Pubdate: Thu, 27 Sep 2012
Source: Rockford Register Star (IL)
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Author: Barbara Farr

COMMON SENSE LOSES IN MARIJUANA CASE

On Sept. 20 I read an article in the Register Star that incensed me
because it just shows the stupidity of some of our laws over what
should be common sense.

It happened in Michigan, where a federal appeals court upheld a
federal judge's decision that Wal-Mart had the right to fire someone
using medical marijuana. This person had a legal-medical-marijuana
card, he has an inoperable brain tumor and cancer, and he uses
marijuana to alleviate the pain.

Not only does he have to deal with his cancer, but now he has to worry
about finding a way to earn whatever small amount he can to help him
live.

As a cancer survivor, I find this irrational, and an unfair judgment.
You cannot know what this terrible disease does to a person unless you
walk in their shoes. It is a comment to us all that sometimes law
supersedes humanity.

Barbara Farr, Rockford
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