There is a magic pill that cures addiction. It is used in other countries and used to be legal here. You take one pill, one time, and without going through the painful detox symptoms one normally experiences you emerge a clean, non-addict. The success rate in the few studies that have been done show more than 85 percent of patients still clean after five years. It works for all types of addiction because the addiction is almost never to the drug itself but to the escape it offers from other problems. However, much like MDMA and PTSD, simply because others use a drug for fun means genuine patients in need must be denied. [continues 166 words]
Irony, sweet irony; channel 13 10 o'clock news leads with a story about the teabaggers in Helena trying to overturn our medical marijuana bill, passed by 65 percent of the voters, because it's doing so much damage. The next story is about one of the many new micro-distilleries cranking out more vile poison that contributes to the deaths and injuries of thousands of Montanans and destroys all too many of our families (with taxpayer subsidies of course). Bob Petersen, Missoula [end]
All I can say is that if the elected bozos in Helena do repeal the medical marijuana bill, passed by an overwhelming majority of Montana voters, I for one will show up at the state House in Helena with my card and my ounce of marijuana and demand to be arrested and tried by a jury of my peers. If 28,000 of my fellow patients follow suit we will bring the "justice" system in Montana to its knees. Voters in 2010 went to the polls and expressed their dissatisfaction with the economy, not abortion, not gay marriage and not gun control. The back-door moves to legislate moral issues will not be forgiven by the voters. We are worried about jobs, not what our neighbors are doing in the privacy of their own homes and bodies. [continues 78 words]
