We work at a local headshop and we totally support medicinal marijuana and the decriminalization of marijuana. I have all walks of life from doctors and lawyers to construction workers to soccer moms come into the shop. For me I know that marijuana is a hell of lot better than alcohol.
A 12 year sentence for selling $31 worth of pot to an informant is ridiculous! Save that cell for someone who really deserves to be there. I wonder how many other people are in jail for similar crimes right now? There are many people who do not want to take pain pills everyday and wish there were other alternatives to choose from in this state. Good article, let's keep this conversation moving forward.
Thank you for your excellent column Mr. Pearcey. If not number one, this issue should be one of the very first things that Oklahomans correct in the new year. Helping people with cancer and severe pain should rank at the top!
Dr. Donald Abrams is the Chief of Hemotology and Encology at San Franciso General Hospital, and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He told me that he wrote letters to Senator Brian Crain and Senator Brian Bingman a couple of weeks ago, explaining to them that the government had made it difficult to study cannabis, but that he had done several clinical studies on medical cannabis, and explained how he has treated thousands of patients with cancer or HIV who experience nausea, weight loss, pain, insomnia, and depression. With cannabis, he can recommend that a patient try one medicine instead of five or six prescriptions that will interact either with one another or with their other primary treatments. For many patients, cannabis is a safer option, with fewer side effects. Cannabis’ side effects are mild and well tolerated. Unlike many other medications, it has never been shown to cause a fatal overdose.
Alcohol kills thousands of people every year from overdosing, yet Oklahoma is having such a hard time to even get the politicians to even discuss it, much less allow Oklahomans to vote on it like so many other states are doing now. Medical cannabis is now legal in 17 states, and recently made legal in 2 states as recreation, and will be treated the same as beer and alcohol.
I have had neck and back surgery where my spine was fused in several places, which made it so that I could use my arms again, but I would like to see medical cannabis legalized in Oklahoma so I can see if I could contol the severe chronic pain that I have in my neck and back. I would like to eliminate the strong pain pills that I have to take twice a day, but I can't find out for sure unless it is legalized here. I have been told by several people that have my problem that they were able to eliminate several pills they used to have to take, which saved them money at the pharmacy. This makes me wonder if our politicians are fighting for us....or are they fighting for the big pharma companies. It a shame that we should even have to ask that question.
It's time to quit sweeping this issue under the rug, and time to think about the many patients that can benefit from legalizing medical cannabis. Actually, it's the politicians that need to quit sweeping it under the rug, because the latest Oklahoma poll indicates that 81% of Oklahomans are in favor of legalizing it as medicine.
While we are on this issue, we should also help Oklahoma farmers out by legalizing the growing of help, which could help this state's economy a great deal. We can save the cutting of trees, use hemp rather that our food supply such as corn and sugar for fuel, which should lower the price of our foods. Hemp can also be used to make building materials that are actually better that the materials we use today!
All of these pluses, but the first thing we must do is just get our politicians to talk about it. We cannot make any progress until they will discuss it.
Actually, this would be the perfect time to bring this issue to the forefront. Our government does NOT need to raise taxes on small business owners, (which happens to be those people that make about $250,000/yr). All they need to do is help patients all across America and legalize MEDICAL cannabis.
I'm really not crazy about taxing it, but since they have put America in the spot we are in, doing this would be better than taxing small business owners, because those people are the ones that employ the most Americans and we do not need for them to lay off workers.
Legalizing medical cannabis would also create hundreds of thousands of jobs, perhaps even more than that, and could be what pulls America's fat out of the fire. There would be government jobs created in the setting up and controls for patients, caregivers, dispensaries, and even growers.
Why are our government officials making solutions to our problems so difficult. Cannabis is the answer to SO many of our problems. We will have the benefit of our law enforcement officials having more time for their jobs if they weren't forced into ruining families lives by putting the users in jail or prison. The majority of law enforcement officials will even agree on this issue.
The real answer might be to end prohibition of cannabis altogether, but we don't have to visit that issue right at this moment. What we really need right now is to help patients with debilitating diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, etc., and legalize it as medicine. Put it back in the hands of our physicians!
Nothing is going to happen by itself. Oklahomans need to contact their senator daily, and tell them that it's time for Oklahoma to legalize medical cannabis.
