Pubdate: Fri, 03 Oct 2014
Source: News, The (New Glasgow, CN NS)
Copyright: 2014 Transcontinental Inc.
Contact:  http://www.ngnews.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3343
Author: Sterling MacDonald
Page: 6

NONSENSICAL LAW DENIES ABILITY TO CONTROL PAIN

To the editor,

It seems ludicrous: a law that prevents me from healing myself. I have
a rare disease (cramping fasciculation syndrome) which keeps me up
night after night with plenty of pain and no sleep. The medicines
prescribed for this disease have so many side effects that they should
just be called poison, for me at least.

I have been smoking marijuana oil for a full year now and I am pain
free. The oil does not ease the pain, it stops the pain from coming.
It's truly a miracle. I am on a pension and my miracle would cost me
$200 weekly. My only option was to grow my own marijuana and make my
own oil. I figure, what's the harm, I'm not selling it, I only want to
be pain free and perhaps continue to do the things I enjoy such as
skiing and skating (they recommend you do not exercise with this
disease) but which I was able to do for 54 days last winter with the
help of my medicine.

Last week a helicopter flew very low over my private property and they
ended up taking all my medicine (marijuana plants). What do I do now?
Come up with the money somehow and buy who knows what from the bikers?

I am far more interested in being pain-free than in being stoned. Like
the poppy plant (some have opium, some don't) there are strains of
marijuana (Charlotte's Web) that have very little THC, the drug that
makes you high, but still retain the CBD (cannabidiol), which is the
drug that stops my pain. It's ironic that two of the substances you
can legally grow or produce at home are tobacco and booze. That's
right, two of the most destructive substances known to man.

My heart goes out to all those who lost their plants this way and were
growing marijuana to help with the symptoms associated with their
cancer, seizures, epilepsy, MS, arthritis, autoimmune diseases or some
other strange disease that modern medicine can't help. Hope you have a
pain-free day!

Sterling MacDonald

Little Harbour
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