthritic
Institute, Oxford Medical University, New England School of Medicine,
American Nurse Society, and others want medical marijuana legalized.

Ten candidates running for president support medical marijuana
legislation, and 12 states have passed laws pertaining to such.

The inquisition of arresting medical marijuana through ignorance has
to be put to a stop. It is in total irreverence against our creator
who, in Exodus 30:23, commanded Moses to utilize its healing
properties in with a formula of liquid myrrh, fragrant cinnamon,
fragrant cane, cassia and the oil from the thousand year old olive
tree that grows through Israel.

Charles Strout

Hickory
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