As Mr. Pearcey states in his article, Oklahoma Senator Constance Johnson has been proposing the legalization of medical cannabis and help patients for almost seven years. There is an Interim Study on medical cannabis that Senator Brian Crain is sitting on right now, that will expire December 1st. Surely we can help by just picking up the phone once a day.
Just pick up your phone and call your senator once a day until they do something about it! Tell your friends to do the same, and let's make Oklahoma a better place to live!
I want to know how the U.S. Government can OWN patent # 6,630,507 via The U.S.D.H.H.S. and still claim cannabis has no medical benefits. Oklahoma needs to wake up to the fact that this plant could save lives, ease pain, create jobs, & decrease the deaths caused by pharmaceuticals. I thank you for this amazing article & hope you continue this much needed work.
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Dr. Donald Abrams is the Chief of Hemotology and Encology at San Franciso General Hospital, and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He told me that he wrote letters to Senator Brian Crain and Senator Brian Bingman a couple of weeks ago, explaining to them that the government had made it difficult to study cannabis, but that he had done several clinical studies on medical cannabis, and explained how he has treated thousands of patients with cancer or HIV who experience nausea, weight loss, pain, insomnia, and depression. With cannabis, he can recommend that a patient try one medicine instead of five or six prescriptions that will interact either with one another or with their other primary treatments. For many patients, cannabis is a safer option, with fewer side effects. Cannabis’ side effects are mild and well tolerated. Unlike many other medications, it has never been shown to cause a fatal overdose.
Alcohol kills thousands of people every year from overdosing, yet Oklahoma is having such a hard time to even get the politicians to even discuss it, much less allow Oklahomans to vote on it like so many other states are doing now. Medical cannabis is now legal in 17 states, and recently made legal in 2 states as recreation, and will be treated the same as beer and alcohol.
I have had neck and back surgery where my spine was fused in several places, which made it so that I could use my arms again, but I would like to see medical cannabis legalized in Oklahoma so I can see if I could contol the severe chronic pain that I have in my neck and back. I would like to eliminate the strong pain pills that I have to take twice a day, but I can't find out for sure unless it is legalized here. I have been told by several people that have my problem that they were able to eliminate several pills they used to have to take, which saved them money at the pharmacy. This makes me wonder if our politicians are fighting for us....or are they fighting for the big pharma companies. It a shame that we should even have to ask that question.
It's time to quit sweeping this issue under the rug, and time to think about the many patients that can benefit from legalizing medical cannabis. Actually, it's the politicians that need to quit sweeping it under the rug, because the latest Oklahoma poll indicates that 81% of Oklahomans are in favor of legalizing it as medicine.
While we are on this issue, we should also help Oklahoma farmers out by legalizing the growing of help, which could help this state's economy a great deal. We can save the cutting of trees, use hemp rather that our food supply such as corn and sugar for fuel, which should lower the price of our foods. Hemp can also be used to make building materials that are actually better that the materials we use today!
All of these pluses, but the first thing we must do is just get our politicians to talk about it. We cannot make any progress until they will discuss it.
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I'm really not crazy about taxing it, but since they have put America in the spot we are in, doing this would be better than taxing small business owners, because those people are the ones that employ the most Americans and we do not need for them to lay off workers.
Legalizing medical cannabis would also create hundreds of thousands of jobs, perhaps even more than that, and could be what pulls America's fat out of the fire. There would be government jobs created in the setting up and controls for patients, caregivers, dispensaries, and even growers.
Why are our government officials making solutions to our problems so difficult. Cannabis is the answer to SO many of our problems. We will have the benefit of our law enforcement officials having more time for their jobs if they weren't forced into ruining families lives by putting the users in jail or prison. The majority of law enforcement officials will even agree on this issue.
The real answer might be to end prohibition of cannabis altogether, but we don't have to visit that issue right at this moment. What we really need right now is to help patients with debilitating diseases such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, etc., and legalize it as medicine. Put it back in the hands of our physicians!
Nothing is going to happen by itself. Oklahomans need to contact their senator daily, and tell them that it's time for Oklahoma to legalize medical cannabis.
As Mr. Pearcey states in his article, Oklahoma Senator Constance Johnson has been proposing the legalization of medical cannabis and help patients for almost seven years. There is an Interim Study on medical cannabis that Senator Brian Crain is sitting on right now, that will expire December 1st. Surely we can help by just picking up the phone once a day.
Just pick up your phone and call your senator once a day until they do something about it! Tell your friends to do the same, and let's make Oklahoma a better place to live!
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