Pubdate: Thu, 06 Nov 2014
Source: Florida Today (Melbourne, FL)
Copyright: 2014 Florida Today
Contact:  http://www.floridatoday.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/532
Author: Linda Doherty

MEDICAL POT BEST OPTION FOR RELIEVING CHRONIC PAIN

I think FLORIDA TODAY should interview the people who voted for
Amendment 2, to legalize medical marijuana, because we are the ones
who have to suffer day in and day out with chronic pain.

We're the ones whose bodies are being destroyed by pharmaceutical
chemicals.

Unfortunately, because I suffer from severe side effects of all pain,
anxiety, and depression medications allowed by law, I have nothing to
relieve my chronic pain from Fibromyalgia, with anxiety and depression
being two of the symptoms of Fibromyalgia, along with disk
degeneration, and arthritis. I'd gladly open up my medical records of
the last 16 years so people could see what the pharmaceutical
chemicals have done for me.

People who supported Amendment 2 may have lost the battle, but not the
war.

Now I hope the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) will change the
classification of marijuana and it becomes legal in all states for any
use at all.

One day, it will become legal on the federal level, and then maybe
I'll finally find relief, though at age 60, I could be dead by then.

Thank you, Florida, for making sure I get to spend my days and nights
shut up in my house wracked with pain.

Linda Doherty

Palm Bay
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