Danielle Baptista said that smoking and eating marijuana alleviates the pain she feels from multiple sclerosis.

"Those of us alive today were born into Prohibition," the Fultondale resident said. "We don't know it as anything but an illegal drug. It shouldn't be that way."

Baptista, 37, who is confined to a wheelchair, said she uses marijuana to relieve the stiffness of joints and muscle spasms to help endure her physical therapy and riding horses.

On Saturday, Baptista and other supporters of legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes in Alabama will hold a rally from 1 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Brother Bryan Park on Birmingham's Southside. The rally is one of 92 events to be held worldwide Saturday as part of the Millennium Marijuana March.

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