Pubdate: Wed, 30 Apr 2008
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2008 Los Angeles Times
Contact:  http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n000/a030.html
Author: Jeffery P. Segall

A PAINFUL STORY ABOUT MARIJUANA

Re "Marijuana in the medicine chest," column, April 26

The saddest part about Sandy Banks' column is that she flushed the 
medication down the toilet and she still lives in pain. By learning 
to use medical marijuana properly, she would probably find a huge 
decrease in her arthritis symptoms.

As a registered nurse who has worked with the terminally ill and with 
patients facing potentially fatal diseases and therapies, I've seen 
that medical marijuana often means the difference between living and 
starving to death, or the difference between extreme pain and greatly 
reduced or no pain.

It is absurd that one would choose to live in pain, but even more 
absurd that our federal government would force an individual to do so.

Jeffery P. Segall

Long Beach
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