Pubdate: Thu, 11 Sep 2014
Source: Tribune Review (Pittsburgh, PA)
Copyright: 2014 Tribune-Review Publishing Co.
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/460
Author: Ron Hess

LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Medical marijuana has been known since Phoenician times for its 
healing and psychologically uplifting properties for most.

I am speaking specifically about the plant being used as delineated 
in Pennsylvania Senate Bill 1182. When passed, Pennsylvania will 
become the 24th state to exercise its states' right to afford doctors 
the option of prescribing it.

The federal government has decreed this is a state matter. In other 
parts of the world, patients are being effectively weaned off 
antidepressants and pain and blood-pressure medications, to name a 
sampling of why it's important. It is the only remedy for certain 
conditions such as Dravet Syndrome.

Failure to adjust to new information can be fatal. Imagine the 
16th-century struggle to convince the church that Earth wasn't the 
center of the universe.

Science seeks knowledge. Turning away from the truth proves what?

At 10 a.m. Monday on the Capitol steps in Harrisburg, there will be a 
rally to express to the Legislature returning from summer recess our 
disapproval of the unnecessary delays in passing this bill.

I'm told the bill can be passed in six days and our legislators will 
have 12 session days left before year's end. They want to wrap up 
before the election.

If this is important to you, please show up. Bring your children and 
let them see firsthand the democratic process working at its best - a 
people's choice!

Ron Hess

York
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