Opp may seem like an unlikely place for a group working to get medical use of marijuana legalized to meet, but that's exactly what happened Sunday.

"Why Opp?"

"Why not," Christopher Butts, the 42-year-old co-president and board chair of the Alabama Medical Marijuana Coalition said.

"We had 12 to 14 people come by, and we're talking to a reporter. Nobody knows about us, so we have to go where we can."

Like Butts, 44-year-old Ron Crumpton uses marijuana to alleviate chronic pain. He suffers spinal stenosis because of injuries he received while serving in the U.S. Navy. The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs) prescribed for his pain caused the perforation of his ulcers, and he subsequently had a portion of his stomach removed.

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